Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another official visitor was Barend du Plessis , the Finance Minister , while Helen Suzman , the best known of all the critics of the system in South Africa , met the Prime Minister a week ago . |
| 2 | The proven fact of German and Italian intervention made the Spanish Republic a symbol of resistance to fascism . |
| 3 | King Charles , not to be outdone , then made the abandoned wife a duchess , the title to die with her . |
| 4 | When the Secretary of State made the equivalent announcement a year ago , I congratulated him on his promotion to the Cabinet . |
| 5 | IT IS more than 20 years since the novelist C P Snow delivered his Rede Lecture , The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution , and 20 since F R Leavis delivered his swingeing assault on Snow , which made the whole thing a subject of violent controversy , adding somewhat to the gaiety of that small part of the nation interested in academic ding-dong . |
| 6 | Doing Ophelia on stage before taking up the BBC contract meant that I went there with a little track record — I 'd been blooded , if you like , and it made the whole thing a lot better . |
| 7 | These kids would hang out in The Sombrero in Kensington High Street and Chagueramas in Covent Garden — which became The Roxy Club a couple of years later . |
| 8 | Mr. Kenealy then asked the medical officer a number of specific questions about Miss Price 's work . |
| 9 | It cost the poor milkman a fortune to get them to pay him up for the milk people said they did n't get , you know ! |
| 10 | The White Wizard ( one of Bash 's predecessors ) originally entered the text-adventure world of Fantasia way back in 1985 and found the well-presented environment a mite too dull for his liking . |
| 11 | Some people found the sing-song voice a barrier , and found the beginning and the middle easier to listen to than the end . |
| 12 | ( As the equation used a logarithmic scale a coefficient of 0.5 is the equivalent of the square root of standardised mortality ratio in the unlogged formula , which explains the use of the square root of standardised mortality ratio in the national weighted capitation formula . ) |
| 13 | He was made redundant in March 1991 and received payments until returning to full-time work in July 1991 , but suffered a prolapsed disc a month later and has been off work since then . |
| 14 | Still a bit shy , Luce hitched the thin sheet a shade higher to cover her nakedness and , having trapped it under her arms , helped herself to a flaky roll , which she spread liberally with butter and apricot jam . |
| 15 | Well a few weeks ago the city fathers installed dose nasty little tings at a cost , believe it or not , sir , of some turty tree tousand pounds , and the day atterwards dey declared the whole area a no waiting zone . ’ |
| 16 | ( Trudie being Miss Prescott , who had just , with her partner opened a residential home a couple of hundred yards away , and is a nurse . ) |
| 17 | She paid an extra dollar a week for Mrs Benson to put Maria to bed and keep an eye on her , but somehow she did n't think that Mrs Benson was all that reliable as a child-watcher . |
| 18 | The Chinese prime minister , Li Peng , made a similar slip a couple of years back . |
| 19 | the passage of the Act into law made a general election a certainty in the near future . |
| 20 | I got a real complex a couple of years ago . |
| 21 | They shipped a dreadful result a week ago , losing 2–0 at home to newly promoted Cobh Ramblers — and they 've scored just once in four outings . |
| 22 | She looked the possible winner a furlong from home , but faded near the finish as the task of conceding so much weight told . |
| 23 | A place in the small Indian establishment offered the successful applicant a career which could bring great responsibilities at an early age and at what was nominally a junior rank , and perhaps more importantly , it was well rewarded . |
| 24 | Moreover , traditional family networks not only offered the elderly relative a place , but one which gave them an important and respected role within the family group . |
| 25 | The two men shook hands and Scott offered the other man a seat which he accepted and a drink which he declined . |
| 26 | I felt the same way a horse must have when confronted with a steam engine . |
| 27 | Wagner , that is , contrived to regard his hymn to love and love 's fulfilment in death as an enactment of Schopenhauerian renunciation , and even sent the elderly philosopher a copy of the libretto , which was finished in 1857 . |
| 28 | But Jannie was used to friends , particularly childless ones , who were good with the children to the point of dedication , and who a month later called Gawain Damian and Damian Adrian , or who sent the six-year-old Gawain a pull-along elephant for his birthday , and gave Damian a velvet party frock , in the belief that he was called Deborah and was a girl . |
| 29 | Rowell saw the tremendous influence a player like Halliday would have on any team . |
| 30 | They reached the outer air a moment before the octagonal arch finally broke and smashed into the flags . |