Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [verb] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's only now , 17 years after her death , that the first lady of crime fiction has at last acquired a fan club . |
| 2 | The Company-wide employee programmes described in last year 's report have continued during 1992 . |
| 3 | Without doubt , Anne Bancroft emerged as your shining example of growing old gracefully , with Judi Dench following in second place and Diana Rigg a close third . |
| 4 | Clifford Geertz follows with a luminous sketch of anthropological psychology , while Richard Gregory gallops in third with his now familiar but lively inferences from illusions . |
| 5 | The first of three previews , based on the selection of leading titles to be published during the coming season which appears in the Spring Books issue on 12th February . |
| 6 | A Common Position was reached on the telematics programme at the Research Council meeting on 21st December 1990 . |
| 7 | However , there was Saturday evening to get through first . |
| 8 | The auction ring of Ayr cattle market on 14th December , 1911 , was arranged for the ‘ high noon ’ of the dispute . |
| 9 | The visit lasted over an hour during which time Neil Kinnock experienced at first hand what carpet manufacturing was all about . |
| 10 | In comparison with the BCG matrix , the McKinsey-GE matrix seems at first to be less explicit about building some ‘ problem children ’ into ‘ stars ’ and identifying ‘ cash cows ’ and ‘ dogs ’ , but the implications are present , as indicated by figure 4.3 . |
| 11 | Recent legislation had improved matters , however ; the 1833 Factory Act prohibited the employment of young children and the 1847 Ten Hours Act had at last given working people some time for recreation . |
| 12 | In Taormina , the Corso Umberto — the town 's main thoroughfare — caters to all fashionable tastes , and the winding back streets offer a range of shops with specialities which range from delicately embroidered blouses which may be made to measure , colourful pottery and terracotta statuettes dressed in 18th century costumes . |
| 13 | Digital Equipment Corp has at last announced its OSF/1 Unix-based operating system for Alpha-based AXP systems , giving its Alpha hardware customers an alternative to VMS . |
| 14 | Alexander Peden died on 28th January , 1686 . |
| 15 | Digital Information Systems Inc , Rancho Cordova , California , will introduce version 3.3 of its Synergy application development environment that turns out programmes which will run under Windows , MS-DOS , VMS and Unix , with Motif support promised for next April . |
| 16 | Walkinshaw is now believed to be helping Donington Park prepare for next year 's European Grand Prix . |
| 17 | IBM Corp has at last woken up to the fact that to remain competitive in the personal computer business , it is necessary constantly to add new models , and in the US , the company yesterday added new 80486-based PS/1 models based on chips ranging from the 25MHz 80486SX to the 66MHz 80486DX2 ; they come in desktop and minitower configurations and are available now at prices expected to go from $1,200 to $3,000 ; they are upgradable to the Pentium . |
| 18 | He took to the front on the second lap and left Dave Milling , Woolsey Coulter , Phillip McCallen and Alan Irwin to go for second best . |
| 19 | After last week 's boat debacle , the tale takes a stranger twist with a mysterious telephone advert placed in last week 's NME asking ‘ Who 's Taking The Pistols ? ’ |
| 20 | It will be usual practice for information which the Social Work Department receives after 1st April 1989 to be shared in a responsible and sensitive way , with the client to whom it relates , UNLESS the person providing it specifically requests that we do not do so . |
| 21 | The biggest police operation of its kind in the county ended successfully yesterday when Leonard Featherstone , 56 , of Tudwick Road , Tiptree , his son Brett , 24 , from the same address and Kenneth Hammond , 36 , of Banters Lane , Great Leighs admitted a total of 55 charges concerning false tacograph entries dating from last March . |
| 22 | He continued to urge Canterbury 's supremacy over York , and in the general settlement of 1107 , Archbishop Gerard promised at last to show him the same obedience as archbishop as he had owed as bishop of Hereford . |
| 23 | We want to get views of St Albans District Council am I told erm that last Thursday evening in the snow , er Counc St Albans Council came through first er to erm agree it . |
| 24 | The put-put of tennis balls came from next door but one , and cultured cries of enjoyment . |
| 25 | OWNERS whose homes have crashed in value will have to pay the new council tax based on LAST YEAR 'S higher prices . |
| 26 | Both Ian Allan , chairman of AIR , and I have felt for some time that this division was not helpful to the railway movement and it was agreed at the ARPS Council meeting held on 25th April ( which I missed due to the pleasure of attending my secretary 's wedding ) and the AIR Board meeting two days later that we adopt a proposal put forward by David Madden , a member of ARPS Council and director of operations on the North Norfolk Railway , to set up a joint committee to handle affairs of mutual interest , which we agreed should be called in good railway tradition : ‘ The Railway Clearing House ’ . |
| 27 | Never mind — there are only 310 shopping days left till next Christmas ! ’ . |
| 28 | Mr Simon Heffer argued in last week 's Spectator that welfarism is once more coming to characterise the British , having been repulsed during the Thatcher years : ‘ The plaintive , dependent-relative voice of the something-for-nothing society , heard on almost every street in this campaign , was a little harder to find five years ago . ’ |
| 29 | Tangerine 's dance dreams started in last summer 's raves |
| 30 | The strong integrationist call dominates two-thirds of the 37 resolutions on Northern Ireland affairs submitted for next month 's Tory conference . |