Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [vb past] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a series of bloody encounters in 1796 Napoleon threw back the Austrian , liberating the Italians — again — and created several new republics , one of which , the Cisalpine Republic , had Milan as its capital . |
| 2 | Luqa airfield in September 1940 , shortly after 261 Squadron took over the Hal Far Fighter Flight . |
| 3 | Police said about 10 men armed with AK-47 rifles carried out the ‘ well-planned ’ massacre in Wadeville . |
| 4 | In the West End area of Newcastle upon Tyne on Sept. 11 up to 300 rioters burned down a public house and started more than 20 other fires . |
| 5 | The 2 friends took up the tandem around 5 months ago especially for the race . |
| 6 | More than 700 scientists sent out a clarion call for action and the US is the only wealthy country not to make tangible promises . " |
| 7 | After 1788 Baldwin took over the development of the Bathwick estate , a project conceived on the most ambitious scale . |
| 8 | The receivers were called in at the Broadgate developer and the shares suspended at 7¼p , but the FT-SE 100 Index shook off the crisis and climbed to a new peak , up 18 points at 2778.8 . |
| 9 | The immediate industrial crisis had been resolved , but inflation , which had been substantially boosted by the rise in world oil prices , continued to accelerate , and the discrepancy between price rises of 8 per cent and wage rises of 16 per cent over the six months stored up an acute problem of squeezed profitability . |
| 10 | The FTSE index of the leading 100 companies opened down a marginal 1.1 at 2704.5 , with interest focused more closely on political uncertainty at home ahead of tonight 's Europe vote . |
| 11 | In the cellar are six Skeletons manacled around a half-collapsed wooden table piled high with the desiccated and thoroughly foul remains of a meal set out on silver serving plates ( worth 5 GCs in total ) . |
| 12 | Around 100 protestors spelt out the words ‘ No Pylons ’ on Beacon Hill , near Borrowby . |
| 13 | Six candles went out the first time , the remaining three the second time . |
| 14 | Thus 35 Squadron took on a ‘ new ’ type at its base at D F Malan Airport — the Dakota ! |
| 15 | my three wishes sucked up a chimney of flame . |
| 16 | A dozen books took up the space of three dozen nomes , and while Grimma privately thought that some of the books were more useful than many of the nomes , she 'd accepted Dorcas 's promise that they would come back , one day , and try to retrieve them from their hiding place under the floor . |
| 17 | Half a dozen geese waddled up the bank . |
| 18 | We just hit at the right moment and from that week onwards , at least 90 people turned up every week . |
| 19 | With the deaths of Parent and Brassey in 1870 Buddicom wound up the partnership . |
| 20 | White liberals , including the President 's wife , Eleanor , gave their support to the cause of the blacks , and in 1941 Roosevelt set up the Committee on Fair Employment Practices . |
| 21 | From a thousand voices came back the response : ‘ He is risen indeed , Alleluia ! ’ |
| 22 | Sheffield , too , had such links ( even before reorganization ) formalized in an Industrial Development Advisory Committee , involving representatives of industry , trade unions , central government departments as well as the city council , and in the late 1970s Nottinghamshire set up an economic forum involving similar groups ( Johnson and Cochrane , 1981 , p. 171 ) . |
| 23 | The Chairman of the 1922 Committee sounded out the backbenchers . |
| 24 | As long ago as 1957 Chomsky pointed out the weaknesses of n-gram techniques to provide an English grammar based on their inability to cope with long distance dependencies . |
| 25 | On the one hand is the car dealer who buys and displays for sale a car which someone else has previously ‘ clocked , ’ i. e. turned back the odometer . |
| 26 | Sixteen races made up the 1986 championship . |
| 27 | But in 1908 Edison set up the Motion Picture Patents Company ( MPPC ) , which included among its aims an increase in the share of the US market taken by domestic productions . |
| 28 | What happened in Panama was that when the other 50 photographers showed up the Americans went on some mock patrols in some neighbourhoods where there was nothing ; it was basically a photo-op for the press . |
| 29 | After receiving alarmist reports from the heads of both the Second and Third Departments , on 27 February / 11 March 1848 Nicholas set up a committee under Menshikov to recommend ways of limiting the circulation of unwelcome ideas . |
| 30 | In 1977 UNEP set up a co-ordinating committee to review research and calculate projections for ozone depletion . |