Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [subord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Younger supporters will remember the late , lamented Ken as our dedicated chairman for over forty years , but as a player he was perhaps the most talented the club has ever produced . |
| 2 | It is doubtful if this could be the case if he used Mark as his main source as that Gospel was not written until about 65 AD . |
| 3 | Mina , who regarded Navarre as his personal fief , saw his guerrillas dissolved — as they must be for they could not be paid — and his efforts on their behalf cold-shouldered by the new courtiers . |
| 4 | Among those who regarded Faustus as their spiritual master was Sidonius , whose brother had been in some way saved by the bishop . |
| 5 | IAN McMILLAN entered medicine when his chosen speciality was developing rapidly , following wartime and post-war advances in anaesthesiology , diagnostic cardiology and other technologies . |
| 6 | They entered politics because their Baptist fundamentalism has produced certain moral and social positions which they see as threatened and which they wish to preserve or re-establish . |
| 7 | Commercial and merchant interests withdrew support because their economic activity was stifled by the monarchy 's taxes and tariffs , while the mass of working people rebelled to resist levies on their labour imposed by the aristocracy and the church . |
| 8 | The interior still retains its original brick domed roof though its mosaic inlay has gone . |
| 9 | Rohan chose escargots as his next course , but Sabine laughingly declined to share them with him . |
| 10 | English was to be the official language , although only 3 per cent of Namibians spoke English as their first language . |
| 11 | During the period of Chinese disunity the Japanese had supported the powerful warlord , Zhang Zuolin , who ruled Manchuria as his private province for much of the 1920s , but Zhang 's position , like that of the other warlords , began to come under threat from the rise of the Nationalist movement under Chiang Kai-shek ( Zhiang Jishe ) . |
| 12 | Only 27% of lone parents had earnings as their main source of income in 1987 , compared with 86% of two parent families . |
| 13 | The new unified state , the Republic of Yemen , had San'aa as its political capital ( with Aden as economic and commercial capital ) , a total area of 540,000 sq km , and a population of some 11-13,000,000 plus 2,000,000 nationals working abroad . |