Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [vb pp] [adj] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was made explicit by Louis Agassiz , a Swiss who had in 1840 recognized marks of glaciation all over northern Europe and thus given us the idea of ice ages . |
| 2 | This was taken direct to Queen Yolande who had summoned Alexander and told him to take the King 's favourite horse , a white mare stabled at Kinghorn , down to the ferry . |
| 3 | There are about nine records but only four for this century : an immature was seen near Lancing College on 12 December 1954 , which may have been an escape ; an immature was found dead at Rye on 29 September 1969 ; a sub-adult was seen at Sidlesham Ferry on 27 May 1970 . |
| 4 | The IMF on Aug. 9 approved a loan equivalent to SDR18,600,000 ( US$25,500,000 ) , under the third annual arrangement under the enhanced structural adjustment facility , of which half was made available on Aug. 31 . |
| 5 | That much is made clear by Shakespeare , early on in the sequence , as if to forestall suspicion or criticism , in Sonnet 20 , which his protagonist addresses to the deuteragonist ( if I may borrow the terminology of the historians of drama to stress the fictive , dramatic status of the personae in these poems ) : That is as clear a statement of the non-sexual relationship between the two personae as could be wished for , and a wittier one than most . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , mourners at Mr Gallagher 's Requiem Mass in the Church of the Sacred Heart , heard a priest describe the ‘ shock and confusion ’ felt in the community when the father of six was shot dead in Belfast on Wednesday . |
| 7 | JACKIE NEWTON spent a night at the camp to find out why Women Against Pit Closures Billy was among six miners who refused to sign on Friday , and all were made redundant on Monday . |
| 8 | The congresses of 1814 – 21 are the most obvious example of this ; but Napoleon III negotiated directly with Cavour at Plombières in 1858 and with Bismarck at Biarritz in 1865 , while the peace preliminaries of 1871 were settled face-to-face between Bismarck and Thiers and the first Dreikaiserbund alliance of 1872 – 73 took shape from personal meetings between the rulers of Germany , Austria-Hungary and Russia . |
| 9 | All eight were rescued unharmed on Tuesday morning after an operation in which Mr Friend 's experience as rescue team captain helped to keep morale high . |
| 10 | A GIRL aged 14 was burned alive in Bombay after she rejected the advances of a young boy , the Press Trust of India reported yesterday . |