Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I mean I 'm hoping to sell her a gorgeous blanket chest I discovered two weeks ago in Shropshire . ’ |
| 2 | In addition to conducting this particular case study I made some visits to another school ( which I have called ‘ Southend ’ ) in the same LEA which had gone through an identical appraisal exercise a year earlier . |
| 3 | In June 1991 , I and many more OAPs received a community charge payment card which detailed nine payments . |
| 4 | The polls before the 1970 election may have registered broad support for Labour but as the election result itself showed this support was conditional and unreliable . |
| 5 | In the semi-final they meet James Talbot and Michael Nutt of the Old Bleach Club , who will be seeking to gain some compensation after they were in the Old Bleach side which lost this season 's CIS Irish Senior Cup championship final to Carrickfergus by a mere five shots . |
| 6 | They were helped by a Spring tide which caused extensive flooding and rendered all the fords impassable . |
| 7 | On the revenue side it meant such devices as changing the weighting of the staff mix so that a greater proportion of unqualified staff were employed than might ideally have been desired . |
| 8 | This was prompted by an investigation of a food poisoning outbreak which left forty-three people ill . |
| 9 | But although the students ' efforts compared well with other universities and schools , the Bristol team has some distance to go before it can match the efforts of the Japanese motor industry entry which achieved 6,142 miles to the gallon . |
| 10 | It is the last leg of an interview marathon which began this summer , when Cooltempo , anticipating an earlier release for the record , flew a plane-load of Britain 's music press out to meet her in New York . |
| 11 | As a member of the Historic Rally Car Club he gained 1st place in his class and 11th overall in the series of eight rallies held at Longleat . |
| 12 | With a boat neck it had short sleeves , and Kate bit her lip as she realised it was going to have a pretty powerful impact . |
| 13 | Until recently SRC had been owned and operated by Gerald Bull , a Canadian artillery expert who had close links with the Iraqi regime , being a friend of Brig. -Gen . |
| 14 | Borough councillors on the transport committee will consider the proposal on Monday but Mr Docherty said whatever their decision he expected they would take a back seat to Stockton Borough Council which coordinated last year 's meetings . |
| 15 | On March 20 Junzo Okudaira was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment after being found guilty of planting a car bomb which killed five people outside a US servicemen 's club in Naples in 1988 [ see p. 35989 ] . |
| 16 | For the drawing room he printed golden lyres on what has now faded to a gold background , bands of crisp white ivy leaves on brown paper in the study , with dark green stripes on a green background for the dining room . |
| 17 | In the province of Saskatchewan , the government recently passed an act to repeal a section of the labour code which prohibited unionized companies from setting up non-unionized spin-off companies . |
| 18 | After gaining a doctorate in Chemical Engineering he spent three years lecturing at University College , Swansea and then , in 1967 , he became Professor of Chemical Engineering at Bradford University . |
| 19 | As Trade and Industry Secretary he had little trade and little industry to look after , continued the rebuker . |
| 20 | A TRANMERE man who attacked two sisters at a party told police he remembered little or nothing about it because of the quantity of drink he had consumed . |
| 21 | J. deFeo , the influential West Coast painter who died six years ago , was introduced to New Yorkers in one of Dorothy Miller 's legendary ‘ Americans ’ shows at the Museum of Modern Art over thirty years ago . |
| 22 | The Police Complaints Authority is going to investigate three complaints against officers involved in the Hillsborough football disaster which killed 95 people last April . |
| 23 | From the mid-1970s the Committee and its officers were engaged in a process of sponsoring debate and planning , including through such conferences as one on school experience and the assessment of practical teaching , held in York in October 1976 — a pioneer conference from which emerged a CNAA-funded research project which reported three years later . |
| 24 | On the stock list we found four carriages additional to the ones already mentioned , plus three trams , a luggage van and a BUT trolleybus , ex-London Transport , which saw service in Spain after trolleybus services ended in London . |
| 25 | Brando was no matinée idol heady with wine , or movie star who had more chemistry than talent . |
| 26 | By the time that man gets to Riga he will know his way around the town and every detail of his life from the day his father gave him a light-brown teddy-bear , to the movie show he watched last night . |
| 27 | Lloyd George spent large sums of his private fortune ( acquired in rather dubious circumstances as a treasure chest for the Coalition Liberals between 1917 and 1922 ) , in research activity which recommended radical policies for the Liberals in areas such as land reform and unemployment policy in the 1920s . |
| 28 | AN air force officer who fled Communist Cuba in a stolen MiG 23 jet fighter has snatched his wife and children to freedom in a new daredevil flight . |
| 29 | The surprise payment was hailed as a triumph by the receivers of the Belfast car company which collapsed ten years ago . |
| 30 | These details make it clear that Beveridge regarded young workers as constituting a separate source of labour supply which required specialized provision and that he agreed with the ASEA and the ‘ boy labour ’ reformers in wishing to see the transition from school to work treated as an educational matter ( though not necessarily one controlled by the Board of Education ) . |