Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pron] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | American Express found themselves responsible for hundreds of barking duffel bags . |
| 2 | His quality of ruthless innocence rendered him unsuitable for most human intercourse . |
| 3 | As well as strengthening the role of governors , the 1986 Act made it impossible for political nominees to control governing bodies , as they often had in the past , while the 1988 Act transfers the management of most schools from local education authorities ( LEAs ) to the individual school . |
| 4 | The Housing and Town Planning Act made it obligatory for local authorities to prepare surveys of their housing needs , to draw up plans to deal with them , and to carry out their schemes . |
| 5 | The position of the old inn made it attractive to wealthy friends of Royalty , wishing to change their clothes before presenting themselves to the monarch at Windsor . |
| 6 | The question kept her awake for several hours while she repeatedly reminded herself that it could only bring her heartache . |
| 7 | On 1 January 1982 a Government Decree made it lawful for private trading by ‘ collaboration of persons for economic purposes ’ , and indeed the 1988 Act itself calls unlimited partnerships where only individual persons participate the same name . |
| 8 | This expansionist financial relationship made it possible for central government ministers to use the rhetoric of partnership , while actually bribing local authorities to act as their agents . |
| 9 | Sheffield Wednesday 's chief goalscorer made it nine from 13 games in the defeat of QPR but later revealed he is happy for the first time this season . |
| 10 | THE former Malian president , Moussa Traore , and three senior army officers were sentenced to death yesterday after a court found them guilty of mass murder in 1991 . |
| 11 | And the 22-year-old marksman saved his best for last . |
| 12 | Next morning found us deep in subterranean Rims . |
| 13 | But when the woman dressed him later in rough cotton clothes , yellow with age , he looked exactly what he was — an orphan in a workhouse , ready for a life of misery , hunger , and neglect . |
| 14 | An old battle-axe of a nun wrapped them both in heavy blankets , forcing cups of mulled wine down their throats . |
| 15 | The Lewis 's lightness and versatility made it useful in close-support infantry attacks also . |
| 16 | Her temper made it inadvisable at other times . |
| 17 | The new legislation made it possible for all South Africans to purchase freehold tenure to the 87 per cent of South Africa 's land hitherto reserved for the white minority , although it placed no obligation on white owners to sell , and commentators pointed out that few blacks had the means to buy . |
| 18 | The jury found him guilty on 23 charges in a 38-count indictment . |
| 19 | A French jury found him guilty of involuntary manslaughter after a three-day trial in Paris . |
| 20 | Although law reform was at hand , the government found it politic in 1977 to set up a Home Office Committee on Obscenity , Indecency , Violence and Film Censorship under the Chairmanship of the Cambridge Professor of Philosophy , Bernard Williams . |
| 21 | In this second document , then , the Secretary of State showed himself aware of some of the differing demands : breadth with no sacrifice of depth ; practical content that will not displace the theoretical ; the maintenance , even the raising , of ‘ standards ’ , with a welcome none the less for those who might have approached learning and assessment in a new way . |
| 22 | The word meant something thin between two slices of damp bread . |
| 23 | Er Madam Speaker I entirely agree , I entirely agree with my ho honourable friend er the absence of the social chapter in Britain accounts in part for our higher levels of employment and the reforms which we carried out in the eighties and the figures speak for themselves , as do the er people who speak for industry for example when Black and Decker announced their intention to bring their operations er fully into Britain out of Germany , a company spokesman said anyone familiar with this sit situation in Germany will grasp that because of costs it is become very difficult to do business there . |
| 24 | GRIM FIND : Body of woman with stab wounds found in bathroom of house in Old Brompton Road , Kensington , west London , after man set himself alight in nearby grocery shop , Scotland Yard said . |
| 25 | Pioline 's stunner ended Courier 's quest to become the first man to reach all four Grand Slam finals in one year since the great Rod Laver won them all in 1969 . |
| 26 | City went ahead with a Paul McGoay try , converted by Steve Kirkup , before Mike Robson 's penalty made it 6–3 at half time . |
| 27 | City went ahead with a Paul McGoay try , converted by Steve Kirkup , before Mike Robson 's penalty made it 6–3 at half time . |
| 28 | She was not at all narrowly fixed on a rigidly academic education ; her warm and vigorous personality made her excellent at public relations and the promotion of her school in the outside world . |
| 29 | lord justice beldam made it clear in this case that the insurer had made it clear they would indemnify the defendant . |
| 30 | For the first time , WACC has made contacts in Kampuchea , a country whose tragic political situation made it unapproachable by outside groups for many years . |