Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A RUGBY player and a Second Division footballer remained on life-support machines last night after sustaining severe head injuries during weekend games .
2 And the British Rail Board stalled for four years , before admitting there was no evidence .
3 The Defence Ministry pensioned off 750 officers including 10 generals on Dec. 29 .
4 What was left of their election reporting consisted of brief clips from the itineraries of the party leaders .
5 For example , we would expect to find cells that give an excitatory response to long wavelength light shone on one part of the retina and an inhibitory response to long wavelength light shone on to an adjacent part .
6 This is in accord with the volcanological model developed recently by the BGS team for the Lower Borrowdale Volcanic Group , in which the group is one element in an extensive plateau-andesite lava field erupted from numerous fissures and vents rather than from a central volcano .
7 From 1844 to 1873 , the Royal College curriculum consisted of two sessions , followed by a single oral examination , in ( i ) chemistry , materia medica and pharmacy ; ( ii ) anatomy and physiology of the horse ; ( iii ) pathology and treatment of the horse ; ( iv ) anatomy and physiology of the ox and other domesticated animals .
8 When Gibson and Fawcett 's research programme continued with other reactions , it became clear that there was little to interest ICI 's dyestuffs people .
9 He saved twelve lives when a pleasure boat capsized in heavy surf at Corona del Mar in California in June 1925 .
10 The heads of various departments , foremen and other key workers were recruited from just across the county boundary in Sheffield and south Yorkshire ; the rest of the labour force came from many parts of Britain and Ireland .
11 The exclusion of women from the paid labour force became in many areas an important part of the development of both working-class ‘ respectability ’ and of notions of working-class manhood .
12 Intestinal obstruction — episodes of small bowel obstruction occurred in two patients with definite Crohn 's disease ( 20% ) , in three with indeterminate colitis ( 30% ) , and in eight ( 13% ) with ulcerative colitis .
13 THE girl allegedly abandoned by Senator Edward Kennedy in the Chappaquiddick car tragedy lived for two hours afterwards , it is claimed .
14 Car engine rated at fifty horsepower
15 In this model both maternal body mass curve and the area under the glucose curve emerged as significant factors in predicting body mass curve at birth ( r =10.5 , t =3.2 and 3.1 respectively , p<0.01 for both ) .
16 A company whose accounting period began on 1 November 1992 will therefore have to pay any s 419 tax due on loans made in the current account period on 14 November 1993 .
17 Many companies whose latest accounting period started on 1 November will therefore be affected as this period will end after the appointed day .
18 The study population consisted of 11 men and 16 women who were not pregnant with a mean age of 41 ( range 21 to 70 ) .
19 The study population consisted of 28 patients ( 19 men and nine women ; age range : 27–70 ) with dyspepsia who had not taken non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and alcohol for at least one week before the study .
20 The college team spoke on Mad Dogs and Englishmen to win a place at the finals in Glasgow on April 23 .
21 In the absence of the protein product encoded by this transcript , it is not yet possible to predict which start signal is most favoured .
22 The study group consisted of 17 subjects ( 10 women , 7 men ) with a mean age of 47 years ( range , 19–75 ) .
23 I additionally sported a wide silver tie furled in buxom Windsor knot .
24 For example timesheets , they were finally discarded and replaced by er a schedule which was a work study schedule applied to each job .
25 American car output rose from 4000 cars per annum in 1900 to 4 800 000 in 1929 .
26 What we 're actually lo doing here is those of longer members who remember we used to have a thing called the area health authority which was proposed in a three tier structure by a corporation called the McKenzie corporation at great expense charity governed by three quarters of a million pounds to invent structure of the National Health Service nineteen seventy two some years later they came back and said , well give us another million pounds and we 'll go back and look at it again , and say actually we were wrong , and they abolished the areas , and produced districts !
27 The wedding day dawned in perfect September weather .
28 In 1972 another fabric store opened at 40 Sloane Street , and , more importantly , the first shop in Europe was taken in Geneva ; Bernard 's idea .
29 A second major disaster at a football game occurred on 15 April 1989 at Hillsborough Stadium , Sheffield , when 95 football fans were killed and 175 badly injured , when they were unable to escape from overcrowded terracing because of the perimeter fencing .
30 Besides lion-head waterspouts , in Parian marble like the rest , figure sculpture consisted in twelve metopes , those above the east porch and the false porch at the west ( those of the outer colonnade being left plain ) , and the figures in the two gables .
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