Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [vb past] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 All the more tragic therefore that one of the earliest deaths in boxing , and perhaps the most controversial resulted from a fight in which a deaf boxer took part .
2 During this period there were 671 rights issues known to have been underwritten of which only 35 resulted in a loss for the underwriters .
3 SCOTLAND Under 15s came from a goal down at Wembley on Saturday to beat England Under 15s 2-1 .
4 In 1980 , the group employed some 20,000 people , of whom nearly 16,000 worked in a total of 76 industrial enterprises variously engaged in the following kinds of production : foundry and forge 7 ; capital goods 22 ; components 27 ; consumer durables 15 ; building 5 .
5 At least 250 people were killed and about 1,200 injured in a wave of bombings which ripped through Bombay 's business district on Friday .
6 Earlier in my visit I had spotted some castings on his scrap heap which I was fairly sure belonged to a turbine .
7 Externally , the repainting from blue and grey to the new InterCity house style was practically complete as 1989 drew to a close .
8 Between 1902 and 1904 , some 200 people were killed and over 2,000 injured as a result of industrial conflict ( Thieblot and Haggard , 1983:15 ) .
9 Yet Pallister began as a centre forward in schools football , with ambitions of being a goalscoring professional .
10 Evidence for the year 1985 indicates that whilst 52 per cent of people aged over 65 lived with a spouse and 36 per cent lived alone , only 12 per cent lived with relatives ( Social Trends 1987 , p. 44 , table 2.8 ) .
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