Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] in the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | He was about four feet away when his foot caught in the electric flex he was dragging and he stumbled forward off balance . |
| 8 | It was by no means clear how the figure arose in the first place . |
| 9 | has been undertaken and the result analysed in the full report , the summary of which is produced as a |
| 10 | It is believed she became caught between two rival gangs when violence erupted in the packed pub . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The maximal effect during the four hour experiment occurred in the fourth hour after administration of cholera toxin ( Tables I-V ) . |
| 14 | In the gastric body crypts , intense labelling occurred in the proliferative zone , with cell migration up the crypts taking place over 96 hours . |
| 15 | Another strip light exploded in the roaring maelstrom , showering them with glass . |
| 16 | And as you said , really some of the football played in the first half was quite delightful was n't it ? |
| 17 | The first chance of real action came in the late summer of 1940 after the retreat from Dunkirk . |
| 18 | The shooting happened in the busy car park of a DIY store just after midday . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Adam slept too , very soon afterwards , and awoke shivering with cold at dawn as one does after sleeping uncovered in the open air . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In fact , the fusion experimental programme was sporadic until 1988 : the main experimental fusion programme began in the latter part of that year . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Delaney had already got one leg over the door frame that led below , and would have stopped for no one , except that his glance took in the obvious truth . |
| 26 | Once again the cold wind blew in the closed room . |
| 27 | The key lay in the uncontrolled growth of London . |
| 28 | The boat heeled in the freshening breeze . |
| 29 | Her glance skittered in the opposite direction towards the exit . |
| 30 | In Rasbora Ltd v JCL Marine Ltd [ 1977 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 645 Lawson J held that a clause in a contract for the sale of a motor yacht which excluded all liability in respect of defects could not be relied upon when an electrical fault resulted in the total loss of the boat within 27 hours of delivery . |