Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [noun] [noun sg] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The concluding La Paz Declaration included a joint agreement on the removal of all customs tariffs between the Andean Pact member countries by Dec. 31 , 1991 , and the establishment of a single customs system by 1995 , with the objective of establishing a Latin American common market by the end of the century . |
| 2 | The daily Monkton-Northwich coke train rounds the bend from Shore Hall crossing towards Bullhouse on its way up to Woodhead hauled by No. 76035 in May 1981 . |
| 3 | Today 's radically different May day parade means the communist party domination of the event is clearly at an end . |
| 4 | To be more accurate , while Norah Docker sought the cameramen Sir Bernard hung about like a good-natured but rather dim St Bernard dog providing the money for her extravagance . |
| 5 | An amusing note was that the old London Underground stock operating the remaining BR line has recently been upgraded from 1924 Central Line units to postwar Bakerloo Line stock . |
| 6 | When the promised sprinters were not delivered on time , when the fares increased in proportion to the decline in reliability , when children are stranded because trains have broken down , when Conservative-controlled Suffolk county council subsidises the late night train , and when central Government grant for British Rail goes up , yet the service is still like a lottery , I despaired , I despair , and I will continue to despair until we give individuals , travellers , employees and taxpayers a real incentive to make it work — the freedom to succeed in the private sector . |
| 7 | Premier Gen. Hau Pei-tsun accepted the resignation of Communications Minister Clement Chang on April 24 . |
| 8 | ‘ It looks like we 're going to be taken back to Woodstock here , ’ quipped Patrick Forge recently , as the motley Mother Earth crew took the stage at his and Gilles Peterson 's Talkin Loud night at the Fridge in Brixton . |
| 9 | A year round programme of events and activities including the Annual Robin Hood Festival brings the outlaw to life . |
| 10 | The official Xinhua news agency said the freeing of Mr Wang and Guo Haifeng several months before their four-year prison terms expired marked the end of China 's punishment of the students who led the protests . |
| 11 | Initially , the Chinese media ignored the riot ; the official Xinhua news agency reported a " slight disruption of sales " , and later blamed the disruption on a " small number of people " . |
| 12 | For the first time last night , the official ADN news agency published a statement by the group , and a regional newspaper printed a ‘ catalogue ’ of New Forum demands yesterday . |
| 13 | In fact , while the overall United Kingdom result shows a modest swing to Labour , in Scotland Labour 's share of the vote fell by 3.5 per cent , dropping below 40 per cent for the first time since October 1974 . |
| 14 | The major recommendation of the former came to fruition : the establishment of an enlarged Greater London Council to replace the old London County Council . |
| 15 | RIVAL Democratic presidential candidates Mr Bill Clinton and Mr Jerry Brown taunted each other at the weekend as mudslinging in the battle for votes in tomorrow 's crucial New York primary reached a new low . |
| 16 | The official Kenya News Agency described the meeting as a " courtesy call " , during which Botha delivered a message from South African President de Klerk . |
| 17 | While this was being completed , the Central Wales Extension Railway obtained an Act in July 1860 to build a further 26 miles of single track to Llandovery . |
| 18 | In 1956 , too , a Spaniard , albeit an exiled Republican Spaniard , Juan Ramón Jiménez , won the Nobel prize for literature and Spain was the protagonist of another , undoubtedly more popular , cultural event : on 13 June 1956 the Real Madrid football team won the first European Cup championship . |
| 19 | SHL Systemhouse Inc says it has reached agreement with the state-owned Canada Post Corp to negotiate a 10-year facilities management contract covering all of Canada Post 's data processing , telecommunications and system management needs , SHL said in a statement ; the value of the pact was not released ; it will provide full mainframe services from its data centres in Ottawa and Halifax and help Canada Post to accelerate the change from a mainframe environment to distributed client-server architecture . |
| 20 | Apart from the sullen indie kids , a pallid Monday night atmosphere draped the venue and the gig was wrapped up by 10.15pm after a solid set and perfunctory encore . |
| 21 | A leading United States authority describes the newer test as the ‘ adequate consideration or hard look ’ approach to the review of discretion . |
| 22 | The Bosnian Serb news agency said the number of beaten Croat soldiers and civilians seeking shelter with the Serbs in the nearby Mount Vlasic area had doubled overnight to 8,000 . |
| 23 | Fred Clasper had shouted himself hoarse in his frenzied efforts to persuade the vociferous gathering of several thousand employees from the strike-bound Merseyside vehicle plant to continue the strike until management climbed down and re-instated the sacked shop steward . |
| 24 | Second half goals from Dmitry Radchenko and Andrei Piatnitski rounded off a comfortable Spartak Moscow performance to deny the Reds a place in the Cup Winners ' Cup quarter-final . |
| 25 | At UniForum next week , the firm will show an Mbus-based Marixx DS workstation using a 66.7MHz HyperSparc RISC — which is plug-compatible with the Texas Instruments Inc-Sun Microsystems Inc SuperSparc — alongside Marixx DT , a Sparcstation 10 Model 30 clone which uses a 36MHz SuperSparc . |
| 26 | On Feb. 28 , 1989 , the New York state Governor , Mario Cuomo , signed an agreement with the Long Island Light Co. to close the $5,500 million nuclear reactor in Shoreham , Long Island , following pressure from environmentalist groups . |
| 27 | On 21st September 1904 , the great Nez Perce headman suffered a heart attack while sitting beside the fire in the tipi at Nespelem that he still preferred to the white man 's house . |
| 28 | The hitherto buoyant Taiwan stock exchange suffered an unprecedented decline during 1989 and in the first half of 1990 . |
| 29 | The Great Casterton villa excavation produced a good example ( Corder 1951 , 24 — 40 ) , but it was carefully noted at the time that this destruction by fire involved only one building and was , therefore , an accident and had no relevance to any historical event . |
| 30 | WHEN THE pilot of the stricken US fighter plane pulled the handle to eject from his EF-111 on Thursday , he was acknowledging the inevitable ; there was nothing more he could do to save his £10 million ‘ Raven ’ from crashing , only save the life of his navigator and himself . |