Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the FMLN offensive which began 12 days ago and cost an estimated 1,300 lives , the capital was reported calm yesterday . |
| 2 | The Royal Bank 's participation was the brainchild of Bill Speirs , a lecturer in management at Sheffield University who has close ties with the Branch . |
| 3 | The much-praised new ski area at Aonach Mor near Fort William which opened last season has picked up two more awards in the close season , including one for architecture . |
| 4 | It was prompted by a memorandum from the Union Internationale des Huissiers de Justice et Officiers Judiciaires which reviewed current practice and suggested the introduction of a new mode of service involving direct communication between a huissier de justice in the country of origin and a similar officer in the country of service . |
| 5 | By 1086 , Droitwich salt was being widely distributed over the Midlands ; King William himself had eighty-five salt pans here . |
| 6 | For the first 15 minutes it seemed that Alton would be overrun by an RAF side which included four players who regularly turn out for Alton . |
| 7 | Another deaf man , a David Bedwell who had partial hearing , enlisted in the Army Service Corps as a driver , and his deafness cost him his life when he failed to hear three challenges as he was approaching the gates of a barracks . |
| 8 | The facts involved the sale of a second-hand Mercedes car which developed unusual faults requiring repair for a Mercedes of that age and mileage . |
| 9 | I wanted to get away from the boring white theme , but the only dress I really liked was one by David Fielden which had white fur and beading . |
| 10 | , Benjamin Wills ( 1807–1899 ) , Plymouth Brother , was born in Devonport , Plymouth , 12 December 1807 , the only child of Quaker parents , Benjamin Newton , a draper of Plymouth dock who died ten days before the birth of his son , and his widow Anna , a daughter of Roger Treffry of Lostwithiel , with whom Newton lived until the age of twelve . |
| 11 | Although the art of painting was not as well developed as architecture and sculpture , there were , nevertheless , a number of Slav artists from the Adriatic coastlands who displayed considerable talent and whose works are to be found in church frescoes and other paintings on both the Italian and eastern shores . |
| 12 | Teague 's career looked all over after the world cup final … but he 's beaten off a shoulder injury and is back at his best … so too is Oxfordshire jockey Richard Dunwoody he rode five winners on saturday … today he won again on the Nicholson trained Now Your Talkin … he 's the top jockey with 40 winners … now he 's talkin … the Williams team from Didcot do n't do a lot of talking apart from Nigel of course but they 've swept the board in formula one this season … |
| 13 | Coming from a desperate industrial province in the Ural mountains which lacks any kind of hi-fi electrical equipment . |
| 14 | A spokeswoman for Magdalen College , Oxford , said : ‘ There is no person called Verity Bough who has any connection with the college . |
| 15 | And what I will do is to look erm tt in some detail at er an analysis of a man r called Richard Newstat I mentioned last time , Mr Shirley Williams , and Richard Newstat wrote a book in nineteen sixty called Presidential Power and that book is now in whatever , what it is , I do n't know , seventh or eight edition and it 's probably still the single best selling book on the American presidency and er for good reason because it , it , it raises an , an argument which is really quite simple but often neglected . |
| 16 | Hereford back in action tomorrow … at Edgar Street they face non-league Woking in the FA Cup … winners away to Nottingham Forest … our losing run stops now thanks to Gloucester rugby club who on Saturday in the league drew twelve all with Saracens in London … it was a close thing tho |
| 17 | But said that they went on Tuesday evening they had some people over and they were looking we were gon na go for a meal in Chorley er they 'd come over from Grantham , and they were going over on the night on the night ferry , on night boat from Hollyhead . |
| 18 | Mary Leapor , however , would have studied under a man named Richard Cooper who made strenuous efforts to improve the school during the middle years of the century [ Clarke ] . |
| 19 | They were used initially on the new ten-minute Squires Gate and Fleetwood service which required ten cars , and the remainder used as Fleetwood specials . |
| 20 | Well anyway Friday night he slept all night Saturday night he had her up all day ! |
| 21 | When the referee sent off Richard Gough he did serious damage to Scotland 's World Cup hopes . |
| 22 | David Lodge himself adapted NICE WORK as a four part serial for the BBC , broadcast in the autumn of 1989 . |
| 23 | Mr Gould — National Heritage shadow to shamed David Mellor who quit last week — infuriated Labour with the timing of his announcement . |
| 24 | Yes I recall on Friday morning we had this discussion about the wording which you had in the er |
| 25 | As MD of Warwick Communications he advises British Airways and Cable and Wireless . |
| 26 | Well I do n't know what this comes under but last or er last Saturday week I had several complaints about the old market square , you know where er and shop is . |
| 27 | First , the settlement house policy of ‘ neighbourliness ’ was trenchantly criticized by young radicals such as George Lansbury and C. F. G. Masterman who saw such movements either as laboratories for ambitious young men or as having lost their initial enthusiasm . |
| 28 | There is widespread speculation that he was uncovered by Vladimir Kuzichin , a minor KGB official who defected last year . |
| 29 | The other is a consortium which includes Multivision , an upstart pay-TV company in Mexico City which claims more subscribers than Televisa . |
| 30 | The picture was owned by antiques hoarder Ronnie Summerfield who died three years ago leaving a collection valued at millions of pounds . |