Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The audience for the BBC 's nine o'clock news doubled to 13m on the day war broke out , and that for ITN rose by a third . |
| 2 | Matthews entered the game at 3–4 as Colchester went to a one-setter system . |
| 3 | Prime Minister Bufi spoke at a rally for Baker attended by a jubilant crowd packing Skanderbeg Square . |
| 4 | were in effect suggesting that the inner psychological motivations for racism existed at a deeper level of social reality than the socially shared norms of tolerance . |
| 5 | Often the need for help arose from a specific pressure such as damaged or lost equipment or from a life event like moving house or the birth of a child . |
| 6 | But the poetry which emerged front that experience is hard and clear , and it is as if his capacity for suffering existed with an immense ability to use and to order it . |
| 7 | They also found that an error of eight weeks in the date of payment led to an average error in the proportionate mispricing of only 0.01% . |
| 8 | Beyond , a slightly steeper slope of pasture rose to a low skyline with a toupeé of trees . |
| 9 | On the nights when the tide of sewing ebbed to a low water-mark , Aunt Margaret crept up to Francie 's room and played her flute with him . |
| 10 | Instead , the naked corpse of Hauser lay on a central table , the chest cavity spread open , and several organs glistening purply on gleaming dishes to either side . |
| 11 | Until recently , the prohibitive cost of hydrogen acted as a powerful deterrent . |
| 12 | The increased official recognition of the hazards of asbestos led to a veritable torrent of health-related regulations in the US . |
| 13 | The addition of cisapride led to a significant increase of median contraction amplitude and duration , but only in the mid and distal oesophagus . |
| 14 | Each set of notes came with an attached exercise and at his behest I set to , to analyse squares of numbers , using keys to turn them into the letters that described either thaumaturgical entities , or else even the tetragrammaton itself . |
| 15 | Although not a new phenomenon abroad , occurrences of listeria were relatively rare in Britain until 1989 when the number of cases rose to an estimated 800 , one third of which were pregnant women . |
| 16 | Representing a more traditional form of British cinema , John Schlesinger 's Madame Sousatzka ( Virgin ) has a stand-out performance by Shirley MacLaine and a keen eye for varied London locations , while A Time Of Destiny ( Vestron ) is a baroque romantic melodrama from Gregory Nava ( El Norte ) , which despite the miscasting of William Hurt as a Basque immigrant 's son seemed to me to have been unfairly downgraded . |
| 17 | Britain 's Courtaulds and Hoechst of Germany agreed on a joint venture that will merge their viscose and acrylic-fibres businesses in Europe . |
| 18 | May 1945 , the final capitulation of Germany occurred with an unconditional surrender to the Allied forces . |
| 19 | It is not surprising that the value of exports grew by a mere 3% in 1990 . |
| 20 | Murchison acted upon the recommendation quickly and the resulting influx of recruits led to a radical change in the organisation of the Survey in Scotland . |
| 21 | It was no accident that Baldwin VII of Flanders moved to a new repressive interpretation of comital justice at just the same time as he claimed the superior advocacy over all ecclesiastical houses in Flanders . |
| 22 | I see in my mind the laughter of Ramakrishna transformed into a transcendent substance which echoes down the mystic roads . |
| 23 | A large mug of tea vanished in a single gulp , then the man and woman moved out of sight towards the outer door in the kitchen 's lower corner . |
| 24 | The Englishman 's cup of char began as a Chinese word for tea , but came west via north India 's chai . |
| 25 | By 1235 , the whole question of forgery stood on a new moral and legal footing , and the corporate ambitions of the monks fell to the ground in a blaze of scandal . |
| 26 | A team at the University of Dundee reported on a neural computer that checks cervical smears containing up to 200,000 cells and decides whether they are abnormal or not with 96 per cent accuracy . |
| 27 | The second edition of GCE evolved into a new grammar , which we named A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language , published by Longman in 1985 . |
| 28 | During the 1920s the discovery of hormones led to a new variant in the theory of sexual difference based on emotional instability . |
| 29 | A Landsat TM image of Leicestershire recorded on a cloud-free day in July 1984 constitutes the basic data source . |
| 30 | A CHANGE of programme resulted in an audio-visual show by Edward Mallory of Guildford being presented at Alton Camera Club on Friday . |