Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 9 January 1872 the Minute Book kept by the clerk now called Registrar , recorded the commitment of Richard Piper sued by Henry Pierpoint for 5s ( money lent on 14 November 1871 ) . |
| 2 | The greatest rates of deforestation occurred in Latin America , followed by Africa and Asia . |
| 3 | According to press reports the fighting erupted in early January when the two factions fought for control of villages in the districts of Kompong Svay and Stoeung . |
| 4 | After sporadic violence there from the beginning of the month , full scale rioting erupted on 8 July and in the early hours of 9th two men were shot dead by the army . |
| 5 | A major demonstration occurred in early March 1988 on the occasion of the Great Summons prayer festival ( Moinlam Qenmo ) . |
| 6 | Danes are in effect voting on a deal negotiated at last December 's EC summit in Edinburgh , which gave them opt-outs on sensitive issues such as a common currency , joint security , police controls and citizenship rules . |
| 7 | I was absolutely delighted , colleagues , when the , er , recommendation came through that Eric should be awarded the gold badge because I could personally testify that there can be no better winner or holder of the G M gold badge . |
| 8 | The king marched north to besiege Berwick , and by the end of June 1333 the defenders , exhausted by the English assaults , agreed to surrender if no relieving force arrived by 11 July . |
| 9 | The movie opened on 19 December 1973 to less-than-glowing reviews , although it made over $22.5 million , becoming one of the year 's top moneymakers . |
| 10 | The Interior Minister , Ibrahim Halidi , was dismissed on Sept. 23 , 1990 , although he denied that he had any knowledge of an alleged coup attempt discovered in late August . |
| 11 | A week of action began on 13 June with a mass picket , at which 84 people were arrested and there was large scale police violence . |
| 12 | In Asturias strike action began in late December 1991 in all the mines owned by the state company Hunosa ( the biggest employer in the region , which had made a loss of 65,000 million ptas — US$674 million — in 1991 ) in protest at a restructuring plan which would involve the loss of 6,000 jobs by the end of 1993 at a saving of only 15,000 million ptas . |
| 13 | Malawi 's spring began on 8 March , the first Sunday in Lent , when the pastoral letter was read in every Catholic church . |
| 14 | The ceasefire , arranged by the Maronite Patriarch , Mgr Nasrullah Sfeir , was the 12th since fighting started in late January . |
| 15 | Despite assurances from US Defence Secretary Dick Cheney that only the Okinawa and German weapons would be destroyed at Johnston , the fear persisted in many Pacific countries that the USA would abandon plans to build incinerators on the American mainland and would use the Johnston facility much more widely than had been hitherto suggested . |
| 16 | THE SHOOTING STARTED ON 5 MAY . |
| 17 | A fetid light blazed from Old Saul 's sockets . |
| 18 | The weather was still bitterly cold and snow fell on 28 December . |
| 19 | Sorry , my my my other point is about about Ryedale , and and and its its and its its unde its relationship to Southern Ryedale , and erm Mr Smith said that erm as far as Ryedale Council are concerned they ca n't identify any more land within Southern Ryedale , well of course they would say that because was there position at the Southern Ryedale plan , but the fact of the matter is that there was a great dispute at the York greenbelt Southern Ryedale plan enquiry , revol resolving around the issue of what were the bits of the greenbelt which made up the historic character and thereby what were you left with that potentially could be developed , albeit it might be reserved as white land in the first place , but could potentially be developed , and a great deal of this land on the disputed side lay in Southern Ryedale , that in that in fact there was a view around the table not only sh not only shared by by the developers side , but erm that large parts of Osbaldwick and Huntingdon did n't fall within the definition of greenbelt as as set out by by the County Council in their N Y Two Two document , now that matter clearly has got to be something left to the Inspector and the Greenbelt Inquiry , but I think it 's fair to point out that there is actually a difference of view , so it 's not an absolute position , that you ca n't identify more land within within Southern Ryedale , and indeed , erm , not that I want to raise the Local Government Commission 's head again , but of course the Local Government Commission is proposing that York be a unitary authority expanded , and once Yor , if York does become a unitary authority expanded then some of these areas will fall within their area , and they may have a different view than er the Ryedale current Ryedale district council does , and therefore I think it is a little unsafe to take just at pure se pure face value , that there is no more land within Southern Ryedale that could be developed . |
| 20 | Axe fell on overweight F-Type when Ford bought Jaguar |
| 21 | On 7 April , John Major himself spoke out in defence of what Baker had said ; ‘ MAJOR STANDS FIRM AGAINST MIGRANT FLOOD ’ , as the Daily Mail chose on 8 April to headline the story . |
| 22 | I think Freud would say though however that these are more like the th the was talking about religion , now clearly if something is a outlawing it is n't gon na make much difference to it , or if anything it 's , it 's just gon na make it er , er make it more difficult , but there are certain types of religion and Judaism is one of them where th this very pattern you 're talking about did occur and here Freud is er probably standing on , on firm ground , for reasons which I 'll explain in my lectures I do n't wan na take up too much time , but I have done a bit of research on this myself and as you will see , erm there 's , there are good reasons for thinking that Freud was certainly right about some of those and we certainly know that a monotheistic and , and an absolutely rigidly monotheistic religion appeared in Ancient Egypt as erm Andrea said , just before erm the er reign of this heretic er heretic , heretic pharaoh one of whose er near descendants , I forget how he was related now , erm was originally called Tutamkhatan and then was forced to change his name to Tutankhamen and he was dug up by Howard Carter in nineteen twenty two or something er and er the Tutankhamen is called Tutankhamen and not Tutamkhatan is that there was a religious . |
| 23 | The programme continued on 5 January 1990 , when Mr G Vincent ( Society Member ) of Wolverhampton and a former Chairman of the Tal-y-Llyn Railway , gave a talk and slide show dealing with the minor railways of Shropshire , of which there were quite a number in the heyday of steam . |
| 24 | German attacks wavered , then virtually ceased ; though spasmodic fighting continued until 22 November , intense cold brought large-scale activities to an end . |
| 25 | Fighting continued in southern Lebanon during November between Hezbollah and Israel and its proxy militia , the South Lebanon Army ( SLA ) [ see p. 39166 for details of fighting in October ] . |
| 26 | ARANYAPRATHET , Thailand ( UPI , AP ) — Heavy fighting continued in western Cambodia yesterday as the Vietnamese-backed government brought in reinforcements to face a drive by non-communist resistance forces , resistance officials and military sources said . |
| 27 | As the Financial Times headline said on 6 March , ‘ Bank imposes penal interest to hold line on base lending rate . ’ |
| 28 | But the definitive change came on I August 1917 , when the Ministry of Shipping , which had been established by Lloyd George when he became Prime Minister in December 1916 , invited both the union and the Federation to confer with government representatives on the supply of seamen , wage difficulties and on other problems which were causing waste and delay to shipping . |
| 29 | The second small raid of significance to the commando story came on 3–4 October 1942 , when a few of the Small Scale Raiding Force and some men of 12 Commando landed on Sark in the Channel Islands . |
| 30 | A much stronger flare occurred on 3 June , 1982 , shortly before Edward Chupp of the University of New Hampshire and eight colleagues from there , the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics , and the Naval Research Laboratory , submitted a paper based on their analysis of the earlier flare measurements . |