Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Champagne became established as a political unit in the early eleventh century when the house of Vermandois united the counties of Troyes and Meaux . |
| 2 | The enactment of the hunt and the practice of imitative magic to ensure success at the kill became fossilized as a widespread and regular feature of the seasonal festivities . |
| 3 | Almost immediately , however , a fierce nationalist resistance erupted directed by a fiery prophet in the hills of Galilee . |
| 4 | None of the fathers ' job descriptions given on the birth certificate referred to work at a nuclear establishment . |
| 5 | Most extraordinary of these are the Cretaceous rudists ( p. 47 ) a group in which one valve became modified to a long cone , on which the other valve rested like a lid , the whole effect being most un-clammish . |
| 6 | Yet she knew the answer , and the memory of his kiss burned with the exquisite mixture of pleasure and pain , wrenching her soul from its customary place , changing all things , so that her glance seemed to rest on a changed universe . |
| 7 | Starkisser 's midnight-blue hull had metalflake embedded in its fibreglass so that the sleek boat seemed to scintillate with an internal and infernal dark blue light . |
| 8 | Sales have gone flat , with this year 's figure predicted to drop from an annual peak of 41 million to 36 million barrels . |
| 9 | Alarmed the other day , though , when the car started to run like a hairy goat — as one eloquent ‘ Strine ’ put it . |
| 10 | Football meant standing on a muddy pitch hoping the ball would n't come anywhere near me , so that I would n't be forced to tackle some vicious little boy who really cared who won the game . |
| 11 | In bed , his mind kept turning in an endless loop , living and reliving what had happened . |
| 12 | This study in a large population of patients with Zollinger-Ellison sydrome aimed to search for a differential pattern of gastric endocrine cells between patients with sporadic type Zollinger-Ellison sydrome and those with the syndrome and MEN 1 , and to establish whether there is a real predominance of ECL cell tumours in the second group . |
| 13 | And then she realised that the hoof beats of his horse had come to an abrupt stop . |
| 14 | But the home side had to settle for a winning draw after St George 's finished on 175–7 , despite a 2–55 return from 16-year old slow left arm bowler Howard Jones on his debut . |
| 15 | By the time of the Norman invasion , the Saxon Manor had settled into a familiar form , with the Lord of the Manor , the reeve , the Hall , the lands retained in Demesne , lands let to tenants i.e. Villani , the Bordari or labourers , the Servi or slaves , in some cases Cotari , the tenants of part of the submanor , Free tenants , meadow land , mills , fisheries , woods for pannage and pasture . |
| 16 | As Simon himself acknowledged , English public health administration had developed in a piecemeal and ad hoc fashion for much of the early nineteenth century , with national supervision divided between his own Privy Council Medical Office and the Poor Law Board . |
| 17 | She 'd been so immersed in the music , letting it wash over her , uplifting her , that she had n't even realised that the car had turned into a short driveway to stop outside a luxurious chalet-type building set in a clearing of beech trees . |
| 18 | The Mersey building programme had continued at an impressive rate throughout 1990 with orders recently placed for the last 14 fibre reinforced composite ( FRC ) boats — due to be completed within the next 22 months . |
| 19 | That was after Joe , HISY 's lawyer had claimed at a previous hearing that yet another G Tec rival , Scientific Games , had been told not to bother bidding by lottery officials . |
| 20 | Daffodil had changed into a sparkling crimson dress and showed no pique over pampering finishing fifth . |
| 21 | By now the bucking roar of entry had subsided into a sibilant trembling caress imperceptible against the engine throb except to possessors of Lyman 's Ears . |
| 22 | The German Commandant had dreamt of a mute Jewish whore and when he was issued one for the duration his cup overflowed . |
| 23 | The widely-scattered smoke-swirls from destroyed weapons and vehicles showed that the enemy had advanced on a broad front . |
| 24 | The Royal Institution had begun with an abortive attempt to train artisans in elementary science ; mechanics ' institutes provided lectures for what seems to have been chiefly a membership from the lower middle class . |
| 25 | This was the first time that the nuclear industry had admitted at a public inquiry that the electricity from one of its future reactors would be more expensive than the output from an equivalent coal-fired station . |
| 26 | Balcon was the sort of producer the British film industry had needed for a long time . |
| 27 | For Macpherson everything about the general run of American movies ‘ belonged to the 1910 period ’ when the industry had alighted on a certain type of narrative film as being most suitable for its mass audience . |
| 28 | In his mind that was guarded by grey , disinterested eyes and his sallow tight-drawn forehead , Holly could picture the process of how a match lit in innocence had tumbled upon an incendiary device . |
| 29 | As long as historical materialism no longer saw itself as involved in the objective crisis complex , as soon as it understood its critique exclusively as positive science and the dialectic objectively as the law of the world , then the ideological character of consciousness had to take on a metaphysical quality … . |
| 30 | Suddenly the wind rose and , within seconds , the light had extended in a broad band across the sky . |