Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] a [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | A grouping of eight opposition parties , including the Movement for Democracy in Algeria ( MDA ) and the Rally for Culture and Democracy ( RCD ) , met on April 7 and agreed to support a single candidate in each constituency . |
| 2 | While tempered by experience and ( according to Beard ) self-interest , the framers of the United States Constitution were informed by Lockean values and sought to impose a political framework in line with a Lockean conception of society . |
| 3 | Although the authors concluded that the results indicated that mycobacteria might have a role in the pathogenesis of Crohn 's disease , a further search for mycobacteria in the affected intestinal tissue with antibodies to M paratuberculosis strain linda , M tuberculosis , and the common mycobacterial antigen lipoarabinomannan failed to find a positive reaction in any of 67 specimens from 30 affected patients . |
| 4 | THE UVF have admitted they tried to kill a Protestant man in east Belfast last night . |
| 5 | But Soviet support for the neutralisation of Cambodia and Laos helped to stimulate a regional interest in neutrality in Southeast Asia which was developed by the ASEAN states in the 1970s . |
| 6 | All students from overseas are encouraged and helped to play a full part in the life of the University community and to take every advantage of the academic and recreational facilities available to them throughout their periods of study . |
| 7 | All students from overseas are encouraged and helped to play a full part in the life of the University community and to take every advantage of the academic and recreational facilities available to them throughout their periods of study . |
| 8 | Assassins were proofed against pain , but surely Meh'Lindi must be aware of some agonies as her body strained to adopt a new shape in obedience to her will . |
| 9 | In the Netherlands , ETA on Nov. 13 tried to murder a Spanish diplomat in The Hague and planted bombs at the Spanish embassy ; the Spanish embassy was again attacked on Dec. 6 . |
| 10 | Schafer ( 1967 ) reported finding a significant asymmetry in the electrical activity of the brain immediately prior to speech production . |
| 11 | X and the defendant agreed to create a limited company in order to run the defendant 's restaurant . |
| 12 | 14 hospital patients failed to receive a single review in the clinic as compared with three patients in the prompted group ( x≥6.1 , df=1 ; p=0.013 ) . |
| 13 | Only the Foreign Ministry , still occupied by Serrano Suñer , retained its position as a pro-Falangist stronghold , for the continued dominance of the Axis in the European war advised maintaining a pro-Axis stance in external affairs . |
| 14 | She seemed to see a distant future in which she and Tom were together in their own home , a house where music was made , and with perhaps their own children . |
| 15 | He said he 'd done a wonderful job in very difficult circumstances . |
| 16 | Asleep , he 'd felt a terrible pain in his upper arm . |
| 17 | As the responsibility time span increased in the example from two years to three to four and approached five , no one seemed to perceive a qualitative difference in the nature of the responsibility that a manager discharged . |
| 18 | Now that was her excuse but there is some evidence to say that she 'd got a big investment in weaving machine and I think she was a little bit worried er that these might take over from . |
| 19 | and I 'm sure it said they 'd nicked a full street in this one . |
| 20 | And she came to play a significant role in building his career . |
| 21 | ‘ By the time I 'd got to Surrey , ’ says Shaun of the trials and tribulations of recording ‘ Yes Please ’ , ‘ I 'd had a great time in Barbados letting off steam and everything . |
| 22 | In all the cases they 'd had a violent experience in earlier childhood . |
| 23 | He 'd had a bad dream in which he 'd been not only head of the Conservative Research Department , but also with the Raj in Belfast , and confronted by coalminers and oil-rig workers to boot . |
| 24 | He 'd stayed there ( ‘ in Didcart ’ ) much longer than he 'd intended ; and when finally he tore himself away from the Cornish Riviera and the Torbay Express he 'd walked back to Didcot Parkway Station at about five o'clock , and caught the next train back to Oxford , where he 'd , er , where he 'd had a quick drink in the Station Buffet . |
| 25 | But they 'd had a little drink in Germany , and did n't know where to head ! |
| 26 | Although we we 'd had a modest week in terms of routes , we 'd found enough delight and challenge in the sunlit silence of the valley and the peaks — and now we knew the full potential of the place . |
| 27 | The moves seemed to mark a major change in the government 's attitude to the conflict . |
| 28 | But I had to get together in one room , the admirals , the intelligence people , the civil servants , all the people who 'd played a critical role in advising her . |
| 29 | Over the past few weeks , he 'd detected a fiendish intelligence in the machine whose sense of humour he empathised with . |
| 30 | But the months of separation from her husband , and the events those months contained , came to mark a fundamental breach in their relationship , after which there ceased to be any hope that their early married happiness could be recovered . |