Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun pl] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This conclusion is somewhat at odds with Waller 's ( 1983 ) contention ( written before the 1984–5 dispute ) that it was company control of the villages and of the politics there which made the Dukeries a quiescent region . |
| 2 | Schrödinger made the states the sole source of change , whilst Heisenberg attributed it all to the variation of observables . |
| 3 | Miss Honey went on , ‘ People brought stolen cars to your father 's workshop where he changed the number-plates and resprayed the bodies a different colour and all the rest of it . |
| 4 | We asked the women the average number of cigarettes they smoked a day and asked those who did not smoke whether they had ever smoked at least 10 cigarettes a day . |
| 5 | But as my mouth framed the words the little man looked down at me appealingly as though he knew what I was going to say . |
| 6 | I entered the premises an unemployed teacher living on charity in a rented two-up , two-down off the Cowley Road . |
| 7 | Otherwise he found the Normans a dull crowd , unsophisticated and solemn . |
| 8 | Distinguishing between public and private places caused the courts a great deal of difficulty . |
| 9 | If Mr Dunn the debtor refused to be cowed by this threat , Mr Rich the creditor would tell the bailiffs to take the belongings out of the house — and for that service he paid the bailiffs a fixed fee . |
| 10 | By conceding on the timetable , O'Neill gifted the Republicans an important advantage , helping them by drastically curtailing the protracted and damaging interplay of pluralist forces that would have otherwise taken place over the budget . |
| 11 | He 's out of luck , Gemma finished the biscuits the other night |
| 12 | When Alexander addressed the nobles the next day they were practically eating out of his hand . |
| 13 | I enjoyed the lessons a great deal , and became fascinated by Greek . |
| 14 | Distance from Shanariah , coupled with enormous tithes to the Church and the fact that many of the Ixmarite hierarchy owned estates in the district and were therefore friends and neighbours , guaranteed the residents a certain freedom of belief . |
| 15 | He sparked furious protests when he awarded the visitors a free kick for offside . |
| 16 | UEFA awarded the Austrians a 3-0 win , and a second-round place . |
| 17 | The story was recast to raise the popularity of Theseus , the rising star , to show how the Athenians taught the barbarians a sharp lesson ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 18 | Their ‘ soft ’ attitude to the Poles lost the Nazis a great deal of support In the 1935 Volkstag elections . |
| 19 | Wednesday 's match marked the Dutch football federation 's centenary , although considering the side Holland were forced to field , Queen Beatrix might just as well have stayed at home and sent the centenarians a congratulatory telegram . |
| 20 | The first venture of Dulles into this delicate area of diplomacy brought the Americans an apparent success . |
| 21 | It took the mantri a long time to work right round the bull , from shoulder to rump down one side and then from rump to shoulder back up the other . |
| 22 | Nylon carpet is basically oil based , which gave the Americans a significant advantage until 1980 because of the cheapness of their oil . |
| 23 | The two men ran off but , though they gave the troopers a good chase , were soon captured . |
| 24 | He gave the women a thirty-second start and picked them up on the northbound carriageway with ease . |
| 25 | Stephen Lazarević , Lazar 's successor , actually fought for Bayezid 's Turkish army at the battle of Ankara in 1402 when Timur defeated the Turks and so gave the Byzantines a half-century respite before the conquest of Constantinople by Sultan Mehmed II in 1453 . |
| 26 | Measures like this gave the colonies a secure market and also provided larger supplies of tropical goods than could be consumed in England , so that English merchants could develop their re-export trade with the rest of the world . |
| 27 | Latvia alone , without much national tradition before 1917 , gave the Bolsheviks an absolute majority of votes in the elections to the Constituent Assembly . |
| 28 | This not only gave the masters an extra hour 's work but saved them having to pay the breakfast allowance of 1½d ( 0.6p ) . |
| 29 | This gave the Germans a temporary advantage , but later on was the main cause which brought the US into the war and thus caused German defeat . ’ |
| 30 | I think we outnumbered their support here , it was it gave the players a great lift , it was tremendous erm all credit to them erm we will drag even more along to the next game . |