Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His chest gleamed like a mirror as the thick , cheap jewellery draped across it caught the sunlight . |
| 2 | Long black hair tumbled from the top of the boy 's head . |
| 3 | In order to be able to cope with the increasing enquiry rate at the bureau , an emergency appeal to NACAB for special funding led to the appointment of a fixed-term welfare rights officer . |
| 4 | A note of hysteria crept into the voice from the grave . |
| 5 | His enthusiasm led to the formation of a club at his school , Stokesley Primary , and this encouraged other youngsters to learn the game . |
| 6 | Figure 3 shows that , using a linear template , a very reduced amount of transcripts was obtained when the initiating NTPs were omitted , whereas their addition led to the formation of initiated complexes that were resistant to the heparin challenge . |
| 7 | Horowitz , more stoical , was already at the counter while his case passed through the type of machine used at airports . |
| 8 | I knew I must soon arrange the memorial party , and the perfect opportunity arose with a letter from one of my closest friends , Margo , now living in Australia , who was planning a trip to Europe with her husband later that summer . |
| 9 | In July 1947 , the Ministry asked for a statement concerning the hospital premises and funds . |
| 10 | The case arose through the servicing of small Iranian jets at Heathrow airport . |
| 11 | This case arose from a contract under which the pursuers , an engineering company , were to supply and install a conveyor belt system at the premises of the defenders , a brickmaking company . |
| 12 | Erm , the erm , the erm , the erm , er , settlement of the anti tr civil anti trust law suit that was referred to in the statement was erm , costs of about six million dollars this year on a class action law suit which we have reached a tentative settlement on in the last few days and , in fact , there were some , there was about six to seven million dollars of additional provision made at the end of last year in the one time charges that we referred to at that time but could n't really identify with erm , lawyers breathing down your necks in the United States and er , this is a class action law suit , would have been in a Texas Court and erm , you know , the boiler plate language is that you want to get rid of the , you know , the expense and uncertainty of this type of litigation and if you think that what a Texas jury did to Texaco , it 's probably a prudent decision to close the matter off at this time . |
| 13 | His T-shirt clung to the sweat on his back and chest . |
| 14 | The controversy and litigation to which this gave rise led to the introduction of special controls over caravan sites ( by Part I of the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 ) . |
| 15 | When , in March 1858 , the need to cope with the technical questions to which emancipation gave rise led to the creation of two new sections within the ministry — the Land Department and the Statistical Department — it was hardly surprising that Lanskoi and Miliutin staffed them with people who combined specialist knowledge with liberal sympathies . |
| 16 | She felt the steel strength of his arms around her and her skin quivered from the warmth of his breath on her cheek before he released her as if she might contaminate him . |
| 17 | Her palely dark skin glowed with the light of youth . |
| 18 | None the less the electricity industry was fortunate compared with , for example , the coal industry , where politics had long bedevilled management relations with both government and workers , and nationalisation led to the departure of senior managers in larger numbers . |
| 19 | Realization of how little was known about the likely effects of this demographic change led to the production of the first substantial body of data in this country on the experience of ageing in industry and on the relationship of work capacity to ageing : a highly polemical debate received some empirical clothing . |
| 20 | The ban complied with a request by the head of a judicial commission set up to investigate instances of corruption and abuse perpetrated by the 29-year Duvalier family dictatorship and by successor governments . |
| 21 | The contrast was stark : the English system was founded on a social interaction , with knowledge as the vehicle of communication ; the German system was founded on a personal interaction with knowledge , and any human interaction rode on the back of that experience . |
| 22 | They do not approach the present problem which arises when the successor lived with the tenant in different premises during the qualifying period . |
| 23 | In April 1992 the IRA bomb in St Mary Axe which destroyed the Baltic Exchange and caused about £300m damage led to the preparation of contingency plans as a result of which the consequences of this April 's bomb in Bishopsgate were to some extent mitigated . |
| 24 | When Parliament met in the autumn of 1381 , the Speaker expressed the view that the troubles had been caused by abuses in government , notably by purveyance for the royal household and by the levy of taxation for the defence of the realm , particularly as this did not prevent the King 's enemies from raiding England . |
| 25 | This technique arose from the inability of a child to perform the ‘ rituals ’ of the adult psychoanalytical tradition in couch-based sessions of verbal exposition . |
| 26 | Can I also add that it will also instigate centrally determined policing policies , very much akin to other government policies , particularly economic policies which have , as yet , done nothing to address the underlying causes of crime and there are fears and I 'm quoting here from the er the response made by the Association of Metropolitan Authorities , the Association of County Councils and the Association of District Councils that it could lead to a national Police force . |
| 27 | The right of the pursuers to rescind the contract arose from the principle of mutuality and the materiality of the defenders ' breach , but the intention of the defenders is also relevant . |
| 28 | Then Harriet fell … toppling slowly sideways , losing reins and stirrup , flinging out her hands , her hat falling off , the snood loosening so that a lock of flaming auburn hair fluttered like an oriflamme above her collapsing body . |
| 29 | This measure arose as the result of an initiative by a private member , Alf Morris . |
| 30 | The second difficulty arose from a proposition in St. Augustine in which Galileo saw some mileage . |