Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [adj] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judge Geoffrey Rivlin QC , sitting at Southwark Crown Court , said the case had disclosed a disturbing picture of the use of ‘ a wide range of dangerous drugs ’ by customers at Darby 's parties . |
| 2 | National assertiveness reached the largest and most important of the Soviet Union 's republics , the Russian , in May 1990 , following the elections to the republican Congress of People 's Deputies in which radical candidates had won a substantial proportion of the vote ( see above , p. 59 ) . |
| 3 | John Prescot has won a key post in the new shadow cabinet , moving from transport to employment . |
| 4 | On June 11 the Central Electoral Board announced that the incumbent President , Joaquín Balaguer , had won a narrow victory in the May 16 presidential election [ see p. 37448 ] . |
| 5 | Edinburgh 's Douglas Watson , who has already won a major award in the US for his three dimensional illustration work has created his study from a clay panel . |
| 6 | THE West Somerset Railway have won a major prize in the Ratcliff Mobility Awards . |
| 7 | ‘ Celtic have not won a major trophy for a while and have lost out to rivals Rangers . |
| 8 | The largest of the groups , the Lombard League , which had won a small percentage in the 1989 European Parliament elections as the Lombardy Regional Party [ see p. 36876 ] , took 19 per cent of the vote in Lombardy and became the second largest party in the region , while separate local leagues in Veneto and Piedmont won between 5 and 7 per cent of the vote each . |
| 9 | In all but one of the elections since 1945 , one party has won a absolute majority of the seats and the leader of that party has formed a government . |
| 10 | The arrest was widely seen as the response of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mahathir Mohamed to the PBS 's defection from the ruling coalition before the October 1990 elections [ see pp. 37780-81 ] ; the PBS had won a comfortable majority in the Sabah Assembly [ see p. 37612 ] . |
| 11 | Although ZANU-PF had won a comfortable victory in the March general election , voter turnout had been low ; the forcing of the one-party issue had led to strains within the party . |
| 12 | The platform had won a comfortable victory in the afternoon 's debate on policy . |
| 13 | The CDU parliamentary group had accused Gies ( who had headed the CDU list but had not won a direct seat in the October 1990 Landtag election ) of obliging three other CDU delegates to resign after that election by alleging that they had worked for the former East German " Stasi " security police . |
| 14 | Oracle UK Ltd has won a 16-year contract with the British Army valued at £4m which will standardise all of the Army 's IT projects around the Oracle database . |
| 15 | As somebody who is still under thirty and er like my good friend Mister young enough to have a positive approach to Europe , I am pleasantly surprised that the people opposite are gon na make my job a lot easier because the narrowness and the anti-diluvian attitudes that we see on the benches opposite explain why , in the last Euro elections , the Labour Party won a resounding victory on the issue of Europe . |
| 16 | Further indications that vegetables had won a respected place in the English diet can be found in Hannah Glasse 's delightful The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy , published in 1747 . |
| 17 | A REAL ale pub has won a unique award from a hardy band of travelling Plymouth Argyle supporters . |
| 18 | But that does not mean he has yet won a conclusive victory in the debilitating war between president and parliament . |
| 19 | More than three months after it had won a parliamentary majority in a multiparty general election , the Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP — the renamed Bulgarian Communist Party ) finally abandoned in September its efforts to build a grand coalition government including the main opposition Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) . |
| 20 | With the help of a similar system , the right-wing Union for France has just won a sweeping majority in a French general election . |
| 21 | Jess was the liveliest player on the park and after he had won a free kick on the edge of the penalty box , the Aberdeen forward came close with a header from Nevin 's cross . |
| 22 | Begin won a slim victory in the Knesset for his foreign and defence policy , though having to concede an inquiry into the Beirut massacres . |
| 23 | One of the region 's independent radio stations has won a top award at the radio Oscars . |
| 24 | A SPORTS car which does n't go on sale in Britain until next year has won a top award at the British International Motor Show . |
| 25 | Imports of computer equipment manufactured in the European Community are subject to lower rates of duty , but have not won a significant share of the local market . |
| 26 | On Wilcock 's suggestion the Voice had approached a distinguished critic with the New York Times Book Review , Gilbert Seldes . |
| 27 | In either case , an unauthorised practitioner will have committed a criminal offence under the Financial Services Act , and pleading that he did it only once or that it happened by accident is not going to impress anyone . |
| 28 | De Bloos commenced proceedings against Bouyer in Tournai in Belgium claiming , on the ground that Bouyer had committed a unilateral breach of the contract , an order for the dissolution of the agreement and damages . |
| 29 | It might , therefore , be open to a court to find liability where a defendant committed a statutory offence as the vehicle for the deliberate infliction of harm upon the plaintiff . |
| 30 | This was a comparatively short distance and in the circumstances of the case , the EAT concluded that the employer had not committed a fundamental breach of the contract . |