Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun pl] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These actions do not support the allegations that Dista Products failed to take appropriate action on this issue . |
| 2 | On Oct. 15 Kim was admitted to hospital , whereupon all 69 PPD legislators voted to begin individual hunger strikes in support of their leader . |
| 3 | In mid-month a Khmer Rouge attack on the Phnom Penh-Kompong Som train left 50 dead , and it was revealed by Phnom Penh that since January the Khmers Rouges had launched 72 attacks on trains . |
| 4 | Demonstrators reacted violently to the news that two NDP candidates had won local seats , and attempted to burn down a police station ; four supporters of independent candidates were killed , and some 60 civilians and seven policemen injured . |
| 5 | However , three of the North-East 's Tory MPs dismissed Mr Milburn 's accusations and said the NHS reforms had made real progress in shortening hospital waiting lists . |
| 6 | The Lancashire members were furious when they heard that Gooch and the other England selectors had axed Red Rose favourite Phil DeFreitas , preferring Essex pacemen Neil Foster and Mark Ilott . |
| 7 | UDF representatives had acknowledged some loss of grass-roots support in early January , because of UDF backing for restoring Turkish and Pomak rights . |
| 8 | On Feb. 22 UN experts began destroying 400 122mm rockets loaded with the nerve agent sarin at Khamisiya . |
| 9 | Groups on the left opposed it on the grounds that IMF policies had damaged developing countries , and on the right it was opposed on the grounds of cost . |
| 10 | In a unanimous decision , the Court upheld lower court rulings in 1984 and 1989 that the Teme-Augama Anishnabai Indians had possessed aboriginal rights to the 3,800 square mile tract of mineral- and timber-rich land some 275 miles north of Toronto , but that these had been surrendered to the British Crown under the terms of the Robinson-Huron treaty . |
| 11 | On Thursday , the Luftwaffe gunners began putting anti-aircraft batteries in place along the main axial road running east to west through the Tiergarten , to protect the Chancellery and the Reichstag against bombardment . |
| 12 | Despite continuing fighting , UN teams managed to repair one power line and one water pipe to the city , where utility supplies have been sporadic at best for months . |
| 13 | Practically every Century Hutchinson rep in London had a van full of books , while the Faber reps had to share one van between several territories . |
| 14 | The U-turn came as UN chiefs refused to accept 28,000 refugees in a desperate bid to pressurise the Serbs into allowing them to stay in Bosnia . |
| 15 | Alan Watkins of the Observer had spent August and September as a guest in Great Houses ; Michael Jones of The Sunday Times had spent six weeks in Tuscany avoiding , whenever he could , the Gilmours , Jenkinses and Mortimers ; Peter Riddell of The Times , Hugo Young , Julia Langdon , Simon Heffer , Sir Robin Day-they were all in Brighton on expenses , refreshed and ready for the fray . |
| 16 | The MPG teachers tended to notice few changes ; they felt that they were still not involved in decision-making and , therefore , devolution had had no effect on their role in the school . |
| 17 | Bosnia 's Muslim-controlled radio reported that Bosnian Serb forces had entered two villages near Srebrenica and pushed its defenders back several kilometers . |
| 18 | While few in number , children attending the Sunday Adventurers had enjoyed various activities , joining their parents for parts of the parish communion service . |
| 19 | Of the approximately 3,409,000 eligible voters , 10 per cent were overseas residents and 394,000 were Israeli Arabs ( although the majority of the 150,000 East Jerusalem Arabs had refused Israeli citizenship and the 1,750,000 West Bank and Gaza strip Palestinians remained unenfranchised ) . |
| 20 | In return , the South African-backed MNR rebels promised to end all attacks within the two areas . |
| 21 | Then , during the late 1970s , Wirral GPs began prescribing large amounts of opioids such as Diconal and Palfium . |
| 22 | More serious charges originally brought against Poindexter were dropped after the Reagan and Bush administrations refused to release confidential documents requested by the prosecution . |
| 23 | In pan-German affairs , Adenauer was determined to portray Bonn as the only legitimate German government : despite the foundation of an East German regime in 1949 West Germans continued to call eastern Germany ‘ the zone ’ . |
| 24 | He said the US authorities planned to allocate 50,000 places to refugees from the Soviet Union in the next 12 months . |
| 25 | Reports on Aug. 8 said that UN-IAEA inspectors had discovered sophisticated centrifuge technology used to produce enriched uranium at al-Farat , 30 km south-west of Baghdad [ see p. 38211 ; 38307 ; 38360 ] . |
| 26 | During his stay US planes had dropped 64 bundles of rations — enough for one person in four to eat once a day . |
| 27 | In the months leading up to them , KANU barons competed to insult multi-party advocates . |
| 28 | US producers had complained that access to Japanese retail markets was hampered by the fact that most large retail outlets in Japan were supplied by a small number of wholesalers who discriminated against foreign products . |
| 29 | Walkerburn families had experienced severe poverty when the factory closed , yet the welfare state had failed to come to their rescue . |
| 30 | Britain 's member , Martin Morland , said the commission needed to make clear that Muslims and Croat fighters had committed human rights violations as well as Serbs . |