Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wrote a book which we bought , all about the discrimination he endured as a Methodist living in Ireland . |
| 2 | An Agence France-Presse ( AFP ) news agency report of Dec. 8 said that ICO Foreign Ministers who met for a preparatory session in Dakar on Dec. 5-9 , had adopted a draft resolution expressing " full solidarity " with Libya in its confrontation with Western states over the Lockerbie affair [ see p. 38599 ] and underlined their " concern over … the possible use of force " . |
| 3 | It was the experimental air fields which gave him a taste for exploring ideas which he later satisfied by joining a university ; it was the German language which brought him his wife Mary ( they met through a German class in Bristol ) . |
| 4 | Everything here fed his masochism — as he had known instinctively that it would when he applied for a similar position in the English coalfields some years before , only to be told that he was not mature enough . |
| 5 | In December 1937 he applied for a short-service commission in the RAF and to his evident amazement was accepted and sent for elementary flying training in 90 m.p.h . |
| 6 | After studying MORSE ( Mathmatics , Operational Research , Statistics and Economics ) at Warwick University , Carl Stead qualified as a chartered accountant in 1987 with Spicer & Oppenheim . |
| 7 | This might throw light on his uncomplimentary nickname too , and on how , as the charter S 933 of 1014 reveals , " the attacks and plunderings of the evil Danes " gave him possession of a Dorset estate of the church of Sherborne , which he eventually sold for a great price in gold and silver to a friend of the monks , who returned it to them . |
| 8 | In 1902 he lived for a short period in Clerkenwell , east London . |
| 9 | ‘ British Gas asked for a wide-ranging review in order to clarify our regulatory environment and develop a clear way ahead for the future . |
| 10 | The station was offered to us for the sum of £20,000 , but when we asked for a private valuation in the hope of securing a loan to purchase the site , the valuer valued the site at only £10,000 . |
| 11 | The Divine Fire ( 1904 ) , which sold as a best seller in the United States , initiated her breakthrough as a novelist . |
| 12 | They passed through a tiny hole in its black flank and came out onto the lawn . |
| 13 | Cope argued for a new theology in which the Creator has delegated His power to living things by giving them the ability to shape the future through their purposeful response to the environment . |
| 14 | The late David Penhaligon argued for a separate constituency in nineteen seventy eight and I argued the case in select committee in nineteen eighty eight and the most important fact about these responses is the sheer weight of numbers from democratically elected bodies in Cornwall . |
| 15 | From Tom Lofthouse I had heard he was not popular in the Doctors ' House , yet , conversely and amazingly to anyone who had been his junior , our Dr Jones rated as a favourite pin-up in the Staff Nurse 's Home . |
| 16 | But her cause was badly damaged in 1985 , the day before she was to sit next to the Prince of Wales at a dinner in Florida , when it was revealed that she posed as a nude model in magazines and appeared in pornographic films in the late 1960s . |
| 17 | As Chairman of the National Curriculum English Working Group I was given the responsibility of deciding on programmes of study for all children from 5 to 16 , of putting right what I regarded as a major omission in the Kingman Report . |
| 18 | Labour MPs howled for a retrospective rebate in Scotland , where the poll tax came in last year . |
| 19 | The most disturbing aspect of this incident was the evidence it provided of a residual antisemitism in Poland , disproportionate to the residue of a once-great Jewish community . |
| 20 | Bill Moran moved into a new development in Beaconsfield 2½ years ago . |
| 21 | None of Kasmin 's artists wanted to leave , except Noland , ‘ whose work had gone off anyway , ’ so he moved into a smaller space in Clifford Street . |
| 22 | He trained with a small firm in Cardiff . |
| 23 | He trained with a small firm in Mansfield . |
| 24 | As he was running past a pub in the main street , he accidentally bumped into a tall man in black coming out . |
| 25 | She was there again when I helped in a feeding centre in Seoul in Korea , when the people came from broken down shacks once a day to get soup and rice . |
| 26 | yeah , his wife posed in a sexy picture in her underwear |
| 27 | Even Sturge , whom Stephen cast in a minor role in the heroic days , had been ‘ so headstrong in his peculiar notions of right and wrong ’ that he had embarrassed the Young England abolitionists in the 1830s and such ‘ eccentric principles ’ as his pacifism had , in Stephen 's judgement , led the BFASS into error by opposing the continuation of the squadron policy in West African waters in the 1840s . |
| 28 | She moved from a successful career in London to set up an events-arranging company in Liverpool back in 1989 . |
| 29 | Of the 30,000 who fled from a military dictatorship in Haiti , 24,000 have been sent back . |
| 30 | We know they stopped in a public house in Didcot . |