Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [vb past] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scottish Office minister Allan Stewart said most of the women who have still to be contacted are now thought to be living in the United States . |
| 2 | There was still much danger : the palace was heavily guarded , and even if they got away King Minos had many warships which could chase and sink them . |
| 3 | The new governor of Rhode Island closed more than half the state 's banks following the collapse of a private insurance fund which guarantees deposits at 45 banks not insured by the federal government . |
| 4 | England full-back Jon Webb had some game … he joined in the attacks when he could and kicked five out of five penalties … |
| 5 | A recent survey by Sheffield university showed that 95 per cent . |
| 6 | Of the two famous rune stones which stand outside the church at Jelling , the smaller states that " King Gorm made these memorials to Thyre his wife , Denmark 's ornament " ; the larger that " King Harald commanded these memorials made to Gorm his father and Thyre his mother . |
| 7 | On Feb. 5 Public Welfare Minister Supardjo Rustam announced that famine in Kuriwa , a district of the remote province of Irian Jaya , had claimed the lives of 132 people , after bad weather had prevented crop-planting in the area . |
| 8 | But the consignor , had to settle for the $750,000 ( £468,750 ) Berry-Hill Galleries paid this time . |
| 9 | Reasoning about diseases of the heart and blood vessels began to have a sound basis when , in the seventeenth century , William Harvey established that blood circulates from the heart , through arteries to the minute capillary vessels in every organ , and back by the veins to the heart . |
| 10 | The ISS curriculum proposals aroused less controversy in ILEA than those of TNC in part because of the very different curriculum philosophy within which the proposals for the fourth and fifth years were set . |
| 11 | Mr Justice Drake used this power to full in summing up in the Donovan case , warning the jurors that they should not think they had to ‘ fix sums with lots of noughts on the end because it 's fashionable ’ . |
| 12 | Mr Prior , Mr Walker , and Sir Ian Gilmour opposed many of Mrs Thatcher 's and the Chancellor 's economic policies , and all three at some time seriously considered resignation over the 1981 budget . |
| 13 | Thus in the 1920s Walter Elliot argued that Conservatism was based on -an observation of life and not a priori reasoning' , while more recently Sir Ian Gilmour declared that Conservatism is ‘ not an ideology or a doctrine ’ . |
| 14 | There was no doubt a certain amount of wishful thinking in these common beliefs that gang fights represented some kind of scaled-down patriotism , but Britain 's military preoccupations were never too far out of sight when Hooliganism was on the agenda , involving reversals such as these on the Hooligan 's worth and character . |
| 15 | The Securities and Investments Board indicated that ‘ slippage ’ may be necessary for some regulatory bodies to give members enough time to put new training arrangements in place and discussions will take place in the near future . |
| 16 | Beneath his new submissiveness Herr Nordern felt another flicker of exasperation , the more so because he was being submissive . |
| 17 | Against his better judgement Herr Nordern gulped some beer and then mopped his face with his handkerchief . |
| 18 | The voyage out was a lengthy one via the Cape of Good Hope , and by his own admission Stirling spent most of it in his cabin gambling at cards . |
| 19 | Trevor and Lucy Blake were slightly unusual parents , although it was years before Alan and his sister Pamela realized this . |
| 20 | However , the WO statisticians said this county practice of estimating higher than the ‘ base estimate ’ population growth did not add up — there simply will not be enough people to reach the higher estimates , even with the historically high levels of inward migration being predicted . |
| 21 | Oslo : The government 's 1990 budget proposals had little effect , with the index slipping 2.39 to 515.81 in moderate trade . |
| 22 | De La Rue announced that first half profit before tax rose by 48% to £46m ; the figure was helped by a contribution from the Swedish Inter Innovation which De La Rue bought a year ago . |
| 23 | Volume was measured as the logarithm of the number of futures contracts traded each day in the near contract . |
| 24 | The university authorities encouraged this novel development and three students were eventually elected to the county congress . |
| 25 | On Junction Buttress , Malc Taylor put All my Pegs in one Basket and then left them in the obvious overhanging crack , which is now E7 6c . |
| 26 | But for all these criticisms there was still a serious and effective attempt to involve the best minds in the country in laying a foundation for curriculum decision making and to provide an instrument to ensure that detailed curriculum plans reflected this . |
| 27 | All was not lost for Rovers , when substitute Marcus Stewart claimed another . |
| 28 | Allowing for stale prices and GARCH effects , they found that the volatility of futures returns led that of spot returns by fifteen minutes . |
| 29 | The WIRS data supported this proposition when the simple " on-off " distinction between " users " and " non-users " was used . |
| 30 | See Van Basten got another hat trick . |