Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Newspaper accounts of the latest national round of university funding had welcome news for Bristol . |
2 | Frank Page of Loughborough University won first prize in the materials science category of the tenth annual Polaroid international photomicrography competition , for his micrograph ( above ) depicting ultra high velocity jet plated gold . |
3 | The Sunderland board met last night when the ticket distribution was the main item on the agenda . |
4 | In a previous follow up study we found that patients who had challenge proven cow 's milk allergy acquired clinical tolerance to cow 's milk when the antigen specific immune response had developed . |
5 | In Saphery , even then a realm famed for its sorcerers , Wizard Prince fought Wizard Prince . |
6 | However , when income support replaced supplementary benefit in 1988 under the 1986 Social Security Act , either partner was freely allowed to claim income support when both were unemployed . |
7 | Income support replaced supplementary pension in April 1988 . |
8 | Computer Horizons Corp saw first quarter net profit up 10.9% at $858,000 , on sales up 21.1% to $29.4m . |
9 | Memorex Telex Corp said last week that it will adopt Unix System V.4.2 for its server and desktop product lines in order to offer more options for what it claims is the second-largest installed base of IBM Corp peripheral products worldwide . |
10 | The Defence Ministry said last night : ‘ They are not there to fight a full-scale war . |
11 | THE FRENCH defence ministry spent two days last week trying to patch up poor relations with scientists . |
12 | Reply received to our query to the Greek Defence Ministry received twenty-five minutes ago . ’ |
13 | Convex Computer Corp saw first quarter net profits crash 88.6% to $46,000 on sales up 8.5% to $59.1m . |
14 | Concurrent Computer Corp saw third quarter net profit up 15.2% at $1.0m on sales up 2.2% at $56.1m ; net for the nine months was $2.7m , down from $60.1m , but last year 's figure was after a $61.1m gain on early repayment of debt , on sales off 3.1% at $164.8m . |
15 | Sequent Computer Corp confirmed last week reports that it is to move into the multi-processor PC ‘ superserver ’ business , basing its software strategy around Microsoft Corp 's forthcoming NT operating system ( UX No 390 ) . |
16 | The Rural Electrification Administration brought electric power to farmers on a large scale : the number of farms with electricity rose from 10% before the scheme to 40$ by 1941 . |
17 | The dispute had escalated into rabid anarchy ; and the local garrison of the Planetary Defence Force suffered heavy casualties in suppressing the wilder excesses of this social spasm . |
18 | THE BRAVERY of the four teenagers who died in the Dorset canoe tragedy emerged last night as the parents of one victim spoke of how they all tried to help each other survive . |
19 | The brake and infectious cases car contained 18 cots and was arranged so that the patients in it were isolated . |
20 | The 7000 gallon pond covered one corner of their garden . |
21 | Prior to the election Labour had twenty-eight seats and the Alliance twenty , now it stood at thirty-six and twenty-four respectively , and after the by-elections subsequent to the election of aldermen , forty and twenty-four . |
22 | In.the general election Labour won 79 seats for the first time ; it carried 10 out of 13 seats in Birmingham , 9 out of 10 in Manchester and 48 out of 62 in London . |
23 | The RIS action followed increasing concern that a majority of Securitate officers had kept their jobs after the revolution . |
24 | Instead , it prefers a body encompassing all institutions offering advanced further education , along the lines of NAB , using a mixed system of funding . |
25 | With the exception of software and services , the Spanish computer industry suffered negative growth in 1992 . |
26 | ( The Tonga Chronicle gave due prominence to the storm the following week , though they might have wished for more careful sub-editing. ‘ $10 damage as islands hit by hurricane ’ read the headline . |
27 | A Foreign Ministry delegation visited neighbouring Afghanistan on July 15 to discuss upgrading relations . |
28 | No prior drug therapy had that effect and neither had any previous course of ECT . |
29 | In September 1971 , a dispute in the printing industry kept New Scientist off the streets for nearly three months . |
30 | Remarkably , the five-month build programme finished two weeks ahead of schedule , despite being dogged by bad weather . |