Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Community , which agreed last week progressively to lift economic sanctions against Serbia , should back the Americans by putting its offer on hold until the federal army withdraws and the irregulars are disbanded . |
| 2 | Further gloom was spread by Dutch consumer electronics giant Philips which revealed third quarter losses of £56.2m . |
| 3 | He masked the fear in his eyes with the vacant , subservient glaze which became second nature to military personnel . |
| 4 | Further investment is needed at the colliery , which reopened last year when 160 miners invested £10,000 each to form the consortium . |
| 5 | At the same time the general level of wealth in this unremarkable corner of the East Midlands , peopled entirely by peasant farmers , with a leavening of yeomen and only a handful of rich squires , was lower only than on the fertile cornlands of Norfolk and in the opulent Stour Valley manufacturing district — higher not only than in other , similar regions but also Berkshire , which the yield of the loans , 1522 — 3 , placed fifth jointly with Suffolk , and Gloucestershire which shared fourteenth place with Rutland itself . |
| 6 | There is no sense of accountability in a council such as Edinburgh , which sought last year to tax residents at £584 per head . |
| 7 | The numbers from Fujitsu Ltd , Hitachi Ltd and Toshiba Corp , all of which announced last week , were every bit as bad as expected , with Fujitsu plunging to a consolidated net loss of $295m and the other two more comfortably diversified companies reporting sharp profit declines of 39.4% at $699.4m and 48% at $186m respectively . |
| 8 | Beyond the Seventies pastiche which swamped last season 's collections , there is a strong appetite for simplicity and something which perhaps evokes an emphasis on inner beauty . |
| 9 | Mr Parkinson is concerned that the cost over-runs of the tunnel , which rose last month by £1bn to an estimated £7bn , could be repeated in the building of the rail link from Folkestone to London . |
| 10 | The third member of the team , reporter John Moulson , was not involved in the incident , which occurred last Sunday . |
| 11 | You appear to be experiencing a similar situation to the one which occurred last October . |
| 12 | The organisers say that this is a responsibly run event and add that any problems which dogged last years festival have been overcome . |
| 13 | THE recent controversy over the All Blacks ' over-abrasive rucking methods against both New South Wales and England ‘ B ’ — and the injuries which sidelined four Australian and one English player ( see page 30 ) — bring to mind a disturbing complaint which surfaced last season in Britain . |
| 14 | Nonetheless the 1991–92 figure clearly needed to be brought back to a more affordable level , and during the ‘ star chamber ’ exercise in the spring to which referred last year , the contract with Westminster Strategy ( our PR consultants ) was renegotiated , and the budgeted figure for the current year has been reduced to £170,000 . |
| 15 | Some say diffidently that the ERM has been assaulted by an extraordinary and unrepeatable event ( German unification ) ; or that the underlying imbalances which caused last September 's breakdown ( the pound and some other currencies were over-valued against the D-mark ) have now been sorted out . |
| 16 | Pete , who honed his career up at Hope Street in productions like John McGrath 's The Bofers Gun , now finds himself in the thick of more flak in the new movie , The Last of the Mohicans , which opened last night . |
| 17 | The refurbished University College Strang Print Room , which opened last March , has mounted its second exhibition under the new regime of curator Nicola Kalinsky . |
| 18 | One such venture is Riverscape , which opened last October and runs for another 14 months . |
| 19 | For example , Virgin Holidays ( 0293–617181 ) offers a seven-night holiday at Disney 's Port Orleans Resort , which opened last year close to the Epcot Centre , at £679 per person for one week , or £899 for two weeks , including passes and nonstop flight to Orlando . |
| 20 | A new hotel which opened last year , the Mutiara has lived up to expectations as the island 's most luxurious hotel . |
| 21 | The much-praised new ski area at Aonach Mor near Fort William which opened last season has picked up two more awards in the close season , including one for architecture . |
| 22 | ‘ Small , intimate and European ’ is how owner Stephen Flannery describes the ambience of Bar 10 which opened last month . |
| 23 | The last show to be mounted by Wolfgang Fischer and his wife Jutta at their King Street Gallery will be of David Tindle 's paintings , including the ‘ Madame le Goalher series ’ , which opened last month . |
| 24 | The new NEC High Performance Computing Software Development Center in Switzerland , which opened last month in the same building as CSCS , will by the end of this year give a limited number of outside users access to its Cenju-2 parallel supercomputer , says A. Scheidegger , director of CSCS . |
| 25 | The Sainsbury 's which opened last November at Torquay has a shopping arcade of 38,000 sq ft , with parking for 600 cars . |
| 26 | Sharon Hills parents John and Shiela turned up to the inquest into their daughters death — which happened last month when she was visiting egypt . |
| 27 | A considerable investment has been made in the redevelopment of the Piper field , which achieved first oil in February 1993 , having been delayed by construction schedule slippages and bad weather at the end of 1992 . |
| 28 | The official receiver has been called in to work out how much the firm , which folded last year , owed . |
| 29 | She tells me others agree — and she 's thrilled about the phone calls which followed last night 's local radio slot . |
| 30 | The Southern Rivers Project , which began last year and is funded by English Heritage , is concerned about the future preservation of nationally important Paleolithic sites . |