Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " 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 | Dan realised with growing dismay that at forty-six he was qualified for nothing . |
| 3 | As we have seen , in the past false biological views led to false reasoning . |
| 4 | The relative lack of council housing has made this system more important : in 1948 34 per cent of farmworkers lived in tied housing , but by 1976 this figure had increased to 53 per cent . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was also partly in response to the effects of overaccumulation that deflationary policies led to decreased capacity utilization in the United States . |
| 8 | But it turns out that snails parasitized by certain kinds of fluke ( flatworm ) have extra-thick shells . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've never seen anything like that in my life , ’ Mitch announced in absolute awe . |
| 10 | Subtle lamps gleamed on pink-clothed tables , each with its own vase of flowers . |
| 11 | Further chemical reactions led to living organisms . |
| 12 | Provision made by other agencies , Guide Post Trusts , for example , MENCAP Homes and so on and so forth . |
| 13 | Conditions at the 20-pitch permanent park led to strong condemnation at Newry and Mourne Council . |
| 14 | In this way , Man and Daurog lived in uneasy harmony for many generations , each keeping to their realm , each finding power in the other , each recognizing the other in themselves … |
| 15 | The red warning lights of The Sandhopper glowed like boiling blood in the blackness . |
| 16 | In 1801 the population of England and Wales was under nine million , of whom the great majority lived in rural communities outside London . |
| 17 | Clubs asked for early warning |
| 18 | The Germans argued for increased centralization in order to fight the empire . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In Japan , as in Germany , love of consensus and the absence of a revolving door leave little room for unorthodox views peddled by independent institutes . |
| 21 | The Soviet Foreign Minister Boris Pankin also visited Jerusalem , on Oct. 17 , and met with Israeli Foreign Minister David Levi , while Baker met with Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir . |
| 22 | In Saudi Arabia Baker met with foreign ministers from the six GCC countries and Egypt and Syria , who issued a joint statement expressing their appreciation for Bush 's March 6 speech and its " positive treatment " to the Palestinian question . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The 6ft carpet snake crept into Calan Lavender 's bed , wrapped its body around him and plunged in its fangs . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | We soon came upon a fascinating group of ancient dwellings , all that remained of the old village where the last inhabitants of Rona lived in primitive conditions and awful isolation until their final evacuation in 1844 . |
| 30 | In November Moscow agreed on United Nations monitoring on both sides of the Afghan border . |