Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [verb] [prep] [noun] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1917 , at Semirechensk in Turkestan , Russian peasant representatives met to deliberate the subduing of the natives , and resolved to create vigilante groups to keep at bay those fugitives who were now returning ( Muslim sources claim 83,000 were killed ) . |
| 2 | They may also make short term cut backs in expenditure such as advertising and repairs , to the longer term detriment of the business . |
| 3 | At Allams , another strong entry of 1,260 spring lambs , hoggets , breeding and cast ewes met an excellent trade with 1,126 hoggets sold to average £49.20 per head and spring lambs made to £57.60 each . |
| 4 | International aid donors meeting in Paris this week to discuss cutting payments to that far-flung little country — once a bulwark against communism , today a relic of one-partyism — must wish they knew exactly what . |
| 5 | The spirit is that of a Gnome gemsmith employed by Drachenfels many years ago . |
| 6 | All the rugby roads lead to Twickenham this weekend … where England are playing South Africa for the first time in over 20 years … |
| 7 | There 's scores of Central South folk heading for Wales this weekend to ride and run in one of the great adventure races … its the annual Horse v Man V Mountain Bike challenge … local people have won the race for the last five years … and you can if the winning run or ride continues when we bring you the highlights on Monday … |
| 8 | One trusts that the desert winds blowing through Vegas this week represent the winds of change for the better in boxing . |
| 9 | After November 1919 , therefore , all the unemployed except the ex-servicemen lost their dependants ' benefits and this loss was not offset by the slight increase in the basic unemployment benefit rate made in December that year . |
| 10 | The committee was still discussing its response to crucial aspects of the first inspection when the next inspection process commenced in May this year . |
| 11 | AGRICULTURE ministry and Milk Marketing Board officials knew for weeks that milk contaminated with lead was on sale , Whitehall sources indicated yesterday . |
| 12 | Add to this the duties and taxes on Guinness Group products sold in Ireland each year ( currently running at around IR£400 million ) and you get some idea of what the grand total must to be . |
| 13 | There are stabs at the mysterious menace of ‘ Skin Deep ’ , the trashy pop wonder exemplified by tunes such as ‘ Nice In Nice ’ and the arty decadence of ‘ Golden Brown ’ — and they all sound like little more than well-executed pub rock . |
| 14 | The Security Council took on board some of the challenges . |
| 15 | American-backed Business Superstore opened in April this year . |
| 16 | Less energetic members may be interested to hear of two lecture series based in London this October and early next year . |
| 17 | Banking sources said in June that credit needs were expected to expand dramatically even though Romania was owed some $3,000,000 million from abroad and had hard currency reserves of $900,000,000 million . |
| 18 | In other words , studies of television genre begin to reinvent some of the wheels which film authorship and genre studies set in motion some time ago . |
| 19 | The invitation to become deputy Lieutenant came in June this year , he still does n't know why . |
| 20 | And the table top battle moves to Cheltenham this weekend , as 268 young table tennis players serve up their best for the Cotswold Junior 2-star Select National Table Tennis Tournament . |
| 21 | ‘ In the USA , there has been a total of 29 cases of occupationally-acquired HIV reported in healthcare workers compared with thousands of new cases of hepatitis B transmitted at work each year . ’ |
| 22 | Is the Minister aware that in my constituency people refer to buses these days , following deregulation , as bananas because they tend to arrive in bunches ? |
| 23 | LET'S KNIFE ( Creation ) is the most bizarre thing you 'll hear all year : Nirvana meet the Shangri-Las for a dozen high energy throwaway thrash tunes with titles such as Flying Jelly Attack , Cycling Is Fun , I Am A Cat and Bear Up Bison . |
| 24 | In my day girls stayed at home most of the time . |
| 25 | The solitary plum line to fall on gritstone this summer is Martin Wood 's Abstract Attitude ( E5 6b ) at Earl crag . |
| 26 | One powerful assault on the private enterprise system came from people such as Thomas Arnold , a headmaster of Rugby School , and his son Matthew Arnold , from John Ruskin and Thomas Carlyle . |
| 27 | When grammar teaching fell into decline much of value was lost : a certain analytic competence , and with it the valuable ability to talk and write explicitly about linguistic patterns , relations and organisation . |
| 28 | AS THE number of television channels grows in countries such as Britain , more and cheaper programmes are needed to fill them . |
| 29 | Thus large engineering companies grew in towns such as Newcastle , Sunderland , Hartlepool and Middlesbrough . |
| 30 | In 1985 , the influential business magazine Forbes had in fact all but written an obituary for the American nuclear industry : |