Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stared at him , her mouth slightly open so that her rather small even teeth gleamed in the thin October sunshine that was now filling the kitchen . |
| 2 | Where no expansion was taking place , the only chance of transfer was if vacancies arose in the regular workforce . |
| 3 | The opportunity arose in the close season when the FA decided to form the Mid-Counties Combination . |
| 4 | In her early thirties , her raven black hair gleamed in the overhead light . |
| 5 | But the new cohorts felt much less keenly the social conditions from which the class alignment arose in the first place . |
| 6 | While Madeleine snored in the bottom bunk Léonie fought to keep awake , to know the exact moment when , in the very centre of the Channel , precisely equidistant from both shores , the walls of water and of words met , embraced wetly and closely , became each other , composed of each other 's sounds . |
| 7 | Bright little creature — it took her just three minutes to work this out as her antennae fluttered in the sudden sweet smelling breeze . |
| 8 | Her olive skin glowed in the artificial light , the curves of her naked breasts softened into a newly voluptuous sensuality that reflected and heightened her resolution . |
| 9 | Pauline Kael admitted in The New Yorker that , ‘ reviewing this perfect nothing of a movie is rather degrading : it 's like giving consumer hints on the latest expensive worthless gift for the person who has everything ’ . |
| 10 | Armstrong fought in the First World War and was a war artist in the Second , sharing with other Surrealists the challenge of creating a pattern out of devastation . |
| 11 | On one island the macaques lived in the forested interior . |
| 12 | The difficulty arose in the present case because of the Divisional Court 's decision in R v Board of Inland Revenue , Ex parte Goldberg ( 1989 ) QB 267 . |
| 13 | In a separate case last Friday , Mr Justice Popplewell ruled in the High Court that the courts were not an appropriate place to decide a child 's educational needs . |
| 14 | Mills arose in the remote valleys below the moors , and hamlets and villages quickly clustered around them . |
| 15 | That night , Ted and Jim met in the local pub to discuss the situation . |
| 16 | Brief enthusiastic accounts surfaced in the popular press every now and then , offering highly suspect details on her ‘ phenomenal ’ sailing characteristics . |
| 17 | In consolidating data from several areas it has been proposed that a rapid rise of sea level occurred in the early Holocene but that in the last 6000 years the rate has been far less , although it may have diminished progressively , it may have risen to c . |
| 18 | If two such solutions were displayed as in Fig. 24.2(b) , the overall impression given would be the same ; however , sufficiently long after initiation , the times at which the changes of level occurred in the two solutions would be totally uncorrelated . |
| 19 | The bodies of nine crewman who were killed when their Hercules crashed in the Scottish Highlands a week ago , will be flown back to RAF Lyneham tomorrow . |
| 20 | He was about four feet away when his foot caught in the electric flex he was dragging and he stumbled forward off balance . |
| 21 | ( 1988 b ) support this interpretation by demonstrating that the VS pre-exposure treatment will produce perfectly good latent inhibition when the CS used in the conditioning phase is itself vinegar followed by sucrose , an arrangement that should ensure that the same representation of vinegar is activated on both occasions . |
| 22 | Small , possibly ancestral forms occurred in the early Triassic ( 225–215 million years ago ) in South Africa ; types such as Noteosuchus , Howesia , and Mesosuchus . |
| 23 | Luce surfaced in the early hours of the morning to find that she was still enfolded in Michele 's arms . |
| 24 | Creed rode in the third car , flanked by two of the Corporation 's top directors , with Jed at the wheel in his new top hat . |
| 25 | It is clear in any case that the growing size of the middle class must change fundamentally the image of capitalist society as one in which class antagonisms are simplified , and ‘ society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps , into two great classes directly facing each other — bourgeoisie and proletariat ’ , which Marx and Engels depicted in the Communist Manifesto and which Marxists and other socialists generally accepted without much questioning until the early years of the twentieth century . |
| 26 | The practice arose in the last decades of the nineteenth century within the ruling class . |
| 27 | When the new class of bourgeois manufacturers and traders arose in the nineteenth century , it was able to merge with the commercialised aristocracy through marriage , and through the newly reformed public schools and universities . |
| 28 | It was by no means clear how the figure arose in the first place . |
| 29 | Morley excelled in the lighter types of madrigal and kindred forms ; the supreme masters of the English school were Weelkes , who published his first book in 1597 , and John Wilbye ( 1574–1638 ) who began the following year . |
| 30 | And what we have are as follows , one , a manual , which Dennis mentioned in the red folder . |