Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , terrible though it might be to imagine , Mistress Philippa had the cool nerve and composure to be a murderess , and Parchmeiner might well be her accomplice . |
| 2 | Nor will those investors and depositors who in the mid-1970s found themselves caught in a hurricane sweeping throught the secondary banking system after the collapse of Gerald Caplan 's London and County Securities . |
| 3 | Souvenir hunters revived the centuries-old tradition after a huge tanker washed up on the rocks below East Prawle , Devon . |
| 4 | Their civilian Folbot canoe had no added buoyancy of Mae-West lifebelts , no navigation aids , not even a spray cover as they crossed the sound from the Scottish mainland to land on the isle of Mull . |
| 5 | The horns were still there , curled and chipped , the brown hair was coarse and stiff , and the flyridden eyesockets gave an uneasy impression of movement . |
| 6 | West Knitting fleece had a disappointing year , aggravated by the unfortunate coincidence of late product specification by a major customer with the launch of new screenprint brand which caused severe production and delivery difficulties . |
| 7 | Branch roads linked the main mining centres , enabling the lead , silver , iron and copper products of the interior to be brought to the coast for export across the Adriatic or , in the case of the Serbian and north Bosnian mines , to be transported to the Danube . |
| 8 | During January the federal banking authorities faced a renewed spate of failures among the 10,000 small banking institutions which conducted the bulk of America 's retail banking activity . |
| 9 | Calcium supplementation increased the intestinal concentrations of insoluble phosphate , which indicates formation of insoluble calcium phosphate . |
| 10 | When the policy was first implemented , there was no question but that those who were then on supplementary benefit and are now on income support gained a first-class service from the homes . |
| 11 | This majority decision reflected an unexpected alliance between the two remaining liberal Justices — Harry Blackmun , the author of the 1973 judgment , and John Paul Stevens — and an emerging centrist group consisting of Sandra Day O'Connor , Anthony Kennedy and David Souter . |
| 12 | It could be argued that when publication of address lists reaches this scale they are so unselective as to be innocuous ; the Swedish Data Inspection Board took the opposite view when it objected to the Readers Digest organisation compiling its own register of all adult Swedes ( roughly 9 million ) . |
| 13 | Hope 's other building projects included an abortive scheme for a ‘ Christian watering-place so to speak ’ at Bedgebury , and a slightly more successful establishment at Sheen in Staffordshire , the other Beresford estate . |
| 14 | And although we were joined by French , Belgian , Dutch , German , Danish and Finnish colleagues , the week-long Whitsun course provided a wonderful opportunity to reinforce the close links between the British Medau community and the College , directed by Jochen Medau , son of the founder . |
| 15 | The German U-boat offensive had a profound effect on Allied military plans in the second half of 1917 , for the German submarine base at Bruges was within 48km/ 30mls of the Allied front line . |
| 16 | CHANCELLOR Norman Lamont 's election Budget got a stony reception in the City last night . |
| 17 | Déchamps , whose first-round opponents included an official PCF candidate who finished fifth , had himself been PCF mayor from 1965 until March 1990 , but had then been expelled for " racist remarks " ( for which a Paris court fined him F10,000 — US$2,000 — on Jan. 23 ) . |
| 18 | In Tasmania aborigine hunters led a nomadic life to take advantage of the seasonal food supply in different regions . |
| 19 | The records of attachment courts held every forty days in Pickering Forest in 1407 and 1408 show that the Forest townships were still bound to send the reeve and four men to attend them . |
| 20 | A daytime course held every other Monday between 11.30am–1pm . |
| 21 | The mattress support gave a twanging sigh . |
| 22 | Sun Microsystems Computer Corp offered the low-end Sparcstation 10 Model 20 in September as a promotional system because it was supply-bound on the faster versions of the processor ( UX No 402 and see page five ) , and never intended the 33MHz box to become a permanent member of the product line . |
| 23 | At the downsizing Expo in San Franscico last week , Sequent Computer Corp demonstrated a symmetric multi-processing version of Windows NT running on a 16 processor 50MHz Intel Corp-based 808486 Symmetry 2000 machine . |
| 24 | Compaq Computer Corp beat a hasty retreat from ‘ desktop Unix . ’ |
| 25 | Consequently , the former Gong guitar wizard became a floating Orb member and founded his own ambient outfit , System 7 . |
| 26 | An Army spokesman said gunmen from the HVO Croatian Defence Force attacked the 500-lorry convoy taking aid to the town of Tuzla . |
| 27 | Finally I make a 70 per cent reduction copy of my dick , because the highland reduction setting used the whole area of the glass that my dick could reach , and so I captured something vaguely obscene looking , even if the total overall scale was reduced . |
| 28 | Clement and his successor Naum established the Slav tongue then spoken in Macedonia instead of the Greek of the Byzantine Church as the language of worship . |
| 29 | On 25th May , while the German army raced ruthlessly across Belgium and the inhabitants of England watched their skies for the first signs of airborne invasion , the scientists in the Oxford Pathology Department performed a crucial experiment . |
| 30 | A Sept. 5 Interior Ministry briefing described the growing drug problem : there were 60,000 registered addicts , but probably five times as many users . |