Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed to have kicked his heroin addiction and given up his unorthodox lifestyle three years ago when he married Becky Few-Brown but soon the marriage broke down . |
| 2 | President Bush had stated on Aug. 2 that only a health problem — which he stressed did not currently exist — would deter him from seeking re-election for a second term . |
| 3 | Bhattarai met with the King on May 15 and afterwards a statement was issued from the Royal Palace explaining that the drafting committee had been abolished . |
| 4 | In Commercial Plastics Ltd v Vincent [ 1965 ] 1 QB 623 the contract of employment was concluded on 20 December 1959 and yet the restraint of trade clause was contained in a letter of 27 November 1959 . |
| 5 | Though rejected by the army in 1914 on grounds of defective eyesight , Gurney enlisted on 9 February 1915 while still a student and from 25 May 1916 served in France as a private with the 2nd/5th Gloucesters . |
| 6 | It was announced in February 1990 that overall the currency had lost 19.7 per cent of its value against the United States dollar in the course of 1989 . |
| 7 | For instance the regional treasurer , who was given the Friem and Claybury brief while still a deputy , had ‘ a personal commitment , having visited the hospitals and realised the urgency of getting people out of these awful places ’ . |
| 8 | All the other players you hear about from time to time , Charlton , Giles , Hunter et all but never a word about Harvey . |
| 9 | As far as the army was concerned , I had been told in October 1945 that effectively the matter was ended with the presumption of death . |
| 10 | Eventually in 1858 Earl Stanhope moved in the House of Lords that the Queen should be petitioned by Parliament to remove from the Prayer Book the services which commemorated not only the death of Charles I but also the accession of Charles II in 1660 , the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 , and the landing of William of Orange in 1688 . |
| 11 | Himmler is a nonentity who thinks he should be Fuhrer in Hitler 's place and Himmler 's deputy is Reinhard Heydrich who is brilliant and daring and handsome and will kill Himmler first and then the Fuhrer , if they do n't pre-empt him . |