Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only six were noted away from the coast , and birds sometimes made prolonged stays in favoured coastal marshes , for example 35 days in 1965 . |
| 2 | The group expected economic recovery in 1993 . |
| 3 | Munich , Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain made enthralling reading in the Manchester but what Mr Douglas remembers was the spirit of friendship offered by the school towards the refugees of the Spanish Civil War and Hitler 's Germany . |
| 4 | The talks , held on 23–30 October in Montreal , produced total agreement on the need for an international authority to administer civil aviation , or , if that was not possible , a regional operators ' conference . |
| 5 | About this time the Geomagnetism Unit and the Global Seismology Unit were incorporated into NERC and became component parts of IGS . |
| 6 | His Albert gleamed rich gold against the fine cloth of his waistcoat , the fine watch lifted now from its hidden pocket to be scrutinized for the hundredth time , a sure sign that Thomas Grenfell was nervous . |
| 7 | Harold Wilson 's words are remembered today , 25 years after he led Labour back to power , from 13 wilderness years . |
| 8 | It was found that some of the Scottish women made outstanding progress in French language as a result of this approach . |
| 9 | Both Gerrard and his opposite number Bryan Gunn made outstanding saves in a thrilling climax to the game , and Norwich manager Mike Walker feels his side are now returning to their early season form . |
| 10 | He made outstanding contributions to all branches of children 's surgery but his lifelong interest was the aetiology of malformations . |
| 11 | The local authority , which shared parental responsibility for J. in consequence of a care order made under the Children Act 1989 , obtained leave under section 100 of the Act to invoke the court 's inherent jurisdiction to determine whether artificial ventilation and/or other life-saving measures should be administered to J. if he were to suffer a life-threatening event . |
| 12 | They accordingly obtained leave to invoke the High Court 's inherent jurisdiction and by their summons , directed to W. and to her aunt who shared parental responsibility for her , sought the court 's leave for such transfer and treatment without her consent . |
| 13 | He was later to become owner of a Beirut company that dubbed educational films and translated technical books into Arabic . |
| 14 | In Britain the revelation that the correspondence of Mazzini , the Italian nationalist leader then a refugee in London , was being opened and read in this way produced strong criticism in parliament and the press . |
| 15 | So , the experiments produced strong evidence of a rhodopsin-like mechanism in the mites ' extraocular receptors . |
| 16 | Although the centre of gravity in Tudor and Stuart England stayed in the more open Midlands and East Anglia , the fringe counties produced strong variations to the general stability and prosperity of these two centuries . |
| 17 | The first six months produced strong growth in compound feed sales , led by a recovery in pig tonnage and our continued success in the dairy sector . |
| 18 | The Romans , too , avoided total absorption in Hellenistic modes of thought , but after all they were politically independent and soon became more powerful than any Hellenistic kingdom . |
| 19 | Brian Pearse FCIB , Deputy Chairman , responded and made strong reference to the need for a return to high standards of banking education . |
| 20 | Even when the working party has produced its final report as for History , or made strong recommendations after wide consultation , as for modern foreign languages , the Secretary of State may well have a strong influence on the final version that becomes part of legislation . |
| 21 | Milling and baking continued to account for over a third of these totals and grocery products , particularly the enlarged fruit juice business , made strong gains in both sales and profit , along with the United States branch after rationalisation and the tomato products acquisition . |
| 22 | Milling and baking continued to account for over a third of these totals and grocery products , particularly the enlarged fruit juice business , made strong gains in both sales and profit , along with the United States branch after rationalisation and the tomato products acquisition . |
| 23 | If Krupp commanded his armies of workers , Richard Wagner expected total subservience from his audience . |
| 24 | The undue power of committee chairmen in relation to their colleagues was more of a problem in the House than in the Senate , but in the latter a system of legislative norms or folkways made possible dominance of the proceedings by leading members of the Senate inner club or establishment . |
| 25 | Restricted finances allowed only one appointment , that of Coleman , who became sole Professor at the age of 28 . |
| 26 | The doctors made monoclonal antibodies against the attacking white cells in the transfused blood and Bryan 's parents agreed to try the treatment in a desperate attempt to save him . |
| 27 | Britain 's industrial revolution made ample use of child labour . |
| 28 | He also got strong support from Vietnam veterans , who Bush said would turn against Clinton because of his anti-war activities . |
| 29 | And when we begin to gain , if only the merest glimpse of the deeply ingrained brutalities and prejudices embodied in what was judged to be ‘ right ’ , then we can see more clearly that the Garotter 's Act was not so much a moment of panic which led respectable England off its true course , but a mature expression of the existing social relations — including the self-assumption of the mighty , and their attitudes and actions towards the lower orders and the plebs . |
| 30 | In the same period last year , the company made interim profits of £17.2 million . |