Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , the government and insurers agreed to set up a special fund . |
| 2 | On their way to the Hotel Colombi , their shoulders stooped to ward off the falling snow , Horowitz paused when he saw a car hire firm which was still open . |
| 3 | The Detective-Sergeant 's keen ears had picked up the dripping tap in the bathroom . |
| 4 | In November 1979 the Iranians had taken over the American Embassy in Teheran and held the staff hostage for 444 days , only releasing them 30 minutes after Carter had left office . |
| 5 | At the Penta the porters had worked out a neat scam with the airline crews who regularly booked into the hotel . |
| 6 | Gale-force winds helped to break up the 40-km oil slick , reducing the impact of what was initially reported as a massive environmental disaster , although oil continued to seep out of the sunken vessel . |
| 7 | I made 400 before great arcing beams of light snaked out above the eastern-bounding ridges of the valley and I had to stop as blocks and slates came hurtling down the softening snow . |
| 8 | The two companies decided to set up a joint research and development project to find a system which would meet the new standards in a cost-effective way , and Project Alaska was born . |
| 9 | The two countries had built up a clandestine network of military links , with Israel frequently accused of breaking the UN Security Council arms embargo . |
| 10 | The floods of past winters had piled up a huge logjam just below a fishing lodge on the River Usk , and a female mink had set up her den there . |
| 11 | Those circumstances had brought about the capitalist system and had also created the concepts on which it was based . |
| 12 | In 1961 the British and French governments agreed to set up a working group to consider the merits of the rival proposals and at the beginning of 1964 Ernest Marples , the British Transport Minister , and his French counterpart announced that the two governments would go ahead with a tunnel . |
| 13 | And it seemed Fergie 's ten man heroes had squeezed out a momentous victory until the soccer fates suddenly stabbed them in the back in the pouring rain of Moscow . |
| 14 | Those three weeks had thrown up a heartening variety of political allegiances in the tree-lined avenue but all happy agreements to differ evaporated in the wake of John Major 's sinister victory . |
| 15 | Humans were still doing these jobs : the robots had taken over the skilled elements of the task . |
| 16 | His pale cheeks had taken on a ruddy glow . |
| 17 | Hundreds of thousands of workers can expect up to £65 each after many firms failed to bring in the new 20p tax rate introduced in last April 's Budget . |
| 18 | The church was in ruins , and the monks had put up a temporary building over the main altar , where they gathered round the body of St Dunstan for their daily offices . |
| 19 | Over the centuries , these conditions had built up a large population with a high level of energy . |
| 20 | Local private firms had built up a skilled work force that eventually drew in foreign multinationals on terms acceptable to the government . |
| 21 | He claimed in an open letter to BA directors that executives had set up a secret ‘ anti-Virgin Atlantic unit ’ to discredit him and his company . |
| 22 | The auditors had carried out a specific investigation of the Gimco bills and with regard to recoverability , they had no more than an assurance from Gimco , an Abu Dhabi entity , that the bills would be honoured ‘ within three to four months or earlier when able ’ and an unsupported statement by G that he believed Gimco would pay . |
| 23 | Meanwhile the villagers crowded to peer down the open manhole as though it were an interesting accident . |
| 24 | The Russians proceeded to lay out a new town . |
| 25 | That day in 1958 the Northern Echo also reported that municipal busmen had turned down an extra five bob a week on their £8 15s , that Cliff Jones Britain 's most expensive footballer at £35,000 had broken a leg and carried a front page headline about the Royal family . |
| 26 | She is also claiming compensation because doctors had to carry out a lifesaving hysterectomy . |
| 27 | Yousefi had set up a false bank account in the name of Momen Garawand at the Darlington branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland . |
| 28 | Also on May 2 another Croatian policeman was killed in the mainly Croatian coastal village of Polaca when Serbian police tried to take over the Croatian-manned police station ; and a helicopter carrying among others the Vice-President of the Croatian Federal Assembly , Vladimir Seks , was fired on and forced to make an emergency landing after it took off from Kijevo . |
| 29 | Just as many equality feminists opposed shoring up the traditional family at the beginning of the century , so present-day Labour has been challenged internally time and time again — and externally by the women 's and lesbians and gay liberation movements — on its sexual politics . |
| 30 | As she spoke the pens of the newspaper reporters seemed to take on a frantic life of their own , skipping across the lines of their notebooks . |