Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pigs wandered here with bells slung round their necks to show they were the property of the Hospital of St Anthony and could n't be slaughtered Beadles armed with steel-pointed staffs dispersed fowl or curbed the yapping of fierce yellow-haired dogs , whilst bailiffs tried to move on a strange creature dressed like a magpie in black and white rags . |
| 2 | Alan Austin and the Barley Brothers seemed afflicted by a similar grading paralysis on Yorkshire limestone . |
| 3 | Curiously I proceeded down this route and my eyes came to rest on a small , battered , but not unclean little building . |
| 4 | ‘ Until then waves had looked like a pleasant photogenic distraction on television , and not a serious challenge to anything else , ’ Salter recalled , ‘ but getting so close to 5 p/kWh would have rung a lot of alarm bells with people who would feel threatened . ’ |
| 5 | Some parties had called for a national multiparty conference to be held first . |
| 6 | Section 2 , which replaces s. 40 of the Law of Property Act 1925 , was intended to prevent disputes over whether the parties had entered into a binding agreement or over what terms they had agreed . |
| 7 | The SJP lads had to rely on a topsy-turvy 6–21 , 21–8 , 22–20 victory for league stalwart John Wickers over Peter Hance to secure their share of the points from the last game of the evening . |
| 8 | The twist of pain was razor-sharp , but the words had acted like a cold shower . |
| 9 | In a period when the number of courses increased , WEA membership in the District declined by 150 and in 1931 , capitation fees from branches had slumped to a mere £44 . |
| 10 | Some medium-sized schools had shifted to a three-tier model , while some large schools were still operating a rather unsatisfactory and somewhat stressed version of Type 2 or even Type 1 . |
| 11 | For a long moment their eyes remained locked in a fierce battle , until Ace 's image began to shimmer in a sort of haze in front of her , then , quite without warning , Kate passed out ; a great wave of blackness overwhelmed her , pushing all hurt and troubled feelings aside . |
| 12 | Initially , the women were doubtless drawn by the glamour of the nurse 's uniform and by a sense of adventure ; later , as the French women who had not lost a husband , lover or brother became fewer and fewer , the more frivolous motives became replaced by a formidable dedication . |
| 13 | His limbs began to disintegrate into a bubbling mass of fat , water and blood . |
| 14 | In the early 1790s , however , like canals , the trusts did feature in a general investment boom , as they did again in 1809 – 12 . |
| 15 | In a very short space of time — just a few decades — the industrial moths had gone through a small but distinct evolutionary step . |
| 16 | The inquiry had heard forensic details of each individual death but as Mark Smith reports the parents had hoped for a great deal more . |
| 17 | The glass firm said all the suspect bottles had come from a new lightweight bottle-making process which had now been halted . |
| 18 | The first part of our study , which was reported in the October 1992 issue of ACCOUNTANCY ( see p 13 ) , demonstrated that over this five year period the combined effects of mergers among the large audit firms and voluntary auditor switches among listed companies had led to a significant increase in seller concentration . |
| 19 | Moreover , from such analysis it was clear that in fact companies had responded in a whole range of different ways to the pressures upon them , and indeed that the nature of those pressures varied between industries and between firms . |
| 20 | All of these elements had to compete for a limited number of unfilled vacancies in Mendeleev 's Periodic Table , like contestants in a game of cosmic musical chairs . |
| 21 | By 1973 the Conservatives had moved to a statutory prices and incomes policy and massive state intervention in industry ; the reorganization of secondary schooling along comprehensive lines proceeded , albeit at a slower pace than under Labour , and the trade union legislation under the Industrial Relations Act was effectively non-operational . |
| 22 | The past few days seemed to hang like a heavy stormcloud over the room , seething with half-truths and suspicion , misunderstandings and mistakes . |
| 23 | As that great hollow voice sounded , dogs began barking in a nearby village , and were answered more distantly by wolves up in the hills . |
| 24 | The next two days had settled into a daily routine of cleaning weapons and trying to catch up on lost sleep as every night was disturbed by the constant shelling . |
| 25 | Relief agencies estimated that approximately 200 people were dying of starvation each week in the Ogaden in the remote south-east , according to reports from mid-October ; malnutrition had sharply increased , with the death rate rising to 12 per 10,000 daily since August , when aid workers had warned of a worsening situation [ see p. 39042 ] . |
| 26 | As a result , she had been able to put away a few shillings every week , and over these past three years the shillings had mounted until now the bag of coins which she kept hidden under the bedroom floorboards had swollen to a tidy sum . |
| 27 | These individuals had combined into a National Association of Creditmen . |
| 28 | Some of the power workers refused to act as a militant vanguard and said that they would only come out when it was clear that the majority of people supported the stoppage . |
| 29 | But these reforms failed to coalesce into a coherent system because there was no prevailing political doctrine which could provide answers to such questions as , how much power or influence should the House of Commons exercise or how far is it — desirable to have some democratic control over local and regional administration ? |
| 30 | Efforts with red grapes can , however , be described only as experimental , with the wines produced tending towards a deep rosé rather than a true red colour . |