Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the taught portion of the course , MSc candidates carry out a substantial project . |
| 2 | The Plymouth merchants gave up the idea of founding a northern colony , though they were interested in the prospects for fishing and they traded with the Indians along the coastline . |
| 3 | Warwickshire 's Roger Towse kept the home side on their toes , until Andy Moles closed down the opening partnership with this easy catch for Babington . |
| 4 | The Kay brothers took up the design , made further improvements to it , and produced their stones uniformly on Andrew 's machine . |
| 5 | • Four Petersfield drummers kept up a ten-hour drum-a-thon and raised £200 . |
| 6 | SCOTLAND FANS SWARM ROUND THE WEE MAN |
| 7 | In a typical drive in March 1990 , Penghu fishermen rounded up a mixed herd of 50 to 60 bottlenose dolphins and false killer whales ( Pseudorca ) , and drove them through the narrow channel into Shakang Harbour . |
| 8 | Now a quite unexpected calamity overtook the French ; the Bois Bourrus gunners rained down a murderous hail on the advancing Germans but in the soft swampy ground bordering the Meuse many of the shell fuses failed to explode . |
| 9 | Through such developments , a cadre of AEA managers went up the commercial learning curve . |
| 10 | Boeing jetliners touch down every four and a half seconds of every day . |
| 11 | But this is exactly the sort of attitude that has forced RAF pilots to take on the most terrifying assignments and attack runways and hardened aircraft shelters ( built with British expertise ) , to be fired on by Soviet missiles or Soviet antiaircraft guns , or face the threat of German-developed chemical warfare or French Exocet missiles . |
| 12 | From the oriental gateways of Gerrard Street signposts mark out a short walk past the plethora of sex shops to Berwick Street where , on the corner , the Man Fu Kung fast food restaurant signals the last outpost of Chinese Soho . |
| 13 | After scoring first through Dave Mitchell , Tranmere 's Kenny Irons pulled off a hat trick and Swindon were sunk . |
| 14 | It instructed IWC scientists to carry out a worldwide survey of population levels . |
| 15 | Cheshire was able to collect enough data from Reading adolescents to carry out a quantitative analysis of the following : variation in the morphological structure of the third personal singular form of the verb ; a separate study of the verbs HAVE , DO and BE ; various aspects of the system of negation ; the relative pronoun system . |
| 16 | Instead of being supported by rails like a conventional train , Flydaway carriages hang off the side of an elevated track . |
| 17 | The RPB rules set out the standards and procedures to be followed . |
| 18 | ‘ Siege ’ , in the front-page headline , had been misspelt as ‘ seige ’ , which caused Pilger opponents to fire back the ‘ Moron Sunday ’ jibe with racist jokes about stupid Ozzies who could n't even spell . |
| 19 | In September 1973 , the Insight team of The Sunday Times set out the story of the seven arrests and the dropped charges for five murders . |
| 20 | Unita rebels shot down an Angolan military MI-17 helicopter , injuring two crewmen , the official news agency Angop said yesterday . |
| 21 | When the mist comes down many areas like the Somerset Levels take on a sinister and unreal appearance |
| 22 | ‘ Vinny has always claimed the Wimbledon players psyched out the Liverpool team in the tunnel before the 1988 FA Cup final . |
| 23 | Skinner 's notes to the final disc in the Christchurch recordings of the Byrd masses skate over the exact reasons for this change of pitch and , although I would agree that the brighter sound of trebles has the greater immediate impact than men 's voices alone , it could be argued that if this Mass was ever used , it would most likely have been performed by solo voices or a small and musically skinned ensemble gathered to celebrate a recusant Roman service , probably without the participation of boys . |
| 24 | In the late 1930s the Liverpool Police brought in a new ‘ discretionary movement ’ in which constables made half-hour points , which gave them relative freedom on the beat . |
| 25 | 1,000 RATNER JOBS GO DOWN THE PAN |
| 26 | Professor Marc Martens carried out an hour long op on the 28-years-old AC Milan player in Antwerp today and is worried that the former European player of the year 's career may be over . |
| 27 | And he revealed that only a few weeks ago Magherafelt traders turned down the option of having security gates erected in the town during a meeting with police . |
| 28 | TROY AIKMAN threw for three touchdowns as the Dallas Cowboys wrapped up the NFC East title with a 41-17 NFL rout of the Atlanta Falcons . |
| 29 | The Rishon Le Zion killings sparked off a wave of sympathy protests in Jordan , particularly in the Palestinian refugee camps outside Amman and Irbid . |
| 30 | In the fall of 1978 , while the Shah 's power was draining away from him in Teheran and riots against his rule dominated the US television news , Sadat was closeted with Menahcem Begin and Jimmy Carter in the Maryland hills working out the interstices of what became known as the Camp David Agreement . |