Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The police had picked up the red sports car nine miles south of Ashford in Kent . |
| 2 | HOPES that there will be more interest rate cuts to come sparked off a fresh shares boom yesterday . |
| 3 | The Titfords , it seemed , had not given up the Miscellaneous Repos business for good : an unmarried Scottish lady in her sixties , Jessie Grieve , was staying with them as a lodger ; what little she may have paid in rent would have been very useful , no doubt , as a means of eking out the family income . |
| 4 | Gen. Saw Maung , the Prime Minister and Chair of the ruling military State Law and Order Restoration Council ( SLORC ) , who was believed to be in poor mental and physical health , relinquished the post of Defence Minister on March 20 , having already given up the Foreign Affairs portfolio in September 1991 [ see p. 38440 ] . |
| 5 | Amnesty called on the government ( which had recently set up a human rights task force and an inquiry into alleged atrocities ) to admit the extent of abuses in the past , including its own role , in order to clear the atmosphere for a fresh approach on human rights observance . |
| 6 | Since the Bingham Report it has set up a special investigations unit and improved staff training . |
| 7 | PEP had set up a Post-war Aims Group even before the war began , and within a week of its outbreak had circulated.a draft report on war aims . |
| 8 | The Department of Trade and Industry has ruled out an official Companies Act investigation of the flotation , in which the ashes of up to half a million share certificates were discovered in a skip in South London and tens of thousands of other documents were botched . |
| 9 | In November 1964 Johnson won the Presidential election by a landslide , and promised that the ‘ Great Society ’ would wage war on domestic poverty , on the racism that had triggered both the civil rights movement and the riots in Harlem that summer , and , if necessary , on the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam and the North Vietnamese government as well . |