Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had driven straight into a brick lorry , and car and driver coalesced in the final spasm . |
| 2 | The baby had rejected milk given by the foster mother . |
| 3 | An abandoned truck , its snout rammed into the steep bank of a cut , caused me a moment 's panic . |
| 4 | ON December 14 TODAY warned of the threat posed to women by the dangerously short sentence given to the multiple rapist Dr Thomas Courtney . |
| 5 | Throughout the Johannesburg commuter system , all station platforms were divided in half , for Whites and non-Whites respectively , and the trains were similarly divided so that the appropriate part stopped at the relevant stretch of platform . |
| 6 | WOMEN factory workers fighting for equal pension rights had their case referred to the European Court of Justice yesterday . |
| 7 | Lawyers and a shorthand writer gathered in the front room of his home in Beith , Strathclyde , to take his evidence before a court-appointed Commissioner . |
| 8 | Even as the ‘ external functions ’ of the Soviet Armed Forces acquire real importance , the principal means upon which the USSR relies to influence change are what Westerners are accustomed to call ‘ other means ’ : moral , political and material support furnished below the legal threshold of intervention , designed to encourage and revolutionise or at least influence and infiltrate . |
| 9 | During the plague of 1603 rumours were fathered on him and John Dee [ q.v. ] to the effect that its future course depended on the imminent fall of a planet to earth . |
| 10 | Indeed , one of the reasons for the rapid absorption of the rational expectations hypothesis into new classical circles was that the underlying model of neoclassical economics in general and new classical macroeconomics in particular was the belief that this hypothesis conformed with the distinguishing feature of neoclassical theory , that of profit and utility maximization . |
| 11 | The most important difference was the protection given to the embalmed body itself . |
| 12 | In its shadow , in a square of orange brickwork part hidden by the long grass , stood a circular pool . |
| 13 | Royal Aberdeen Golf Club had a more original way of observing its 200 years existence with a Royal Aberdeen Bicentenary Whisky blended for the special birthday occasion . |
| 14 | Special finishes are of course completed in the time-honoured fashion ; sunbursts and other fancy finishes are carried out by hand . |
| 15 | Would Johnny appear to hang in mid-air , suspended on some invisible support hidden from the interested gaze of Cassie 's contemporaries ? |
| 16 | The support given to the Urban Foundation showed British recognition of the acute shortage of housing for blacks in South Africa 's urban areas , a move welcomed by Nthato Motlana , chairman of Soweto 's civic association . |
| 17 | Only one copy of Section 1 needs to be filled in , but ideally separate copies of Sections 2 , 3 and 4 should be filled in for each course taught in the appropriate field . |
| 18 | That was fine , but I had not reckoned with the excitement the case aroused in the popular press . |
| 19 | The real fire-fight developed over the stricken Mowhawk which was hit several times and her captain R. F. Jolly , R. N. was fatally injured and a number of his crew killed . |
| 20 | But in a letter to the Times , a group of scientists , including many from Oxford , claim that over the past twelve years , the lack of funding given by the Conservative government has led to a ’ dramatic deterioration in the quality and depth of British science . ’ |
| 21 | J. D. North has succeeded in reconstructing the St Albans escapement from the purely verbal description given in the surviving manuscript . |
| 22 | If a barchan formed by the prevailing wind ( Fig. 11.7A ) is subject to a strong wind from another direction ( Y on Fig. 11.7B ) , it will tend to swing round with the development of an incipient new wing at C and the overdevelopment of wing A. If the prevailing wind , X , again dominates , there will be a tendency for the dune to revert to its original form ( Fig. 11.7C ) . |
| 23 | She had been struck by the fact that in June 1873 two hundred Deputes of the French Parliament gathered before the Blessed Sacrament to consecrate their country to the Sacred Heart of Jesus . |
| 24 | A sub-contractor who fails to supply the 715 voucher may have his certificate withdrawn by the Inland Revenue . |
| 25 | Labour would then benefit from the extra coverage given to the incumbent government . |
| 26 | Dewlike drops of moisture formed on the dry grass , and rose upward through the air as if powered by the jolts in our chest . |
| 27 | With the skeg placed at the very back , there is also less chance of spin out . |
| 28 | A less well-known example is of H. V. Hilprecht , an archaeologist at Pennsylvania University who in 1893 was given drawings of fragments of agate excavated from the Babylonian temple of Bal at Nippur . |
| 29 | One day on the weary way up from school a truck stacked with furniture ground past Martha ; when she reached Nana 's house she found the truck stopped in the overgrown yard next door , and a fat woman in a pink dress buying soda pop for a brood of children who stood around her looking fearfully at their new home . |
| 30 | These figures are of course calculated on the nursing agency rates . |