Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The directors of the firm kindly gave B U permission to borrow a Tacker for the exhibition and after Le Leicester branch arranged a temporary replacement , Taffy began working , cleaning up the machine to showroom condition . |
| 2 | Also earlier this year the University formed a Managing Directors Club . |
| 3 | We have , of course , in addition undertaken a considerable change |
| 4 | Net profits were were $595m , which compares with net profit from operations of $556m in the 1991 first quarter , when the company of course reported a big loss because of the change in the method it used to account for employee benefits . |
| 5 | Recognising the problems associated with calcium deficiency facing women particularly , English Grains Healthcare formulated a dietary supplement called Calcia to ensure your calcium intake keeps pace with your body 's needs . |
| 6 | The supreme court also confirmed a 20-year prison term given a third defendant , accomplice Yasuhiro Uegaki . |
| 7 | John Alderson made a case for the reintroduction of community policing in 1982 ( Alderson 1982 , also see 1979 ) , but its advantages were recognized much earlier when the House of Commons Select Committee on Race Relations examined relations between the police and ethnic minorities in 1972 , and in 1976 a report from the National Police College placed a central emphasis upon it ( Pope 1976 ) . |
| 8 | But I 've just briefly looked at the education and training part of the General Secretary report and it says here , National College rammed a hundred and twenty four courses over a thirty week period attracting approximately seventeen hundred G M B representatives , a wide range of residential courses . |
| 9 | He could see Prussian soldiers running away in the undergrowth and he felt the fierce exultation of a cavalryman given a helpless enemy to slaughter , but he did not see the batter of guns concealed in the deep shadows at the edge of the wood , nor the Prussian artillery officer who shouted , ‘ Fire ! ’ |
| 10 | Devraux placed a restraining hand on the American 's shoulder . |
| 11 | He went into self-imposed exile in the mountains of Japan for nearly two years and during this period of isolation formulated a new karate system based on actual combat effectiveness . |
| 12 | Nizan occupied a privileged position in Sartre 's life both intellectually and emotionally . |
| 13 | There are some unavoidable costs er on that account , particularly on the engine programme where delays to the aircraft programme which result in extra costs on the engine side , are the customer 's liability , erm but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think , from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment that we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non-common and we have had to take a larger share of the costs of those equipments than originally planned . |
| 14 | Erm , but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment than we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non common and we have had to take a larger share of the cost of those equipments than originally planned . |
| 15 | On the currency front , the pound enjoyed a strong flourish , gaining 1.4 cents against the dollar to 1 dollar point 9195 and pushing .87 of a pfennigs firmer to 2 deutschmarks point 9704 . |
| 16 | It might , therefore , be open to a court to find liability where a defendant committed a statutory offence as the vehicle for the deliberate infliction of harm upon the plaintiff . |
| 17 | A pressurised fuselage confined a large source of potential energy and account should be taken in the design of the aircraft to ensure that , in the event of its rapid release in any unpredicted manner , the basic integrity of the aircraft structure or its control should not be compromised . |
| 18 | A striking modern bronze horse occupied a low table . |
| 19 | From August 1937 the Club operated a price-reduction agreement with Lawrence and Wishart , who had a virtual monopoly of Marxist-Leninist publications and of works by the leading members of the British Communist Party . |
| 20 | This new method of composition can be seen clearly by comparing an etching of a figure done as an illustration for Max Jacob 's Saint Matorell and securely datable to Cadaquès , with a drawing done a few months earlier . |
| 21 | While the art department operated a separate course in the lower school , drama , music and dance are organized on an integrated programme . |
| 22 | For if not , how otherwise had the Ark avoided a precipitous descent as the waters had retreated ? |
| 23 | Why is the card called a Grizzled Skipper ? |
| 24 | It was in this major area of economic policy that early on the civil administration exercised a high degree of autonomy even from the totalitarian party . |
| 25 | Bourjois ' Cil 18 Heures Mascara , £3.79 , for instance contains an ingredient called a hydrophobic polymer which improves the mascara 's resistance to water , whilst Lancôme 's Definicil Mascara , £12 , has a brush made of a substance called Rislan designed to be extra gentle on your lashes . |
| 26 | Although the abbot of a monastery exercised a certain administrative authority over his flock , he was ultimately no ‘ higher ’ spiritually than they . |
| 27 | Things have not gone right this year for the colt dubbed a new ‘ Champion the Wonder Horse ’ after his last-to-first victory in the Breeders ' Cup Juve-nile 10 months ago . |
| 28 | It is also possible to measure the energy of electrons using a more tried and tested type of instrument called a magnetic spectrometer . |
| 29 | The discovery in 1958 that sodium uptake and glucose uptake are coupled at the luminal surface of the intestine marked a turning point in the oral administration of electrolyte solutions . |
| 30 | An emphasis on the racial component in health maintenance marked a significant development within contemporary medical knowledge . |