Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disputes under them are to be referred to arbitration , where contracts made on a particular exchange are in issue , and otherwise to the English courts . |
| 2 | Then she lit him up the stairs , and went before him into the panelled solar , where Rhodri rose from a tall chair by the fire to receive him . |
| 3 | He 'd been shown to the interview room where Scott sat with a uniformed officer close by the door . |
| 4 | Any tendency to diffuseness or ambiguity led to a wide range of interpretations and allowed teachers and heads to assert in good faith , whatever the nature of their practice , that they were implementing the LEA 's policies and principles . |
| 5 | At last they came to a clearing , where Vic headed for a mossy log . |
| 6 | On August 6th 1991 , 11 winners from W & V arrived on a dull drizzly morning at Mallory Park , Leicestershire . |
| 7 | Obviously , the heroin use of their son or daughter came as a great shock to most parents , many of whom seem to have had little or no idea that their offspring was involved in any drug use whatsoever , let alone daily heroin use . |
| 8 | As a result , for the bulk of those who delayed a decision about early retirement , unemployment or sickness amounted to a similar economic status to early retirement : non-employment . |
| 9 | The recruits hurried below to pack into the on-ship chapel , where incense burned before a lambent golden icon of the Emperor and an alabaster idol of Rogal Dorn , the founding Primarch of the Imperial Fists . |
| 10 | Rows of simple wooden benches drew her gaze towards the altar , where candles burned beside a tall , plain wooden crucifix . |
| 11 | Although Nizan adhered to a clear set of communist principles between 1935 and 1939 , his psychological state fluctuated in accordance with national and international political events . |
| 12 | It was no more than Wanderers deserved after a luckless opening . |
| 13 | It was now that Nicandra fell into a sudden easy accord with Andrew . |
| 14 | Although Hawke prevailed with a substantial majority , most political commentators believed that it was a pyrrhic victory which had left him considerably weakened and vulnerable to a future challenge . |
| 15 | And so it was all along the line , from Telnitz in the south , right the way to the Olmütz road , where the plain rose into the foothills of the mountains to the north ; and after he had disappeared into the tumult and light , neither Thiercelin nor Epitot spoke for a long time . |
| 16 | It is said that Freud wrote in a male-dominated society , and that his theory about sexuality , and about female sexuality in particular , reflects this in the male bias in his work . |
| 17 | Never was a labour more arduous , and it was without his former youthful enthusiasm that Picasso began on a great canvas that was to be the first result of his researches . ’ |
| 18 | The upkeep of such a house would require a substantial income , she thought to herself ; she remembered that Veronica came from a wealthy family . |
| 19 | Taylor may recall that Gazza returned from a double-hernia operation to win a high-tension match for Spurs at Wembley inside the first 15 minutes . |
| 20 | A worse offence than Tutilo committed in a similar cause , to win her for Ramsey . |
| 21 | And they were shocked to hear at the end of the three-month trial that Allitt suffered from a dangerous personality disorder . |
| 22 | Although Didcot finished on a high , they in the end , had to give the visitors best in this seven-goal thriller , and will be cursing their luck for the way they made so many errors . |
| 23 | It was argued that Britain stood at a historic point ; a new urban future was at hand . |
| 24 | There is no evidence that prostitution existed as a sole source of income for its practitioners in the earliest forms of human society , among the so-called hunter-gatherers . |
| 25 | Sophia had , in a sense , married beneath her , for although Mark came of a good clerical family he was without private means . |
| 26 | I went to the house and got no answer then the woman next door told me that Brendan came in a posh motor car . |
| 27 | The conclusion might have been that Ealhfrith abdicated in a voluntary acceptance of the religious life were it not for Bede 's silence on the matter and his statement that Oswiu was attacked in the course of his reign by the Mercians , his nephew , Oethelwald , and by his own son , Ealhfrith ( HE III , 14 ) . |
| 28 | Sir Philip argued that anti-semitism appealed to a subconscious racial instinct which was almost universal , with the Colonel Blimps believing in the conspiracy theory , and that in East London it was envy of Jewish economic success which caused the problem ; this development represented the only real danger of fascism . |
| 29 | Both her parents had careers , and Liddie felt under a constant pressure from inside herself to prove herself to them . |
| 30 | Donna was clearly established as the wittering Bricknells ' besotted daughter , with Raoul obviously Mavis 's favourite , and Pierre despised as a no-good compulsive gambler . |