Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The return on money spent or lent in Eastern Europe can be expected to be better , politically and commercially , than those from similar outflows into the gurgling sink of Latin America and other parts of the South . |
| 2 | The $400m settlement , which will be split between the RTC and the FDIC , took eight months to negotiate and resolves all outstanding claims relating to thrifts that failed before 25 September 1992 . |
| 3 | Any territories that rallied to Free France would enhance the legitimacy of his movement , provide strategic bases for his forces , and perhaps even give him the opportunity to transfer his headquarters to a base on French soil . |
| 4 | The sequence shows the partly clear skies that moved into central England this afternoon as the earlier band of rain cleared away eastward , but that large area of speckled cloud northwest of Ireland will bring wintry showers tonight . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , down in the deep south — at TVS studios in Southampton to be precise — there was a 4th July menu that ranged from real Texas burgers to an adventurous Lousiana duck . |
| 6 | Not Mex-Spanish , but the musical kind that came from old Spain . |
| 7 | While at least three schemes from foreign architects that arrived after 4th April were similarly rejected . |
| 8 | During the five-day application period that began on 1 December , only 5,700 young people applied for 8,600 postgraduate places available in Beijing . |
| 9 | Upon checking our records , we were disappointed to note that you have not renewed your standing entry that finished on 2nd June 1990 . |
| 10 | American policy was already characterised by the traits that existed to 25 June 1950 : it was felt to be undesirable that the Soviet Union should incorporate Korea within her sphere of interest yet there was little inclination in Washington to commit the United States deeply to supporting whatever kind of government emerged in the south . |
| 11 | Under the transitional provisions , where , on 9 March 1992 , employer-related investments that existed on 17 February 1992 exceeded the 5% limit , the fund in question may be required to reduce its net investment in the lease to a level not exceeding 5% of its resources on the earliest date on which payment can be enforced ( assuming the agreement was effected prior to 17 February 1992 ) . |
| 12 | There might be funfairs everywhere , but the real Disneyland was neither crumbling , nor swept by bitter winds off the Irish Sea , nor cursed by hotels that are really gimcrack boarding houses , nor served by superannuated London cabs displaying notices saying that if you 're so drunk that you 're sick inside , a cleaning fee of £10 will be payable to the driver . |
| 13 | Moira McVitie says she 's got a pal that went to that Steptoe 's Clinic . |
| 14 | Kevin , son of former Phoenix Park Grand Prix winner Harold McGarrity , came close to landing the No 1 seat with the championship-winning David Sears team , but in the end that went to another Ulster driver , Dino Morelli . |
| 15 | This spring , the Christian Democrat-led coalition Senate that emerged from last December 's elections announced the first budget for the whole of Berlin since the 1940s — Dm40.1 billion , including Dm12.3 billion specifically for the eastern districts . |
| 16 | Yet the electorally oriented ultra-right 's slide in Germany had far from spelt the end of the ‘ new right ’ that emerged throughout western Europe in the past decade . |
| 17 | Under a 1985 accord between the United States and other steel-producing countries that lapsed on 30 September , EC firms are limited to 6.74 per cent of the US market . |
| 18 | Many anthropologists believe that Australian Aboriginal tribes may have had contact with India via the once existing land mass that stretched from southern India almost to Australia . |
| 19 | The formation of U.S. Steel in 1901 was Morgan 's biggest deal , forging together 11 firms that accounted for half America 's steel industry . |
| 20 | The juveniles continued to fly south-west , and wintered in southern France and Spain . |
| 21 | 200 soldiers in 60 armoured personnel carriers crossed Friendship Bridge on the Oxus river and passed into Soviet Uzbekistan . |
| 22 | I moved to a school in Herefordshire when my father closed down Avisford and moved to mid Wales . |
| 23 | Aged eighty-four , he left the plantation where he was born and moved into nearby Montgomery , Alabama . |
| 24 | I arrived at 10.30 and drove to 31 St Aldate 's where I found an enormous orgy in progress . |
| 25 | He helped them to a waiting car and drove to nearby St Thomas 's Hospital . |
| 26 | Now she was walking along the parade and came upon old Cornelius Fennell in his bath chair , with Gay beside him , wearing a paper hat . |
| 27 | A fine all-round games player , he was a dogged opening batsman , and played in four Cambridge University seasons , scoring centuries in two successive Varsity matches . |
| 28 | Poole , and sailed on 14th December to join her new owner 's fleet . |
| 29 | All who are engaged in intra-EC trade must now show thereon the total value of all goods dispatched to other EC customers and received from other EC suppliers in the special boxes provided on the return form . |
| 30 | One man was outside , two were sitting inside , the men were completely black , so black trousers , black hats and they had a black cape over it , over their faces so you could n't see who they were , and one of them just had this gun in his hand , and fired at this Citroen here located . |