Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opportunity arose in the close season when the FA decided to form the Mid-Counties Combination . |
| 2 | In her early thirties , her raven black hair gleamed in the overhead light . |
| 3 | But the new cohorts felt much less keenly the social conditions from which the class alignment arose in the first place . |
| 4 | Her olive skin glowed in the artificial light , the curves of her naked breasts softened into a newly voluptuous sensuality that reflected and heightened her resolution . |
| 5 | The difficulty arose in the present case because of the Divisional Court 's decision in R v Board of Inland Revenue , Ex parte Goldberg ( 1989 ) QB 267 . |
| 6 | In consolidating data from several areas it has been proposed that a rapid rise of sea level occurred in the early Holocene but that in the last 6000 years the rate has been far less , although it may have diminished progressively , it may have risen to c . |
| 7 | If two such solutions were displayed as in Fig. 24.2(b) , the overall impression given would be the same ; however , sufficiently long after initiation , the times at which the changes of level occurred in the two solutions would be totally uncorrelated . |
| 8 | He was about four feet away when his foot caught in the electric flex he was dragging and he stumbled forward off balance . |
| 9 | The practice arose in the last decades of the nineteenth century within the ruling class . |
| 10 | It was by no means clear how the figure arose in the first place . |
| 11 | has been undertaken and the result analysed in the full report , the summary of which is produced as a |
| 12 | It is believed she became caught between two rival gangs when violence erupted in the packed pub . |
| 13 | Although the figure rose in the latter half of the year as the Gulf crisis drove up oil prices , the growing recession in November and a fall in the volume of oil imports saw the deficit fall to $9,700 million , and to $6,300 million in December . |
| 14 | Serious rioting erupted in the northern town of Ramtha on Feb. 6-8 when police intervened to protect Syrian and Turkish trucks en route to Saudi Arabia . |
| 15 | The maximal effect during the four hour experiment occurred in the fourth hour after administration of cholera toxin ( Tables I-V ) . |
| 16 | In the gastric body crypts , intense labelling occurred in the proliferative zone , with cell migration up the crypts taking place over 96 hours . |
| 17 | Another strip light exploded in the roaring maelstrom , showering them with glass . |
| 18 | And as you said , really some of the football played in the first half was quite delightful was n't it ? |
| 19 | The first chance of real action came in the late summer of 1940 after the retreat from Dunkirk . |
| 20 | Pleasure shone in the expressive eyes . |
| 21 | The shooting happened in the busy car park of a DIY store just after midday . |
| 22 | A flicker of light showed in the heavy-lidded eyes . |
| 23 | The Regno consisted in the twelfth century ( and for most of the thirteenth ) of two parts : the island of Sicily and the southern half of the Italian peninsular , the mainland . |
| 24 | Adam slept too , very soon afterwards , and awoke shivering with cold at dawn as one does after sleeping uncovered in the open air . |
| 25 | A delighted twinkle danced in the cornflower-blue eyes . |
| 26 | Later that month , an action began in the High Court between John Lydon and Glitterbest , in which Lydon asked the High Court to render the management agreement void and appoint a receiver to sort out the Sex Pistols ' affairs and finances . |
| 27 | The most recent wave of community opposition began in the occupied north with the formation of the Lignite Action Group ( LAG ) to oppose mining of lignite in the Moortown/Ardboe area of Co . |
| 28 | In fact , the fusion experimental programme was sporadic until 1988 : the main experimental fusion programme began in the latter part of that year . |
| 29 | Powder snow swept in chill flurries along the black path by the Cages , while above the wind shrilled in the swaying trees , harsh and irregular . |
| 30 | On an early test flight the undercarriage retraction mechanism jammed because a glove got caught up and the gear collapsed in the subsequent landing , fortunately without damage to the airframe . |