Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AS THE post-mortem into the failed coup in Panama continued yesterday , it emerged that President Bush had approved an order to the US commander in the Canal Zone to remove General Manuel Noriega using covert forces , but the coup fizzled out before the order could be executed . |
| 2 | Only six were noted away from the coast , and birds sometimes made prolonged stays in favoured coastal marshes , for example 35 days in 1965 . |
| 3 | The second volume will include 410 examples of late-Roman and Byzantine glass ( fourth to seventh centuries ) and the third will cover 460 pieces of Roman free-blown glass ( first to third centuries ) . |
| 4 | They have apparently prevented the graft-versus-host reaction from starting up in a number of patients who have received bone-marrow transplants . |
| 5 | Seafront hotel , newly refurbished with most rooms enjoying panoramic views of sea and Palace Pier , all doubles en suite , tea and coffee trays , colour TV , movie channel , ground floor and four poster rooms available . |
| 6 | The agreement covered industrial goods , processed agricultural goods and fish . |
| 7 | The commission , headed by the historian Vojtech Mencl , would analyse the reason for the entry of troops and evaluate political developments in the country in the period to 1970 , requesting relevant material from the five Warsaw Pact countries involved . |
| 8 | Control injections with preimmune serum produced normal embryos . |
| 9 | The theory was a good scientific theory , in the sense described in Chapter 1 : it was simple and it made definite predictions that could be tested by observation . |
| 10 | Will he give an undertaking that he will make administrative arrangements that will equally well put into effect the entitlements that we seek in new clause 10 ? |
| 11 | Maybe fish had developed muscular fins and crawled on to land to become amphibians ; maybe amphibians in their turn had developed water-tight skins and become reptiles ; maybe , even , some ape-like creatures had stood upright and become the ancestors of man . |
| 12 | After a dazzling spell at the Beaux Arts school in Paris , Nouvel got his first few jobs building private houses . |
| 13 | What is the difference between building private wings and privatisation ? |
| 14 | The most common cause of this is taking antibiotics by mouth , because these can kill off the ‘ good ’ bacteria in the gut , allowing not-so-good microbes to multiply and replace them . |
| 15 | Withdrawal produces emotional changes , immobility , lethargy , and headaches which can be severe . |
| 16 | They attacked specific measures such as tariffs which forced up the price of agricultural machinery . |
| 17 | About this time the Geomagnetism Unit and the Global Seismology Unit were incorporated into NERC and became component parts of IGS . |
| 18 | The North Down athlete produced 47.54 metres to improve her own record by half-a-metre . |
| 19 | Growing skill in using computerized databases and statistical software for bibliometric ends ; and |
| 20 | The co-pilot held a West German Commercial Pilot Licence with instrument and instructor ratings , and had accumulated a total of 2,550 hours flying experience including fifty hours on the accident he had flown 120 hours , of which fifty hours were on the accident type . |
| 21 | According to a report in the Neue Zurcher Zeitung of Jan. 10 , 1990 , the European Commission of Human Rights , to which plaintiffs turned in the first instance , had registered 1,445 cases brought by individuals or private organizations in 1989 ( a 40 per cent increase on the previous year ) . |
| 22 | The advantage of the Garrett system is that it is a convenient way of handling largish numbers of PP3s . |
| 23 | It will also eliminate 500 jobs through attrition and lay-offs at its Armonk headquarters . |
| 24 | The Committee of the Regions may make regional governments feel better but will probably be as ineffective as the existing Economic and Social Committee . |
| 25 | There are 3–4 large irregularly arranged oral papillae ; distal to these and situated within the mouth slit is a series of 3 or 4 smaller papillae . |
| 26 | The Fellowship , organised by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings ( SPAB ) , is a six-month training programme during which the craftsmen travel thousands of miles round the country together , studying traditional methods of repairing historic buildings . |
| 27 | Produce , independently , pieces of writing using complete sentences , some of them demarcated with capital letters and full stops or question marks . |
| 28 | Produce , independently , pieces of writing using complete sentences , mainly demarcated with capital letters and full stops or question marks . |
| 29 | Emos Page and Time offers professional users of the Word Perfect WP package the opportunity to increase revenue . |
| 30 | Mr Toombs had been a founder member of the British premonitions Bureau in 1967 ( it registered 500 premonitions , most of which were concerned with major transport disasters ) . |