Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [vb past] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bradford & Bingley had a similar experience . |
| 2 | To contribute to this debate , Coopers & Lybrand formed a working party to survey and examine interim reporting . |
| 3 | Have anxiety , fear , guilt , anger , personal embarrassment or ridicule played a significant part in what you have just been analysing ? |
| 4 | His most recent succés du scandale came last spring at the Venice Biennale , the art world 's Cannes , where Koons showed a polychromed sculpture of him and Cicciolina as a soft-core Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden , surrounded by three laser-painted and varnished canvases of the couple making love . |
| 5 | After a night of endless fun — rounders followed by Cluedo , Cheat and a visit to the Clumber Park Social Club where Ken performed a striking rendition of Wild Thing on his guitar — I felt burnt out the next morning , but everyone else was raring to go . |
| 6 | Patrick , much better but still weak , had become a paying guest ( Jack paid ) at Moxie 's house , where Moxie had a self-contained flatlet , often let to a student , and where she could ‘ keep an eye ’ on Pat . |
| 7 | The near extinction of the North American buffalo or bison offered a chilling example of the destructive power of modern firearms . |
| 8 | Stephan Brüback of the German shop design specialist Hans Brüback Landenbau & Verkaufstechnik took a visual approach to the theme of customer recognition , suggesting that social differences be accepted and even adopted in the definition of a shop 's corporate identity . |
| 9 | Rugby World & Post hit a new peak with a record 65,000 sale of the October World Cup preview issue . |
| 10 | In 1881 , when Brunner , Mond & Co. became a public company , he invested in it , became its first chairman , and remained a director until his death . |
| 11 | SHARES in Cable & Wireless received a sharp boost yesterday after the company disclosed it was discussing the sale of up to £750million worth of shares in its Hong Kong telecomunications subsidiary to the Chinese Government . |
| 12 | There was a tradition in Wales that when club or country wanted a front row forward all they had to do was stand at the pit head and whistle . |
| 13 | He also pursued finance , and in 1848 helped reorganize the banking firm of Magniac , Jardine , which as Matheson & Company became a financial giant in the City , and within which he became ‘ Uncle James ’ . |
| 14 | A & Instruments launched a new range of high performance , top pan balances — the HX Series — offering fast weighing response , high accuracy and fully automatic calibration . |
| 15 | A striking instance of the effect of trade is to be seen in West Africa , where cowries played a key role in cultural life , even though absent from local seas . |
| 16 | Just as serious students with a syllabus to get through needed lectures different from those whose hobby was science , so those studying biology or medicine needed a different sort of museum from the general public , excited by dinosaur bones and stuffed grizzly bears . |
| 17 | Thus it was argued that William had a legitimate title to the throne because he won it by right of conquest in a just war . |
| 18 | Ian Glick QC , for Walker Greenbank , told the court that WG acquired a private shelving company , Alkar , in January 1987 , agreeing to pay its owners , Alan and William Carr , an initial amount of £2.2m in WG shares followed by a series of payments which would be linked to Alkar 's profit performance . |
| 19 | It can not have been only in relation to land that £40 had a special significance . |
| 20 | He would mysteriously shake so badly sometimes that old-timers recommended a large brandy . |
| 21 | There are persistent claims that Churchill sent a small group of secret agents to France outside SOE operations but , because no documentation exists , these claims are ridiculed by self-professed experts . |
| 22 | At the end of March , Than Tun made a defiant speech in Rangoon 's Bandoola Square and then vanished , setting up an underground resistance based on Toungoo . |
| 23 | Davies points out that Gorbachev took a conservative attitude to Soviet history for the first 18 months of his time in power . |
| 24 | Although Mexico rejected a Soviet offer in 1959 , as indicated in chapter 1 , the Soviet Union did succeed in selling oil to Argentina , Brazil and Uruguay . |
| 25 | They received the news silently , unwilling to concede that Woolley had a good reason for doing anything . |
| 26 | And although Lucy made a valiant effort to control her quickening breath , the mad thumping of her heart and the heated excitement rising within her , it was a losing battle — and at last she gave herself up to the rapturous bliss of the moment . |
| 27 | John Hargreaves , prosecuting , said that Bulmer had a long list of previous convictions . |
| 28 | If more than 10% showed a marked deterioration then all 700 plus steel stays would need replacing . |
| 29 | Figures released by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) showed that Afghanistan recorded a visible trade deficit of US$220,600,000 in 1989 and a deficit of US$217,100,000 on the current account of its balance of payments . |
| 30 | At Virgin , over and above establishing more centralised management functions ‘ my role was to ensure we were informal but not casual , to the extent that Richard had a limited number of objectives we were committed to spending money on , based on a view of ; the company and the things we had to do well ’ , he said . |