(n.) A kind of light passenger vehicle, carrying four persons.
Example Sentences:
(1) A minibus, a taxi and other vehicles that tried to travel up the street were pelted with stones.
(2) The MoD says the minibus failed to stop when the soldiers signalled for it to do so, and the guardsmen shot at it.
(3) At 3.30pm a flotilla of minibuses and taxis arrive to ferry our pupils to their homes across London and I attend a class review meeting with colleagues to discuss the progress of each pupil.
(4) They suddenly ran into an unexpected checkpoint run by the rebels, about 35 miles north of Damascus, and the wounded soldier told me the rebels just opened fire without warning and six people in the minibus were killed ...
(5) The game is based on driving a Matatu minibus on Kenya's chaotic roads It won the highly regarded Pivot East launchpad competition for East African mobile startups earlier this year.
(6) Some people, such as Hammond, already use taxis after the Stanley Centre's own minibus service stopped in March.
(7) When I read those reports, I am taken straight back to the awful drone attack sites I have visited in Yemen: 1 2 dead when a wedding convoy was hit in Yakla ; a mother, father and young daughter all blown up together when a minibus was hit in al-Saboul .
(8) It's clearly overkill when you are dealing with waste which is at the bottom end of the spectrum (of toxicity)," he says during a whirlwind minibus tour of the 98-hectare (245 acre) site, which he describes as "a ride around the ranch".
(9) But you need to take the side roads, it’s safer.” On small dirt tracks, several minibuses and cars are waiting, each of them going to different points on the border, but all accessing Isis-controlled territory.
(10) The impact of council cuts is distributed in millions of pieces – a broken lift here, a cancelled minibus there.
(11) Houses and vehicles are just vanity.” John Nile Kamara John Nile Kamara (fourth from right), 37, poda-poda minibus driver and former burial team driver John Nile Kamara, from Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, spent four months in Kambia working as a driver when Ebola broke out.
(12) The Suusamyr Freeride Lodge can arrange a minibus transfer from the airport (170km) which seats 15 people and is included in the price for the week.
(13) Yaman, 38 – a minibus driver hurrying home from work – was trying to avoid the demonstrations when he ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time.
(14) Separately, the Ukrainian border service said it had engaged in a fire-fight with a minibus carrying weapons that had tried to cross from Russia in the early hours of Tuesday morning, seizing a consignment of weapons and injuring one man.
(15) Finally, I reached the symbol of Rio itself, the Cristo , where I was joined by the crowds who'd taken the funicular or minibus.
(16) A bright pink minibus of female Labour MPs will tour constituencies to talk to female voters “around the kitchen table” in an effort to win their vote in marginal constituencies, the party has revealed.
(17) K is for Klosters A 15-minute spin down the mountain by minibus or limo, Klosters has become the overspill town for those who can't find rooms in Davos or who prefer to spend more time on the ski slopes than in the conference centre.
(18) He drove a minibus for the families of UDA prisoners and was not an active gunman in the terror group.
(19) The only vehicle in town for hire was a 40-year-old Toyota minibus of dubious roadworthiness, with a crew of three.
(20) Like the music arm, its origins were strictly DIY: "Mark was producing from his garden shed, and the film crew fitted in a minibus," recalls Meadows.
Van
Definition:
(n.) The front of an army; the first line or leading column; also, the front line or foremost division of a fleet, either in sailing or in battle.
(n.) A shovel used in cleansing ore.
(v. t.) To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel.
(n.) A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others fore the transportation of goods.
(n.) A large covered wagon for moving furniture, etc., also for conveying wild beasts, etc., for exhibition.
(n.) A close railway car for baggage. See the Note under Car, 2.
(n.) A fan or other contrivance, as a sieve, for winnowing grain.
(n.) A wing with which the air is beaten.
(v. t.) To fan, or to cleanse by fanning; to winnow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Van Persie's knee injury meant that Mata could work in tandem with the delightfully nimble Kagawa, starting for the first time since 22 January.
(2) By the time Van Kirk returned to the US in June 1943, he had flown 58 combat and eight transport missions.
(3) Herman Van Rompuy, the European Council president chairing the summit, hoped to finesse an overall agreement on the banking supervisor.
(4) Measurements of acetylcholine-induced single-channel conductance and null potentials at the amphibian motor end-plate in solutions containing Na, K, Li and Cs ions (Gage & Van Helden, 1979; J. Physiol.
(5) The purity and configuration of each isomer of the free acid and N-chloroacetylated derivative were ascertained by: (a) paper chromatography in five solvent systems, (b) elemental analysis, (c) Van Slyke nitrous acid determination of alpha-carbonyl carbon, and (d) Van Slyke ninhydrin determination of alpha-carbonyl carbon, and (e) optical rotation.
(6) Van Rompuy and Ashton got their jobs at the same time as a result of the Lisbon treaty, which created the posts of president of the European council and high representative for foreign and security policy.
(7) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
(8) The planar 7H-pyridocarbazole cations form stacks approximately parallel to b. Interactions between stacks occur by weak van der Waals forces.
(9) Manchester United 3-1 Barcelona | match report Read more While, according to Louis van Gaal , Rojo was not on the flight because of an issue with his travel documents, the manager was unsure why Di María had failed to board the plane.
(10) Close van der Waals' contacts between the Cys22-Cys63 and Cys51-Cys75 disulfide bridges and the central hydrophobic core composed of the Trp25, Leu46, His48a and Trp62 side-chains are among the distinguishing features of the kringle 2 fold.
(11) He numbered the Kennedy family and Ian Fleming, creator of the James Bond thrillers, among his friends and spent millions on amassing a first-class art collection, featuring works by Manet and Monet, as well as Van Gogh.
(12) Lisette van Vliet, a senior policy adviser to the Health and Environment Alliance, blamed pressure from the UK and German ministries and industry for delaying public protection from chronic diseases and environmental damage.
(13) This structure is further characterized by approaches of both the carbonyl and the furan O atoms to ring H atoms with separations which are slightly less than the sum of the relevant van der Waals radii.
(14) The European commission president, José Manuel Barroso, and the EU council president, Herman Van Rompuy, were both right to brand it unacceptable.
(15) If this was his last match as Manchester United manager, Louis van Gaal at least went out on a note of triumph.
(16) Experimental results were compared with the Van Straaten and Peppas model (1990) and satisfactory agreement was obtained.
(17) The characteristics of the iodide-induced inhibition of cyclic AMP accumulation in dog thyroid slices have been previously described [Van Sande, J., Cochaux, P. and Dumont, J. E. (1985) Mol.
(18) The linearity was tested by comparison between SO2 measured with a Van-Slyke apparatus and the microphotometer.
(19) Wearing a brown leather fedora and dark sunglasses, the 69-year-old was ushered into a waiting van shortly after dawn and taken to the western port city of Kobe, the headquarters of the Yamaguchi-gumi.
(20) Nguyen Van Hai criticised the government for its handling of tensions with China over disputed islands in the South China Sea.