Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun sg] of [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children from all over the country who 've triumphed over adversity met the Princess of Wales today . |
| 2 | ‘ I was all right walking down to the pit until I met the group of supporters then I had to crack . ’ |
| 3 | Then her hand shot out and she whipped the piece of paper out of his pocket , moving so quickly that he had no chance to stop her . |
| 4 | She flung the fragment of saucer as far as she could , watching it spinning against the sky . |
| 5 | It was surely — the words came in the tone of voice her mother would have used — ‘ most unsuitable ’ , and it seemed especially so when the bus passed the block of flats where she and her mother had lived . |
| 6 | New general manager John Maddock , who was brought in by Swales and made the sacking of Reid virtually his first act , has also been the target of supporters ' anger . |
| 7 | Such a project was tried in Wales and though it did identify cases , logistical difficulties in community health care made the rate of detection unacceptably low . |
| 8 | Perhaps the remarkable technological fertility of the physics of mechanical model-building made the illusion of finality more tempting . |
| 9 | Cattle trucks made the transport of meat both faster and easier . |
| 10 | When tracing the various political , constitutional and religious developments which made the age of Walpole very different from the Restoration , we shall discover not one watershed when everything changed at once , but rather a series of discrete chronologies of change . |
| 11 | To some extent this made the definition of quality easier to adapt to the process of management planning . |
| 12 | She went on seeing Jim , his friend , his appalled good friend , just as before — perhaps even in his own bed , Albert realized , since the shift-work timing of a customs officer 's job made the logistics of adultery comically easy . |
| 13 | It has done a survey of MoT testing stations and windscreen replacement centres which shows that the majority recommended the replacement of windscreens even if only slightly chipped . |
| 14 | She read the piece of paper again and again . |
| 15 | Thus one may ( first stage ) read the meaning of scripture out of it , and then ( second stage ) apply what one holds to be the golden thread to another situation , not considered in the scriptures . |
| 16 | The management and control of ICI 's large UK salt deposits became the responsibility of Chlor-Chemicals shortly after ICI chemicals & Polymers was established . |
| 17 | Increasingly familiar became the tone of letters home like the following : ‘ Of my section , which consisted of 19 men , only 3 are left … |
| 18 | Ruby Tiger was third as well in her race , but it was User Friendly who became the Princess of Longchamp yesterday — all set to be crowned Queen next year . |
| 19 | She scanned the selection of cassettes eagerly , then smiled up at him . |
| 20 | He had become a legend and he ensured he got the kind of treatment only a legend deserved . |
| 21 | A slippery customer got the taste of freedom yesterday when a 7ft long conger eel was released back into the wild by the Scarborough Sea Life Centre . |
| 22 | This led some people to maintain that he had derived the idea of civil disobedience from Thoreau , a fact which Gandhi himself denied.a In due course he substituted the phrase ‘ civil resistance ’ for ‘ civil disobedience ’ on the grounds that it conveyed the notion of non-violence better , but he continued to regard civil disobedience as a branch of satyāgraha . |
| 23 | His approach to such standards as Miss Otis Regrets , All the things you are and Maria was serious , but at the same time conveyed the feeling of sophistication so essential to this genre . |
| 24 | LEADING Tory John Gummer quit the Church of England yesterday over its move to bring in women priests . |
| 25 | Secondly , it was held that on the proper construction of the lease the provisions relating to gold regulated the manner of payment rather than the amount of payment . |
| 26 | He was first to find frequent listeria contamination of cook-chill foods and demonstrated the failure of microwaves always to kill the bacteria which can be fatal to foetuses , newborns , and the elderly . |
| 27 | By common consent they stopped and leant on the oak fence that bordered the field of barley beyond . |
| 28 | The Polish replica moved the breaking of Enigma on from a theoretical exercise to a practical one and Knox always gave the Poles credit for the part they played . |
| 29 | This of course moved the centre of gravity aft , and to restore the trim of the aircraft the wings were given a marked degree of sweepback . |
| 30 | Corbett moved the cup of ale back across the table . |