Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An unprecedented sporting contact between the two Korean states occurred on Oct. 11 when the first round of the North-South Korean Unification Soccer Matches was played in Pyongyang before a crowd of 150,000 . |
| 2 | Changes in political institutions culminated in cabinet government from 1885 , the promulgation of a constitution in February 1889 and the opening of an elected assembly in 1890 . |
| 3 | In response to appeals by AI members last year , the Israeli authorities replied in April 1991 saying that ‘ Abd al-Ra'uf Ghabin had been arrested due to his activities relating to his alleged involvement in the PFLP — printing and distributing PFLP leaflets . |
| 4 | Easy-virtue Oscars went to Jo van Fleet in East of Eden ( 1955 ) , Dorothy Malone in Written on the Wind ( 1956 ) , Donna Reed in From Here to Eternity ( 1953 ) , Shirley Jones in Elmer Gantry ( 1960 ) , Liz Taylor in Butterfield 8 ( 1960 ) and Jane Fonda in Klute ( 1971 ) . |
| 5 | Eight riders galloped from cover and came thudding across the cleared land towards the settlement . |
| 6 | Hong Kong manufacturers employ perhaps 2m workers in southern China , and last year nearly 58% of Hong Kong 's total exports consisted of re-exports from China . |
| 7 | Uniformed cops went on shift in pairs , joking , or came off singly , depressed . |
| 8 | Swire 's finest hours came after VJ Day . |
| 9 | Those were some of the high hopes at the start of Challenge 93 as representatives from seven European states parachuted into RAF Weston On The Green in Oxfordshire . |
| 10 | The Iranian authorities said on June 22 that help would be welcome from any source except South Africa and Israel , and on June 24 the Foreign Ministry confirmed that acceptable sources included the United States . |
| 11 | For heavy goods , especially of timber and stone , it still seems likely that water transport , by river and sea and a little by canal , was cheaper and more expeditious than long-distance travel by road — and that there was sense as well as sentiment , for example , in the devotion the Norman builders showed in England for their native stone from Caen . |
| 12 | Not particularly tough , I ventured , when last year in court cases arising from pollution at ICI sites on the Tees and Mersey , guilty verdicts led to fines of only a couple of thousand pounds in each case : ICI could find that from petty cash . |
| 13 | Gone are the days when a set of weak states acted as enticement to the invasion of European Russia by outside powers . |
| 14 | Inn the calf ring another good entry of 200 once again met a sharp trade although with shipping buyers absent Friesian bulls eased in price . |
| 15 | A new urgency came when the depressed labourers exploded into protest in the autumn of 1830 , part of troubles that swept much of England in a few months . |
| 16 | This shows that the greatest divergences happened to VUPP , Republican Clubs , SDLP , and UPNI in that order . |
| 17 | The South Korean authorities wrote to AI in response to its appeals for imprisoned artist Hong Song-dam and publisher Chang Ui-gyun . |
| 18 | They said the sailors were detained after about 500 seamen brawled along Lisbon 's dockside , besieging a police station , smashing windows in shops and bars and overturning cars . |
| 19 | Mimi and her red-haired friend called ‘ Tiger ’ who looked like Rita Hayworth , had developed the habit of referring to him as ‘ Monsieur le Professeur ’ , for they knew that Jeffrey 's thousand-franc notes came from Minton . |
| 20 | Although much of their classicising work in bronze produced after 1933 was liked and acquired by the regime , even these far from rebellious artists came at times under suspicion of being ‘ degenerate ’ . |
| 21 | Sheffield Wednesday 's John Harkes is one of five players with European clubs wanted by United States coach Bora Milutinovic as he prepares for the friendly match against Ireland in Dublin on April 29 . |
| 22 | Many short-lived groups appeared with formulae for fundamental change . |
| 23 | After the collapse of the Dwarf empire almost three and a half thousand years ago the Dwarf stronghold of Karak Eight Peaks lay in ruins . |
| 24 | About 75 acres came from Bolney Estates Limited and about 30 acres from Mr K.K. McKenzie of Gillotts , this latter being all that part of the course west of a straight line drawn from a point close by the public footpath near the 5th green , through the wood and across the 8th , 9th and 10th fairways to the Belle Hatch road at right angles . |
| 25 | Citrine , now more aware of the new world they lived in , was more willing to contemplate price increases to finance investment , but conflicting signals came from Whitehall about both the merit and the practicability of such a change . |
| 26 | The sea-gravel seemed to her to be composed of ‘ shattered rubies tinted with mauve ’ . |
| 27 | Shiona 's hazel eyes flickered with resolve . |
| 28 | Spanish Jesuit missionaries went to Gujarat in 1921 . |
| 29 | When the first European missionaries came to China in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries no trace remained of the heavenly clockwork of five hundred years earlier . |
| 30 | A MOTHER 'S six-year campaign against corporal punishment in private schools ended in failure today , when the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg threw out claims that a beating on the bottom amounted to ‘ degrading ’ treatment contrary to the Human Rights Convention . |