Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] [noun] [verb] [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | The recent decline in the fortunes of the UK Green Party was epitomized in the eyes of many observers by the deep divisions which emerged at its annual conference , held in Wolverhampton in mid-September , where organizational reforms approved last year were overturned . |
2 | Despite worse than expected profits reported last month , Neill 's shares lost only 6p to 191p as bid speculation limited the fall . |
3 | As they toasted the agreement in champagne , and Oldfield and Branson shook hands , somebody pointed out that it was exactly ten years since Tubular Bells had first entered the charts . |
4 | Max Wallis , of the University of Wales , Cardiff , said : " FoE in England and Wales are paralysed since senior staff decided last January to take no stance over the Gulf war , and because they have frustrated efforts to discuss the issues at board level " . |
5 | * The price of cereals in Somali markets , it says , had fallen back to their seasonal levels even before American soldiers arrived last December . |
6 | Cantona 's nomadic journey though English football began last January , when Sheffield Wednesday manager Trevor Francis tried to sign him from Nimes . |
7 | When ancient Greek thought first discovered the opposition of ‘ nature ’ and ‘ convention ’ , it also discovered that an essential part of human nature is to live by convention . |
8 | He is being sued by Sarfraz Nawaz , the former Pakistan Test paceman , who — as Super Sport reported last week — vehemently denies Lamb 's claim that he disclosed Pakistani ‘ secrets ’ of making an old ball swing . |
9 | The United States Defence department has announced that an airbase in Oxfordshire will close completely when American aircraft leave next year . |
10 | Yet this model is deeply flawed , as New Scientist revealed last week ( 27 January , p 220 ) . |