Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that all Premier Division clubs had indicated their approval . |
| 2 | He said that all Premier Division clubs had indicated their approval . |
| 3 | Fidelity Investments has cut its initial charges on five bond funds from 5.25% to 3.5% . |
| 4 | ‘ Our defence experts have assured me that nothing of any real size could get through undetected . |
| 5 | It was so down-market that many cinema chains refused to take it . |
| 6 | Heritage groups had feared it would leave the country after the Tate Gallery failed to buy it before the sale . |
| 7 | Scottish variety performers gathered to pay their last respects at Andy Stewart 's funeral this morning . |
| 8 | Although I demonstrated the advantages of the ‘ hot mike ’ system to ICAO and to the US National Transportation Safety Board in 1979 , the resistance to retrospective modifications ( because of the cost involved ) which the US airlines are able to organise through their congressional lobbying activities has prevented its introduction in the USA . |
| 9 | This type is not readily available — its mourning connotations have made it unfashionable . |
| 10 | MAI Systems Corp 's CLS Software Inc and Brooke Acquisition Corp units have followed their parent into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection . |
| 11 | Fred Bradley stayed very much in the background and his soft , kind eyes helped to put her at ease . |
| 12 | ‘ The defence ministries had to bend their ears to get the work done … |
| 13 | ONE of Merseyside 's former top cabaret clubs has lost its 11pm entertainments licence following police objections . |
| 14 | As the end of the tax year approaches many people who are eligible for personal pensions and those with the old retirement annuity contracts need to plan their contribution strategy carefully . |
| 15 | Moderate and lenient , her superior aptitude in verbal reasoning skills has earned her respect and a classy reputation . |
| 16 | Alciston itself acted as the gathering place for surrounding parishes , and it was there that the wool merchants went to do their trading until the mid-fourteenth century . |
| 17 | Angel One 's T'ai Chi mind disciplines had enabled him to subjugate the pain and stiffness of his physical injuries , sufficiently for his body to operate at near maximum efficiency . |
| 18 | As a result employers came to reappraise their previous strategy of attempting to contain unions by means of active opposition since that was more likely to result in increased government intervention to facilitate recognition . |
| 19 | However , most of the major card issuers have said they will ignore this distinction . |
| 20 | The East Coast Puritans refused to alter their garb or touch the native food . |
| 21 | In two days we reached Tezpur , and again found kind ladies from the tea estates waiting to give us a meal and a bath — bliss indeed ! |
| 22 | Hitachi Ltd has put a tiger team from its Network Products Group in Silicon Valley on developing LAN-based multiplatform e-mail products hoping to have them all gussied up in time for a third-quarter rollout . |
| 23 | All the rule books seem to say you must wear some sort of jacket — the BSJA naturally stipulate the colours — and in some classes it should even be tweed . |
| 24 | A SECRETARY spent a night sitting in her car after discovering at 2am that wheel clampers had immobilised it . |
| 25 | Supreme Soviet deputies were angry that they had known less about the test than the Greenpeace international environmental group , whose members had been thwarted in an attempt to disrupt the test when coast guards had intercepted their vessel off Novaya Zemlya on Oct. 8 . |
| 26 | Opposition parties had withdrawn their candidates in October after the breakdown of tripartite talks and the lack of any prospect of a national conference [ see p. 38518 ] . |
| 27 | By Christmas all three main opposition parties had dissolved themselves . |
| 28 | That was an unwise decision ; for already the leaders of the Opposition parties had told him that the Cabinet 's latest financial proposals were ‘ wholly unsatisfactory ’ , and had suggested that he should consult the King . |
| 29 | But even if the old partnership of Christian Democrats , Socialists and Liberals gets a working majority , the serious opposition parties have made their point more effectively than at any time since 1948 . |
| 30 | The Northern Echo revealed on Saturday that Darlington Wedding Cars had disconnected its phone and left no forwarding address . |