Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er when it come to a vote to try and get anything passed or changed the wee branches were solid voting for the national agreement . |
| 2 | Fitzgerald found that for some books , an increase to six or even nine samples actually produced means which systematically departed even further from the population mean — the true overall difficulty level , Only after the number of samples taken approached or exceeded the critical number did the mean of the samples agree with the population mean . |
| 3 | When the opportunity presented itself some Arab states , for example Egypt ( which formally repudiated its treaty in 1976 ) and Iraq ( 1952–3 ) , discarded or downgraded the Soviet Union in their foreign relations and cultivated the United States . |
| 4 | Tenacious and long-memoried , they had not allowed themselves to be uprooted or changed a second time . |
| 5 | This porosity probably formed in response to the same early leaching process that affected the lagoonal mudstones and boundstones , and is made up almost entirely of intragranular voids . |
| 6 | Only in the past two decades ( he was 88 when he died last week ) has he spoken out in public , and in the liberal persuasion , on matters such as disarmament in Britain 's policy on nuclear weapons , matters that occupied a great deal of his professional life in government . |
| 7 | One day in the early autumn of my lower-sixth-form year , when the damp leaves were already furring the grassy median strips that cleaved the dual carriageways surrounding Varndean Grammar , I saw a familiar figure from where I sat reading in the school library . |
| 8 | Precisely how he was to be enticed aboard a suitable vessel remained in doubt , particularly as the DEA neither owned nor controlled a suitable vessel . |
| 9 | ‘ I can do it , ’ she said in a steady , even voice that belied the conflicting emotions churning within her . |
| 10 | When an aircraft has been designed and built a full-sized specimen must be tested for strength and stiffness . |
| 11 | Sir Goldsworthy Gurney , a Cornishman , designed and built a steam-powered carriage which carried 19 passengers in 1827 . |
| 12 | De Havilland , a British company , designed and built the first passenger jet airplane , but it did not analyze what the market needed and therefore did not identify two key factors . |
| 13 | Looking back at that period , the crucial difference in Conservative politicians was between those who thought that the last twenty or thirty years had not been too bad , and who were sceptical that anything better could be achieved , and those who hoped that something better could be won and saw the last quarter of a century as a slow but steady decline . |
| 14 | As the guns were still being fired , a Syrian tank came lunging up the shattered street where we had just been walking and entered the tiny square . |
| 15 | The Samaritan stopped , helped and rescued the unfortunate traveller . |
| 16 | She let the dress fall and took a shy step towards him . |
| 17 | and I both shouted and told the younger pupils to move back and get into a single line . |
| 18 | Most of the illustrations were drawn by Lancake ( forty-eight of the first hundred ) , J. S. Miller both drew and engraved a considerable number , while Mynde and Jeffreys appear most frequently amongst engravers . |
| 19 | She stirred as they entered and gave a creaking groan as she began to waken . |
| 20 | Bill Service , Personnel Manager states ‘ In all the time she has been in the Mill , she was never late of absent until February 1987 when she unfortunately slipped while coming to work and sustained a dislocated elbow . ’ |
| 21 | Right : Philip designed and made the circular dining table using smoky blue glass |
| 22 | Together they designed and supervised a large number of contracts , including the Wye Valley Railway , the Guernsey Tramway , the Cardiff and Penarth Tramway , the East Worcestershire Waterworks , and Totland Bay pier , as well as acting as engineers to the West Bromwich sanitary commissioners . |
| 23 | In 1826 he was appointed resident engineer to the London docks where , over the next nine years , he designed and executed the Eastern dock , with the associated warehousing , entrance locks , bridges , and other works . |
| 24 | They designed and built a new tractor mower and turned their former customers into competitors . |
| 25 | Watt was not alone as an engineer and canal-builder , and his work laid the foundations of the industrial north of England , together with Thomas Telford of Dumfriesshire , greatest of the early civil engineers , William Symington , who designed and built the first steamship in the world as well as giving poet Robert Burns a rough ride during its promotional voyage on Dalswinton Loch , Henry Bell and his Comet , Nasmyth , there is nae doot that the Scots have a very special genius . |
| 26 | Donald Healey , who designed and built the first Healeys in the 1940s , also worked on the new design details . |
| 27 | The son of King George III , as Prince Regent , was renowned as a connoisseur of elegant living and of art treasures , also architecture and was the patron of the architect , John Nash , who designed and built the famous Regent Street crescent in London 's West End , and other developments around Regents Park , also the equally famous Brighton Pavilion . |
| 28 | I caught and examined a good sample of these . |
| 29 | Okland was interviewed in one of the papers on why Frank was included and mentioned the strong Turkey game and also spoke about Frank not playing in Leeds : ’ Frank not playing is strange . |
| 30 | As her subjects prepared for action , she encountered and noted the physical hardships that prevailed , notably the intense cold . |