Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [be] [verb] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The weather was kind for the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of the Henley Golf Club which were held last weekend and large numbers of members and friends attended and were very appreciative of the arrangements which had been made . |
| 2 | This is the entry which is accessed first when an item is to be read . |
| 3 | The middle of Oxford is a pretty unpleasant place to be , and we 're hoping very much that it 's going to be a sort of signpost er to the County Council 's greater study which was agreed last Tuesday . |
| 4 | This year , Douglas Reyburn are hosting the Buchanan Inter Company Trophy which was won last year by Stoddard Carpets . |
| 5 | Branson himself was seated next to a CAA inspector . |
| 6 | Philip II of Spain came close to achieving it , before he was defeated by , among others , half naked English mercenary soldiers who ‘ for thieving and brawling had no equals ’ — the ancestors of the football fans who are plotting next year 's ‘ English invasion of Italy ’ . |
| 7 | Other winners in the awards ceremony seen as a pointer to the Hollywood Oscars which are announced next week included Silence of the Lambs star Anthony Hopkins . |
| 8 | Some concern has also been expressed about the impact of conglomerate mergers on the economy and it is this issue which is addressed next . |
| 9 | Because that 's our a reservoir which was commissioned last year , to secure supplies for the East Midlands , cost us a hundred and seven million pounds . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , the prime reason for the Bundesbank 's decision to go ahead with an interest rate cut will have been the solidarity pact which was agreed last Saturday between Chancellor Kohl 's government and the opposition to put Germany 's post-unification finances on a sound footing and help the revival of eastern Germany . |
| 11 | For those students resident in England , Wales and Northern Ireland who are taking first degrees ( including teacher training ) or certain diploma courses , the usual grant-awarding body is the local education authority . |
| 12 | She was a bit troublesome to me to begin with but I soon cottoned on to the fact that it was n't her but the girl she was sitting next to within the class . |
| 13 | Her misery was made complete because she was separated from her two sons who were flying first class . |
| 14 | In the November 1988 general election she was placed fourth , the Conservative winning . |
| 15 | No , for that job I was doing last night . |
| 16 | Well I think the the er other point I was making last week was that erm this whole are of learning theory is erm y'know a very traditional area . |
| 17 | The targets I was given last year in my appraisal were n't covered at all this year in my appraisal by the manager , |
| 18 | So they compromised and gave £100 to the Barlow Clowes Investors Group which was formed last July to represent the investors ' interests and co-ordinate the fight for compensation . |
| 19 | A survivor has told investigators she was sitting next to a British woman who was killed . |
| 20 | ‘ The poems we was reading last year , Mr Randolph . ’ |
| 21 | He cold-shouldered Ho , who insisted that at the national parade on Bastille Day he be placed next to Bidault . |
| 22 | The stuff I was doing last night . |
| 23 | The Conference is the forum where Resolutions which were submitted last December and which were discussed at over 50 District Meetings around the country since then were finally put to the vote of the delegates and , if passed , thereby became a cornerstone of Association policy . |
| 24 | Stephen Pinsent , a former weightlifting champion who was jailed last month for supplying anabolic steroids , had his three-month sentence reduced to 28 days by the Court of Appeal yesterday . |
| 25 | An aide to Mr Yeltsin said a draft of a new constitution prepared on behalf of the president would be presented to Congress today that would put the emergency powers he was granted last autumn on a permanent basis . |
| 26 | It would put the emergency powers he was granted last autumn on a permanent basis . |
| 27 | An aide to Mr Yeltsin said a draft of a new constitution prepared on behalf of the president would be presented to Congress today that would put the emergency powers he was granted last autumn on a permanent basis . |
| 28 | Marion has sent out questionnaires to some of the teachers who have used the site-based school packs which were introduced last year . |
| 29 | For my first tournament you were paid next to nothing from the caddie-master 's box , and your tips depended on how far you progressed in the tournament . |
| 30 | The woman who was sitting next to me had been to Perth ( a 360kilometre round trip ) to buy tomatoes : the only shop in Cunderdin , where she lived , charged A$3.50 a kilo , site told me . |