Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ pervasive desire ’ for a cappella solutions has been impelled by the musical excellences made possible by the choral institutions ( all tinged with a Protestant Englishness that most members of the forum probably imagine that they have never espoused ) . |
| 2 | Real power remained in the hands of the union delegations but it now became possible for the local parties to ensure that their opinions were more effectively voiced . |
| 3 | In 1921 a report placed before the Prussian Diet revealed that of the 460,884 hectares of land purchased by the Commission up to that time , only 27.4 per cent had come from the Poles ; a staggering 72.5 per cent had been purchased by the Commission from German estate owners . |
| 4 | Shelley looked up at the orange moon , slung low behind the ornate roofs of the seaside town . |
| 5 | Anxiety on this score became acute during the last decades of the fourth century , and the first of the fifth . |
| 6 | Well I got that , I got that for the wee ones . |
| 7 | Across the road at Tullivers , Phyllida Prior and Jeremy soon became friendly with the older residents of Thrush Green . |
| 8 | It had been like kicking the hell out of a two-hole outhouse ; a lot of shit had gotten out and the stink rode free on the four winds . |
| 9 | Torrential rain greeted England 's first appearance in Wales for eight seasons , but the visitors made light of the slippery conditions . |
| 10 | But Miss Patricia Rawlings , Tory Euro-MP for Essex South-West , made light of the ideological distinctions . |
| 11 | He became tangled in the red strands of her hair . |
| 12 | He also said he expected some of the banned garages and testers to appeal against the rulings , and meanwhile they were allowed to continue MOT testing . |
| 13 | The library reference room was on the Fludyer Street side of the building and although it housed some to the 5,000 volumes in the manuscript library , some had to be distributed throughout the passages of the building . |
| 14 | De Niro 's lengthy career began in small theatre productions at the start of the Sixties , and has included two Academy Awards ( for Raging Bull and The Godfather II ) and a collaboration with Martin Scorsese which produced some of the best films to come out of the ‘ New Hollywood ’ of the Seventies . |
| 15 | At its best , this genre produced some of the extended song-cycles of Pink Floyd but at the other extreme were dozens of overblown ‘ concept albums ’ dealing with elves or spaceships and played on synthesizers and other electronic equipment . |
| 16 | And we shared some of the same problems , sewage s leaking into the offices and asbestos lagging round the piping . |
| 17 | He announced this to the Liberal ministers who had once again congregated in 10 , Downing Street . |
| 18 | He read some of the German books , soothed by her solicitude and fancying for a time that he really was being impregnated with ideas about the Wall . |
| 19 | Otherwise what they got some of the latest cranes out down there , you had to come off the barrel , go up the jib , come down again , then up again . |
| 20 | On Oct. 14 Egypt 's state-controlled Middle East News Agency reported that of the 90,000 Egyptians currently residing in Jordan , some 70,000 without work permits were to be fined and deported . |
| 21 | The third measles trial reported that of the 12 deaths ( 10 in controls , two in those given vitamin A ) , 10 were due to respiratory disease . |
| 22 | This was the first time that a member of the military had been tried and found guilty of a human rights violation in 11 years of civil war marked by accusations of government-sanctioned torture , kidnapping and murder . |
| 23 | Schoop was , however , found guilty on the same charges because she gave further details to Hans Kopp when he telephoned her later the same day at his wife 's suggestion . |
| 24 | That is precisely why my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary visited each of the nuclear republics of the former Soviet Union . |
| 25 | Boyd 's 12-man team visited each of the ten pits after being told by Trade President Michael Heseltine to establish if British Coal had met the prescribed criteria for closure . |
| 26 | The party-controlled media of North Korea reported little of the 1989 reforms in Eastern Europe , and most of the country 's 1,700 students were withdrawn from Eastern bloc countries except the Soviet Union . |
| 27 | We found that of the 465 graphs of key financial variables , there were 142 instances ( 30% ) of measurement distortion greater than 5%. 129 of these were distortions of a rising trend , with 98 exaggerations and 31 understatements . |
| 28 | She found that of the 16 libraries which retained archive files of statistics , the following principal uses were recorded : monitoring book use for duplication of titles ( 10 libraries ) ; fund allocation ( 5 ) ; monitoring book use for change of loan status of books ( 5 ) ; and for relegation purposes ( 5 ) ; examination of interdisciplinary use of stock ( 3 ) ; monitoring loans for possible changes in loan regulations ( 2 ) . |
| 29 | ( 1986 ) , for example , found that of the 450 children coming into care in five local authorities in England and Wales , residential care accounted for 51 per cent of all admissions ( p. 80 ) . |
| 30 | A postal survey of a national sample of 250 managers of large hotels found that of the alternative strategies which are favoured when faced with new competitors a change in prices is regarded as relatively unimportant whereas non-price strategies , such as sales promotion and refurbishment of premises , are . |