Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [noun] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jerry Rice 's 42-yard touchdown catch led the San Francisco 49ers to a 27–10 win over the Los Angeles Rams while the Minnesota Vikings continued their march to the NFC Central crown when Aundray McMillan 's 25-yard interception touchdown clinched a 17–13 win over the Cleveland Browns . |
| 2 | An armed response unit reached the bank within minutes and a police helicopter hovered overhead , but the robber had escaped through the back of the building empty-handed . |
| 3 | An Army spokesman said gunmen from the HVO Croatian Defence Force attacked the 500-lorry convoy taking aid to the town of Tuzla . |
| 4 | On a raised dais in front of large windows looking out on to the agricultural college gardens sat the Inspector . |
| 5 | Ample labour supplies permitted the operation of new machines without the need for product wages to rise as fast as productivity . |
| 6 | Members of the Thames Valley Underwater Search Unit retrieved the body of Christopher Snuggs just north of Culham lock . |
| 7 | An innovative renewal programme gave the urban poor legal protection , provided basic amenities and encouraged self-help work . |
| 8 | As a result , a greater biliary lipid concentration with a concomitant increase in the vesicular cholesterol distribution reduced the metastability of hepatic bile in the cholesterol gall stone patients . |
| 9 | An Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman dismissed the report as " nonsense " and said that the charges were " outrageous " . |
| 10 | A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman described the report on Feb. 7 as " an unscrupulous interference in the internal affairs of many countries " . |
| 11 | A Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman described the visit as " an important step " in improving relations between Vietnam and the Vatican . |
| 12 | A Niger Foreign Ministry statement announced the establishment on Nov. 7 , 1989 , of diplomatic relations at ambassadorial level with South Yemen . |
| 13 | A Foreign Ministry statement said the UN action had ‘ provoked a climate of tension and instability ’ . |
| 14 | The country 's top airshow acts kept the crowd 's eyes glued to the skies . |
| 15 | Interviewed later on BBC Newsnight he refused to accept that the German election results invalidated the case for introducing PR in Britain . |
| 16 | In September 1970 , Salvador Allende 's left-wing Popular Unity coalition won the presidential election in Chile and proceeded to implement a Marxist economic programme . |
| 17 | British Rail engineers visited the site at Wylam Hill , near Thompson Street East , yesterday to assess repair work . |
| 18 | A British Rail spokeswoman said the manager was ‘ unhappy about the exhibition and considered that certain photographs were not suitable for the general public to view ’ . |
| 19 | British Rail investigators said the car , carrying the five home from a party at a local public house , ignored flashing red warning lights and zig-zagged round the automatic half-barrier at Moorends shortly before midnight on Saturday . |
| 20 | British Rail Maintenance said the session had been ‘ extremely useful ’ . |
| 21 | Phosphate supplementation of the intermediate and high calcium diets increased the soluble phosphate value , but decreased the pH of faecal water . |
| 22 | A plump old man sitting in a wooden scaffold on a marine building site sawed the top off an immense teak column to make it flush with the decking . |
| 23 | The Old Testament prophets knew the impossibility of making any impression on those who were stiff-necked and hard of heart ( Isa. 6:9 , 10 ; 29:10 ) . |
| 24 | The results obtained from the strain gauges and the high speed film confirmed the validity of the computer model . |
| 25 | George Orwell put these characteristics to imaginative use in his book Animal Farm , in which top pig Napoleon became the Stalin of the muckyard . |
| 26 | East German opposition leaders said the atmosphere was becoming explosive , and appealed to the public to avoid violence during East Germany 's fortieth anniversary celebrations at the end of the week , which President Mikhail Gorbachev is due to attend . |
| 27 | The Old Bailey judge ordered the release of documents kept secret by public interest immunity certificates signed by four ministers — Michael Heseltine , Kenneth Clarke , Malcolm Rifkind and Tristan Garel-Jones . |
| 28 | ‘ Did you feel like this when Top Spin Lob won the National ? ’ |
| 29 | Messrs. Menzies & Co. who operated a shipbuilding yard close to the East Old Dock gates launched the Sirus , the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean . |
| 30 | A £1.2m loss on the sale of French subsidiary Fardis meant the group reported a pre-tax loss of £98,000 , compared with previous profit of £855,00 . |