Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Jane Asher dinosaur cake was introduced recently and buyers inform us that dinosaur shaped canned pasta is now a possibility , together with existing canned lines of this kind . |
| 2 | A year or so later his professional technique scored another success . |
| 3 | Only a last-ditch struggle saved that fragment . |
| 4 | He was a member of a working party which caused ICI to switch to a new approach under which each division took direct control of its own sales . |
| 5 | The levels of NC protein used were chosen such that the higher level completely retarded DNA migration on an agarose gel while the lower level gave intermediate retardation . |
| 6 | That decision created tremendous doubt about whether facilities will be made available to service the regions north of London . |
| 7 | In an argument no doubt intended to be attractive to Manchester 's merchants and employers — local abolitionists had specifically asked him to write on the impolicy of slavery and the slave trade — he declared that freedom produced cheaper labour than slavery . |
| 8 | US Cellular Corp saw third quarter net losses of $6m up from losses of $4.4m last time , on turnover up 66.5% at $42.2m ; net losses for the nine months stood at $1.7m down from losses of $26.2m last time , after $14.9m gains from the sale of cellular interests this time and $10.3m tax charges last time , on turnover that rose by 72.2% to $109.7m . |
| 9 | Britain 's most destructive storm swept southern England in November 1703 . |
| 10 | Neither pairing produced conclusive evidence , such was the low key nature of United 's approach . |
| 11 | Neither pairing produced conclusive evidence , such was the low-key nature of United 's approach — and Ferguson refused to say which twosome he would go for . |
| 12 | The introduction of a pressure transducer to determine the temporal variations of weight in the water column above a specific level permitted electrical recorders to be used . |
| 13 | Political proscription drove more Tories into the arms of the Pretender ( amongst them leading figures such as Bolingbroke , Ormonde and Sir William Wyndham ) as their only hope of political salvation . |
| 14 | In this context , Bryan Gould 's decision to challenge John Smith for the Labour leadership , as our political correspondent wrote last week , is welcome — not because he will win , but because it forces a debate to take place . |
| 15 | Though America 's economic hegemony ended 20 years ago , the consequences of this were little appreciated within America , for the country 's military and geopolitical power went unchallenged until 1989–91 , when its old enemy threw in the towel . |
| 16 | In neither case did Bcl-2 expression overcome the cytostatic effect of the drugs ( data not shown ) . |
| 17 | The uprising of 1848 gave them an opportunity to alter their status , but they did not take it and by and large seem to have accepted that industrialisation meant inevitable Germanisation . |
| 18 | European interests were secondary to national objectives , except where European political unity carried more clout in the international political scene . |
| 19 | Ackroyd 's strange experience began one day as he looked out from his lonely signal box . |
| 20 | The columnar lined segment comprised 3–19 cm ( mean 6 cm ) of the oesophagus above the tumour . |
| 21 | It seems that Parliament accepted this recommendation , although I doubt whether blood donation will create any problem as a ‘ Gillick competent ’ minor of any age would be able to give consent under the common law . |
| 22 | This was anathema to the predominant mentality of the time , and a stark contrast to the later argument of Job Throckmorton [ q.v. ] that Parliament had full competence in the matter . |
| 23 | For the variable we are considering , this prediction implies that the difference between the current value of the retail price index and the expectation of that index formed last period will be a serially uncorrelated random variable with mean zero , that is : where P t is the actual value of the current retail price index , is the expectation of P t , formed in period , and v t is the random forecast error , which is uncorrelated with any information available in period or earlier . |
| 24 | No grouping of the patients according to symptoms or the presence or absence of neurological deficit showed any difference in incidence of transient UOS relaxations . |
| 25 | The European Parliament gained certain rights of amendment . |
| 26 | From the downhill direction came infrequent vehicles with business in their tiny settlement . |
| 27 | The nine cairns stand on the northern rim of the broad ridge named Nine Standards Rigg and command an uninterrupted and comprehensive view of many miles of the valley of the Eden . |
| 28 | Places dedicated to film presentation , the penny gaffes , did start to spring up at the beginning of the new century , but it was only with the emergence of long films around 1910 that cinema acquired any sort of institutional presence in British towns . |
| 29 | Perkin-Elmer Corp saw second quarter net profits up 8.5% at $17.8m , after $3.3m gains from the sale of a joint venture , on sales down 89.4% at $243.6m ; mid-term net rose 19.3% to $30.3m , on turnover up 11.5% at $476.3m . |
| 30 | Little Chef had other ideas . |