Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Representatives from as many relevant agencies as possible met a few times a year , and devised an agreed strategy for the inner area concerned . |
| 2 | That created a little space and I just hit the ball . |
| 3 | But I think the political climate on that changed a few years ago , when there was the big influx of heroin onto the market … . |
| 4 | The UWP , in power since 1982 , won nine of the 17 parliamentary seats in the general election of April 6 , 1987 ; fresh elections on April 30 produced the same result , and the subsequent defection of an SLP member increased the UWP 's majority to three seats [ see pp. 35187-8 ] . |
| 5 | This got a few whistles . |
| 6 | This created a few problems as intense rivalry was felt between the children from the two towns . |
| 7 | This caused a few gasps , as well it might . |
| 8 | In the early stages of her marriage she kept her maiden name but when this caused a few rumblings in Arkansas and Clinton lost his bid for re-election as governor in 1980 , she took his name and he was returned to office two years later . |
| 9 | Every time he walked that 's him come back again and every time he stopped it stopped and this happened a few times and he was very scared and he thought he had better go and see what the noise was and anything well it was just a pet sheep tangled up in its tether . |
| 10 | This followed the same lines as Woodruffe ( 1976 ) , who divided rural districts into six types depending on their history of population change : |
| 11 | 154 followed the same routing as the trolleybuses , but 157 covered different roads between Wallington and Morden . |
| 12 | Another expressed the same view : |
| 13 | The differences in treatment of the authors was very apparent when we found that some selected a few headings and sub-headings and others sub-divided the subject much more . |
| 14 | He said this meant no more votes for those who supported any paramilitary organisation , no more safe houses , no more slogans of support on gable walls , footpaths and even schoolbags . |
| 15 | This sent a few tremors through the market with the FT-SE Index closing more than 19 points adrift at 2750.7 . |
| 16 | This took a little time during which I pondered uneasily on the possibility , however remote , of having to recognize the existence of additional progeny , and all that it would entail . |
| 17 | This had the same kind of look to it . |
| 18 | Indeed , for the most part , slaves demonstrating boxing proficiency were pitted against each other locally at the behest of slave masters ; few trod the same paths as Richmond and Molyneux ( McPherson , 1976a , p. 123 ) . |
| 19 | This mirrored the same argument that opponents of Merrell Dow and of lignite mining in Co . |
| 20 | With that came a few showers , mostly on the east coast . |
| 21 | The second exploded a few minutes later in a wastebin in Cavendish Square , where the store 's 1,500 staff usually gather during safety drills . |
| 22 | As a matter of fact , although it is an extra extravagance from the point of view of fuel , the chicken will be very much nicer cooked the same day as it is to be eaten , before it has had time to harden up . |
| 23 | Not all members of staff in this department of thirteen felt the same degree of commitment to The Machine Gunners as a class reader . |
| 24 | The Kyowa Saitama Bank on July 26 sued a former employee and two companies involved in an alleged 8,000 million yen ( $60,000,000 ) swindle . |
| 25 | That happened a few times . |
| 26 | That happened a few times ! |
| 27 | We three shared the same interests and opinions , and spent the days and evenings very happily together . |
| 28 | Attempts to insert a statutory definition into the Charities Bill 1960 failed No such attempt was even made in the passage of the Charities Bill 1992 , despite the active participation in debate of Lord Renton and Lord Brightman and Lord Allen of Abbeydale . |
| 29 | The Supreme Court of New South Wales on Aug. 21 cleared the former Premier of the state , Nick Greiner , of the corruption allegations which had forced him to resign from office in June 1992 [ see p. 38965 ] . |
| 30 | A packed courtroom far from all seated heard the former Recorder of Teesside recall his early days in the area during his speech to mark the opening of the Middlesbrough-based court centre . |