Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gabriel waited for him to break away and in that instant got in a good burst , peppering the cockpit . |
| 2 | A opportunity arose from a primary study of proliferation in gastric malignancy to investigate BrdUrd labelled gastric mucosa . |
| 3 | Far from being ad hoc , the move to save Newton 's theory from falsification by Uranus 's orbit led to a new kind of test of that theory , which it was able to pass in a dramatic and progressive way . |
| 4 | In Britain it was too good to last , but the slogan led to a disastrous period of false optimism . |
| 5 | The impetus for the following review of the literature arose from a detailed study of 15 published reports of empirical research in the field of ‘ environmental scanning ’ . |
| 6 | The addition of cisapride led to a significant increase of median contraction amplitude and duration , but only in the mid and distal oesophagus . |
| 7 | The report continues with a list of cases in which disputes over fixtures in listed building led to a public enquiry , a court case , or both and concludes with a section entitled ‘ How to make the legislation more effective ’ , which provides advice to owners , information on Stop Notices and calls for control over the sale of fixtures . |
| 8 | One day a subaltern got into a first-class railway carriage and found sitting there a ‘ coloured gentleman ’ . |
| 9 | The increased official recognition of the hazards of asbestos led to a veritable torrent of health-related regulations in the US . |
| 10 | The second failkure occurred in a 77 year old man who presented with severe secretary diarrhoea ( 15 motions per day ) , hypokalaemia , hyponatraemia , and prerenal failure . |
| 11 | My heart rose to a tidal detonation ; |
| 12 | The ( US ) Dow Jones Industrial Average index rose to a record high of 2,821 on May 12 , based on hopes of lower US interest rates , but prices on the New York stock exchange fell sharply on July 23 , as hopes of interest rate cuts subsided . |
| 13 | Tax allowances were granted , but taxpayers were unable to offset these allowances against their taxable income once their income rose above a specified level . |
| 14 | Ironically enough , his main field experience occurred as a fortuitous consequence of the First World War . |
| 15 | For the second quarter of 1989 Canada 's current-account deficit rose to a record high . |
| 16 | When the Prince moved to a small lodge on the edge of the Steine in the 1780s fashion followed , and Brighton over the next fifty years provided perhaps the ultimate example of the marked contrast between attempts at a classical social order and a barely restrained chaos whose uneasy juxtaposition opened wider chasms in late Georgian society . |
| 17 | Beyond , a slightly steeper slope of pasture rose to a low skyline with a toupeé of trees . |
| 18 | Alison Walker 's mouth quivered on a tearful smile . |
| 19 | Recruited from the lower-middle or working class , the representative benefactor lived in a small house in a town or city , had no children or had children who were grown up , spoke not a word of German , knew nothing of Germany beyond the front-page news of the Express or Mirror , and did not begin to understand the trauma of being a young refugee . |
| 20 | This talk led to a lively discussion and question time . |
| 21 | They failed to find evidence that the operation of rule 80a delinked the spot and futures markets , although the operation of this rule led to a slight increase in futures price volatility and a minor reduction in the liquidity of the futures market . |
| 22 | Although indentation testing as a measure of elastic modulus is not well known as a laboratory test method it is the basis of many hardness tests used in industry particularly for softer materials such as rubbers , where the indentation made under a standard load is large enough to be easily measurable . |
| 23 | In 1986 I discovered that low fat eating led to a leaner body . |
| 24 | The collapse of the Husayn-Arafat accord led to a new phase of cooperation between Israel , the United States and Jordan aimed at objectives similar to those of the early seventies : the erosion of support for the PLO in the territories , the reinforcement of the normality of occupation by a programme to improve ‘ the quality of life ’ , a term coined in this context by US Secretary of State George Schultz . |
| 25 | A trail of blood led to a two-foot high by 18-inch timber box 20 yards away , perched just off the ground on tiny stilts and carefully camouflaged with twigs and branches . |
| 26 | Two years of basic research led to a first description of Mamprusi court ritual and the system of succession . |
| 27 | The failure of either the June or the November 1989 general elections to resolve Greece 's political impasse led to a rapid deterioration in the country 's economic position during 1989 . |
| 28 | My eyes snapped open and my mouth gaped in a soundless scream . |
| 29 | Two teenage boys were missing feared drowned after their car crashed into a swollen river at Duleek , County Louth . |
| 30 | Twice she was in the very act , loaded fork in her hand , when her breathing quickened , her mouth drew into a forbidding shiver of disgust , and she waited for the next signal to come round . |