Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the sleeper compartment of a train speeding through the night a youth crouches over a naked woman he has drugged with a hypodermic syringe . |
| 32 | The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation ( FAO ) has claimed as a major success its programme for integrated pest management in rice . |
| 33 | In a period when , as recent events in Los Angeles and elsewhere have shown , the ethnic melting pot has dissolved into a racial meltdown , the clemency of clear understanding is as sought-after as ever . |
| 34 | Third , the centre has collapsed as a political force — although not as a constituency — and this obliges both major parties to compete more assiduously for middle-of-the-road votes . |
| 35 | Tobacco has collapsed as a primary source of funds . |
| 36 | He likes my sticky , sweaty body which smells of nectarine and baby oil and a spliff that Jo has rolled beneath a shadowy cove of eucalyptus . |
| 37 | Two months after the military crackdown in Beijing in June 1989 , it was announced that university student intake would be cut from 640,000 to 610,000 in the next academic year , and that " specialities mainly in the social science fields which the State has deemed for a long time to have turned out personnel not qualified for socialist construction " would be suspended . |
| 38 | ‘ I find by the time I get to the last houses on Christmas Eve , rum custard has congealed into a nasty skin , ’ he said . |
| 39 | The turps in the jar has congealed to a semi-solid jelly around the brushes . |
| 40 | Patrick Duff wrote , ‘ This reverse has come as a great shock . |
| 41 | But the news has come as a total shock for many people . |
| 42 | Tearful Mandy said : ‘ This has come as a total surprise to me and my family . |
| 43 | This has come as a terrible shock . |
| 44 | ‘ This has come as a terrible shock . |
| 45 | Charles Tompkins , managing director of NOS , a subsidiary of Cable & Wireless , said the contract has come as a major breakthrough for his company , propelling it into the major league of offshore suppliers . |
| 46 | His death today has come as a complete shock . |
| 47 | I 'm sure this has come as a big shock to you . |
| 48 | The decision to sell Harford has come as a big blow to Luton boss David Pleat who said : ‘ I did n't want him to go but the club needs the money . ’ |
| 49 | ‘ Therefore the problem that had emerged in 1985 has come as a considerable shock to us and I would say that the present directors of Mogul Ireland — ourselves — have acted promptly , decisively and responsibly since it came to our attention . |
| 50 | But for accident victims like Marie Moore from Darlaston , today 's decision has come as a bitter blow . |
| 51 | The ruling has come as a bitter blow Brain Goldsworthy 's common law wife . |
| 52 | Political defeat has come as a profound shock for the ruling Cambodian People 's Party ( CPP ) . |
| 53 | Trained by Nicky Henderson and the mount of Richard Dunwoody , Flown has come through a satisfactory preparation for the step-up to the ultimate test today . |
| 54 | It 's clear our little truce has come to a grinding halt . |
| 55 | The wall of molten lava has come to a virtual halt 150 yards from the first home in the town , but officials said yesterday that its flow appeared to have picked up speed further up the slope . |
| 56 | Now , as a letter to the Times pointed out last week , the word ‘ train ’ is being replaced by ‘ service ’ — as in ‘ Please do not open the doors until the service has come to a complete standstill . ’ |
| 57 | ROBERT Hall 's love affair with Rolls-Royces has come to a temporary halt . |
| 58 | Variable analysis is the closest that social research has come to a generic method of social investigation . |
| 59 | Things have not worked out as expected , there has been a snag , the line of development has come to a dead end , the promising drug is not safe enough for people and so on . |
| 60 | Joe Brolly has come with a late run into the Derry side |