Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [vb past] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second attempt by Admiral Rodney to attack the transports at Le Havre had found the defences there too strong for his bomb-vessels to get within range , while a storm off Dunkirk had enabled a French squadron shut up in the port to make its escape . |
| 2 | I was n't going to get anything else out of Pardy anyway so I had a statement typed up and after Deanes had put a magnifying glass over it , the lad signed and was ushered out by Deanes doing a mother-hen act over him . ’ |
| 3 | A few months earlier , Sammy Woods of Australia and Harry Wood of England had had a near miss in this particular department , but it took a brace of Smiths to achieve a Test first . |
| 4 | Le Monde of March 13 reported that President Boris Yeltsin of Russia had established a Russian Space Agency ( RKA ) to replace the former Soviet programme . |
| 5 | However , reports later in April said that the leadership of Chechnia had urged a common military , economic and information space with Russia , and the news agency Interfax reported on April 30 that Chechnia was ready to resume negotiations with Russia . |
| 6 | But the King of France had shown a contemptuous disregard for Henry 's complaints . |
| 7 | As a child Rose of Lima had watched a different version of the ‘ penetration of the universe ’ , as the silver mines were sunk deeper and deeper into the mountains , at high risk , in search of treasure . |
| 8 | It was easy for the Jews to comply with this custom because Hecataeus of Abdera had produced a little model of what was expected of them . |
| 9 | The Prime Minister announced on Nov. 26 that some months earlier the Queen had asked him to consider the basis on which she might voluntarily pay tax on her personal income and also take responsibility for certain payments to additional members of the royal family ; the Prince of Wales had made a similar request with regard to the Duchy of Cornwall . |
| 10 | In south-eastern Pomerania and the areas immediately around Danzig the Polish birth-rate was running at 36 per 1,000 of the population , which meant that by 1933 the Polish population of Pomerania had experienced a 28 per cent increase in a mere 15 years . |
| 11 | The Royalists ( Chetniks ) under Mihailovitch had played a major part in anti-German resistance through much of the war , although increasingly they had been in direct conflict with Tito 's partisans , who saw them as the main enemy in establishing a Communist post-war Yugoslavia , and this had also led to them acting on occasion in concert with German forces . |
| 12 | Nothing explicit had been said but she knew her relationship with Urquhart had crossed a new frontier : he had become an enemy . |
| 13 | On Nov. 22 more than 150,000 people in Lomé had held a mass rally in support of the strike . |
| 14 | The appointment of technocrats to a number of economic posts was seen by observers as an indication that the government was falling into line with the requirements of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) , which in May had approved a three-year financing agreement for the country [ see below ] . |
| 15 | Early check-ups in England had shown a normal pregnancy and she was looking forward to being able to indulge in her favourite French foods . |
| 16 | Study in Midlothian had shown a 33% loss , East Lothian a 23% loss and Bedfordshire in England had shown a remarkable 82% loss of ponds over the last century . |
| 17 | A thunderstorm in Cambridge had struck a public house , demolishing the upper portion of the chimney , splitting the rest down and finally striking the landlady and knocking out all her front teeth . |
| 18 | UN Development Programme official Antonius Broek said the UN 's Department of Humanitarian Affairs in Geneva had misread a Chinese document , which actually reported only 257 people killed . |
| 19 | Faced with the mounting cost of a war against the American colonies , the coalition government in Westminster had instituted a punitive and highly unpopular tax by the Stamp Act of October 1783 : all registrations of baptisms , marriages and burials would be charged at 3d. a time — and so there was every incentive for local clergy , working on 10 per cent commission , to get around the parish and bring in the strays . |
| 20 | The Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ) , which in August had sent a regional peace-keeping force known as ECOMOG , in November sponsored the formation of an interim government headed by Sawyer , a former opposition leader . |
| 21 | The protest was organized by the Assembly of Popular Organizations together with trade unions in continued opposition to government-imposed price rises which in August had provoked a 48-hour general strike violently suppressed by the Army [ see p. 37649 ] . |
| 22 | Mass unemployment was fully appreciated and influenced the thinking of all governments , which in Britain had become a strong Labour government , following a general election , leaving Winston Churchill as the leader of a small Conservative opposition . |
| 23 | As the French Ambassador in Japan had signed a written agreement guaranteeing their return this has caused considerable embarrassment and a split between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Chancellory ( who are backing the judge ) . |
| 24 | It has been shown that 10 per cent of the 400 people interviewed in Birmingham had given a lower age to gain admission to Britain , and now can not gain a pension at the proper time ( Bhalla and Blakemore , 1981 ) . |
| 25 | The growth of western power and activity in Asia had done a good deal to extend the geographical scope of European-type diplomacy . |
| 26 | In a report to the 15th conference of the Kosovo LC on Nov. 9 , 1989 , Rahman Morina , its president , said that the struggle in Kosovo had taken a new turn and accused people of trying to encourage processes aimed at destroying Yugoslavia and at changing its federal system . |
| 27 | Since trust in Hitler had owed a great deal to the belief that he would lead Germany to a rapid and glorious peace , since despair of an early end to the war was the essential reason for the waning morale , and since the failure of the Blitzkrieg in the USSR and the declaration of war on the USA made it difficult in logic to hold anyone other than Hitler responsible for the prolonging of the war , it is worth enquiring why the ‘ Hitler myth ’ did not collapse more quickly than was evidently the case . |
| 28 | The Reich 's rearmament programme and the continued high level of subsidy to Danzig had caused a severe drain on German gold reserves and had upset the balance of payments . |
| 29 | By Wednesday night , bidders from Lisbon to Jakarta had created a new Chinamania , with , for example , five-piece garnitures painted with unusual views of canal houses in Amsterdam selling up to Dfl126,500 ( £39,655 ) , where Christie 's forecast Dfl8/Dfl12,000 ( £2,500/£3,500 ) . |
| 30 | Delving into the local history of the area , I discovered with amusement that in the early 1850s a certain superintendent of the then London & Birmingham Railway works at Wolverton had designed a fast new locomotive . |