Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The main forces that work against trade union interest , according to Beaumont , are the difficulties experienced by unions in using the favourable industrial relations procedures laid down by the last Labour Government ; moves in the public sector that have made trade union organization difficult , and , in the case of GCHO , unlawful ; and the Conservative Government 's continuing drive against the closed shop . |
2 | As a member of the Advanced Volunteer Foundation , Gail was one of 750 Canadians who helped out at the fourth annual International Amateur Athletic Foundation indoor track and field meeting . |
3 | He told me , before I first went to England in 1947 , to make sure I came back for the next Australian season so that I would be eligible for selection for the '48 tour . |
4 | Even in that jungly light I see something does n't add up : can a corpse have half a nose and two fingers busted off at the first joint ? |
5 | I do n't know if it was the Irish temper in me or the Mexican , but I leapt on to the first marine I could reach . |
6 | The annual growth of world trade in 1991 slowed down for the third successive year , according to the annual report of the Director-General of GATT , issued on March 18 . |
7 | Apollon did n't help their cause when they had Marios Charalambous sent off for a second bookable offence a minute before the break . |
8 | A long way off down the hill smoke drifted up from the first stubble-burning of the autumn . |
9 | American driver Ross Cheever , winner of the first race of the series , went out of the second round event after tangling with German Volker Weidler , also in a Reynard . |
10 | Andrew 's background has made him a focal point for media interest this week , including an appearance on regional television filmed back at the last working tin mine , at South Crofty , near Redruth . |
11 | He introduced Whitlock and Sabrina to Bailey who then sat down on the second black leather sofa and took a cigar from his pocket . |
12 | Others , conscious that they were eating the equivalent of a diamond brooch or a sapphire pendant , sat down to a last giddy meal eating before the Collector could get his hands on it , all at once , what they had hoarded for weeks . |