Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [noun sg] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ICE HOCKEY : Fife Flyers , poised for promotion to the Heineken League Premier Division , have been fined £2,500 by the British Ice Hockey Association , of which £2,000 was suspended until the end of next season , after their supporters caused trouble following a recent visit to Milton Keynes .
2 The Iraqi Agriculture and Irrigation Minister , Abdul Wahab Mahmoud al-Sabbagh , said in Rome on Nov. 13 that thousands of Iraqis faced starvation following a 75 per cent drop in food production .
3 Cost-effective behaviour ( prevention work , carrying out more minor surgery ) was not rewarded , and GPs lacked information signalling the relative cost-effectiveness of different therapies and packages of care ( Bevan et al.
4 However , many agreements included provision covering the possible effects of technological change on working conditions and the quality of working life .
5 Moreover , MDC 's relatively modest housing programme for the initial area , its mixture of public and private provision and the fact that it has not displaced existing residents prevented housing becoming the political minefield for MDC that it was for LDDC .
6 The students had difficulty augmenting the semantic net .
7 Non-typists have difficulty finding the desired keys and may take a long time to type even a short word .
8 According to Government health statistics , over five million people of varying ages have difficulty using a conventional bathroom .
9 It was either because they were non-Greek speakers or because the Romans had trouble understanding the Celtic tongue .
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