Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Top price in the dairy ring of £1,130 was paid for a choice calved Friesian heifer and a calved Ayrshire heifer sold at the second top price of £1,070 . |
| 2 | Regional CPD convenors met at the third CPD Forum in Windsor in October , which was this year sponsored by the Architects ' Journal . |
| 3 | On Jan. 27 the Pakistan government announced for the first time its full support for the UN peace plan [ see p. 38194 ] and the conference , and called upon the mujaheddin to follow its lead . |
| 4 | SUNDERLAND Harrier David Clark scored a unique double yesterday when he won Durham City Nike Destiny Run for the second year running and became the first to break 20 minutes for the four-mile race . |
| 5 | Aged only twenty-four he had held down the post of KGB officer attached to the 502nd Guards Armoured Division stationed at Magdeburg in the German Democratic Republic . |
| 6 | The study 's thesis was that Attlee built on the Whitehall machine constructed in the Second World War and used it to implement the Labour Party 's reform programme . |
| 7 | Private referral rates among non-fundholders , however , stayed at the same level in the two phases of the study : 27.8 in phase 1 ( 26.7 to 29.0 ) and 27.8 in phase 2 ( 26.7 to 28.9 ) , although as NHS referrals increased in the second phase this represented a reduction of 2.7% ( 1.2% to 4.2% ; χ 2 =12.89 , p<0.001 ) in the proportion of total referrals . |
| 8 | The Supreme Court 's July ruling admitted for the first time in 16 years the right of individual states to restrict abortions during the first six months of pregnancy . |
| 9 | In her autobiography , Dancing in the Light , the actress Shirley MacLaine mentions a school of Zen Buddhism founded in the fifteenth century by a Japanese master , Ikkyu . |
| 10 | Shell manufacture in Blundell Street car shed during the First World War : 200,000 shells were produced here , largely by female labour , yielding a profit to the Town of £16,000 , which was used to pay for the erection of the Cenotaph war memorial on Princess Parade . |
| 11 | At Lingfield blinkers fitted for the first time could enable Bob Jones ' Lookingforarainbow to win the Daily Star Challenge Final . |
| 12 | Kawasaki Steel Corp displayed for the first time the Universe FR fault-resilient computer which it sells under a distribution arrangement with Charles River Data Systems , Framingham , Massachusetts . |
| 13 | Soon , Mr Peter Fechter , aged 18 , the first of nearly 200 East Germans killed in the last 28 years while trying to escape , was shot as he climbed over the Wall near Checkpoint Charlie . |
| 14 | MYSTERY glass explosions have occurred at a number of UK buildings constructed during the last decade . |
| 15 | UK output slumped for the ninth successive quarter and this left the pound and shares in limbo . |
| 16 | So the fact that it was Mark Walters , one of his Liverpool players signed in the first stage of his rebuilding programme , who gave Souness this victory on Dalglish 's return to Anfield was particularly poignant . |
| 17 | You have at your disposal all the information on Palatine Ales contained in the last two cases , together with the earlier material on Acorn Hotels Ltd and Cheshire Restaurants Ltd . |
| 18 | The Swindon player-boss rounded on the First Division Londoners . |
| 19 | The FN candidate led in the first round of voting , but was defeated in the second round by 50.6 per cent to 49.4 per cent by a centre-right candidate supported by all the mainstream parties . |
| 20 | The guys at ADM Computing suggested at the first meeting that I save a few quid by opting for a Phillips Brilliance monitor instead of the NEC I 've coveted for a year . |
| 21 | A Gallup Poll taken in the last three weeks of 1959 found that only one person in fourteen listed among their major worries the international situation . |
| 22 | Even though Darlington look doomed for the Fourth Division , they could hit Leyton 's prospects of reaching the promotion playoffs . |
| 23 | And at three or four a.m. that morning , as O and Boy kissed for the second time , the blade of a Stanley knife sliced for the second time across the cheek of a man ( I do n't remember his name , it was n't anyone I knew ) who was at that time on his own , not with anyone , just waiting , on his own , at a bus stop , waiting for a night bus which was due at any minute . |
| 24 | Yesterday afternoon the New York markets opened for the first time since Friday night and saw that sterling had weakened about 9 pfennigs since then . |
| 25 | Against the background of a broad spectrum of strikes organized on April 21 , April 27 and June 2 , 1989 , by the socialist General Workers ' Union ( Unión General de Trabajadores — UGT ) and the communist Workers ' Commissions ( Comisiones Obreras — CCOO ) , the UGT executive decided for the first time on April 25 to give no recommendation to its members to vote for the PSOE in the European Parliament elections in June 1989 , on the grounds that a trade union could not be expected to support a government which pursued economic and social policies which were hostile to workers . |
| 26 | Hachani had already rejected this proposal at a news conference on Jan. 19 , in which he had read out resolutions signed by the 188 FIS deputies elected in the first round and had appealed to parliamentarians and international public opinion to " denounce the halt to the electoral process " . |
| 27 | The Moldovan Defence Ministry claimed that army units had entered the town to defend Moldovan police from attack by Dnestr forces backed by the 14th Army , and denied the 1,000 deaths claimed by Dnestr sources . |