Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reed and his sister Miss B.C. Reed for a one-day foursomes competition . |
| 2 | Lying to Manville about the 48 hours grace hardly seemed to matter , in that context . |
| 3 | Kit 's success would make Rebecca 's father rich , much richer than the family had ever been since the squandering of the fortune made in the service of the Earl of Warwick during the Hundred Years War . |
| 4 | And one of the main reasons why Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke chose Milton Keynes as the first police station to visit since he took up post in April . |
| 5 | The Holy Roman Emperors were elected by three lay and three clerical Electors plus the King of Bohemia , a title always held by the Habsburgs after the Thirty Years War . |
| 6 | STEPHEN Hodgson maintained his 20-fight unbeaten record with victory over Welsh champion Chris Adams in the national schools boxing championships semi-finals at Liverpool on Saturday . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , ITV gets a look-in with highlights of Glasgow Rangers v Belgian champions Bruges in the European Champions League from Ibrox , plus reports on the other Champions League matches on Anglia on Wednesday at 10.50pm . |
| 8 | Former Tynedale Harrier Michael Hutchinson , now competing for Trafford , finished second to Bingley 's Mick Hawkins in the 3,000 metres steeplechase , while Australian John Lisiewicz , making his debut as a Valli Harrier , overhauled Elswick 's Alan Johnson for third place in the 5,000 metres in 14 mins 28.75 secs 25 secs behind winner Andy Lyons of Hull . |
| 9 | He had no objection to telling him when Adam and Anne were returning : next Tuesday on the Iberian Airlines flight from Tenerife that got in at 1.30 p.m . |
| 10 | In response to the many toasts from his American colleagues he had made a light-hearted speech at dinner , which belied his deep disappointment at being sent back to the States on a Public Relations assignment . |
| 11 | The convoy , led by a police car and two police motorcycles , made its way through Long Island City , across the Queensboro Bridge into Manhattan then down First Avenue to the United Nations Plaza , the hotel where the Zimbalan delegation would stay for the duration of their three-day visit to New York . |
| 12 | Andrew Brownswood of the eponymous greetings card maker was paid £3.6million , modest in absolute terms by some standards but a staggering 31 per cent of the company 's sales . |
| 13 | The resignation was accepted by Khamenei as the Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief . |
| 14 | It was the worst violence since a 23-nation task force , headed by the United States , moved into Somalia in December under a United Nations mandate to end gun law and the looting of food aid for an estimated two million starving Somalis . |
| 15 | All had to go back to Felling , in the UK , where relabelling work started over Christmas and continued well into January in a 700 man-hours effort . |
| 16 | England call : Mark Reppion , a member of the Speke Gemini Boxing Club , will compete for England in the Golden Gloves tournament in Glasgow tomorrow . |
| 17 | He also competes for Toyota in the Japanese sports car series and earlier this year headed their team in the Le Mans 24-hour race . |
| 18 | WALES yesterday chose Olympic hurdler Nigel Walker in place of Llanelli 's Wayne Procter in a bid to pull a fast one on Ireland in the Five Nations Championship at Cardiff on 6 March . |
| 19 | The club also staged a televised match last year between Nick Faldo against the better-ball of Ian Botham , Nigel Mansell and Daley Thomson on a new Lakes course designed by Neil Coles , chairman of the Tour 's board of directors . |
| 20 | They have been in training since January at the Busy Bodies Fitness Gym , Lawford , where sponsor forms are available . |
| 21 | Red alerts are in force on 11 rivers and a close watch was being kept on the Thames as the National Rivers Authority opened a flood incident room . |
| 22 | Guillaume was one of five people charged on Monday after an eight-week police operation . |
| 23 | In an authoritative report prepared in 1985 for Greenpeace , Simon Northridge of the Marine Resources Assessment Group of Imperial College , London , and Professor Georg Pilleri , a respected dolphin expert , identified a lengthy list of incidental catches of dolphins and porpoises in gill-nets , of which the following are only a selection . |
| 24 | The speakers who addressed the conference were Oliver Kearney for Springhill Community House , David Bass of the Milltown Action Team , Bob Cooper of the Fair Employment Commission , Liam Parker of Worknet , Alisdair McDonnell of the Phoenix Trust , Stevie Johnston of Falls Community Council , Brendan McCarthy of the Joint Shop Stewards Committee Royal Victoria Hospital , Mary Clarke-Glass of the Equal Opportunities Commission , Laura McCartney of the Northern Ireland Council on Disability , Caitriona Ruane of the West Belfast Action for the Unemployed , Mike Tomlinson of Obair , and Liam McCarney of Glenand . |
| 25 | The captain of the under-16s was selected to tour Argentina with the Northern Schools Cricket Association at Christmas . |
| 26 | Born to salty , honest East End folk — this was hinted at , the script sensibly avoiding the risk of fleshing them out — he had risen in the City to a financial position which permitted him to park his BMW beside the flash docklands flat , close to his rough but pure roots , in which he kept his nice French bird . |
| 27 | But in the end she agreed to go with the Pitts to the local police station to express concern about the absentees . |
| 28 | Holyfield announced his retirement from boxing after losing to Bowe by a unanimous points decision |
| 29 | The initial low volume of stock option deals gave rise to doubts as to whether demand existed in the UK for a traded options market . |
| 30 | Specially adapted accommodation will house a permanent exhibition of equipment later this year and an amateur station GB21WM ( or other call as appropriate for special events ) will operate every Sunday during the main visitors season . |