Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [verb] [adv] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE British Snoring and Sleep Apnoea Association set up last year by a Mr Alan Davy has declared a membership of 1,300 . |
| 2 | Sir James has been lobbying the prime minister for a scheme to use official aid money to buy up Third World debt , sell off the principal , and swap the right to interest payments for a lease on tropical rain forests . |
| 3 | The New York Stock Exchange and the Chicago commodity exchanges are looking at programme trades carried out last July which may have flouted market rules and contributed to sudden movements in both the Dow Jones index and the S&P 500 futures index . |
| 4 | Banbury teamate Ari Vatanen came in fifth … the best local finisher … |
| 5 | NEW fitness club Bodifit kicked off last week with an official opening by the Glentoran football squad . |
| 6 | A BOY of 13 thought to be responsible for a car crimewave sobbed loudly last night as magistrates ruled he should be placed in a secure unit for three months — 300 miles from his home . |
| 7 | At the operational level , stock turn improved again last year , from 3 to 3.25 times , and the staff/sales ratio ( payroll as a percentage of sales ) was reduced from 14.6% to 13.4% . |
| 8 | Tomorrow , the boys from the Beazer Homes League take on second division Bournemouth at Whaddon Road . |
| 9 | Objectively , it is true that Okapi nearly always retrieves as much as or more than LIBERTAS , but LIBERTAS sometimes outputs records in a more sensible order , keeping editions of the same work together and taking word adjacency into account in the weighting procedure ( so that records containing the actual search statement come out first ) . |
| 10 | The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital 's cobalt unit opened only last September after a massive public fund-raising drive . |
| 11 | At present , the text recognition system employs only first level information . |
| 12 | A 75-year-old stroke patient died there last December when he fell from a trolley outside the casualty unit . |
| 13 | Some anti-NSF demonstrators rushed the cordon of tanks and troops around the NSF headquarters , and fist fights broke out first with soldiers and then with rival demonstrators . |
| 14 | The technical services representative for International Paint *Gulf ) is based in Bahrain and when an ice rink opened there last year Russell got his skates on and went along . |
| 15 | I move to sit by Darren Parker , but Simon Singh gets there first and most of the other seats are taken by now . |
| 16 | Mills making the run Chettle gets there first . |
| 17 | EDINBURGH Oil & Gas , the Scottish exploration and production minnow , saw its operating profits rise sharply last year , though the headline profits figure dropped dramatically , writes Peter Woodifield . |
| 18 | Category one was won by Airlie Anderson with a storming 144 , second place was taken by a nearly fit Neil Cooper with D. Jones coming in third . |
| 19 | A Mr Crump stayed here last night , a Liverpool merchant . |
| 20 | STEVEN SMITH 'S perseverance with the brilliant but wayward Brook Street Picnic paid off last night at the Horse of the Year Show , when he won the £4,000 first prize for the Leading Show Jumper of the Year title . |
| 21 | THE UN Security Council voted unanimously last night to send a peacekeeping force to Central America to cut off infiltration by contra rebels , monitor elections in Nicaragua and watch over developments in other sensitive areas — especially Honduras and El Salvador . |
| 22 | Twenty years ago , cash troubles rated only tenth in their list of concerns . |
| 23 | ‘ Did Mr Troy come in last night ? ’ |
| 24 | Heritage Centres compete with Visitor Centres , while Gift Centres crop up next to Heather Centres . |
| 25 | I see everything is quiet after Scum & Scouse gits won convincingly last night . |
| 26 | APR 1993 At the first TOP Surgery Allan Paterson met team leaders to find out first hand the progress of their teams . |
| 27 | Originally four Carmel Convent sisters were due to make the journey but , sadly , Sister Inge died late last year after suffering an inoperable brain tumour . |
| 28 | Mr Utterson called again next day , and again the day after that . |
| 29 | Her husband Peter seen here last Christmas , is now dying of throat cancer . |
| 30 | The Rosyth official flew home last night after a whistle-stop trip to Belgium to repair the 24-year-old world champion 's damaged cue . |