Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [adj] [coord] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Former Central Intelligence Agency officer Thomas Clines , the chief arms broker in the Iran-contra operation , was indicted by a grand jury in Baltimore on Feb. 22 on four charges arising from false income tax returns for 1985 and 1986 and his failure to report the existence of foreign bank accounts . |
| 2 | She could n't have been more than thirteen or fourteen but her face was thickly painted and her clothes were frivolous , brightly coloured things . |
| 3 | He was banned five times between 1964 and 1967 but his flexibility as a player was such that Bremner played as a winger and a sweeper for Leeds United before he became the club 's midfield dynamo . |
| 4 | A glance at the careers of nine of the ten Muftis who held the office between 988/1580 and 1031/1622 and whose teaching careers fall in the latter half of the sixteenth century , after the building of the Suleymaniye medreses , will give an idea of the teaching background apparently considered essential to give one a chance of eventual appointment to what had by then become the highest learned office : all nine men taught at the Sahn and subsequently at one of the 60-akce medreses built prior to the building of the Suleymaniye medreses , for example , the Sehzade medrese ; two of the nine then went directly to their first mevleviyet ( early on in the period , in 1566 and 1573 ) , while six taught at one of the Suleymaniye medreses and one at the medrese of the mother of Murad III in Uskudar ( the Atik Valide medrese ) , newer than Suleyman 's medreses , before being appointed to their first mevleviyet . |
| 5 | ‘ People come here aged maybe 50 or 60 and their blood pressure goes down to what it was in adolescence , they are no longer constipated , digestive problems seem to disappear , their sex lives improve , their eyes are shiny and they have a feeling of optimism instead of carrying a heavy load of despondency . |
| 6 | He had achieved a position of some prominence in the Senate between 1942 and 1944 but his choice as Roosevelt 's vice-presidential running mate at the Democratic convention in July 1944 had come as a surprise . |
| 7 | erm His father died in nineteen hundred and three and his mother in nineteen hundred and five and of course his mother 's death was a particularly shattering blow , and he actually spent six weeks in a clinic for neurotics . |
| 8 | In this country we discovered the value of prevention and rehabilitation in the 1950s and 1960s and our belief in permanence achieved through working with a child in his own family was given legal sanction in Section 1 of the 1963 Act . |