Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adj] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Based in the Sinhalese south of the island , the Mothers ' Front has nonetheless stated its intention to embrace those affected by the thousands of ‘ disappearances ’ in the Tamil-dominated areas of the north and east of the country . |
| 2 | Stepping back , Curtis waited till the racking coughing fit ended in a sudden gush of bright red blood , which spilled down over the dying killer 's slack lower jaw . |
| 3 | The system would be configured so that the file database could be interrogated against a wide variety of search parameters ( eg officer name , file reference , file titles , etc ) , and the basic structure of the index entries reflected that given in the FAOR functional descriptions . |
| 4 | The Scottish Crown is reproduced in the four corners reflecting those used in the ceiling . |
| 5 | The resultant financial provisions of the 1947 Act need not detain us too much , save to summarize the radically different position plan making experienced compared with the earlier situation . |
| 6 | When the boy had first come to the house he 'd been more of a child and had naturally been treated as a child . |
| 7 | After one or two early passages of arms , when Wheeler had first come into the post , in which it became apparent that Wheeler was prepared to be a good deal nastier to Ian than Ian was to him , Ian had settled for a civil service manner in which he made no attempt to contribute to the department 's thinking . |
| 8 | Viking is way behind schedule : it had been intended for this quarter , but StorageTek said that based on the present status of the product and schedule estimates it expects IBM-compatible products based on Viking architecture to be available in the second half of 1994 . |
| 9 | The advantages include those associated with the interferometer ( see above ) and the associated computer , those associated with the high-power directed beam of the laser , which may also be operated in pulses rather than continuously , and also the virtual elimination of fluorescent background signals because of the long wavelength of the laser radiation . |
| 10 | These brands obscured those placed on the animal for the purpose of identification , which sometimes included caste brands as well as the name of the owner and his village . |
| 11 | Whether these concentrations of ROM resemble those found in the mucosa in inflammatory bowel disease in vivo is unclear . |
| 12 | Stock options business has also expanded rapidly during 1990 and 1991 , with regular monthly volumes exceeding those achieved on the LTOM and the EOE . |
| 13 | The groom 's father with attendants went first followed by the groom 's mother and her attendants followed by the groom and his attendants . |
| 14 | Er , you can set up these plans to start with a direct debit , which means it probably takes fourteen days to get that sorted with the bank , they 'll allow fourteen days . |
| 15 | The child who has particular gifts has the right to have these developed for the common good of the society he will eventually enter as an adult . |
| 16 | A Labour Research Department survey of fifty-two large UK companies in 1988 found that in only twelve of them had the percentage pay increases awarded to the lowest paid workers exceeded those awarded to the highest paid director . |
| 17 | Unlike his Foreign Minister , Mr Hans-Dietrich Genscher , Dr Kohl had first reacted to the changes in East Germany by highlighting German reunification . |
| 18 | Stephen had first asked for a design for an open-air bar . |
| 19 | The number of animals killed to satisfy our taste for meat dwarfs those used in the other main areas of controversy , those of experimentation and hunting . |
| 20 | These financial burdens are magnified in the absence of other important sources of finance , and it is hardly surprising to find 99 per cent of the total number of firms going bankrupt located in the small firm sector . |
| 21 | The new figures exceed those recorded in the previous record " burning seasons " in 1987 and 1989 . |
| 22 | When Owen had first arrived in the building Yussuf had decided , unilaterally , to be his bearer and now it was a source of great pride to him that he was the one who carried the Mamur Zapt 's messages . |
| 23 | The same hostility Blanche had first encountered in the police station still crackled , but tempered by sleepiness and familiarity . |
| 24 | Richard Cecil had this thought in the forefront of his mind , writing in his journal about his early life before his conversion to ‘ vital religion ’ : |
| 25 | Meanwhile , electrons from the electrolyte replenish those lost by the dye , while a second electrode , made of conducting glass , completes the circuit . |
| 26 | The principle of equal concern and respect would also entail an obligation for those in authority to provide those affected by a decision with reasons for it and appropriate institutional mechanisms for challenging it . |
| 27 | I said how surprising it was that even in a small society like ours we should be able to throw up any number of superior people to replace those lost in the normal or abnormal attrition of life . |
| 28 | Although much of Japan 's population flocked to the countryside after 1943 , as urban prospects improved many returned to the cities . |
| 29 | SINCE news broke of his secret love affair with Annie Murphy , tales about Eamonn Casey , the former Bishop of Galway rival those told about the unfrocked Vicar of Bray . |
| 30 | By the 1870s general questions of marine biology had become prominent , partly in an evolutionary context in which life had first begun in the sea . |