Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb past] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The position would have been very different in the case of a payment made some years before which was sought to be recovered because a court in another case had ruled that the regulation under which the demand had been made had all along been ultra vires . |
| 2 | The Florida land boom , based on the possibilities of the are around Miami as a holiday resort , ended in temporary disaster when a hurricane devastated much of the state in 1926 . |
| 3 | INDIA 'S population is 844m and expanding by almost 18m a year , according to a census published this week . |
| 4 | The final result of a referendum showed that of the 9,123 native Andorrans eligible to vote 74.2 per cent had said ‘ yes ’ to the changes and only 25.8 per cent ‘ no ’ . |
| 5 | Recently when a gang stole some large buddha images from the temple complex at Pagan , the whole country was outraged . |
| 6 | So important a part did this crisis play in determining the events which are the subject of this report that they can not be properly understood without an appreciation of the extent to which the crisis overshadowed everything else that was happening in the area at the time . |
| 7 | In the fourth condition they were asked to judge whether a sentence made any sense . |
| 8 | In a separate incident a bomblet killed another Corps member , Lance Corporal Terry Hill , 26 , who thought it was a lead weight . |
| 9 | They accepted that Massingham had gained his promotion on merit although they were not so naive as to suppose that being the elder son of a peer did any man harm . |
| 10 | What the studious schoolboy of Looe learned in 1801 is disclosed in a handbill published that year by Mr. Clement Triggs , the school 's last master . |
| 11 | She said her husband had made regular visits to the field , but a vet believed some of the dead sheep had been there for at least two weeks . |
| 12 | I had repeated a story told some weeks before by our minister at the chapel , and he was one of the party guests . |
| 13 | I soon learned that in the islands a bungalow meant any house , large or small . |
| 14 | A friend of mine who accompanied him to a play disputed this , but it was true . |
| 15 | A sick man who values a hi-fi set more than a bottle of medicine that will cure him needs to be made aware of the values involved . |
| 16 | A murmur rose that was quickly silenced . |
| 17 | If a horse did that , I 'd know he was a bad 'un . ’ |
| 18 | IN A quiz published this week in TODAY and based on the popular TV show Have I Got News For You , we wrongly attributed the programme to Channel Four . |
| 19 | Several Conservative candidates in by-elections — egged on by Beaverbrook — went well beyond the official policy and as a result got little official support . |
| 20 | The plaintiffs relied upon the defendants ' report and as a result lost some £17 000 in monies owed by E on advertising contracts when E went into liquidation . |
| 21 | A study showed that capsaicin , the ‘ hot ’ ingredient in chilli , enhances the appreciation of food and may stimulate the body 's natural painkillers in a way that could be addictive . |
| 22 | SOUTH YORKSHIRE 'S low bus fares are persuading drivers to leave their cars at home , according to a study published this week by Oxford University 's Transport studies Unit . |
| 23 | A monitor detected some low level skin contamination and also some contamination on the person 's personal clothing , which were effectively dealt with . |
| 24 | Indeed , a fault went all the way up her knitting . |
| 25 | ‘ A telegram arrived this morning . |
| 26 | Indeed , it was not until 1956 that a Brazilian made any impact when Nano da Silva Ramos finished 5th in his Gordini in the Monaco Grand Prix . |
| 27 | A soldier moved some markers from one side of a canal to the other . |
| 28 | A witness reckoned both were write-offs . |
| 29 | She felt downright uncomfortable ; there could be something poignantly intimate about sharing the half-darkness of a car with a man — particularly when a tape played some soft Neapolitan music — and more especially with a man of Luke 's charisma . |
| 30 | He explained that earning a living left little time for photography but holidays left ample time . |