Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Algerian ambassador to Iran was recalled on Jan. 18 , following what the Algerian Foreign Ministry claimed were unacceptable attacks by the official Iranian media which could harm " the sovereignty and unity " of the Algerian people . |
| 2 | Defying the need to slump her head dejectedly on to her arms , to howl long and hard that every minute of this evening had been utter hell and that all she wanted now was to curl up safe and warm in her own bed . |
| 3 | While the ebb and flow to this point had been absorbing stuff , the ensuing capitulation was nothing short of astonishing , far more dramatic and conclusive than that suffered by England two years ago ; but still never totally unexpected on a pitch showing wear and uneven bounce in equal measure . |
| 4 | In a sense the development of such petitions is of far greater interest to the ecclesiastical historian in respect of its consequences rather than its origins ; for what this system entailed was public cognizance , and a public memory , of grievances ; when these complaints were directed at the church , parliament inevitably served to institutionalize and to unify countless discontents , and thus to provide kings and others with ideas , excuses and encouragement for actions against the church which might otherwise have remained unrealized . |
| 5 | The average length of the colonic loop studied was 20 cm . |
| 6 | Second bottom United were five points from a survival spot at the start of this week , though they have played more games than any of the three clubs immediately above them . |
| 7 | To summarize , for a well flagged group of patients , with small solitary non-invasive transition cell carcinomas at d at diagnosis , and negative three month cystoscopy , we found eighty percent of our patients would certainly have come to no harm at all if their second cystoscopy had been one year from diagnosis . |
| 8 | ABOVE The analysis of a small sample from this clay lamp by various methods , including infra-red spectroscopy , showed that the most likely fuel used was olive oil . |
| 9 | Detectives say they now believe the three man involved were all travellers … and were staying at various sites like this around Milton Keynes . |
| 10 | The most contentious issue discussed was Latin America 's attitude to Cuba following the change in its relationship with the former Soviet Union . |
| 11 | Labour 's traditional view had been that interest rates should be kept down and investment restricted to feasible levels , not by monetary policy , but by quantitative credit controls and physical materials controls . |
| 12 | Each day the Applecross café was completely full , each person whether fat or thin , ordered a three course meal , breakfast , lunch or tea , and each pill swallowed was another cake sold . |
| 13 | The move follows six months of negotiations during which the City of London , which owns some of the land on which the polytechnic is built , stuck out for a rent that one expert said was three times the market value ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 7 ) . |
| 14 | One theory advanced was that Gouzenko had misunderstood his colleague and the other Elli was really an acronym for Guy Liddell who had run MI5 's ‘ B ’ Division in World War II and some people believed had also been a spy for the GRU . |
| 15 | The paper 's first deadline had been 15 May 1968 , but it became impossible to hit it , and there was , as the May Events washed around the staff , another problem . |
| 16 | Thus the immediate practical relief offered was two days of day care at a progressive old peoples ' home , where Stanley was encouraged in his piano playing to make a lively contribution . |
| 17 | Mr Lang came under sustained pressure from opposition MPs at the Scottish Grand Committee to intervene to stop what one MP said was sheer gangsterism in Ayrshire . |
| 18 | The 100 index , which at one stage had been 6.5 points down , recovered strongly to be up 11.1 at 2858.1 in very thin trading . |
| 19 | A negotiated solution to the trade dispute with Nepal , the withdrawal of the Indian Peace Keeping Force ( IPKF ) in Sri Lanka [ for which see p. 37316 ] and a political solution for the Tamil areas of that country had been primary objectives outlined in the National Front 's election manifesto . |
| 20 | During practice the best time logged was twenty minutes . |
| 21 | The previous fastest time recorded was 45 mph . |
| 22 | What the original working party wanted were local measures of ill health — morbidity — by age , sex and marital status . |
| 23 | The typical known user had been smoking heroin daily for about one to three years , having started the habit around the age of 16–18 , and was using 0.25–0.5 gram of heroin per day ( costing between 20 and 35 ) at the time of agency contact . |
| 24 | Her last post had been General Secretary to the Association of Headmistresses . |
| 25 | The main source cited was overseas agents with 51% of firms using their local contact to gain market knowledge . |
| 26 | The maximum value found was 850 g/t U within a 15 m intersection . |