Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only six were noted away from the coast , and birds sometimes made prolonged stays in favoured coastal marshes , for example 35 days in 1965 . |
| 2 | Secondly there must be an efficient method of getting the information displayed on the screen onto the paper and the PostScript page description language met that requirement to a tee . |
| 3 | How has the Secretary of State met that point in the council tax ? |
| 4 | An artist I met that evening at Dr Caskie 's suggested that I exchange my tourist food permit for a civil emergency ration card , and do my own marketing and cooking . |
| 5 | The group expected economic recovery in 1993 . |
| 6 | Munich , Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain made enthralling reading in the Manchester but what Mr Douglas remembers was the spirit of friendship offered by the school towards the refugees of the Spanish Civil War and Hitler 's Germany . |
| 7 | The talks , held on 23–30 October in Montreal , produced total agreement on the need for an international authority to administer civil aviation , or , if that was not possible , a regional operators ' conference . |
| 8 | But it may be that , as men of little social consequence , they lacked that sensitivity to personal relationships on which the aristocratic society of the tenth and eleventh centuries had depended ; for the newcomers , what was sauce for the goose was likely to be sauce for the gander . |
| 9 | To watch Reutemann on a tennis court , for instance , was painful ; even Hunt , a splendid athlete , really lacked that sort of fluency which expresses real ‘ style ’ ; Jody Scheckter , doing almost anything , was incredibly clumsy . |
| 10 | About this time the Geomagnetism Unit and the Global Seismology Unit were incorporated into NERC and became component parts of IGS . |
| 11 | His Albert gleamed rich gold against the fine cloth of his waistcoat , the fine watch lifted now from its hidden pocket to be scrutinized for the hundredth time , a sure sign that Thomas Grenfell was nervous . |
| 12 | Harold Wilson 's words are remembered today , 25 years after he led Labour back to power , from 13 wilderness years . |
| 13 | Six months later in the municipal elections it fought eight seats in five London boroughs . |
| 14 | It was found that some of the Scottish women made outstanding progress in French language as a result of this approach . |
| 15 | Both Gerrard and his opposite number Bryan Gunn made outstanding saves in a thrilling climax to the game , and Norwich manager Mike Walker feels his side are now returning to their early season form . |
| 16 | He made outstanding contributions to all branches of children 's surgery but his lifelong interest was the aetiology of malformations . |
| 17 | The local authority , which shared parental responsibility for J. in consequence of a care order made under the Children Act 1989 , obtained leave under section 100 of the Act to invoke the court 's inherent jurisdiction to determine whether artificial ventilation and/or other life-saving measures should be administered to J. if he were to suffer a life-threatening event . |
| 18 | They accordingly obtained leave to invoke the High Court 's inherent jurisdiction and by their summons , directed to W. and to her aunt who shared parental responsibility for her , sought the court 's leave for such transfer and treatment without her consent . |
| 19 | They all expected each member of the staff to express — discreetly — particular and intense interest in their child . |
| 20 | He was later to become owner of a Beirut company that dubbed educational films and translated technical books into Arabic . |
| 21 | In Britain the revelation that the correspondence of Mazzini , the Italian nationalist leader then a refugee in London , was being opened and read in this way produced strong criticism in parliament and the press . |
| 22 | So , the experiments produced strong evidence of a rhodopsin-like mechanism in the mites ' extraocular receptors . |
| 23 | Although the centre of gravity in Tudor and Stuart England stayed in the more open Midlands and East Anglia , the fringe counties produced strong variations to the general stability and prosperity of these two centuries . |
| 24 | The first six months produced strong growth in compound feed sales , led by a recovery in pig tonnage and our continued success in the dairy sector . |
| 25 | The Romans , too , avoided total absorption in Hellenistic modes of thought , but after all they were politically independent and soon became more powerful than any Hellenistic kingdom . |
| 26 | Most of official Washington entertained little hope of an early improvement in East-West relations . |
| 27 | This form of arranged marriage , the ‘ minor marriage ’ , could be compared with a more common form of arranged marriage , the ‘ major marriage ’ , in which the partners met each other for the first time when they were adolescents . |
| 28 | THE recently expanded sales force met each other for the first time in September at their autumn sales meeting . |
| 29 | We met each other at the same art gallery in Milford Haven and the vibe was just right . ’ |
| 30 | We met each other at the same art gallery in Milford Haven and the vibe was just right . ’ |