Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [noun] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two samples displayed similar profiles in terms of sex , although the snowball user group had slightly more females . |
| 2 | It was a thoroughly tested number as Tiller had not only shown it at the Palace but his La Scala Girls had also performed it at the Winter Gardens Pavilion , Blackpool , the previous year . |
| 3 | Brian Reid slotted into second place on the opening lap , and like Moodie , never looked like losing it as Scotsman Ian Simpson came home . |
| 4 | Chairman Garry Gibson said yesterday : ‘ Baker wants to leave for personal and not professional reasons . |
| 5 | Some supporters of her National Opposition Coalition , known as U N O cheered dutifully , others booed her announcement that although she would take over as Minister of Defence , General Ortega was staying on . |
| 6 | THE £3 billion Channel Tunnel high-speed rail link and the £300 million Heathrow Express line are to go ahead , Chancellor Norman Lamont announced yesterday.But the future of the £1.7 billion cross-London rail link Crossrail appeared less certain with Mr Lamont saying the scheme was now going to be a joint venture between the public and private sectors.The much-delayed 68-mile Channel Tunnel fast link will not go into London 's King 's Cross station as British Rail hoped , but instead will terminate at neighbouring St Pancras — a less expensive option.But Mr Lamont did say that Government money would be put into the scheme which could be completed by the end of the decade.The 15-mile Paddington-Heathrow fast link — a joint venture between BR and airport operator BAA — will be started later this year and should be finished by the second half of 1997 . |
| 7 | Despite the damage Manor School opened as normal today . |
| 8 | The Blues suspected the Georgians would be carpeted for their haphazard arranging of the first leg tie ; the Windsor Park club had already complained to UEFA about this . |
| 9 | The Blues suspected the Georgians would be carpeted for their haphazard arranging of the first leg tie ; the Windsor Park club had already complained to UEFA about this . |
| 10 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA is looking to cut another 3,000 jobs from its global payroll of about 35,000 , chairman Bernard Pache said yesterday as he presented the figures for 1992 ( see page six ) . |
| 11 | HOUSEWIFE Sarah Fox threw away £10,000 in research trying to invent a floating soap because such a soap called Swan , and shaped like one , was around at least 50 years ago . |
| 12 | IDLE and useless police could be thrown out of the force in a crackdown aimed at raising standards , Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke revealed yesterday . |
| 13 | Derek Lewis , chairman of satellite television oldies channel UK Gold , becomes director general of prisons on January 6 , Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke said yesterday . |
| 14 | PRISON privatisation is a means of raising standards and achieving much-needed reforms , Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke said yesterday . |
| 15 | Barthes 's S/Z brings the reader into particular prominence first in its concept of the scriptible that calls for active involvement on the part of the reader in the production of the text ( which is not to forget that in Critique et vérité Barthes had already described the critic as someone who has actively to produce a meaning for the polysemic text ) ; and second , in its thoroughly intertextual view of literature . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , perhaps the most startling statistic contained in it was that some one-third of the rail route mileage carried only about 1 per cent of the freight and passenger traffic , while one-half of the route mileage accounted for only 4 to 5 per cent of total traffic . |
| 17 | Yet , as Friends of the Earth 's transport campaigner Roger Higman said recently , what his department claims as ‘ good ’ has caused and is causing , serious damage to the countryside . |
| 18 | Later in the afternoon Chuck Sherman ran excitedly into the hut he shared with his brother . |
| 19 | This was a favourite rhythm fur male solos used particularly by nineteenth-century balletmasters . |
| 20 | Work continued apace and Colonel von Donop appeared again on 21 December to inspect the final section , which he did in car No. 36 . |
| 21 | ANOTHER 400,000 jobs will go nationwide in the next 15 months , NatWest 's chief economist David Kern predicted yesterday . |
| 22 | Photographer David Bailey had recently married French film star Catherine Deneuve , with Mick Jagger as best man . |
| 23 | Somerset seamer Neil Mallender came close to a surprise Test cap in New Zealand recently |
| 24 | Airtours chairman David Crossland said later that the acquisition provided ‘ substantial ’ opportunities for his group . |
| 25 | TROUBLED Lloyd 's of London is heading for its worst ever losses , chairman David Rowland indicated yesterday . |
| 26 | Eddie Tonks , Chairman of the New Zealand Rugby Football Union said yesterday that he had received the reassurance from South African rugby chief Danie Craven . |
| 27 | The West Coast museum negotiated directly with the Hermitage , and agreed to pay a rental fee of around $300,000 . |
| 28 | One of the ironies of the 1980s is that while the East Coast main line started to take delivery of its second-generation 125mph equipment , the maximum speed of West Coast trains had only moved from 100 to 110mph . |
| 29 | The farms and houses around La Tour Monchauzet had all festooned their fences , walls and hedges with garlands of paper flowers in pastel colours . |
| 30 | The DUP was the only party to refuse to meet the four-man US delegation during its Irish visit , and justice spokesman Ian Paisley Jnr insisted today his party had been vindicated . |