Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb past] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This new thinking eventually resulted in a further book , Principles of Pragmatics , published in the Longman Linguistic Library in 1983 . |
| 2 | A TORY council yesterday failed in a High Court bid to halt a teachers ' boycott of school tests . |
| 3 | The cuts and internal reorganisation in the ILEA also resulted in a total turn-about on decisions concerning the specialist social worker post . |
| 4 | Surely the bar never closed in a five-star hotel ? |
| 5 | The late afternoon sun was beginning to lose its heat , but under its fading glare the waving grass of the plain still shimmered in a gray-green haze and Joseph 's unpractised eye could detect no movement . |
| 6 | But the circumstances of its failure , and the manoeuvrings of politicians and judges which accompanied that failure , combined to produce a calamity which went far beyond the collapse of a doomed policy , for the failure directly resulted in a deep distrust of the judicial system . |
| 7 | A GIRL on an evening out died in a freak accident by just tripping over a kerb . |
| 8 | Goldstein in the United States , a strong advocate of the patient 's right to self-determination , argues that a person involuntarily incarcerated in a mental hospital , for example , is in no different a position from a free person , except that incarceration affects volition , not the patient 's capacity to make a choice . |
| 9 | Soon , however , she did not have enough time to do this although someone had to relieve the poor beast , and the fresh creamy milk often sat in a gleaming churn in the corner of the kitchen untouched until it went rancid and had to be thrown away . |
| 10 | Her hair now fell in a glossy blonde swath about her ears , feathering back delicately from her face . |
| 11 | Without warning the grass suddenly exploded in a great shower and a livid white head emerged . |
| 12 | The poor man now lay in a great fourposter bed while the two old beldames clacked and muttered to themselves as they fastened splints to his leg and carefully washed his naked , bruised body . |
| 13 | Any visit to the doctor always resulted in a prescribed medication that was ineffective . |
| 14 | The company also participated in a new gas discovery adjacent to the Caister field and this new discovery , named the Hunter field , will be tied-in to the Caister production facilities . |