Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] in [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elisa rose in some confusion , wishing to remonstrate with her host about the abundance of his generosity . |
| 2 | Minsky and Papert studied in some detail how elaborate a perceptron must be in order to recognise a particular class . |
| 3 | What Karl Rahner achieved in those years can hardly be summarized ( but see his Foundations of Christian Faith , 1978 , ch . |
| 4 | Lorence R Fizia of Bathgate sent in this shot of a cruiser at Fort Lauderdale in December 1991 — this has to be form a Boeing 307 Stratoliner ! |
| 5 | Dot did n't like it when Mrs Parvis spoke in this way , as though they were dusty victims from under the rubble . |
| 6 | Finally , the difference in the nature of slavery and wage labour which Marx and Engels discussed in many places has formed the basis of all recent discussion on the subject . |
| 7 | Burton , too , contributed : a wayward genius , too much of a drinker for his own good , Richard did in this instance behave like the very bright and perceptive gentleman he could be . |
| 8 | ‘ We must be giving them quite some headaches in the Pentagon , ’ Hawkins said in some satisfaction . |
| 9 | There is a curious sense in which the no-holds-barred style that Nizan adopted in this series of five articles , the last he ever wrote for Ce Soir , marked a return to the sectarian , aggressive , uncompromising Nizan of 1932 . |
| 10 | Not all the birds that Gould caught in this way were subjected to an impromptu autopsy . |
| 11 | Ash cascaded in all directions . |
| 12 | In addition to hundreds of parish libraries in England endowed in this way there were over thirty founded by Dr Bray in America , the largest being in Annapolis . |
| 13 | Aldercine Hodson , Ruth Lawrence and Moya Hood taught in this area from the late sixties , but more recently Aldercine has been concentrating on classes with Active Retirement Clubs , as well as people with other special needs , and has organised several Sport/Fun Days for people with disabilities . |
| 14 | Mrs M Watson of Wimborne in Dorset sent in this tip to us . |
| 15 | Signals , sitreps and diaries of the time contain no hint that a massacre had taken place , or that Tito 's Yugoslavs at Bleiburg had in any way breached their assurances to Brig Scott , and this may be regarded as significant in assessing the extent to which 5 Corps subsequently continued to accept Yugoslav assurances that prisoners surrendered to them would not be indiscriminately killed . |
| 16 | The GLC was empowered by the Act to make grants to the LTE for any purpose ( section 3 ) and the GLC intended in this way to reimburse the LTE for the revenue lost by the fares reduction and so enable the LTE to balance its books , this being an obligation placed on the LTE ‘ so far as practicable ’ . |
| 17 | Matadial referred in some detail in her evidence to five or six occasions between October 1986 and the end of the year when she had discussed with the defendant his frequent beating and threatening of Paulette . |
| 18 | Within a few months George Dundas was himself commander of the Lutine , and on 2nd November transferred in this rank to the sloop Calpe , again newly commissioned , and with this record of command his career was firmly established and his subsequent rise rapid , for in this case Keith had made no mistake in patronising a friend . |
| 19 | The map of Wessex included in each volume was prepared from a drawing supplied by Hardy . |
| 20 | Anaud had in some ways a curiously desexualized view of the body and spoke of a ‘ body without organs ’ , which was for him a body deprived mainly of functions of reproduction and defecation , that was mainly a locus of feeling and sensation . |
| 21 | He and Robert had in any case disappeared to drink and play cards ( the express had a gaming saloon ) soon after dinner . |
| 22 | Among the many parties competing in the elections only the Civic Democratic Party and the extreme right-wing Republicans led by Jan Holcik stood in both parts of the country . |
| 23 | The United Kingdom referred in that connection to article 5(1) of the Geneva Convention on the High Seas 1958 ( United Nations Treaty Series 450 , No. 6465 ) ( Cmnd. 1929 ) which reads : |
| 24 | Lubor exclaimed in some surprise . |
| 25 | ‘ Worldly Paris mingled in these sessions with artists in sweaters who had come from the Rotonde and the Dôme … |
| 26 | The entrance foyer was packed when Georg sidled in that evening , hoping that no-one would see him and recognize him . |
| 27 | Immigrants to the UK fulfilled in many ways the same functions as white working-class people . |
| 28 | Steadily , screwing up her eyes , Emmie fed in more bundles . |
| 29 | This had been good fortune , as they had not been aware that it was a ‘ protected ’ aircraft , but Carrington arranged in any case for the record of their flight to be blotted from the squadron 's sortie book . |
| 30 | The book analyzes the different mistakes of interpretation and evaluation that Richards saw in these responses , and seeks to identify their causes . |