Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] in [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I did n't enjoy hurting friends , but each blow did in some way help me to cope with a temper . |
| 3 | Chlorine was used at the same time , and one may suppose that confusion arose in many minds about their separate effects . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In referring to the Kingdom the Old Testament spoke in such terms as ‘ Behold , the days are coming ’ . |
| 6 | This oversight resulted in this cartoon appearing on mill noticeboards . |
| 7 | Many women in this diocese participated in this consultation . |
| 8 | An editorial error occurred in this letter by W Fox and D A Mitchison ( 20 February , p 515 ) . |
| 9 | An editorial error occurred in this letter by J Kilgour-Christie and A H Watt ( 13 March , pp 721–2 ) . |
| 10 | Intervention of this sort occurred in most areas where European powers showed interest . |
| 11 | No one has been able to explain how this erroneous information appeared in that paper . |
| 12 | However , a detailed version appeared in another newspaper yesterday , which cited banking sources in the City . |
| 13 | Some Japanese flourished in this enthusiasm for individual improvement . |
| 14 | And er there r there are no real er gentry in Orkney you see , and you 'll always find that if anybody gets a a a Well as I said to one boy here , I said to him look here I said your old grandfather worked in that shop till his backside was hanging out his brigs . |
| 15 | This culture persisted in many aspects into the Christian period . |
| 16 | We may not know exactly how evolution took place , but it is at least now clear that humanity evolved in some way from the higher apes ; that there were female and male of other species on the earth before the appearance of women and men . |
| 17 | Ultranationalist thinking on the rural sector seemed in many ways only a more radical version of official views . |
| 18 | As a doctor , she was more than well aware that children needed to be protected , and that abuse existed in many forms . |
| 19 | There 's still a bit of repair work going on on the M forty , that 's between junctions one and one A between Denham and the M twenty five , with the outside lane closed in both directions . |
| 20 | There are still some repairs going on along the M forty between junctions one and one A , that 's between Denham and the M twenty five , with the outside lane closed in both directions , for barrier repairs and some light maintenance . |
| 21 | On the M forty itself traffic seems to be fairly smooth at er , there are some repairs going on still between junctions one and one A , that 's between Denham and the M twenty five , with the outside lane closed in both directions . |
| 22 | Whatever the interpretation , it is plain that both Mark and the early Church saw in this story an illustration of the power of God to raise the dead . |
| 23 | Civil disobedience continued in many cities in western Georgia . |
| 24 | Stress on man 's nature and the rights expressive of that nature pointed in some cases to a more radical politics than was embraced by other antislavery advocates . |
| 25 | M2 from Dunsilly to Ballygrooby — fast lane closed in both directions . |
| 26 | The 9.43–10.12 question appeared in this test context also , and fewer pupils were successful than when the question was asked directly , probably because the information required had first to be selected by the pupils from all the figures given in the timetables . |
| 27 | Units of the centrally planned national economy existed in many forms as they were set up by ministries , ‘ centres of production ’ , and directorates of production and were managed either on the basis of the responsibility of a single individual , namely a state-appointed director , or ( particularly from and after the 1956 Revolution ) by workers ' councils or a council of deputies elected by the whole work-force of the enterprise . |
| 28 | oh , that stuff went in that stuff |
| 29 | No great change occurred in this situation until the outbreak of the crisis and the introduction of the adjustment policies . |
| 30 | After all , my reputation is in all likelihood blasted in any event . |