Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Currently , around 1 700 beds are closed , leaving 2 500 earmarked for possible closure . |
| 2 | Network Systems Corp , Minneapolis has announced it is supplying its 6000 Series multiprotocol bridge-routers to New Jersey Bell Telephone Co : they will be used for the Metropolitan Area Network being installed for the US Army at Fort Monmouth , New Jersey ; the order comprises an initial 21 Model 6614 and 6617 routers ( with another 12 planned for future installation ) , to be installed as part of a FDDI-based fibre optic backbone ; value of the order was not released . |
| 3 | In 1987 , in the United Kingdom , some 33,000 children attended local authority day nurseries , 174,000 went to registered child minders and another 477,000 went to registered playgroups ( CSO , 1989b , Table 3.8 ) . |
| 4 | By the end of the war , despite tremendous efforts at expansion , the personnel of the French airforces totalled no more than 13,000 ( to get an idea of the aces ' prospects of survival , one may compare with this total the figures of 3,500 men killed in combat ; 2,000 killed on training alone ; and another 3,000 injured in flying accidents ) . |
| 5 | SO SOME GOOD CAME OF THIS PERIOD , THEN . |
| 6 | this all started after last weekend Deana put him to bed did n't she ? |
| 7 | More than 1,200 people , of whom two-thirds were Moslems , were officially reported killed and a further 5,000 injured in sectarian violence which erupted across India after Hindu extremists reduced to rubble the 16th century Babri mosque at Ayodhya , in the state of Uttar Pradesh , on Dec. 6 . |
| 8 | Going back inside the house , the two staircases up to the first and second floors were dark as neither had windows , the only light available came from open bedroom doors . |
| 9 | Under similar circumstances in southern Brazil in 1958 , 20% of a total sheep population of 12 million died from intestinal trichostrongylosis . |
| 10 | Interestingly , female clothing workers were associated with the syndicalist tradition , although much of the leadership of industrial action in the early 1970s came from male cutters . |
| 11 | The question then arises , ‘ Would this fear be there if the individual concerned knew for absolute certainty that no-one will ever know that he is guilty ? ’ . |
| 12 | The increased demand for rubber in the early 1920s resulted in general prosperity , but in 1926 the terms of trade again turned against Sri Lanka . |
| 13 | While the war continued , and until early 1945 continued on French soil , the General 's main concerns remained to secure the authority of his state , to maximize the French military contribution in the war against Germany , and to ensure as large a role as possible for France in the formulation of the peace settlement . |
| 14 | The remaining third consisted of some jokes from Zach , a few sentences about animals from George and a patriotic essay from Ginnie about how collecting salvage was helping to win the war . |
| 15 | The combined result of khozraschet and the over-centralized and ill-informed onslaught oh the local press by Agitprop was a fast decline at guberniia and lower levels : of the 802 papers in existence on 1 January 1922 , a mere 313 remained by 1 July . |
| 16 | The government 's policy of counter-insurgency against the guerrilla movement in the early 1980s led to large-scale killings of sections of the indigenous Indian population ( indígenas ) and Spanish-speaking ( ladino ) peasants who sympathized with them . |
| 17 | The advent of large-scale unemployment in the 1930s was crucial to the institutionalisation of retirement , and its return in the mid-1970s and then again in the early 1980s resulted in two surges in the growth of early retirement ( Walker and Taylor , 1991 ) . |
| 18 | These four came in 31 seconds clear of a chasing group containing Lillywhite , the Banana professional . |
| 19 | Theodora paused to speculate how , since a Holy Week retreat at St Sylvester 's would almost certainly be conducted in silence , these two communicated with each other . |
| 20 | It was used in the Gulf War when eight B-52s flew on daily raids to Iraq . |
| 21 | They had a hundred pound fifty pound and twenty five and that all went to one family ! |
| 22 | Bucks Railway Centre staff could fairly be described as confused when Ex-GWR 6024 arrived at 08.55 hrs at Quainton without any coaches on Sunday morning . |
| 23 | All this happened in early spring — the third week in March , I think — and for several weeks of the previous summer Inez had been carrying on with a man staying at one of the St Ives hotels . |
| 24 | All this happened in total silence with Kenny sitting on the other side of me , totally unaware that my life was changing . |
| 25 | All this stood in marked contrast to the , in many senses , basically conservative and pseudo-religious feelings so frequently underlying and characterizing belief in Hitler . |
| 26 | William Robert Davies , 19 , and two others were wounded as all three waited in civilian clothes at a railway station in Lichfield ( Staffordshire ) . |
| 27 | Pathologist Dr Derek Carson said all three died from multiple injuries with Pte Macaulay 's death ‘ almost immediate . ’ |
| 28 | They aspired towards the Chelsea shore , where , in the early 1960s many thousands lived with sensible occupations and adequate amounts of money . |
| 29 | The LTTE 's Tamil rivals , the groups which had set up provincial governments under IPKF protection , were destroyed and many thousands fled to Tamil Nadu state in southern India . |
| 30 | And to complicate matters somewhat , historically many items that first appeared as luxury goods later became items of mass consumption and thus entered into the determination of the value of labour-power ; these include motor cars , vacuum cleaners , washing machines . |