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 | And INFOWORLD recently called Version 4.0 ‘ the nest graphics package for the complex technical graphs wanted by most scientists and engineers . ’ |
| 4 | This judgement was made by comparing the percentage of the regional budget devoted to this service with the corresponding percentages in other regions . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ] . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As we have seen above , discount houses and other members of the monetary sector have substantial short-term funds lent to each other . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In referring to the Kingdom the Old Testament spoke in such terms as ‘ Behold , the days are coming ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | On-coming cars skidded to either side , slamming into basement dwellings , ploughing along sidewalks , overturning and bursting into flames . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A sack of empty tins lay beside each aircraft : accumulated cookhouse waste . |
| 15 | An editorial error occurred in this letter by W Fox and D A Mitchison ( 20 February , p 515 ) . |
| 16 | An editorial error occurred in this letter by J Kilgour-Christie and A H Watt ( 13 March , pp 721–2 ) . |
| 17 | In contrast to the offence of this ONE man Paul then declared what ONE other person , the Lord Jesus Christ had accomplished on behalf of many ‘ the grace of God and the gift of grace , which is by ONE man , Jesus Christ , hath abounded unto many ’ ( v.15 ) ‘ by the righteousness of ONE the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life … by the obedience of ONE shall many be made righteous. ’ ( v.18/19 ) . |
| 18 | This symptom free period lasted for several days and even weeks . |
| 19 | Yorick screamed again — the high wail lasted for several seconds before it ended with a sharp report . |
| 20 | The Sunday afternoon walk along the lanes was always interesting , even to very young children , for the high banks towered on either side of us , covered in wild flowers — campions , hemp agrimony , foxgloves , honeysuckle and many , many more . |
| 21 | In Britain the impact of prehistoric man has been considered by physical geographers and in a thematic issue of the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers devoted to this research ( Curtis and Simmons , 1976 , p. 257 ) it was explained that : |
| 22 | More slowly , ministers and departments of State charged more or less specifically with the conduct of foreign affairs emerged in most West European countries , though it was not until late in the eighteenth century that this process began to reach completion . |
| 23 | I have listened with concern to what the hon. Gentleman said about this matter . |
| 24 | When the right hon. Gentleman came to that office , he had the opportunity to grasp the nettle of prison reform . |
| 25 | The hon. Gentleman spoke at some length about his desire for a totally independent inspectorate . |
| 26 | These commercial ventures led to many disputes , and Love was extremely litigious , appearing often as a plaintiff in Chancery . |
| 27 | Indeed , such conversations among the estate workers were not just gossip but an acknowledgement that all social relations stemmed from that source , the Dersingham family . |
| 28 | To make the principle of representation effective , the regime had to create institutions in which the various social orders interacted with each other . |
| 29 | An open door opposite gave a glimpse of rows of barrels , and next to it a short flight of wooden stairs led to another door above the store-room . |
| 30 | Many who had earlier worked against Scottish interests had for some time been making covert approaches and promises through envoys between the two Courts . |