Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [noun] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1982 Argentinian troops on the Falkland Islands surrendered to British forces . |
| 2 | Its share of the CICS tools market in 1992 stood at 25% according to analyst Xephon Plc . |
| 3 | The disaster on the London-Belfast flight happened after one of the Boeing 's two engines began to break up and the crew mistakenly shut down the other one . |
| 4 | We found a railway bridge that had been named the Chelmsford Bridge painted in drab brown colour . |
| 5 | There is the £3000 million and more which consumers pay in their food bills each year to keep the EEC market closed to cheaper foods from overseas . |
| 6 | For example , the Maldives in the Indian Ocean consist of 1196 atolls inhabited by 177,000 people , and they would virtually disappear if sea level rose by just 1 metre ( Boyle and Ardill , 1989 ) . |
| 7 | A detailed Soviet study of American policy in the Indian Ocean published in 1984 identified over thirty American military bases in the Indian Ocean basin . |
| 8 | The archipelago of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean consists of some 1,200 coral islands , of which around 200 are inhabited . |
| 9 | Leconfield is the home of the Army School of Mechanical Transport , occupying Normandy Barracks , formerly the RAF station commissioned in 1936 , which served in an operational capacity during the Second World War . |
| 10 | The Faverolles factory responded to this challenge and continued to break production records , while played their part with large increases in muesli , crunchy and pillow tonnages for the continental market . |
| 11 | The Montgomeryshire breed survived as isolated individuals in 1919 but it , too , has become extinct . |
| 12 | TONY FOSTER — NOW 42 — read chemistry at Oxford , decided he wanted a commercial career , joined ICI in the London sales office , then had two years as a Midlands sales rep selling chemicals for the Mond Division followed by three years as a product manager for sodium cyanide . |
| 13 | The Victoria Press opened on 25 March 1860 at Great Coram Street and undertook jobbing and book work , notably the Transactions of the NAPSS for 1860 to 1864 , and The Victoria Regia ( 1861 ) , edited by Adelaide Ann Procter [ q.v . ] . |
| 14 | When the Wolverton Shed went in 1882 to Northampton , a works shunting engine did this service ( manned by Bletchley Shed men ) until the early 1920s . |
| 15 | In October 1980 a spillage of dangerous lead and zinc waste into the Kilmastulla river led to some 20,000 householders in Co . |
| 16 | Every single thing the Masai value depends upon this possibility . |
| 17 | A similar way of life was followed by the Turkic-speaking peoples of the Sayan mountains known by two variants of the same clan name as Tuva and Tubalar ( or Tofalar ) . |
| 18 | A linear or supercoiled DNA containing P A2b and P A3 promoters was incubated at 37°C with σ A -RNA polymerase , in the absence ( P A2b ) or presence ( P A3 ) of protein p4 , and with the NTP combinations indicated in each lane . |
| 19 | When the Wilde scandal broke in 1895 , Mrs Leverson stood out against public opinion and took him into her home on his being released on bail , an act of courage and loyalty for which she has become justly renowned . |
| 20 | Only the Wilton rug stretched between two fireside chairs beckoned as a cosy oasis . |
| 21 | The Horley Rally followed on 16 May ; again , numbers were down , but it was a happy atmosphere , with splendid classes — balls with Chris Ruffle , movement to tapes with Janice Hewitt and fast fitness with Janice Golding . |
| 22 | She translated from Latin into Esperanto the Somerville song written in 1903 by Helen Darbishire , Margaret Moor and Margaret Robertson for the programme of Oxford songs , poems and lore . |
| 23 | The United States soon followed and , by Act of Congress , the Smithsonian Institution became in 1879 the US National Museum . |
| 24 | Re-opening of the Van Railway came in 1896 and it was then worked by the Cambrian Railways Company until absorbed by the GWR in 1923 . |
| 25 | Not only had they sent a tactless cable but , seeing it was 2 am in England , decided to save money by sending it at reduced rates to be delivered when the MCC office opened at 9 am . |
| 26 | True , all peasants still shared a common interest in the overthrow of the remaining traces of feudalism — including the tsarist regime itself — and the SR Party founded in 1901 came to express this common ground . |
| 27 | When the Windsor herd arrives in late July they will make up the largest group of African elephants in the country . |
| 28 | The Kislev forces consist of two types of horsemen . |
| 29 | In a ‘ walk about ’ around the factory with John Cunningham , Chief Engineer , the Glenpatrick News reports on many changes and developments . |
| 30 | The costs were provided in the previous year with the exception of a £1.1 million write down in the value of the Dumfries building charged in 1992/93 . |