Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An artist I met that evening at Dr Caskie 's suggested that I exchange my tourist food permit for a civil emergency ration card , and do my own marketing and cooking . |
| 2 | To watch Reutemann on a tennis court , for instance , was painful ; even Hunt , a splendid athlete , really lacked that sort of fluency which expresses real ‘ style ’ ; Jody Scheckter , doing almost anything , was incredibly clumsy . |
| 3 | About this time the Geomagnetism Unit and the Global Seismology Unit were incorporated into NERC and became component parts of IGS . |
| 4 | Harold Wilson 's words are remembered today , 25 years after he led Labour back to power , from 13 wilderness years . |
| 5 | The local authority , which shared parental responsibility for J. in consequence of a care order made under the Children Act 1989 , obtained leave under section 100 of the Act to invoke the court 's inherent jurisdiction to determine whether artificial ventilation and/or other life-saving measures should be administered to J. if he were to suffer a life-threatening event . |
| 6 | He was later to become owner of a Beirut company that dubbed educational films and translated technical books into Arabic . |
| 7 | In Britain the revelation that the correspondence of Mazzini , the Italian nationalist leader then a refugee in London , was being opened and read in this way produced strong criticism in parliament and the press . |
| 8 | The first six months produced strong growth in compound feed sales , led by a recovery in pig tonnage and our continued success in the dairy sector . |
| 9 | After her miscarriage so long ago , Elizabeth met each change with apprehension , but she seemed well and in fact , bloomed in her pregnancy . |
| 10 | My Working Group recommended that knowledge about language should be an integral part of work in English , not a separate body of knowledge to be added on to the traditional English curriculum . |
| 11 | Between June 1958 and December 1960 he made eight trips to Algeria . |
| 12 | The Transport Act 1968 applied that exclusion to road transport services provided by the newly created STG . |
| 13 | Britain 's industrial revolution made ample use of child labour . |
| 14 | He also got strong support from Vietnam veterans , who Bush said would turn against Clinton because of his anti-war activities . |
| 15 | The two polls revealed lower levels of trust in those countries and people that historically have been Britain 's enemies . |
| 16 | In the same period last year , the company made interim profits of £17.2 million . |
| 17 | ‘ If the vow you made that night for Minch 's safe return is holding you back do not let it , for there are many ways such a vow may be fulfilled , ’ she said . |
| 18 | I 've gone clean off him — ever since he made that pact with Stalin and the ghastly Russians . ’ |
| 19 | His third son , Theodore , eventually became technical head of London Transport ; Ernest , the second son , trained to become an art teacher but spent most of his life in industrial design and advertising ; the poet , too , possessed strong , capable , craftsman 's hands and the poet 's daughter , Myfanwy , still treasures many examples of her father 's skill as a carpenter and metal worker . |
| 20 | Having switched to engineering , he became technical director of Blease Anaesthetics Equipment and two years later was appointed managing director . |
| 21 | In January 1949 the British cabinet ruled that co-operation with Europe should not be taken so far that it compromised Britain 's ability to survive as an independent state . |
| 22 | it was , it was Romana 's mum and dad , I think they owned that row of houses and the shop |
| 23 | Those incomers with whom I discussed class agreed that awareness of class is a typically British trait . |
| 24 | In deference to German wishes , the EC agreed that recognition of Bosnia should not take place from yesterday , April 6 , a date still remembered in the Balkans as the anniversary of the Nazi invasion in 1941 . |
| 25 | Throughout the first two weeks of the campaign almost twothirds of our panel cited unemployment as the ‘ main issue ’ that should be discussed but it got little coverage on television news . |
| 26 | She met political leaders in Bonn , walked through the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin , met citizens in Leipzig , and attended a service of reconciliation in Dresden , which was destroyed by allied bombing on Feb. 13 , 1945 . |
| 27 | There are mutterings in some quarters , however , about the legality of the bowling actions of Jayananda Warnaweera and Muttiah Muralidharan — who shared eight wickets in England 's first innings of 380 . |
| 28 | In division one , Sherwood Park ( John Spriggs 2 , Alan Birtles , Jimmy Clarke , Barry Mason , Chris Marsh , Paul Duggan , Mick Roberts ) trounced Bohemians 8-1 and Duttons ( Jeff Dodd 2 , Steve Handford , John McKenna ) shared eight goals with Daily Post & Echo ( Alan Clark 2 , Graham Clarke , Barry Williams ) . |
| 29 | While many Alfonsists became increasingly attracted to fascism after 1931 , openly fascist organizations made little headway in Spain before 1936 . |
| 30 | Understandably , given their numerical disadvantage , Grimsby made little headway in attack , although Alexander , at 6ft 4in , was of a nuisance value against a defence deprived by injury of Brian Kilcline 's aerial authority . |