Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the London-based scientist said he believed it was more than a coincidence that the same colony seemed to have been affected by a second strain of the gizzard worm infection which killed 137 birds last year . |
| 2 | Left influence was sustained increasingly by events overseas , events over which most Labour supporters felt they had little control and which most of them probably saw as secondary to their still-lingering economic burdens . |
| 3 | It may also have been the political considerations involved which led both the WJEC and the University of Wales to remain silent throughout the argument . |
| 4 | The Iranian Foreign Ministry said it summoned representatives from Western capitals , where the incidents took place , yesterday to deliver a ‘ strongly-worded protest ’ . |
| 5 | In July Higgins had been accused of " compromising national security " in an article about a crackdown on nationalists in Nei Mongol province ( Inner Mongolia ) , based on an internal party document which the Foreign Ministry claimed he had obtained " illegally " . |
| 6 | BRITISH Rail thought they had a new excuse for late trains yesterday — THIEVES on the line . |
| 7 | But British Rail said it did not believe the maps were authentic . |
| 8 | The British decision confirmed what had become increasingly apparent since 1958 , that the EEC was central not just to European integration , but to Western Europe as a whole , and that after 1957 the history of West European cooperation would centre upon the EEC , upon both its activities and the response to it by the other European states . |
| 9 | The twenty year old salesman claimed he 'd just pushed the animal away with his foot after it had messed all down his clothes . |
| 10 | as new pro as old projects went we threw the old one away and we put a new leaf , loose-leaf sheet in . |
| 11 | In a separate development , British Aerospace confirmed it had raised its stake in Ferranti to 1.7 per cent through the purchase of 5.72 million shares . |
| 12 | Whatever evidence the IAAF officials discovered in the laboratory , one only needed to look at recent pictures of Johnson , in which he resembled an inflated balloon , to guess that his improved times showed he 'd been sucked back into the drug culture . |
| 13 | Water from a nearby spring kept it filled . |
| 14 | The Bosnian Serb high command denied it had attacked the town . |
| 15 | Never again was there to be a nation-wide intervention by the railway-workers , although those social tension persisted which had helped the bolsheviks to divide and rule in 1912 . |
| 16 | The National Audit Office in its oversight of the work of the Inland Revenue revealed what triggered the probe into suspected widespread tax evasion by farmers . |
| 17 | In front of them , about twenty yards away , he had seen a barbed-wire fence some three feet high which an old corporal told him had already cost a thousand lives of those who had done nothing more than erect it . |
| 18 | But as my historical data grew I discovered , from other sources , statements which contradicted the statements of the local historian and in most cases when I checked carefully I found that he was inaccurate . |
| 19 | Her own family has suffered the anguish of repossession , and her personal story of how her local Liberal Democrat-controlled council helped them made her the winner in the school 's mock election . |
| 20 | I could n't say , You 'd give them such a shock that it 'd come as small fry when Darling Bina said she wanted a career on the stage . |
| 21 | British Telecom said it had redirected 300 numbers by last night . |
| 22 | The long-time social crusader said he had been ousted by the trade union block vote and had won the majority support of the individual members of the Birkenhead constituency who took part in the secret ballot on Tuesday . |
| 23 | On 26 June he records shooting a wattle-cheeked honeyeater ‘ on the ranges near the Upper Torrens ’ ; he ‘ killed a Bittern on the 1st July near the Murray , above Gleeson 's Station ’ ; collected red throats ‘ about forty miles north of Lake Alexandrina ’ ; spotted a white-eyebrowed pomatorhinus ‘ near the bend of the river Murray ’ ( perhaps it was this remark that led some to guess that it was the great west bend to which Gould referred ) ; and shot a pink robin in ‘ a deep ravine under Mount Lofty ’ ( this was the last time an example of this species , Petroica rodinogaster was seen in South Australia , although one or two reliable observers said they had seen specimens in the area many years previously ) . |
| 24 | West German officials said they hoped similar arrangements could be made . |
| 25 | West German officials said they understood the trains would be sealed from the inside , and would take roundabout routes to evade jumpers-on . |
| 26 | She was the target of a bomb attack during her visit and French officials said they suspected Iraqi government agents . |
| 27 | On the other hand , although one expert scientific engineer said he felt we had almost reached the point of diminishing returns in terms of extra racket frame power , can we risk that ? |
| 28 | Last night the investigating team said they had made a breakthrough when a missing hood from James 's anorak was discovered by officers searching the area . |
| 29 | Mary 's ordeal included a 4am raid on her home by Scotland Yard and social workers convinced she had kidnapped Alex and smuggled him into England from Cyprus . |
| 30 | Another unemployed divorcee said he 'd been sitting in his room late one night talking with a fellow inmate : |