Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adj] [vb past] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ah me , the Home , Light and Third had a lot going for them . |
| 2 | Something wet and heavy hit the side of his head . |
| 3 | But the dollar 's weight , 21.9% , was double what it would have been on a purely trade-weighted basis , so its slide between 1985 and 1990 dragged the krona down against ERM currencies . |
| 4 | The two papal judgments issued in the course of this famous suit concerning the exemption of the abbey from the jurisdiction of the diocesan and the position of the abbey 's churches in the Vale of Evesham between 1202 and 1206 attracted the attention of the decretal collectors . |
| 5 | Fourthly , if any of the purposes was unauthorised and this had an effect upon the decision taken , that decision will be overturned as being one based upon irrelevant considerations . |
| 6 | So impassive and peculiar had the Collector become , so obviously on the verge , everyone thought so ( you would have thought so yourself if you had seen him at this time ) , of giving up the ghost , that his face was scrutinized more closely than ever for any trace of remorse as the gorse bruiser was carried out . |
| 7 | With hindsight we can see how the paleontology of the 1840s and 1850s paved the way for the reception of Darwin 's theory when the Origin of Species was published late in 1859 . |
| 8 | The subsequent phase between 1934 and 1939 signalled the return of the party from the political wilderness of sectarian isolationism . |
| 9 | Elementary education was made free in 1891 and 1899 saw the creation of a government Education Department . |
| 10 | When his University vacations in the 60s and 70s exhausted the walking possibilities of the British Isles , he turned to foreign countries . |
| 11 | Gilbert : ‘ When we had a big exhibition at the Hayward Gallery , 80 works , only three or four had a penis in it . ’ |
| 12 | I 'm considering doing a mini-series set in the 1940s or 50s called The Silence Of Dean Maitland . |
| 13 | The collapse of the Hohenstaufen dynasty in Germany and Italy between 1254 and 1268 created a power vacuum in imperial politics . |
| 14 | The metal cooled slightly before the additional pouring and this left a crack most of the way round the top of the head . |
| 15 | Magistrates and solicitors in the 1870s and 1880s painted a picture of working class wives falling prey to the tallyman or ‘ scotch hawker ’ selling inferior and expensive goods , and called for a law to limit the power of the married woman to pledge her husband 's credit in such circumstances . |
| 16 | Preassigned p values equal to 0.10 and 0.15 controlled the stepping of entry and removal respectively . |
| 17 | The industrial censuses of 1946 and 1965 showed a decline in female workers from 22 per cent to 18 per cent . |
| 18 | We thought about jumping but that meant a risk of twisting an ankle , breaking a leg , or slipping and falling thousands of feet down the north face . |
| 19 | The Labour governments of 1964 and 1966 expanded the scope of regional policy , both as regards the areas covered , the number of programmes designed to promote regional policy and the administrative machinery needed to implement it . |
| 20 | The results showed that rhythms with a period of about 24 hours continued and this confirmed the activity of the body clock during the experiment ( fig 2.1 ) . |
| 21 | Retrospective analysis of more than 4000 patients undergoing endoscopic control between 1981 and 1987 showed an incidence of 3.5% for pseudomelanosis coli . |
| 22 | FILM stars , Washington celebrities , the curious and well-to-do attended the world premiere of Steven Spielberg 's dinosaur thriller Jurassic Park last night . |
| 23 | However , the group which had their first babies between 1950 and 1954 had a median of 9.7 years before they returned to paid employment . |
| 24 | The 1970s and 80s saw the development of models which took up the thesis that the mass media were not passive or neutral channels but exerted active influence to the advantage of select social groups . |
| 25 | The 1970s and 1980s saw the setting up of rape crisis centres , refuges for battered women , groups for incest survivors , and a host of local and national campaigning groups including Women Against Rape , Women Against Violence Against Women , and the Women 's Aid Federation . |
| 26 | Neither the reforms at the end of the nineteenth century , nor the reorganisations of the 1970s and 1980s stopped the debate . |
| 27 | Some of the tragic child-abuse cases publicly investigated in the 1970s and 1980s highlighted the need for schools both to record information about possible child abuse and to share it with other agencies . |
| 28 | Research in the 1970s and 1980s showed a link between lead entering the body and the state of health . |
| 29 | Nos. 4 and 12 won a GRAMOPHONE Award in 1977 . |
| 30 | The rule referred to is based on the proposition that all events , from the very beginning of earthly life and from whatever source , must ultimately be for the promotion of the enjoyment of life ; therefore the classification , good , evil or neutral reflected the measure of the effect on human happiness attributable to each event . |