Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On April 22 Rauf Denktash obtained 67.5 per cent of the vote to be re-elected President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ( TRNC , recognised only by Turkey ) , with relatively few voting for candidates of opposition parties which wanted to offer more concessions to the Greek Cypriots . |
| 2 | Now he checked with the policeman whose beat took him down Glenfair Road , the main thoroughfare into which Boundary Drive ran ; The list of car numbers he had noted that evening for one reason or another was unproductive . |
| 3 | None of the watering places they visited showed any signs of fresh tracks , and no animals were sighted in the first hour . |
| 4 | Principally , the ANC had asked for ( i ) the dismissal of the Law and Order and the Defence ministers ; ( ii ) decisive government action to halt violence in the townships ; and ( iii ) a ban on the carrying of the traditional weapons which Inkatha supporters allegedly used in township fights which had caused some 900 deaths since January , and approximately 10,000 deaths since September 1984 . |
| 5 | He walked down the steep hill from the car park between rows of boarding houses which seemed to prop each other up against the slope : stone-built houses with bay windows , tiny front gardens and the inevitable signboards — SEA-VIEW , HILLSIDE , BELLA VISTA , MALABAR … |
| 6 | Based on the 1984 Peace and Friendship Treaty , which created the framework for settling the border disputes which had brought both countries to the brink of war in 1978 [ see p. 32781 ] , the agreement covered 22 points of dispute . |
| 7 | ‘ Officers from Liverpool trading standards who had to view these films found them sickening . ’ |
| 8 | The fourteen Area Boards themselves had to devolve some functions further and they initially set up about 500 local districts ( slightly fewer than the number of pre-nationalisation undertakings ) . |
| 9 | Back in England , BA union officials who tried to get more information about who was on board found computer records of the passenger list had disappeared . |
| 10 | On Tuesday The Hindu printed copies of supposedly secret Swedish government documents which purported to confirm that , despite denials in India and Sweden , Indian middlemen had received huge payoffs as part of the contract . |
| 11 | In the years that followed labour unity was undermined by further US directives prohibiting national strikes and by revisions to Trade Union laws which sought to isolate those labelled as ‘ militants ’ . |
| 12 | The Express and the Mail saw the Empire Crusade as a means of uniting the Empire by encouraging free trade within it and both newspapers gave publicity and financial support to those by-election candidates who promised to uphold that line in Parliament . |
| 13 | But here , under the thick turf roof and the stone walls which had weathered many a north Atlantic gale , we were secure from the driving rain , and the heaviest gusts of wind did little more than make the oil-lamp flicker in its hanger . |
| 14 | As princely chanceries evolved across West Francia , their output was welcomed by the population at large because the set formulae they employed offered some assurance of authenticity . |
| 15 | Well I strange erm accusation yes we will be , we would keep the council tax down if I am that that would be a popular message to give out and so having accepted our below er the guideline figures they did take this into consideration but we have a budget that has elements of growth in industry . |
| 16 | Government official blamed her murder on " common delinquents " but human rights groups said that she was one more victim of right-wing death squads who had killed several prominent trade union and peasant leaders since July . |