Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wind had dropped completely , but there was still a heavy sea running and each wave sent up a sheet of spray as it crashed against the rocks below . |
| 2 | Each interview lasted about an hour and was audiotaped and transcribed . |
| 3 | The Foreign Ministry set up a study group on a peace treaty in November 1945 , although it was clearly premature to pursue the problem at this time . |
| 4 | After the Allied landings took place , that same month , Franco 's controlled press continued to assure readers that the Axis still had the upper hand , and the Spanish Foreign Ministry drew up a plan entitled " Bases for Political Negotiations with Germany " . |
| 5 | This case merited only a six-inch column in one newspaper , but probably failed to get widespread coverage on several grounds : the case was held outside London ( in Manchester ) and the case was not contested . |
| 6 | An extreme example is bracken , Pteridium aquilinum ; Oinonen ( 1967 ) showed that individual clones in Finland were up to 1440 years old and one old clone extended over an area of 474 × 292 m . |
| 7 | Some of Tuscany 's best wines , now made entirely from Sangiovese , would never have reached the drawing board had not an imported French variety got up a lot of Italian noses . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , as Ladbrokes shortened Nashwan 's odds for next Sunday 's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe from 2-1 to 7-4 with a run , French Glory came down a point to 7-1 amid rumours that Pat Eddery would switch to him from Khalid Abdullah 's other probable runner , Assatis . |
| 9 | This study followed up a cohort of 386 patients aged 65 + for six months after their discharge home . |
| 10 | This recommendation ushered in a period of campaigning for and against the change . |
| 11 | Another witness described how a member of the Education Department attempted to play down Mr M 's contribution by strongly criticising his character at the Children 's Panel Hearing . |
| 12 | In the context of terms of shape , children inferred that an unfamiliar term picked out a shape ; in the context of terms of colour , they generally inferred that the unfamiliar term picked out a colour . |
| 13 | In the context of terms of shape , children inferred that an unfamiliar term picked out a shape ; in the context of terms of colour , they generally inferred that the unfamiliar term picked out a colour . |
| 14 | When presented with an unfamiliar colour term in contrast to familiar ones , children assumed that the unfamiliar term picked out a tray of an unfamiliar colour ( Carey and Bartlett , 1978 ) . |
| 15 | This was a peculiar thing to do , because in 1963 in the House of Lords the Lord Chancellor had ruled that a free pardon wiped out a conviction and all its consequences , and the accused was to be regarded as having been acquitted . |
| 16 | Harvey stood there grinning and flushed and the waiter stepped forward with another great silver tray with just two drinks on it , and some wag took down a piece of greenery and formed it into a crown and the soldiers drew their swords and provided an arch under which Harvey walked . |
| 17 | This Act set up a Board of Education to supervise the education system . |
| 18 | A lady from the nearby pub bought over a couple of pints — there was quite a reception aftewards . |
| 19 | Another waiter brought round a trolley on which were a number of half-eaten gateaux decorated with a white substance , and some slices of hard apple resting in water , in a glass howl . |
| 20 | Anyway , this old miser drew up an indenture and the monies were made available . |
| 21 | Another bomb blew up a petrol pump near the headquarters of the Shiv Sena party , part of the Hindu nationalist movement . |
| 22 | Another bomb blew up a petrol pump near the headquarters of the Shiv Sena party , part of the Hindu nationalist movement . |
| 23 | Out of a total of seventeen boys from this group interviewed over a period of one year , no fewer than ten had been in trouble with the police for offences not connected with activities at football matches . |
| 24 | The Republic also pointed the way to the future in its attempts to regulate English trade in a way that would help English shipping though its efforts were not immediately successful ; the monarchy took the same legislative approach , but was able to make its laws effective and on this basis set up a system of control of trade in the empire that survived until the middle of the nineteenth century . |
| 25 | An old sword hung on a wall of his house as an ornament . |
| 26 | In one case , the High Court turned down a complaint that an authority failed to provide unstressful transport for a child because regulations governing ‘ statementing ’ do not require an authority to specify that there should be non-stressful transport . |
| 27 | A soaking bumblebee crawled over a thistle-bloom , vibrated its wings for a few seconds and then flew away down the field . |
| 28 | Mr Patrick Roche , a licensed bookmaker carried on a credit betting business in Houghton Street . |
| 29 | How feminism and sexual radicalism became increasingly a minority current in a labour movement dominated by economism , can be explained by examining the effect of the inter-relationship between patriarchy and British imperialism on the working class , but can not be fully detailed here . |
| 30 | She looked at him , for a moment all sarcasm wiped from his features , the eyelids calm as a corpse , arranged for a laying out , the unusual pallor of his skin like mica in the dark , but the seraphic vision lasted only a fraction of a moment , and the glint came back into his eyes and the twist to his mouth , and he said , slapping her on the side of her breast with a playful cut , ‘ Fantastic . |