Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [art] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ANC officials called for police help during the weekend of April 13-14 when some 500 armed Inkatha supporters attacked a workers ' hostel near the Mandelas ' home in Soweto . |
| 2 | They introduce the ‘ Son of man ’ , and the relationships between Christianity and other religions whose heaps of broken images strew the anthropologists ' pages and the sites of the world 's past cultures . |
| 3 | Menshevik and SR sympathizers dominated the soldiers ' committees ; among the peasantry the SRs enjoyed far more support than any other party ; the Mensheviks were most prominent in the trade unions ; together the two parties won large majorities in municipal duma elections which began in May ; and in June they dominated the First All-Russian Congress of Soviets and consolidated control of its Central Executive Committee ( CEC ) . |
| 4 | Waller 's informants illustrated the residents ' reluctance to oppose the companies , for fear of losing their jobs and homes . |
| 5 | Then Lyman 's Ears replaced the cadets ' ordinary lugs , which were sliced away and quarried out … |
| 6 | In a letter to the policy boards of the two institutions on Sept. 18 , the Institute of International Finance ( IIF — representing 184 banks and financial institutions worldwide ) criticized what it saw as IMF " tolerance " of overdue interest payments to the banks , claiming that such arrears discouraged the banks ' involvement in the Brady Plan . |
| 7 | The researchers compared the children 's health and lung function with their weight and how many weeks they were in the womb . |
| 8 | The General Commissioners dismissed the taxpayers ' appeal , accepting the Crown 's arguments that there was one practice and that an election under para 21(2) could not be made where a trade was split into two . |
| 9 | v. British Railways Board even though the goods were in no danger and the defendants recognised the plaintiffs ' title : the shortage of stock caused by industrial action was acute and damages would not adequately compensate the plaintiffs for the injury to their business . |
| 10 | Top ticket price at Washington 's Uptown Theatre was £6,500 , the lowest £150 , while about 300 inner-city youngsters went free as proceeds boosted a children 's charity . |
| 11 | The General Commissioners upheld the taxpayers ' claims to allowances and the Crown appealed to the High Court . |
| 12 | As far as the school was concerned , the fact that so many parents attended a parents ' evening was ‘ an indication of the kind of area we are dealing with … where parents are interested in their children 's education and want to play as full a part as possible . ’ |
| 13 | Could it have been that the upholders contested the undertakers ' application to join their guild , on the pretext that the furnishing of funerals was the prerogative of their members ? |
| 14 | The parents left the Children 's Panel offices looking tense and drawn . |
| 15 | At about 11.05 , Mr Maxwell 's solicitors handed a bankers ' draft , drawn on Midland Bank , to the liquidators ' solicitor Margaret Cole . |
| 16 | On the eve of the Wallabies ' departure , St George officials visited the Wallabies ' hotel to seek his signature . |
| 17 | The hot car seats stung the children 's bare legs and made them cry out in protest . |
| 18 | The dogs pulled the Norwegians ' sledges . |
| 19 | Japanese banks took the Americans ' place . |
| 20 | Behind a veil of revolutionary rhetoric , the Council of People 's Commissars suppressed the masses ' striving for liberty . |
| 21 | The council 's own cleaning workers won the schools ' cleaning contracts for Hartlepool , Stockton and Langbaurgh and have not come close to having their future considered . |
| 22 | When the lamps were plugged in , the hotel 's own electrical circuits carried the microphones ' output to a receiver and voice-activated recorder in another room down the hall . |
| 23 | The coins quietened the men 's agitation in the way that gold can , and Rincewind was amazed to find , half a minute later , that he was holding a little glass portrait of Twoflower wielding a huge notched sword and smiling as though all his dreams had come true . |
| 24 | The recruits ' lexicon of facial scars and tattoos spelled out clan and gang allegiances ; similar scarifications signalled the troopers ' own kindred origin . |
| 25 | But a spokesman speaking for Mr Joe Walker , chairman of County Durham 's education committee , rejected the suggestion tha t because two neighbouring figures guessed the teachers ' pay rise , then they should have too . |
| 26 | Less than one third of those firms returned the taxpayers ' investment . |
| 27 | Officers said the women 's bodies had been viciously mutilated and dismembered . |
| 28 | Some of the studies considered the parents ' perspective , and a few that of the children . |
| 29 | But the long haul through the muddy roads slowed the horses ' progress almost to a walk , and it was not until after five in the evening that the vehicle finally came to a halt outside the George inn in Mountsorrel , a little place some distance before the larger town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch . |
| 30 | Neighbours claimed the children 's mother , Sharon Dawson , had been unwell for months . |