Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Pearl Investor Confidence Index rose by 1.2 p.c. last month — its largest rise since August last year — to stand at its highest level since December . |
| 32 | As the driver stopped at this junction the girl managed to jump out of the car . |
| 33 | This exhibition , the first of its kind devoted to Irish art , will chart the development of modern painting in Ireland from 1880 until 1950 . |
| 34 | Average personal income rose in real terms by as much as 5 per cent per annum in the early 1960s , and continued to grow by an average of more than 1 per cent per year in the 1970s , resuming a level of 2–3 per cent per year in 1983–88 . |
| 35 | Graham commented that in practice budgeting was usually a matter of upgrading finding bared on historical foundations rather than calculating what was required for the services that were needed , and he referred to university funding being ‘ budget-led ’ rather than ‘ product-led ’ . |
| 36 | His literary interests were remarkably wide and his expertise ranged from Anglo-Irish writing to Silver Age Latin epigrammatists ; but he published mainly on seventeenth-century comic or satirical dramatists , as his editions of Marston 's Malcontent and Vanbrugh 's Relapse testify . |
| 37 | A TERRIFIED woman driver fled across six lanes of a motorway after a man tried to grab her as she sat in her broken-down car . |
| 38 | In 1937 Sino-Japanese friction erupted into full-scale war , but even this failed to rally much more than token support for China in the West . |
| 39 | As for the reform of the National Health Service , it is already well established that every hour devoted to this subject plays into Labour 's hands . |
| 40 | The writ named the Secretary of State for the Environment as the first party for failing to provide the necessary certificates , with the Coal Board conjoined as second party . |
| 41 | This is in accord with the volcanological model developed recently by the BGS team for the Lower Borrowdale Volcanic Group , in which the group is one element in an extensive plateau-andesite lava field erupted from numerous fissures and vents rather than from a central volcano . |
| 42 | That damage occurred in two ways . |
| 43 | The war of 1689 – 97 saw a long series of such contacts between the belligerents almost from its outbreak ; and the final settlement stemmed from protracted discussions between French and Dutch emissaries in 1694 – 96 . |
| 44 | Her heart beat with abrupt violence , sexual attraction crackling between them like electricity . |
| 45 | His black hair sprouted at all angles from his scalp and he still had n't found time to shave . |
| 46 | Inside the plant , levels of radiation in the abandoned reactor building rose to many times the lethal level . |
| 47 | In this , the third issue of Update devoted to general SVQs , we also report back on the seminars held recently for external verifiers and for centre co-ordinators from new piloting centres . |
| 48 | No great change occurred in this situation until the outbreak of the crisis and the introduction of the adjustment policies . |
| 49 | Stan then moved closer to Melanie , and a major fight erupted without further ado . |
| 50 | Morning and afternoon encircled in one light |
| 51 | The advanced course in information retrieval covers some 70 hours of study which includes a considerable part devoted to online information retrieval . |
| 52 | A lower level devoted to educational facilities ( library , auditorium , conference rooms ) leads visitors to an attractive cafeteria , decorated with colourful oriental carpets , and to a large sun terrace . |
| 53 | Some changes in a competitive direction occurred in value-added networks ( VANs ) , terminals , private branch exchanges ( PBXs ) and local area networks ( LANs ) ; these were mainly intra-company communications areas where IBM was already strongly positioned in terms of products , services and existing customers . |
| 54 | Iris Murdoch has spoken of novels as tending to be either crystalline or journalistic ; and the journalistic , which she practises , sounds like a free-wheeling and ever-hospitable realism : ‘ a large , shapeless , quasi-documentary object … telling with pale conventional characters some straightforward story enlivened with empirical facts . ’ |
| 55 | Now , Richard Fairbanks of New York 's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory has uncovered a detailed record which shows how fast global sea level rose at different times during the transformation from the glacial to the post-glacial world . |
| 56 | As the sea level rose in Post-glacial times two conflicting physical processes took place : a tendency for the sea to invade the area and to leave behind extensive deposits of marine silt and a tendency for a large-scale development of peat in the districts furthest away from the sea . |
| 57 | The highest land is only 2 metres above sea level and even this would be exposed to storm surges if mean sea level rose by 1 metre . |
| 58 | During the recent years after the war the university rose in national importance and always had a close connection with the bishop . |
| 59 | The exclusion of women from the paid labour force became in many areas an important part of the development of both working-class ‘ respectability ’ and of notions of working-class manhood . |
| 60 | Erm , members will be aware of the at the bottom of Abbey Foregate , opposite the Abbey which work is currently under way on , erm initial discussions with County Council officers from E E D department led to some suggestions being made . |