Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An inquest by New York newspapers into a subway fire in Brooklyn that killed two people at the turn of the year is making plain the consequences of all this neglect . |
| 2 | The off-licence was empty except for two drop-outs buying canned beer : the proprietor contrived to address Scarlet and Constance without once taking his eyes off his other customers , not even as he wrapped a bottle of Smirnoff and extracted six cans of Long Life from under the glass counter . |
| 3 | He is married to Andrea and has three children , Diane , Stephen and Sarah , and one grandson . |
| 4 | Afterwards he went to the United States and obtained three degrees , the most prestigious being a doctorate from Princeton awarded in 1910 . |
| 5 | He fed mints to dray horses , said hello to a caged European eagle owl called Gonzo and let two barn owls fly on and off his arm as a smiling crowd clapped and asked for autographs . |
| 6 | ‘ We usually draw at home against Arsenal and concede four goals in the return match at Highbury . |
| 7 | Both the guild and the league were later represented on the wartime Standing Joint Committee of Women 's Industrial Organisations ( Gaffin and Thoms 1983 p 60 ) . |
| 8 | In 1980 , just after the revolution , the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights visited Nicaragua and inspected ten prisons around the country . |
| 9 | The dam itself — 45 miles west of Exeter and completed two months ago — is 430 metres across and 40 metres high . |
| 10 | Sitting pretty : Marion Barry , who lost his job as Mayor of Washington and served six months ' jail for cocaine possession , is back in city government after winning a council seat . |
| 11 | With him she rode across the Rockies and made two expeditions , in the Far East and Africa , on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society , to study tribal languages . |
| 12 | Kevin Blanchfield was the war pensions welfare officer based at Hightown Barracks in Wrexham and has 13 years experience helping exservicemen and their dependants following discharge from the forces . |
| 13 | He made his Palace debut at Clapton Orient ( 0–1 ) on 26 February and made 13 appearances for us in all the remaining matches of the season . |
| 14 | But the team who led the table with an eight-point lead over the third-placed club in February and had two games in hand are surely lacking more than the rub of the green . |
| 15 | The results of the six sessions of contemporary art which took place on 5 , 6 and 7 May and launched three weeks of intensive auction activity in New York , were difficult to predict and , even when they were known , provided little evidence about the current state of the market . |
| 16 | It was not until 1946 that the French departed from Lebanon and Syria , spitefully shelling Damascus and killing 500 Syrians as they did so . |
| 17 | Lineker has appeared 45 times for England and scored 29 goals ; Bull has played for 60 minutes and scored one , a smartly taken opportunity against Scotland in May . |
| 18 | The research project is under the guidance of Sun Labs boss Wayne Rosing and involves six staff engineers and a bunch of university students . |
| 19 | In 1985 Caffier took advantage of a quiet hour over lunch at the Musée de l'école de Nancy and stole five pieces of pate de verre by Daum and Galle valued at more than FFr30 million . |
| 20 | This was the third century in 10 Tests for the left-handed opener , who made his debut in the fourth Test against the West Indies in January and hit 839 runs in the Ashes series . |
| 21 | I plan to buy a Discovery 200 TDi and have two questions , Firstly , tyres . |
| 22 | Then he sent some pips from Scotland and arrived three days later to kill John 's father . |
| 23 | After dropping out of RADA he joined the RAF in the war , was shot down in a bombing mission over Denmark and spent three years in a Polish PoW camp . |
| 24 | Gorman is based in Letterkenny and played 20 times for the first team last season scoring three goals . |
| 25 | Bear right at the fork to cross Spring Gill Beck and cross three grass fields . |
| 26 | It starts in the south of Buckinghamshire and ends 6 miles north of the Grange . |
| 27 | We left Bilen on the morning of 9 December and camped five hours later in thick bush on the edge of a swamp that extended out of sight along the river . |
| 28 | The considerable structural and molecular homology shared by RYR and IP 3 R is mirrored in many functional similarities , the most striking of which is a common sensitivity to calcium . |
| 29 | ‘ Masterpieces of English silver from Temple Newsam House , Yorkshire ’ will be on view from 21 May to 28 July and includes twenty-six pieces of seventeenth- to nineteenth-century silver . |
| 30 | The FRC is chaired by Sir Ron Dearing and has 20 members and three observers ( the Comptroller and Auditor General ( C & AG ) plus one representative each from the Treasury and the Bank of England ) . |