Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [vb past] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I still could n't hear properly , I realised , unless it was the walls being so thick they kept out even the sound of the storm ; it was still going on out there ; from time to time the cloverleaf aperture lit up steely blue . |
| 2 | A special congressional committee investigating arms and drug smuggling recommended in late 1989 that certain prominent politicians and officials should be excluded from public life or dismissed , or barred from entering the country , because of their alleged connections with such activities . |
| 3 | Royal Mersey Yacht Club edged out Royal Anglesey Yacht Club by a quarter point in a team race in Mylnes . |
| 4 | On 11 August , the Field Ambulance marched out complete from Stony Stratford to entrain at Wolverton for Reading , with the satisfaction of knowing that 98% of the men had volunteered for service abroad . |
| 5 | The Fourth Division side ran out 4-1 winners . |
| 6 | The Dow Jones stock index closed down 7.68 at 2,687.93 . |
| 7 | The pink-coloured building that overlooks a municipal car park rode out glorious days under the renowned Alexandre Dumaine before crumbling into a state of tatty neglect . |
| 8 | In North-East Division went down 24–10 their tries coming from scrum half Gary Spence and Ron Stock , full back Roy Myers adding a conversion . |
| 9 | The Economic and Social Research Council launched in early 1985 a major , multi-disciplinary research initiative with the general objective of promoting research which will contribute to a greater understanding of the relatively poor performance of British industry , including the service sector , and which will lead to its improvement . |
| 10 | NEW fitness club Bodifit kicked off last week with an official opening by the Glentoran football squad . |
| 11 | ‘ But I was delighted by the way Tea Ropati took over complete control and directed the play in midfield . ’ |
| 12 | When local government reorganization in 1974 led to Sheffield being ordered by the national Labour Party to disband these structures , the city 's labour movement set up other channels of influence , and the trade union delegates were elected directly to the new District Labour Party , which in turn monitored the activities of the new District Council . |
| 13 | A Red Alert swung into action and an Army Lynx helicopter and a police search helicopter hovered over nearby woodland as mounted police and dog handlers combed the area . |
| 14 | in a pub he was , got drunk and for a twenty pound bet shaved off all his hair . |
| 15 | THE stock market rang out 1989 in fine style yesterday but for the pound it was the familiar story of a struggling recovery from a previous hefty fall . |
| 16 | Although famed for rattling off statistics on the recession , rather than the ‘ vision thing ’ , his Sovereignty Lecture for Charter 88 at the start of the election campaign set out some useful parameters for the debate that must now take place : on citizenship and community , ‘ not just tidying up our constitution but transforming it ’ . |
| 17 | Hopes of tomorrow 's talks on the ambulance dispute producing a settlement before Christmas faded when the management side ruled out any new offer . |
| 18 | North Korean Prime Minister Yon Hyong Muk and his South Korean counterpart Chung Won Shik signed three agreements — on non-aggression , reconciliation and exchange — which were designed to facilitate the implementation of the inter-Korean reconciliation pact signed in late 1991 [ see pp. 38659-60 ] . |
| 19 | Made up of senior management representatives of key departments like the police , education , hospitals , GPs , probation services , social services , Drugs Branch , the voluntary agencies and local councillors , the Wirral Drug Abuse Committee emerged in late 1983 . |
| 20 | For this was Gold Cup day , and Norton 's Coin had a very small supporting role in a performance that Thursday afternoon which would see the hugely popular grey Desert Orchid set off fresh waves of fanaticism with a second victory in the most coveted prize of the National Hunt season . |
| 21 | At about the same time the aliens department of the Home Office took on extra staff and moved to Cleveland House on Thorney Street . |
| 22 | A lorry transporting Rodney the hundred and eighty seven tonne diesel engine broke down half way up Crickley Hill , near Gloucester , causing long tailbacks . |
| 23 | A lorry transporting Rodney the hundred and eighty seven tonne diesel engine broke down half way up Crickley Hill , near Gloucester , causing long tailbacks . |
| 24 | Mr Knight also acknowledged that a suitable high-speed pick-up machine was not yet available from a commercial manufacturer although they had shown their own adaptation with a high speed paddle rotor swept up all materials including small particles . |
| 25 | All of ‘ He Holds Her , He Needs Her ’ is an unreconstructed pop thrill built around some implausibly fab arpeggios . |
| 26 | The door of the back kitchen went down two steps and then there was a chimney corner with shaped stonework , which I think would have had a wooden seat long ago . |
| 27 | Money poured into the market after the thin pre-election trading , and the FT-SE 100 share index shot up 136.2 points to end the week 189.9 up at 2572.6 . |
| 28 | The Springvale Enterprise Park held out greater promise because it is mixed Catholic and Protestant and so the government might be willing to fund it . |
| 29 | Thanks to this device many thousands of birds have been caught , weighed , measured and then had a lightweight metal ring clamped round one leg before being released in the hope that , when it is next caught ( or perhaps found dead ) , the number stamped on the ring will be seen and reported . |
| 30 | On Dec. 29 an official inquiry report by a Sind High Court judge ruled out any political motive in the assault and cleared Marwat Khan of complicity in the alleged incident . |