Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martin Hyman of British Aerospace got five enquiries and said that though he could have wished for more , those that he had talked to had , he felt , benefited considerably . |
| 2 | Spilt blood and other body fluids should be cleaned up with household bleach diluted one part in ten parts of water . |
| 3 | A large marquee had been erected and the camp became giant rave party . |
| 4 | The judgement led one observer to point out ruefully that there now existed a situation where two tribunals faced with similar circumstances could quite reasonably come to different conclusions , and that their rulings could not be overturned on appeal in the Interests of consistency ( IRS , 1985a ) . |
| 5 | After the revolution of 1327 the commons in parliament sought statutory protection against the measures Edward II had taken . |
| 6 | In the fourth condition they were asked to judge whether a sentence made any sense . |
| 7 | The Brixton Gang Rape case produced several complaints to the Press Council which upheld most but not all of the complaints . |
| 8 | The Dreyfus case produced grave excesses , when Frenchmen were urged to ‘ arroser du sang des Juifs l'arbre de la liberté ’ and a Papal Nuncio reminded a French diplomat that ‘ la religion catholique avait en reserve des indulgences spéciales pour ceux qui , lorsque la bonne cause le réclame , versent le sang des juifs et des paiens ’ . |
| 9 | The blatant placing of a bolt in a Lakeland mountain crag produced considerable reaction throughout the rock climbing fraternity . |
| 10 | and then time went along until it was September and September the third I was in church when the vicar announced that war has just been declared . |
| 11 | Shire difficulty became sheer impossibility after a months long battle to deselect David Abrahams , the previous candidate . |
| 12 | Following the closure of the line in 1964 , the building became private property while the track and platform disappeared . |
| 13 | A square of light coming through the open hatch made half-hearted patterns through the ladder and silhouetted the Negro . |
| 14 | The callous crook got five years after milking two families of everything they owned to pay for his luxury life in a country mansion . |
| 15 | The chairman asked each candidate to give a one sentence reason why people should vote for them . |
| 16 | Exactly same jeans , same jeans , same t-shirt got same colour hair . |
| 17 | The 1981 census enumerated 19,493,000 households in Great Britain living in the community . |
| 18 | But the enthusiasm so often expressed in favour of change produced little movement within the industry . |
| 19 | In the mid-seventeenth century no text recommended early breast-feeding with colostrum ; by 1800 all did . |
| 20 | The trial made legal history when child witnesses gave evidence using closed circuit television cameras . |
| 21 | The Right Size Theatre Co. present devised physical comedy . |
| 22 | The evident surprise displayed by some Cabinet ministers about her reference to a referendum lent further weight to his criticisms of her style of leadership and unwillingness to consult Cabinet colleagues . |
| 23 | The duo face competition from at least five bank-led consortia , all vying to operate the network , which should be up and running by 1995 , with the licence award expected this autumn . |
| 24 | Finally — perhaps one should say continuously — there is the comparison between conductors ; and here again , rather surprisingly , Davis 's tried and proved expertise made less impression than the new but not dissimilar touch brought by John Nelson . |
| 25 | Behind , an older sister manifested sophisticated boredom . |
| 26 | One novel , An Agitator ( 1894 ) , was described by Eleanor Marx as a realistic account of the British working-class movement , but her other fiction avoided social concerns . |
| 27 | Mr. Gordon never had a look in after Brown Owl met that pilot . |
| 28 | She got up and checked the wardrobes , and her bemusement became sheer bewilderment . |
| 29 | The defence lawyers had walked out on the grounds that the trial lacked procedural guarantees , and that the court , as a military one , had no jurisdiction . |
| 30 | Monster cars sharked past , the cluster of Wall Street skyscrapers loomed ; an elite of big names at a very mixed party Freeway became mapled streets , buildings flattened into the four-storeyed Victorian Brownstones of Brooklyn . |