Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friction led to furious rows and the rows led to Willy demanding that he should be allowed to take a room where he could look after himself . |
| 2 | And indeed the little creature merely sighed before lying motionless , the fateful twitching stilled at last . |
| 3 | The defence budget amounted to 35,062 million koruna in 1989 and was expected to amount to 31,180 million koruna in 1990 , or 23.6 per cent of overall government expenditure . |
| 4 | Despite this , only 50% of cancers in this group were actually detected by faecal occult blood testing , the remainder arose as symptomatic cancers in the period between screenings . |
| 5 | It led to an abandoned fishing hamlet called Hamningberg , where we camped for the night in a grassy field studded with interesting saxifrages and other flowers . |
| 6 | But they 're all the same so that if you are er with which is the medical side and an opportunity arose for some other reason for you to transfer to another group we have n't got to retrain you . |
| 7 | Moreover , as the University validates the Normal College 's courses , it would seem to us that whatever the pros and cons of retaining a local authority based teacher-training institution in Gwynedd , a much more sensible long-term solution would have been to integrate both the Normal College and St Mary 's College into the University College of North Wales when that opportunity arose after 1974 . |
| 8 | Provision made by other agencies , Guide Post Trusts , for example , MENCAP Homes and so on and so forth . |
| 9 | Conditions at the 20-pitch permanent park led to strong condemnation at Newry and Mourne Council . |
| 10 | Nine out of ten of the users known to each agency lived with one or more adults , and the majority lived with one or more children . |
| 11 | In 1801 the population of England and Wales was under nine million , of whom the great majority lived in rural communities outside London . |
| 12 | All the local authority associations ( including those with a Conservative majority ) opposed rate-capping in principle , the local government press , and the media generally were hostile , while the Bill 's passage through Parliament led to strenuous opposition from senior Conservative MPs and sizeable backbench revolts in some votes . |
| 13 | The need for centralization of the royal court and parliament led at last to the choice and subsequent development of Edinburgh as Scotland 's capital city . |
| 14 | But is the thing is budget led at this stage , I mean is n't that , are we really , is n't the |
| 15 | He saw a house , the house , almost the house a child draws in its infant school , four windows , chimney , door , garden path , lazy-daisy looped flowers in rectangular parterres , only this house was also a crudely three-dimensional flimsy box , barely containing something very large and very much alive , covered with rusty pelt , so that every aperture bulged with glowing fur , was pushed outwards , cracking , and a claw showed here on a sill , and a ripple of muscle there . |
| 16 | She tried a red-and-pink Chanel shift , a Lacroix confection splattered with turquoise roses and a long green tube by Azzedine Alaia which made her six foot , 128 lb body look like some exotic serpent . |
| 17 | It was a period when the newly ( re ) found sense of idealism and hope led to great expectations of the rehabilitative force of prison and its alternatives . |
| 18 | The 6ft carpet snake crept into Calan Lavender 's bed , wrapped its body around him and plunged in its fangs . |
| 19 | The damage amounted to two hundred and fifty pounds . |
| 20 | In a computer oriented towards numerical calculation , the operations must include provision for addition and subtraction , and probably multiplication and division as well ; on a computer oriented towards character manipulation there would be various operations for moving and scanning character strings . |
| 21 | The funding amounted to some US$60,000,000 annually , of which about half was intended for weapons acquisition . |
| 22 | Just under half lived in the same household as the dementia sufferer ( 45 per cent ) ; most of the remainder lived within easy reach : 14 per cent in the same street or only a few minutes ' walk away , 20 per cent within two miles , ten per cent within five miles , and only 11 per cent further than five miles away ( although in Newham 36 per cent of the principal carers lived more than two miles away compared with only 12 per cent in Ipswich ) . |
| 23 | One by one , from about 5 April , their supplies depleted , badly damaged , often without masts and rigging , and with exhausted crews , Alberoni 's armada crept into any ports its captains could find . |
| 24 | ‘ He had long been in a bad state of health , which he took no care to repair but on the contrary lived in such a manner as greatly promoted the disorders he had had long upon him , this brought on the Flux which put a period to his life ’ ( Cook ) . |
| 25 | This seems to be the logical approach , as the surplus giving rise to the refund arose from excess contributions in past years on which tax relief was claimed . |
| 26 | The difficulty arose in that some of the children had several stools per day , but apparently evacuated incompletely , as shown by periodic passage of very large amounts of stool or the presence of a faecal impaction . |
| 27 | Ahead of you as you walk along the length of the piazza is the Casa del Manzoni , Manzoni 's house , a fine nineteenth century building in which the writer lived from 1813 until his death on 22 May 1873 . |
| 28 | Thus , the 1784 election led to 17 unbroken years of Pitt as prime minister ; after the First World War the coalition stayed on in name but the Conservatives won 335 seats in 1918 ; Churchill 's Great Coalition presaged the Labour landslide of 1945 and the iniquities of the Lib-Lab Pact were a major factor in Mrs Thatcher 's victory in 1979 . |
| 29 | The forces produced in the individual on such occasions , in what Jung ( 1964 ) calls a ‘ journey to individuation ’ , manifest themselves in a number of very persuasive ways and in this case led to some radical reassessments of the existing moral , philosophic , political , and aesthetic order . |
| 30 | The freedom to experiment , to organise classrooms in a way which supported and encouraged children 's learning , and which incidentally ( though not haphazardly ) covered the key areas of the curriculum led to many innovations . |