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

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1 A decree permitting the free formation of parties came into effect that month [ see p. 37402 ] and was followed by the formation of a number of new parties .
2 The nighties went on sale this afternoon .
3 Material circumstances seemed to condition these responses .
4 It was as architects rather than as builders that the Caroline bureaucrats bequeathed to liberalism this programme : their concrete achievements remained limited , but there is no practical reform of the nineteenth century , no reforming attitude of mind , that can not be traced back to one of the servants of Charles III .
5 UNPROFOR convoys trying to reach other towns came under fire several times ( and on Nov. 6 returned fire ) but on Nov. 19 broke the seven-month siege of Tuzla and on Nov. 28 the eight-month siege of Srebrenica ( the biggest Moslem enclave in eastern Bosnia ) ; both towns were full of refugees .
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