Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but with four minutes to go United went and blew it all … the defence tied themselves in knots and Paul Trollope banged in an equaliser … 1-1 hard luck Hereford |
| 2 | The fruits of their labours comprised three joined and lined 200 litre drums which delivered producer gas through a simple cloth filter to a Toyota petrol engine driving a generator . |
| 3 | Shrieks and whoops heralded two loinclothed South Africans who rushed in from the side cloisters with spears and animal skin tabards . |
| 4 | Goals totalling 70 broke the club record , but goals conceded were also up , at 63 . |
| 5 | When Lucy had first talked about Christine taking her over , Josie had assumed that she was merely finding words to describe some devised means of survival . |
| 6 | I can imagine there 'll be one or two unhappy people if they find out I 've even taken you walkies let alone tried to help you plug the blueness into reality . |
| 7 | The other communities studied all had lower death rates , and hence this ‘ number needed to treat ’ would be higher . |
| 8 | The acceleration of inflation , the soft monetary stance of the authorities and the commodities boom all worked to boost stockbuilding . |
| 9 | Pausanias thought this applied to the building . |
| 10 | As performance of later models improved this proved rash and costly . |
| 11 | The move to get more defendants declared sane came as two suspected IRA gun-runners tried to convince an American court that they are insane . |
| 12 | More than one-third of parents felt this did not happen whereas staff said they would always do it . |
| 13 | Both companies denied this had anything to do with evidence that chlorine-bleaching produces dioxins ( ie. extremely toxic , artificially produced chemicals implicated in cancer , birth defects and immune system breakdown ) . |
| 14 | The results of these studies are too numerous to detail here , but it turns out that the investigators concerned all reached fairly consistent conclusions about the personality traits that typified their subjects . |
| 15 | Former contra rebels numbering 5,000 established the Nicaraguan Resistance Party ( PRN ) on Oct. 6 , with Juan Angel López as president , to oppose " peacefully " the Sandinista National Liberation Front ( FSLN ) . |
| 16 | Too late department : leading wearers of dust-masks ALTERN 8 took the stage at Stafford 's Bingley Hall last weekend with a special guest star , an African witch-doctor flown in specially for the occasion . |
| 17 | Stephanie had in other years enjoyed this believed fairy tale : this year her own heaviness , fear perhaps of real birth , prevented her . |
| 18 | US officials said this did amount to a description of a rouble gold standard , but emphasised that Mr Baker was not prescribing or even recommending policy to Moscow . |
| 19 | Loyalists said this had reduced the flow of photographs to them . |
| 20 | His attempts to rectify this met with little encouragement . |
| 21 | Previous attempts to do this had always foundered on the fact that the fun usually resulted pretty soon in procreation but at this very time field trials of the contraceptive pill were taking place which would soon make the division practical and permanent for the first time in history . |
| 22 | The following table shows experimental results summed for four writers using this calculated mean letter width figure , allowing only those candidate words which are within ±1 of the calculated word length . |
| 23 | It would not have mattered so much if the experiments described all held water , but when ( as we were encouraged to do ) I put up my hand and ventured that one experiment was not consistent , the lecturer acknowledged that this was so in the particular I questioned , but said that the results were usually found to be as would have been expected . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , river dolphins and catfish inhabit the same river , and between 1950 and 1980 , about half the 100 or so baiji found dead had died from swallowing or being snagged by fish hooks . |
| 25 | CABLE & WIRELESS LINKS ITS DATA NETWORKS TO FORM GLOBAL MANAGED DATA SERVICE |
| 26 | As all local authority reps know this did not happen . |
| 27 | And given the conditions obtaining this posed an almost insuperable problem , since ‘ the rebirth of industry is itself dependent on the flow of vital resources into towns , the absolute necessity for this influx at any price . ’ |
| 28 | The local government reforms following 1888 established new authorities with a franchise almost identical with the municipal boroughs . |
| 29 | The belief in question is that diffusion will cause things to become all mixed up : that it will destroy spatial differentiation . |
| 30 | In angry self-reproach , Louisa saw how much sooner it should have been evident to her that in identifying so completely with his most noble ancestor , her father had been at pains to exclude all thought of his more immediate and darker legacy . |