Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The damage became obvious in 1957 when the Midland lost its coveted position as Britain 's largest bank Barclays ' deposits of £1,346m edged ahead of the Midland 's £1,342m . |
| 2 | The significance of the site in terms of faunal diversity , time span covered and complexity became clear in the course of preliminary work ( Heal , 1970 ; Stanton , 1973 ; Bishop , 1974 , 1982 ) . |
| 3 | Once the alternative assessments ceased to be enforceable , the taxpayer became liable to the tax assessed , and this was not capable of any serious challenge . |
| 4 | New heart became evident in the town . |
| 5 | It was not until the eighteenth century that the word Champagne became synonymous with the sparkling wine of the region . |
| 6 | A.J. Wilson , the President of the National Deaf Club , and the first deaf person to drive a car back in 1896 , got another ‘ first ’ that was most unwelcome when he became the first deaf driver to fall foul of the road traffic laws and be fined for speeding . |
| 7 | The manor-house door had opened , and a woman in bare feet , with long grey hair hanging half-plaited over her shoulder , was moving towards the pageant like a magnet towards a lodestone . |
| 8 | And so it was that she did n't hear Andrew come in and enter the sitting-room , there to see his daughter dressed for going out in her wide-skirted jersey dress , her black hair hanging loose about her shoulders , and wearing , of all things , green-lobed earrings . |
| 9 | The World Bank extended to Iran its first loan since 1978 ( prior to the Iranian revolution ) on March 16 , a loan made possible by the US decision to remain neutral on the matter . |
| 10 | In their view this Soviet withdrawal , and the policy of ‘ Finlandisation ’ which Finland ostensibly embarked on , had been enabled by Sweden 's decision to remain neutral after the war . |
| 11 | The Nunnery Lane convent became involved in plans for the Carmelite convent at Mafeking after the German sisters were approached by the South African Bishop of Kimberley and got in touch with Darlington . |
| 12 | By the mid-18th century trade had begun to expand and money became available for more adventurous schemes . |
| 13 | In the eleventh pilgrims poured through her little valley in great throngs , and money became plentiful in her chests and building fund . |
| 14 | And like all losers , the very name NIREX became synonymous with bad news , the unwelcome intruder , the butt of endless jokes . |
| 15 | Such competition would be designed to reduce administrative costs and increase politicians ' information until a bureau 's budget became optimal for the politicians . |
| 16 | It was noted in 3.5 that long-term participant observation , as a consequence both of the relationship of trust which is built up and of a person 's inability to remain vigilant for long periods , has the effect of blurring the distinction between covert and overt observation . |
| 17 | Epping Forest , a vast tract of woodland made available to the people of London by Queen Victoria , provided a much needed source of refreshment . |
| 18 | Thus whereas the bare infinitive allows for the incidence of its event to a support situated within the confines of event time , the mechanism of incidence provided for by the verb form itself is inoperative when called upon express an incidence to a support situated prior to the time contained in the event . |
| 19 | Any large medieval building became susceptible to classification , and Peck claimed that inns , such as the Windmill , formerly at no. 51 High Street , were used as halls . |
| 20 | Fortunately , Thames Tunnel Mills adjoins the handsome early-eighteenth century church of St Mary , Rotherhithe , so that when the Department of the Environment designated the church and the surrounding buildings as an outstanding conservation area , the building became eligible for grant aid from the Historic Buildings Council and their help was crucial to the funding of the development . |
| 21 | We have already encountered an archetypal example of this in the Neolithic mother-goddess cult , and it may be that today , over-indulged children , not fully weaned because of permissive fashions in modern childrearing , and encouraged throughout their childhood and adolescence to remain dependent on parents who have been afraid to deny them anything , experience a similar hankering after the unobtainable but mouth-watering mother-as-breast . |
| 22 | Their fur became soaked with the dew . |
| 23 | When Harwood Consultancy became involved in personnel software during the eighties , absence monitoring was ‘ about booking holidays and planning absences . ’ |
| 24 | A parachutist narrowly escaped death after his canopy became tangled with the landing gear of the light aircraft he was jumping from . |
| 25 | However , the form of section 2(2) means that with regard to liability for animals not belonging to a dangerous species the position will be fundamentally the same as at common law , since the damage must be of a kind made likely by the characteristics known to the keeper . |
| 26 | The later history of the Daily Express suggests not : when the Express became hostile in the 1920s , Younger raged " when I think of the large sum of money this office has put into that gutter print it makes my blood boil " . |
| 27 | Wilson left the application ‘ on the table ’ in Brussels , but it was only in late 1969 that progress became possible on the extension of the EC to new members . |
| 28 | Housing associations received a major boost from the Housing Act 1974 when a new once-and-for-all capital grant became payable at the outset of each scheme ( Baker 1976 ; Lansley 1979 ) . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , their formality sits ill at ease with Esau 's spontaneous show of love . |
| 30 | My heart turns red In the expanding now |