Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In mid-November a Vietnam Airlines Yakovlev-40 crashed in central Vietnam , en route between Ho Chi Minh City and Nha Trang ; 30 people died , according to an Agence France-Presse report issued after the wreckage was found on Nov. 19 . |
| 2 | This occurred on several Riglos routes , where text and topo also differed as to the number of pitches ( Routes 2 , 9 and 14 are good examples ) . |
| 3 | His father had provided for this title to pass to Charles if his brother inherited the earldom of Arundel ; but when this occurred in 1677 Henry refused to give up the title , and Charles took the case to Chancery , in 1682 obtaining a celebrated decision in his favour by Heneage Finch , first Earl of Nottingham [ q.v . ] . |
| 4 | An example of this occurred in early February when Foreign Ministers of the European Communities ( EC ) , meeting in Brussels , agreed that the support given to Iraq by the PLO should disqualify it from further high-level contacts . |
| 5 | A row of 43 found at Old Erringham ( Sussex ) was 1.5 m long ; experiments have shown that 0.5 m of warp thread would require 14 loom-weights ; 1.5 m would therefore require 42 . |
| 6 | Given these premises , then , and Moffat 's distaste notwithstanding that it would imply ‘ democracies reduced resort monarchy as weapon against Communism ’ , one wonders what else , apart from outright rejection , the US might have done when the French turned towards ex-Emperor Bao Dai : at least as a rallying point for non-communist Vietnamese nationalists and , of course , as someone who might be expected to be more amenable to French influence than Ho Chi Minh . |
| 7 | The events which led to this began on 30 June 1925 when the coal owners decided that they would abolish the national minimum wage , cut wages by about 10 per cent in order to compensate for the government 's return to the gold standard with a reflated pound , and to maintain standard profits no matter how low wages fell . |
| 8 | And this persisted into modern Vienna . |
| 9 | King George V died on 20 January 1936 . |
| 10 | This culminated in late March with a visit to Moscow by Ozawa as LDP secretary-general , during which it was strongly rumoured that Japan had offered a US$26,000 million cash , loans and aid package in exchange for the return of the islands . |
| 11 | This resulted in five Portaloo 's and a 250 gallon water tank being brought on-site to cope with staffs in 's and out 's ! |
| 12 | Astonished neighbours of Capricorn , a Halberg Rassy 45 owned by Norwegian Sigurd Ruud-Pedersen , reported six full bin bags of oranges having been taken aboard . |
| 13 | Medina trained as a merchant in Amsterdam , moved to London in 1670 , and from 1672 until 1677 lived in Great St Helens , where he became well established as a merchant . |
| 14 | One of the most graphic came from experienced Paul Futcher after a Rush treble against Barnsley . |
| 15 | 1991 CORRECTED TO 14th JAN '91 |
| 16 | Six attended on 26th October : another resigned by letter ( he " did not have the time to attend meetings " ! ) |
| 17 | The most dramatic cloud of all occurred on 9 April 1984 somewhere between the Soviet Kuril islands and Sakhalin , a sensitive military area not far from where the Korean airliner was bombed from the sky . |
| 18 | Between 1971–8 and 1978–84 the largest upward shifts in rates of population change all occurred in Inner London boroughs . |
| 19 | A Central Bank plan to complete a 950,000 million cruzados ( approximately US$14,000 million ) liquidity squeeze by Sept. 17 began in early September . |
| 20 | When World War II began in 1939 America had no proper espionage organisation operating abroad . |
| 21 | It all began on 13 April 1898 with 37 miles of the Corporation 's very own tramway track and an extra four miles kindly leased by Govan . |
| 22 | IT all started with dad-of-three John Gallagher , a 29-year-old Catholic shot through the heart as he ran for cover in Armagh on August 14 , 1969 . |
| 23 | But Henry II died on 6 July 1189 and Richard I succeeded nearly two months later on 3 September . |
| 24 | The first major blow in the events of 1902 struck on 5 May , when the crater lake in the Etang Sec burst through the crater walls , and rushed down the valley of the Riviere Blanche . |
| 25 | Thus 25 George II ran from 11 June 1751 to 10 June 1752 , 26 George II from 11 June 1752 to 21 June 1753 , and 27 George II from 22 June 1753 to 21 June 1754 , thus ensuring that the 26th regnal year contained 365 days . |
| 26 | A party of ten visited between 25th May and 8th June , whilst a similar number went there between 7th and 21st September . |
| 27 | The sixth came after young Sarah Wade sneaked in to take on the Stockton defence in style . |
| 28 | Oskar Lafontaine , 46 , Minister President of Saarland since 1985 , was on Jan. 29 nominated by Hans-Jochen Vogel , the SPD chair , as SPD candidate for federal Chancellor , and this nomination was expected to be approved by a meeting of the SPD presidium in March . |
| 29 | The fact that the film was hailed by critics as a triumphant piece of realism , even though the woman 's choice between a passionate affair and married contentment is as melodramatic as that offered by any Gainsborough melodrama , reflects the kudos Lean had acquired as director of In Which We Serve , the critic 's touchstone for quality . |
| 30 | WHEN WE first got to New York , the reporters met the boat and because they printed our names in the papers the Stage Door Johnnies started pestering us ; they were a completely different sort from the European ones . |