Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year , Sir Richard Body brought in a private member 's bill to introduce within five years a ban on the use of sow stalls and tethers — devices that make it easier and cheaper to manage the animals during their four months of pregnancy . |
| 2 | The District Council has accommodated the highest proportion of Greater York growth of all the districts surrounding York over the last ten years , and therefore I think it likely that it would expected to accommodate the largest proportion of the fourteen hundred dwellings that would be accommodated in the new settlement , erm I do not think that any of the settlements or that there is sufficient land within the Southern Ryedale area to accommodate that level of development without adversely affecting character of the settlements , or compromising greenbelt objectives , as I mentioned this morning , and also I question whether or not erm whether th most of the settlements in the Southern Ryedale area have only a minimal s minimal service base anyway on which to tack any large housing growths , and I do n't necessarily foresee any subsequent rise in the service base of those settlements as a result of the housing being added on to them . |
| 3 | Kathleen Lavender held out a cardboard box between her hands , speechlessly , so that it looked like some kind of dumb offering and Dorothea at once remembered the solicitor 's stiff letter , her own shamed surprise and then her agitation . |
| 4 | There may have been a wheel on this site since the 18th Century when the Macclesfield Company put down a shallow shaft — Bonsor West Shaft — at the north-westerly extremity of the old 17th Century open works . |
| 5 | West Germany , in the event for the first time , bring four world champions to Hyde Park to take on a British team that has six silver and bronze medallists from the recent World Championships , as well as squads from Italy , the Soviet Union and France . |
| 6 | Word is that IBM Corp showed off a PowerPC-based personal digital assistant at the Downsizing Japan Expo earlier this month . |
| 7 | The Bowling League of Ireland side put up a heartening performance on Saturday , their biggest problem is finding front end players , especially leads . |
| 8 | Jake Mariner cracked home a great goal and the scoring was completed by defender Mark Howell . |
| 9 | This talented young Liphook rider notched up a runaway experts class victory in the Bognor Regis Club trial at Lavant , near Chichester . |
| 10 | Tom Cruise puts in a fine performance as Ron Kovic , disabled Vietnam vet who fought back against indifference from the country he fought for , but somehow Oliver Stone 's direction still leaves the viewer unmoved by his plight |
| 11 | On Aug. 5 a Beijing court handed down a four-year sentence on Gao Shan , who worked at an institute for political restructuring under the Communist Party central committee , for revealing state secrets during the 1989 democracy movement . |
| 12 | Dawn on Monday morning shone only a bleak grey light over Moscow and it looked as though the weathermen would be right in their prediction of rain by midday . |
| 13 | IBM Corp was also absent , while Hewlett-Packard Co contributed only a lukewarm endorsement , with no precise commitment to implement the technology . |
| 14 | The disastrous outcome of the Norway campaign brought about a parliamentary crisis in Britain , resulting in Neville Chamberlain being replaced by Winston Churchill on 9th . |
| 15 | Even the United Kingdom Beveridge scheme had only a minor effect on unemployment insurance . |
| 16 | The Gulf war showed up a big American lead over Soviet weaponry . |
| 17 | Wingers Evans and Hadley scored tries in a four-minute spell inside the last 15 minutes , while a late Paul Hulme try set up a thrilling finish in a generally untidy game . |
| 18 | He recalled his first day in the area , when he 'd stopped off at Conon Bridge to browse around a sporting store and listen to the gossip . |
| 19 | To thwart that , Koch 's America syndicate put on a new keel and removed ballast from the namesake boat , using the mid-series mode-change permitted under the barter agreement reached with Conner . |
| 20 | In Birmingham the Colmore family laid out a new suburb on a neat grid in the 1740s on their land north-west of the existing town centre . |
| 21 | In January 1990 the Bonn government set up a special working group to examine the benefits open to refugees from East Germany following widespread discontent . |
| 22 | JOHN BISHOP rounds up a long , eventful season in South Africa |