Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steve Jobs recently prophesied that desktop publishing as a separate market would be dead within two years and he 's quite probably right . |
| 2 | He opined that Band Aid was diabolical and that Geldof was a ‘ nauseating character ’ . |
| 3 | The council recommended that metering start in areas worst affected by shortages , with households that are likely to use large amounts , such as large houses with big gardens , connected first . |
| 4 | After investigating voluntary , non-vocational adult education in Scotland , the committee recommended that adult education should be combined with the youth and community service into a community education service . |
| 5 | ‘ But who made that telephone call ? |
| 6 | She made that air solid , and drew in stuff from the water and clouds of spinning gravel . |
| 7 | We 've got attendance I was going to suggest that we made that attendance stroke punctuality |
| 8 | ‘ Who made that phone call to the police at the airport ? ’ she asked . |
| 9 | But they were only relatively cheap because at the time I made that change musician union . |
| 10 | The phrasing of Japanese , Indian and Chinese music really fascinated me , so I spent a lot of time studying what made that music work . |
| 11 | The political forces which once made that movement move are now enveloped in a catastrophe that has two distinct dimensions . |
| 12 | ‘ Was it your daughter , Imogen , who made that trunk call from Scotland this morning ? ’ |
| 13 | The UK challenged the validity of the Directive in the European Court , but the Court ruled that majority voting was acceptable in this case since the Treaty gives precedence to provisions of a specific nature ( in this case , articles on the Common Agricultural Policy ) over general provisions relating to establishment of the Common Market ( Article 100 ) . |
| 14 | He ruled that placing advertising inserts in Mail Newspapers 's publications without the company 's authority or consent ‘ constitutes or involves the making of a misrepresentation ’ . |
| 15 | Stephen Campbell , from the Association of County Councils , agreed that child care workers needed more means to prevent young people in care ‘ going out the door ’ . |
| 16 | But in a game of few clear openings , Gunn coped well and the absence of the Sudbury 'keeper , who took two heavy knocks in the opening exchanges , made little material difference to the pattern of the game . |
| 17 | On Dec. 22 a report commissioned by the government from the Economic Advisory Council advocated controls on imports and argued that currency depreciation and export growth would not be sufficient to stem inflation or to reduce the trade deficit . |
| 18 | Malthus ( 1830 ) and Habakkuk ( 1953 ) argued that fertility change ( regulated through marriage ) was primary . |
| 19 | We expected little advertising support for the first effort in our new format but it came anyway on the strength of our description . |
| 20 | We 're the best meal place round 'ere , an' after all 'e used ter call in all the time when 'e 'ad that ovver job , ’ Carrie reminded him . |
| 21 | The rate was automatically determined by this formula and announced each Friday afternoon with the results of the Treasury bill tender . |
| 22 | The pitched battles fought each Saturday afternoon in the Kings Road between punks and teddy-boys — the curators of Fifties sartorial and musical style — seemed a tragi-comic parody of the forces of conservatism against the forces of chaos and impending change . |
| 23 | Exactly a month after the exhibition opened , the Secretary of State announced that state aid for churches in use would begin with immediate effect at the rate of £1 million a year . |
| 24 | SmithKline Beecham announced that second quarter profit before tax rose by 10% to £254m . |
| 25 | German Economics Minister Jürgen Möllemann visited India on Nov. 19 , while on Nov. 8 German Economic Co-operation Minister Carl-Dieter Spranger announced that development assistance to India would be cut by 25 per cent in 1992 from its current level of DM395,000,000 ( US$245,000,000 ) because of India 's " excessive armament " . |
| 26 | The new textbook is the second one to have emerged since the crisis of early 1988 when the authorities announced that school graduation exams in history were being abolished . |
| 27 | The protracted search for a new chairman for the Republican National Committee ( RNC ) — the party 's leading position — ended on Jan. 7 when the presidential press secretary , Marlin Fitzwater , announced that Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter had been chosen for the post by President George Bush . |
| 28 | The BCR then announced that passenger traffic would commence on 1 February 1866 with four trains daily , two of them mixed , and all running into Craven Arms . |
| 29 | The theatre-bell announced that interval time had ended . |
| 30 | Tourist board members were further angered when the board 's chairman , Douglas Campbell , announced that proxy voting would be allowed . |