Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [vb pp] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas in the earlier revolt fighting had centred on the northern parts of the duchy , Poitou and the Saintonge , in 1 176 it was focused further south and east , in the Angoumois and the Limousin . |
| 2 | But in the massive ballroom across the way there were only a few chairs and a sideboard or two , and even on a dismal day the light had fallen on the intricate design of a wooden parquet floor and pretty chiaroscuro frescoes painted into the panels of gracefully arched walls . |
| 3 | The sapling trees had grown tall in the twenty-five years since the Beeching axe had fallen on the single railway track , and , even leafless as they were , they effectively screened the view from the top . |
| 4 | By the end of the first century all the tribal capitals had their gridded street plan laid out and work had started on the public buildings . |
| 5 | With current account performance playing the dominant role in determining the demand for and supply of currencies , attention became focused on the relative competitiveness of each country 's goods and services in international markets . |
| 6 | First , if the plaintiff had passed on the relevant tax to others , the taxing authority could not be said to have been unjustly enriched at the plaintiff 's expense , and he was not therefore entitled to recover . |
| 7 | A magical , wonderful evening had ended on the highest of notes , Tony thought , as he was swept along towards the doors . |
| 8 | A parliamentary commission of inquiry had concluded on the previous day that Bogdanovic had lost control of riot police , who had exceeded their authority . |
| 9 | She looked around for somewhere to sit , but the bed looked bigger than ever in the cramped room and his jacket lay discarded on the only chair . |
| 10 | We found ourselves lost , just as Masha and I had been when a sudden mist had descended on the lower slopes of the Wetterhorn . |
| 11 | No shrewder opportunist had sat on the English throne , but his opportunism was harnessed to some guiding principles . |
| 12 | He raised his hand , and with brusque , impersonal fingers which nevertheless had a surprising lightness of touch he felt the edges of the cut de Guichet 's whip had left on the smooth cheek . |
| 13 | The hen pheasant had appeared on the other side of the feeding-ground . |
| 14 | The chief executive of Medway Ports , Peter Vincent , said yesterday the area involved centred on the open sea wall used by Royal Fleet Auxiliary tankers , and not the adjacent nuclear submarine refitting facility . |
| 15 | This was fortunate , since his father had served on the second high court of justice in February–March 1649 , which had tried and condemned James ( first Duke of Hamilton ) , Henry Rich ( first Earl of Holland ) [ qq.v. ] , and other Royalist leaders in the second civil war of 1648 . |
| 16 | In 1759 he was apprenticed to the civil engineer John Smeaton [ q.v. ] , for whom his father had worked on the new Eddystone lighthouse . |
| 17 | One problem during the tour had centred on the young fast bowler Roy Gilchrist , who had been sent home from India for disciplinary reasons ; after the tour , opinion was divided as to whether his misdemeanours should mean the end of his Test career or whether he should be helped back into the fold by someone such as Worrell , whom he worshipped . |
| 18 | ( A similar attack had occurred on the same sub-prefecture in May 1985 — see p. 34927 . ) |
| 19 | He had watched the effect that team spirit had had on the young people who had been on Operation Drake . |
| 20 | I went inside and saw a beautiful work which the artist had done on the other side . |
| 21 | If you combine these three facts with another , namely that Dennis 's fortieth birthday had fallen on the previous Thursday , an alternative explanation presents itself . |
| 22 | Two spirals of dust had appeared on the distant horizon . |
| 23 | However , almost before the dust had settled on the Political Community , voices were raised in favour of further efforts . |
| 24 | Then a businessman asked whether he should buy this and that stock his broker had recommended on the sly , and — after a moment of concentration — Kruger gave him the word to hold off , presumably making a mental note to sweep the market himself . |
| 25 | The first visions to distort this mirage had appeared on the southern border of Lebanon or from the sea off Beirut in 1946 when the Covenant was barely three years old . |
| 26 | Part of the parents ' case had rested on the following argument : within the school which the child attended a decision had been taken to include her in a remedial class ; thus , the special educational provision that should be made for her had already been determined ; so a statement ( under section 7(1) of the Act ) should follow . |
| 27 | In a report on Feb. 20 , the Soviet news agency Tass stated that Ryzhkov 's discussions with his Singaporean counterpart Lee Kuan Yew had concentrated on the future structure of bilateral relations . |
| 28 | Much of the conversation had focused on the disastrous and pathetic effect upon the family of the civil unrest in Belfast and its function was plainly cathartic ; many recordings resembled therapy sessions more closely than sociolinguistic field tapes . |
| 29 | Theda had drawn the curtain about the four-poster open , and the light from her candle had fallen on the old lady 's face . |
| 30 | ‘ Harry ’ — impossibly yet further darkness had dawned on the total blackness of George 's conscience — ‘ then we led them to her . |