Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stared at him , her mouth slightly open so that her rather small even teeth gleamed in the thin October sunshine that was now filling the kitchen . |
| 2 | Where no expansion was taking place , the only chance of transfer was if vacancies arose in the regular workforce . |
| 3 | Bright little creature — it took her just three minutes to work this out as her antennae fluttered in the sudden sweet smelling breeze . |
| 4 | On one island the macaques lived in the forested interior . |
| 5 | Brief enthusiastic accounts surfaced in the popular press every now and then , offering highly suspect details on her ‘ phenomenal ’ sailing characteristics . |
| 6 | Small , possibly ancestral forms occurred in the early Triassic ( 225–215 million years ago ) in South Africa ; types such as Noteosuchus , Howesia , and Mesosuchus . |
| 7 | When the new class of bourgeois manufacturers and traders arose in the nineteenth century , it was able to merge with the commercialised aristocracy through marriage , and through the newly reformed public schools and universities . |
| 8 | And while the black mussel shells rose in the spare plate , like cars on a scrap heap , he told Daisy about Chessie 's last taunt . |
| 9 | Their goals came in the first half , Scot Sammy Johnston opening his account for the club and |
| 10 | Her eyes shone in the warm tallow light . |
| 11 | Division lists for the Lords suggest that definable parties existed in the upper chamber , although the pattern here was slightly less pronounced than for the Commons . |
| 12 | His words rang in the clear air and she could feel her head swimming from the enormity of what he had just said . |
| 13 | The animals thrived in the rich grasslands , and by 1750 had become central to Nez Perce life . |
| 14 | During a subsequent march of some 200,000 pupils backed by the teachers ' union FEN in Paris on Nov. 12 , police held back while cars were burned and shops looted in the seventh arrondissement , but finally intervened with tear gas and water cannon to prevent marchers approaching the presidential palace ; 234 police and a number of journalists were injured and 83 people were arrested . |
| 15 | Irving out : British author David Irving , who denies that six million Jews died in the Nazi Holocaust , is to be deported from Canada . |
| 16 | According to a park spokesman , 80 per cent of game animals died in the 1983 drought , despite the fact that there was still some surface water . |
| 17 | The Slavs were mainly adherents of the Orthodox Church , and many of the Slav clergy saw in the Russian Church an ally in the struggle against the Phanariot Greek clergy , backed by the sultan , who wished to remove Slav influences both from the liturgy and from the administration of the Church . |
| 18 | Then , as his sharp eyes took in the unnatural stiffness of the other two and their frozen expressions , he groaned with mock-consternation . |
| 19 | Some jews went in the opposite direction by expropriating a territory in Palestine ( on the grounds of an historical occupation ) to substantiate their claim to being a nation . |
| 20 | In the same year as Jacobson published his experiments , a ‘ failure to replicate , report signed by twenty-three authors appeared in the major journal , Science , and the matter might have rested there but for the fact that it was noticed that the method which Jacobson had used to extract RNA from his rat brains also liberated a good deal of protein and other contaminants . |
| 21 | At once a faint impression of medieval city spires and domes appeared in the right-hand corner . |
| 22 | The lights of on-coming cars glared in the dull day . |
| 23 | Mum and Dad and six kids , there was four in one bedroom , me sister , me and her my Me two sisters in the slept in in a double bed in me Mam 's bedroom and we four lads slept in the back bedroom w w whi which was just just big enough to get a double bed in , as you can see , and there was two that slept at the top , and two slept at the bottom . |
| 24 | His damp back plucked at his shirt , and his legs prickled in the heavy trousers . |
| 25 | Timekeepers waited in the heavy rain for the teams to pass , a doctor sat in his tent for potential patients and a journalist from the French daily sports paper L'Equipe sat with a telephone plastered to his ear filing a story to Paris . |
| 26 | Roger Swansborough 's hand balled into a fist and he brought it slamming down onto the desk top so that loose paperclips jumped in the big crystal ashtray . |
| 27 | Skylines peaks glistened in the bright sun , with Kanchenjunga our market straight ahead . |
| 28 | A decisive break from the narrowness of these rules came in the fourteenth century , with Dafydd ap Gwilym , in a period marked both by increasing interaction with a more general European culture , after the loss of political independence , and yet , creatively , by a new ‘ national ’ poetry , itself governed by more flexible but still clear internal rules ( the cywydd metre ) . |
| 29 | My parents lived in the big house and I built a studio and had a whole little place where I could live in the basement and it was very convenient , so David would come round there . ’ |
| 30 | Example 2 shows the incident log file for the procedure GENERATE_ROOT_PACKAGE when the errors reported in the previous example ( example 1 ) were corrected . |