Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anyone wants chapter and verse on this the erm address of the British Agro-chemicals Association who put out this literature will be on our fact sheet . |
| 2 | He said he would be pressing for the expulsion of several members of the local association who had privately aired derogatory views about a black candidate while publicly supporting him . |
| 3 | Alun Evans , secretary of the Welsh football association who doubles up as chairman of the UAU committee , said : ‘ I was informed by the chairman of the UAU rugby committee that he was discussing the possible sponsorship of its championship and I received a copy of a proposal … it contained a number of features which were not acceptable to the union and it was therefore with great surprise that we learned a launch for the sponsorship had been called and it was decided that the union could not agree to this action . ’ |
| 4 | Thirty-three years later , aged 65 , he made his directorial debut with the same mind-numbing story of a soldier who wakes up in hospital without arms , legs , face , sight or hearing , but who can still think . |
| 5 | The first is to ‘ Learn from Lei Feng ’ , the model soldier who died nearly 30 years ago . |
| 6 | A FORMER soldier who blew up a motorist with a home-made bomb because of a £140 debt was jailed for 12 years yesterday . |
| 7 | Colchester United — beaten 2-0 by Birmingham City at Layer Road — donated 20p of the price of every programme to the fund for Sergeant Andy Mudd , the soldier who lost both his legs in the IRA bomb attack near the ground a fortnight ago . |
| 8 | ‘ Any soldier who has ever been in a war , ’ he said at the hearings , ‘ truly hopes he will never see one again . ’ |
| 9 | Trainer David Elsworth said : ‘ He won for me first time last season and perhaps he is a horse who does n't want running too often . ’ |
| 10 | This is particularly likely in a horse who shies suddenly when he is frightened by something he can not identify . |
| 11 | When I was young I longed to leap aboard every horse who pranced past . |
| 12 | Nebbins was Mr Cooper 's only horse who worked very hard , pulled the plough and the hay cart , and his , all the other jobs that a horse had to do on a farm . |
| 13 | There is no champion tennis player who has never served a double fault ; no professional musician who had never played a wrong note ; and no doctor or nurse who has not made an error of diagnosis . |
| 14 | Karl is a serious musician who missed out on the nihilism of the Seventies punk and largely retained Sixties hippy values . |
| 15 | Howard Wilkinson 's team were victims of an inspired performance by a Manchester City side who had not scored in four previous outings . |
| 16 | It was then Aberdeen 's turn to stare elimination in the face , and expulsion of the most embarrassing sort for a side who had earlier enjoyed a supposedly comfortable lead over the team from the lower league . |
| 17 | York finally produced a win for the first time since the second half of November but only by 1110 against a side who went desperately close to clinching a late victory themselves . |
| 18 | York finally produced a win for the first time since the second half of November but only by 1110 against a side who went desperately close to clinching a late victory themselves . |
| 19 | SUNDERLAND caretaker boss Malcolm Crosby was full of praise for his reserve side who went down to a single goal defeat to star-studded Manchester United Reserve side at Roker Park on Wednesday evening . |
| 20 | In a market contrast to what had gone before in the Singles , it was some of the unsung members of the European side who came up with most of the points to secure the tie . |
| 21 | ‘ Forest have always been a side who finish better than they start and they will grow stronger again as the season progresses . |
| 22 | In Group A , Sampdoria will qualify if they win at home against a Panathinaikos side who have not scored a goal in their five previous matches . |
| 23 | And Dalglish must have gone into shock again as the side who have so far swept all before them suddenly surrendered their 100 per cent home record . |
| 24 | At least in the youth game the referee has a very clear directive as to who should be awarded the put-in ; the side who did not take it into ruck or maul . |
| 25 | Not strange at all , of course , in economic terms , since the slacks and Pringle jumper brigade who make up the bulk of business in summer would n't take the Austin Maxi out of the car-port if there was even a remote chance of frost . |
| 26 | Cheshire Fire Brigade who set up an emergency operation centre on site said the cloud had been taken by the prevailing wind east of Northwich . |
| 27 | In Britain , where the top 10 house-builders dominate the output of new private houses , it has traditionally been either the rich or the enthusiastic DIY brigade who forged ahead with their own individual home building . |
| 28 | It 's just the old school tie brigade who do n't like the idea |
| 29 | After the Glasgow gig , the lads got talking to JERRY from the TEENAGE FANCLUB who came back to pay his respects and nick the beer from their rider . |
| 30 | In both cases people who were directly or indirectly implicated in racial harassment were asked to reflect on their actions and attitudes by an outsider who did not share their views ; moreover , as a researcher I was concerned to elicit evidence about racist assumptions or practices which as an educator I was also concerned to challenge . |