Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 9 January 1872 the Minute Book kept by the clerk now called Registrar , recorded the commitment of Richard Piper sued by Henry Pierpoint for 5s ( money lent on 14 November 1871 ) . |
| 2 | The onset of gas generation from Westphalian A and B Strata occurred from late Jurassic to early Cretaceous times with the present day gas generation threshold computed to be at + 10000 ft ( 3000 m ) . |
| 3 | IN 1954 , after only two years at Allen Street , Minton moved to 9 Apollo Place , a two-storey building in a short cul-de-sac at the end of Cheyne Walk , in close proximity to the river . |
| 4 | Moreover recent racialist attacks are worsening and spreading to West Germany , as The Times reported on 7 October 1991 . |
| 5 | Keynes agreed on 13 February 1946 that overseas commitments would be the main casualty without the American loan . |
| 6 | During his visit Singh met with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov . |
| 7 | Herod ruled from 37–4 BC . |
| 8 | Born in Edgware , in greater London , in 1952 , Andy moved to inner London when he was just two years old . |
| 9 | The greatest rates of deforestation occurred in Latin America , followed by Africa and Asia . |
| 10 | According to press reports the fighting erupted in early January when the two factions fought for control of villages in the districts of Kompong Svay and Stoeung . |
| 11 | After sporadic violence there from the beginning of the month , full scale rioting erupted on 8 July and in the early hours of 9th two men were shot dead by the army . |
| 12 | A major demonstration occurred in early March 1988 on the occasion of the Great Summons prayer festival ( Moinlam Qenmo ) . |
| 13 | The final category , The Survey of London , is made up of volumes describing the buildings in parishes , and books devoted to individual London structures such as Cromwell House , Highgate , and Trinity Hospital , Mile End . |
| 14 | London-based Iraqi opposition parties appealed in late April to the UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to postpone UN approval since the proposed new border would sow the seeds for future disputes with Kuwait . |
| 15 | The winners came from High Coniscliffe Primary School . |
| 16 | Danes are in effect voting on a deal negotiated at last December 's EC summit in Edinburgh , which gave them opt-outs on sensitive issues such as a common currency , joint security , police controls and citizenship rules . |
| 17 | He received his award last night from Bill Cotton , president of the RTS , at a dinner at the London Hilton hosted by fellow BBC journalist Moira Stuart . |
| 18 | Syria came under considerable US pressure to redeploy its troops from Beirut and into the Bekaa immediately upon completion of the third round of the elections . |
| 19 | I was absolutely delighted , colleagues , when the , er , recommendation came through that Eric should be awarded the gold badge because I could personally testify that there can be no better winner or holder of the G M gold badge . |
| 20 | One of Reagan 's most spellbinding TV performances came on 27 July , two days before both houses were to vote on his tax cut proposal . |
| 21 | However , her favourite roles came in two Glenn Miller movies Sun Valley Serenade ( 1941 ) , as the band 's vocalist ( Pat Friday dubbing her singing ‘ I Know Why ’ ) , and as one of the Orchestra Wives the following year . |
| 22 | NORWEGIAN Tore Andre Dahlum arrived at Old Trafford yesterday to begin a two-week trial period . |
| 23 | The king marched north to besiege Berwick , and by the end of June 1333 the defenders , exhausted by the English assaults , agreed to surrender if no relieving force arrived by 11 July . |
| 24 | The movie opened on 19 December 1973 to less-than-glowing reviews , although it made over $22.5 million , becoming one of the year 's top moneymakers . |
| 25 | The Interior Minister , Ibrahim Halidi , was dismissed on Sept. 23 , 1990 , although he denied that he had any knowledge of an alleged coup attempt discovered in late August . |
| 26 | [ A critical article by Volker Gebhardt appeared in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on 4 March . ] |
| 27 | A week of action began on 13 June with a mass picket , at which 84 people were arrested and there was large scale police violence . |
| 28 | In Asturias strike action began in late December 1991 in all the mines owned by the state company Hunosa ( the biggest employer in the region , which had made a loss of 65,000 million ptas — US$674 million — in 1991 ) in protest at a restructuring plan which would involve the loss of 6,000 jobs by the end of 1993 at a saving of only 15,000 million ptas . |
| 29 | Malawi 's spring began on 8 March , the first Sunday in Lent , when the pastoral letter was read in every Catholic church . |
| 30 | The ceasefire , arranged by the Maronite Patriarch , Mgr Nasrullah Sfeir , was the 12th since fighting started in late January . |