Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [vb past] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | More than 700 scientists sent out a clarion call for action and the US is the only wealthy country not to make tangible promises . " |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | Thus 35 Squadron took on a ‘ new ’ type at its base at D F Malan Airport — the Dakota ! |
| 7 | my three wishes sucked up a chimney of flame . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In 1977 UNEP set up a co-ordinating committee to review research and calculate projections for ozone depletion . |
| 11 | Attempts to contact Australia 400 miles ( over 640km ) to the south were unsuccessful , but the 1 09-set picked up a Dutch broadcast which was translated for the Company by a passing Dutch soldier : it announced the surrender of all their forces in the East Indies . |
| 12 | ‘ That one scene took up a whole morning and I did think to myself I could have written half a script in that time . |
| 13 | Simply expressed , the 1832 act opened up a new political space . |
| 14 | Sand drifts smothered the front steps , climbed walls almost to the gables , and in one place blocked off a whole street . |
| 15 | The vocal Bradshaw in goal encouraged his defence and on more than one occasion pulled off a save to keep Ruffians in the game . |
| 16 | One policeman tripped over a litter-bin and sat down heavily in the gutter . |
| 17 | Accordingly , the 1987 regulations picked up a large part of the requirements of the Bank Accounts Directive , but not all of them . |
| 18 | ‘ I liked him ’ , one daughter summed up a grandfather who had been orphaned in the Irish potato famine : ‘ he was an old man , and I was only nine when he died , but as our father was at the [ First World ] War , I suppose he was the only man in the house . |
| 19 | In 1887 Davies set up a limited liability company , the Ocean Coal Company , with a nominal capital of £536,000 . |
| 20 | On July 16 Havel read out a 1968 letter found in Moscow and sent to him by Russian President Boris Yeltsin , inviting Warsaw Pact forces into Prague . |
| 21 | On July 16 Havel read out a 1968 letter found in Moscow and sent to him by Russian President Boris Yeltsin , inviting Warsaw Pact forces into Prague . |
| 22 | While renovating his Victorian cottage , one reader ripped out an ugly old boiler , and installed this beautiful fireplace |
| 23 | One mother held up an emaciated child , and in sign language asked me to vaccinate the baby . |
| 24 | A 1980 calendar hung on a wall ; she had kept it because she liked the picture : Manet 's " The Bar at the Folies-Bergère " She identified with that girl who stared out , trapped by bottles , tangerines , mirrors , the counter , a wall of people with ugly faces . |
| 25 | On Feb. 23 Menem ruled out a national state of emergency , describing the looting as " isolated incidents " encouraged by " extremists " . |
| 26 | In 1619 Landi brought out an opera ( see p. 311 ) and a book of five-part madrigals , and the following year a book of Arie a una voce ; four more followed during the period 1627–37 . |
| 27 | People laughing and cheering and waving flags , riding on any available vehicle , twenty people draped over a taxi , bus bonnets crowded with people and thousands of happy pedestrians — every window open and crowded out with waving enthusiasts — and I saw no tears , no inkling of what was to come all over again . |
| 28 | In 1860 Frith set up a photographic company in Reigate to record as many locations in Britain as he could . |
| 29 | She unhooked her cloak collar as we had to wait at the outer door of Marcus whilst two porters wheeled out an empty accident trolley . |
| 30 | He chose Alma to commemorate an 1854 battle fought over a newly-built Russian fortress during the Crimean War . |