Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unfinished building stood for several years as a mute witness to their sad state . |
| 2 | On St Kilda solifluction and the formation of pro-talus ramparts occurred at this time ( Sutherland et al. , 1984 ) . |
| 3 | But I am unable to see , however carefully I reread the 1969 Act , that Parliament had in that year taken any clear stance on it . |
| 4 | I did n't enjoy hurting friends , but each blow did in some way help me to cope with a temper . |
| 5 | And INFOWORLD recently called Version 4.0 ‘ the nest graphics package for the complex technical graphs wanted by most scientists and engineers . ’ |
| 6 | This judgement was made by comparing the percentage of the regional budget devoted to this service with the corresponding percentages in other regions . |
| 7 | For the top teams in the group of eight this would mean a total of 40 league games as opposed to the 44 matches which will have to be fulfilled if the 12-club division continued for another season . |
| 8 | Until 1986 Andy caddied for several players , including Gary Player and Bernhard Langer . |
| 9 | In 1 184 Richard returned to this area , founding a new town and castle at the bridge over the River Creuse at St Rémi de la Haye , about twelve miles on the other side of Châtellerault . |
| 10 | Chlorine was used at the same time , and one may suppose that confusion arose in many minds about their separate effects . |
| 11 | Strong opposition came from former socialists within the JD who argued that the idea was contrary to the party 's founding principles [ see p. 37004 ] . |
| 12 | At any one time only two out of five surnames in the parish were those of this hard core of families , but four out of five of the total entries belonged to this group . |
| 13 | As we have seen above , discount houses and other members of the monetary sector have substantial short-term funds lent to each other . |
| 14 | Stukeley in his diary for 1745 , however , claimed that the medieval university evolved from All Saints ' College , established in 1109 at Wothorpe , by Joffied , Abbot of Crowland Abbey . |
| 15 | At the most critical moment of the Seven Years War it amounted to 4.4 per cent of the total population of the country , the highest proportion of this kind reached in any State during the century . |
| 16 | Scholars in this field had for some time been engaged in a debate over the importance of acquired and inherited personality traits in behaviour . |
| 17 | All 49 subjects participated in this study after giving written informed consent . |
| 18 | In referring to the Kingdom the Old Testament spoke in such terms as ‘ Behold , the days are coming ’ . |
| 19 | Since then , AT&T has been urging the FCC not to grant BT a licence unless the gesture is reciprocated ; its British rival had until this week been taking a similar line . |
| 20 | On-coming cars skidded to either side , slamming into basement dwellings , ploughing along sidewalks , overturning and bursting into flames . |
| 21 | This oversight resulted in this cartoon appearing on mill noticeboards . |
| 22 | They were charged that they did contrive , design and plot to murder MOIR NcILCHENICH widow of Ellister for mere avarice and covetousness to attain to her money which they supposed she had lying by her in her house and in pursuance of this plot did upon some day of April 1698 in dead time of night murder her by strangling her with her own belt and thereafter threw her body over a rock into the sea so that the deed was not discovered for some time . |
| 23 | The strongest criticisms came from those congressmen whose regional power bases were now threatened , and from PL and PSC power brokers whose ability to elect and re-elect their own people was endangered . |
| 24 | This correspondence continued for some years until 1878 when they moved to late in June . |
| 25 | Members will be aware that ex-Councillors and were unsuccessful at the polls and I wish to ask the Council to place on record its thanks to their contribution to the work of this Council made by those members and to wish them well in the future . |
| 26 | Many women in this diocese participated in this consultation . |
| 27 | Steelworkers in the public sector had for some time been in dispute with their employers , the British Steel Corporation , and had come out on strike . |
| 28 | A sack of empty tins lay beside each aircraft : accumulated cookhouse waste . |
| 29 | An editorial error occurred in this letter by W Fox and D A Mitchison ( 20 February , p 515 ) . |
| 30 | An editorial error occurred in this letter by J Kilgour-Christie and A H Watt ( 13 March , pp 721–2 ) . |