Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [art] [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christine Mills lived a few hundred yards away . |
| 2 | Taylor made a round 100 , shrugging off a blow on the chin from a Srinath bouncer after a caught-behind appeal had been turned down . |
| 3 | Alternatively , the Lambeth offers an exceptional 2.25 per cent off for one year for loans of less than 60 per cent . |
| 4 | The functions of government were nominally divided between the centre and the republics , but all-union ministries , based exclusively in Moscow , produced 57 per cent of industrial output , union-republican ministries based partly in Moscow produced a further 37 per cent , and only 6 per cent of industry was wholly regulated at the republican level . |
| 5 | Richards Shipbuilders has the first four Gem-class minesweepers under construction in its East Anglian yards at Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft . |
| 6 | A hundred years before , richest of all cities , concourse of merchants and pilgrims , haunt of courtesans , sink of unnatural vice , pride and luxury , Famagusta housed a hundred thousand citizens within its two miles of walls , and was a place of fine squares and great houses , of mills and warehouses , shops and monasteries , stables and shambles and forges , barracks and ovens , merchants ' villas and loggias . |
| 7 | Larry Gomes contributed 92 not out as he and Greenidge made an undefeated 287 , a new second-wicket record by either side in these Tests . |
| 8 | Oxfordshire jockey Richard Dunwoody has a few thousand to go before he can ever catch Carson … that ca n't be done in jump racing of course … but the new champion is off to a flying start to the new season … two winners on saturday he won the first at Newton Abbot this afternoon |
| 9 | But the effort proved too much to sustain and Reykjavik scored the next 13 points to put the issue beyond doubt . |
| 10 | Alleyne was quickly into his stride … and skipper Wright scored a gritty thirty-nine … but it was a rearguard action — Walsh , stumped by Rhodes , the eighth man out with Gloucestershire still ninety adrift . |
| 11 | Pakistan scored a paltry 139 all out in 47.4 overs and the Kiwis then charged to 140-4 with 7.2 overs to spare . |
| 12 | Graf dropped the last four games of the second set after serving for the match at 5–3 , but then powered past fifth-seeded Sabatini 6–2 5–7 6–1 . |
| 13 | Wright needed a further 20 minutes , however , to overcome Heather Wallace , a Scots migrant to Canada in whose colours she now plays . |
| 14 | JOHN WRIGHT hit an unbeaten 38 to became the first New Zealander to score 5,000 Test runs as he steered the Kiwis towards a draw against Sri Lanka in Colombo yesterday . |
| 15 | At five feet eight inches tall , Sue weighs an enviable eight stone six pounds . |
| 16 | Andy Vaughan starred for Wilmslow reaching an unbeaten 59 off only 42 deliveries . |
| 17 | ‘ We must make sure we keep on our toes and concentrate , ’ said Kettle , who watched Blyth score a convincing 7-0 victory over Northern League bottom club Ferryhill on Tuesday night . |
| 18 | The same thing happened in Holland and ATS gave the next three races a miss to try to fix the problems . |
| 19 | The association of Fred Dawes with Crystal Palace lasted a further 18 months . |
| 20 | The 31-year-old from Paisley had a second 70 at Santa Ponsa to move alongside Ronan Rafferty at four under par , two strokes behind Danish leader Steen Tinning , who has one stroke in hand over England 's Jim Payne , South African Ian Palmer and Sweden 's Joakim Haeggman . |
| 21 | Judge Butler ordered that assets worth £23,950 be confiscated under the 1986 Drugs Trafficking Offences Act with the threat that Laming serve a further 18 months in default . |
| 22 | John Steer struck an unbeaten 24 to guide Oswestry fourths to a two-wicket win against British Sugar in the reserve division four . |
| 23 | Marching on FOOTBALL : Juventus clinched a thrilling 2–1 victory over Atalanta yesterday to claw back a point from Italian first division leaders AC Milan who could only manage a goalless draw at lowly Fiorentina . |
| 24 | Stewart McGrane scored the first seven minutes after the break with the second not arriving until five minutes from the end , which says a lot for the Galashiels defence . |
| 25 | In an explosive second half Bangor added a further two goals , the Down keeper saved a flick , Burgon hit the post and had two attempts taken off the line . |
| 26 | Pat Nevin scored the third five minutes from time . |
| 27 | England made a decent 217 , with 68 from Boycott and 59 from Gower ; but after Greenidge and Haynes had got half-way to the target , Richards , who had missed the first match , played as only he can . |
| 28 | In the light of this list of users , Anthony offers the following four users ' needs : |
| 29 | Singleton has an astonishing three year deal with Columbia that gives him the freedom to make as many films as he can in that time . |
| 30 | Thomson recreates the Australian Fifties with more than a cursory skill and catches the censorious , more petit bourgeois than the English tone of the times well enough to convince . |