Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1889 , the counties were given additional responsibilities and subsequently the four largest cities became counties of cities — the equivalent of the English county boroughs . |
| 2 | Musicians made records in homestudios on 2 or 4 track recorders , with unusual inventiveness . |
| 3 | Representatives of the RIBA Visiting Board made visits to schools of architecture in Chile , Colombia and Russia , and other representatives went to China and Saudi Arabia . |
| 4 | Traders in the Temple sold sacrifices to pilgrims coming to Jerusalem . |
| 5 | March : March 5 : United Kingdom Prime Minister John Major had talks in Moscow with Gorbachev on the Gulf conflict and the situation in the Baltic states ; March 7 : the RFSFR and Czechoslovakia signed a trade co-operation agreement ; March 12 : it was announced in Moscow that the withdrawal of the 50,000 troops stationed in Poland would begin in April , although the process would not be completed before 1994 ; March 14-16 : following a tour of the Middle East , US Secretary of State James Baker visited Moscow for talks on the situation in the Gulf and the presentation of a six-point US plan for peace and stability in the Middle East ; March 18-20 : UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd visited both Kiev and Moscow for discussions on British-Soviet relations ; March 22 : Soviet-Romanian treaty of friendship and co-operation initialled in Moscow ; March 28 : Bessmertnykh held further talks in Tokyo in connection with Gorbachev 's forthcoming visit . |
| 6 | Next week parents are due to receive ballot papers to vote on whether they want to push for grant maintained status after years of waiting for the council to convert promises into action . |
| 7 | Consequently , the composition of authorities reinforced conflicts of loyalties : many members did not feel accountable to the RHA who appointed them but to local constituencies . |
| 8 | In May Acheson visited London for discussions with Bevin . |
| 9 | In the case of tampons , apart from the still-present dangers of Toxic Shock Syndrome , doctors have found that many women suffer from drying and ulceration of the vaginal membranes , which itself can allow toxins to enter , and in the United States researchers found fibres from tampons embedded in the vaginal wall . |
| 10 | In 1986 , however , only 31% of all newly qualified Ph D graduates took up university employment ( Anderson 2 ) , and the boom period for academic jobs was around 1965 , when 53% of all such researchers found employment in universities , so that it may be that the majority of successful Ph D researchers over the period have not had access to those facilities which would have helped them to publish . |
| 11 | In 1986 , however , only 31% of all newly qualified Ph D graduates took up university employment ( Anderson ) , and the boom period for academic jobs was around 1965 , when 53% of all such researchers found employment in universities , so that it may be that the majority of successful Ph D researchers over the period have not had access to those facilities which would have helped them to publish . |
| 12 | THE Netherlands moved level on points with England in Group II after beating Turkey 3-1 in Utrecht . |
| 13 | Certainly not everybody in the camp found pleasure in books or music or poetry or nature but many people who normally would never have had anything to do with such things were forced by their environment to look into them and found there greater wealth than they had ever known before . |
| 14 | Japan 's Foreign Minister Michio Watanabe visited Moscow for talks with his Russian counterpart , Andrei Kozyrev , on May 3-5 , concerning the longstanding territorial dispute between the two countries over the four most southerly islands in the Kurile chain which had been occupied by the Soviet Union in August 1945 . |
| 15 | Forty cases involved offences between males and fifty-eight cases of males assaulting females . |
| 16 | Both these cases involved applications for orders to the Italian courts ; it may be that an English court would resist a contractual fetter on the power to grant injunctions under section 37 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 . |
| 17 | The rise triggered warnings by environmentalists that Britain would fail to meet its target of freezing carbon dioxide emissions by 2005 unless the government acted quickly to introduce tight controls on the burning of coal , gas and oil . |
| 18 | It is through the study of quartered coats , as displayed in cathedrals , county archives and other reference sources that the local historian may glean much information not only on families of note ( should textual information not exist or be imprecise ) , but how tenure and ownership of estates changed hands in days long or recently past . |
| 19 | Publication of a peer reviewed article by members of the Ciba-Geigy Department of Toxicology and Pathology ( Bombay ) serves to legitimise the methods of the ‘ study ’ , and thus the indiscriminate spraying of pesticides on children . |
| 20 | Fécamp , Bruges , Limoges , Chartres , Dijon provided backdrops for displays of occasional grandeur . |
| 21 | The Armenians for their part reported attacks on villages by Azeri forces , with that on Kazanchi resulting in 27 deaths on March 4-5 , and the shooting down of a helicopter evacuating civilians from Nagorny Karabakh to the Armenian capital , Yerevan , on March 3 , with 17 deaths . |
| 22 | In Magdeburg he and Matthies found that 2-Dgal injections produced amnesia in rats . |
| 23 | The mammoth hunters of Mezine and Sunghir made use of sections of mammoth tusk to carve penannular bracelets perforated at either end to engage thongs which could be pulled tight when the wearer was actively engaged . |
| 24 | Pushers were already selling to children and crime would soar as addicts sought money for drugs . |
| 25 | IDENTICAL twins Mark and Paul Adams became fathers of girls yesterday when their wives gave birth at a Reading hospital . |
| 26 | The strike was called off on July 15 , when the opposition met Ratsiraka for talks , but their dissatisfaction with the results prompted a resumption of strike action and the announcement that a retired general , Jean Rakotoharison , had been appointed president of the opposition provisional government , with Albert Zafy as prime minister . |
| 27 | In June 1176 Richard laid siege to Limoges ; after a few days resistance Aimar 's citadel capitulated . |
| 28 | Life insurers sold policies with yields which could easily be paid in a rising stockmarket but not when it falls . |
| 29 | US attorney Andrew Maloney , in charge of the case , said the sanctions-busting conspiracy involved shipments of weapons from Eastern Europe via America to Iraq . |
| 30 | In late August the then Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze visited China for talks with his Chinese counterpart , Qian Qichen . |