Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [vb past] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not possible to determine the number of such people among the 119 recorded as dying in 1990 or how many would not have taken an overdose had they been aware that paracetamol , if taken in large quantities , often results in a painful and lingering death due to liver failure . |
| 2 | With the slaughter of the king , the English turned and ran , pursued and hunted down by the knights . |
| 3 | The Japanese insisted that talk about barriers was also applicable to the USA , and cited a number of other factors which , they claimed , impeded exports , including a high ratio of consumption to savings and the huge US budget deficit [ see for example , pp. 37036 ; 37177-78 ] . |
| 4 | The second whinnied and moved back a step to graze the spot it had been coveting for the past hour . |
| 5 | It would seem that I had no choice in either matter , but whereas the former flattered me as well as frightened me , the latter insulted and enraged me . |
| 6 | Of the 6111 recorded as working in the Royal docks , 5093 ( 83.3 per cent ) lived in Canning Town or Plaistow . |
| 7 | Queen Elizabeth the First watched that play — on Twelfth Night , the 6th of January , 1601 . |
| 8 | Despite its implications , the great argument was not over the Political Community , but over the EDC , for the former stood or fell with the ratification of the latter . |
| 9 | Dale and his colleagues in the 1930s showed that acetylcholine , in addition to its other properties , was a local hormone relaying messages at autonomic ganglia , that is at critical points in the nerve pathways which control the heart and blood vessels , and at the sites where nerves activate voluntary muscles . |
| 10 | The Prime Minister summoned the European Commission President to Downing Street where the two agreed that talks to try to avert a trade war with the United States must begin as soon as possible . |
| 11 | Pierre Salinger of ABC News seemed equally unconvinced that it was Libya 's sole responsibility after he went to Tripoli in December 1991 to interview the two accused and to discuss their indictment with Colonel Gaddafi . |
| 12 | It was the arrival on the scene of the last named that precipitated a new relationship . |
| 13 | With more than half a million driversstopped and breathalysed last year , people are more aware than ever that detection is a real possibility . |