Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] [vb past] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE British Snoring and Sleep Apnoea Association set up last year by a Mr Alan Davy has declared a membership of 1,300 . |
| 2 | This week 's gathering at Greenmount College brought together some of the best brains on the poultry scene and they had much to impart to the industry . |
| 3 | With neutral Hampden Park ruled out due to renovation work , Rangers manager Walter Smith and Celtic No.2 Joe Jordan were involved in the bizarre situation of having to toss a coin to determine the semi-final venue . |
| 4 | On 19 October staff of the former Dundee branch competed as two teams in the Dundee Insurance Institute 10-pin bowling tournament . |
| 5 | In 1975/76 Chichester Harbour held internationally important populations of Brent Goose , Shelduck , Ringed Plover , Grey Plover , Black-tailed Godwit , Dunlin , and Sanderling , that is , the population of each was more than one per cent . |
| 6 | The Diesis colt had only two runs last season and on his final outing at York in July he was fourth to Golden Chip after which injury kept him off the course . |
| 7 | A representative audience , it might be said , and one poor lonely chap wearing a Frank Spencer pullover spent almost all the proceedings with his head buried in his hands . |
| 8 | In the event the Plymouth group did very little after 1609 but in 1607 the Londoners committed themselves more fully than before and launched an expedition which founded a settlement at Jamestown in Chesapeake Bay . |
| 9 | The Illinois team reached broadly similar conclusions . |
| 10 | THE BMC 'S BUXTON FESTIVAL PROVIDED YET ANOTHER FORUM FOR THE BOLTS ISSUE TO BE DEBATED . |
| 11 | The very substantial meat pie , with vegetables ( followed by sponge pudding and custard ) that I saw served on Weald wing drew generally favourable comment . |
| 12 | Here , in a room even estate agents would have difficulty describing as anything other than small , 20 people clung to the perimeter walls as a man with a Chris Waddle haircut hammered out some old rock cliches . |
| 13 | ‘ In the beginning the Revie era promised so much , but in the end it turned out to be one of our national game 's most unsatisfactory episodes . ’ |
| 14 | At first relations between the PLO outside and the Patriotic Front inside were cordial , but as time went by the PLO leadership became increasingly uneasy about the Patriotic Front taking its own initiatives . |
| 15 | And so er it it was a a reasonably good wage but when I first started of course I was n't on piece rate , you used to get a penny an hour , when we worked Saturday morning got about six and sixpence a week . |
| 16 | Cynics have suggested that the reason the Nelson Mandela bash attracted so many celebrities , at the expense of the more official Amnesty gig and an earlier AIDS benefit , was because it was televised worldwide to over one billion viewers . |
| 17 | Poole was by far the busier goalkeeper before the break , though a powerful 35-yard David Oldfield shot flashed just wide . |
| 18 | THE CHANCES of a Bay Area World Series improved late on Wednesday night when the San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics notched up impressive play-off victories over the Chicago Cubs and Toronto Blue Jays . |
| 19 | Uplift of the central region of the Fenno-Scandian Shield began about 13 000 a BP and the total uplift since then has exceeded 100 m . |
| 20 | A study carried out at Aberdeen University discovered rather depressing facts about communications between adults and their children as observed in three-minute periods in streets , buses and shops . |
| 21 | A survey of black rhinos in the Matusadona park found only 15 , compared to an estimated population of 150 . |
| 22 | Ironic when you think back , is n't it — in the early 1980s , IBM Corp had pretty much identical deals with Intel Corp and Rolm Co in which it bought about 20% of each with the right to take go up to 30% — and in its wisdom , in mid-decade , it decided to buy Rolm outright , and to sell all its Intel shares … |
| 23 | CHESTER Branch fought off tough competition , not least from the existing account holders National Westminster , to win the banking contract for the new Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Trust . |
| 24 | Proprietors Joan and Graeme Hall came here 10 years ago . |
| 25 | There was virtually no INSET , and schools felt that PNP resourcing had very little impact on what they did in the home-school area . |
| 26 | The Burston mill had just that . |
| 27 | This was far from instantaneous , and the Permian period saw both advanced amphibians and early reptiles living side by side . |
| 28 | THE shares of Quicks Group raced ahead 22 to 90p yesterday after the Manchester-based car distributor announced a return to the black in 1991 and that it was maintaining its dividend total at 3p , with a 2p final on July 10 . |
| 29 | Having created their masterpiece , they 're hardly going to just sit on it ( and spin ) — putting it into the Public Domain is a very cost-effective method of bringing their work to the attention of leading software development houses ( Ashley Routledge and David Saunders of Poseidon and St Dragon fame started out this way ) . |
| 30 | The tiny vessel Miami Vice broke down five miles north of the Liverpool Bar shortly after 11am yesterday . |