Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier this week , the college announced plans to extend to a second campus either in the Grassmarket or near Leith . |
| 2 | The University dated from the opulent heyday of expansion and was now slightly grubby and tatty , mortared cracks grinning between the white oblongs under their urban plaque . |
| 3 | A former brothel owner testified that she provided girls to romp in a hot tub with Vernon board members at the beach house . |
| 4 | I conjecture that co-adapted meme-complexes evolve in the same kind of way as co-adapted gene-complexes . |
| 5 | Zeuxis 's painted vine provoked the wonder and the applause of all his audience when it attracted birds to peck at the plump fruit . |
| 6 | The paper also said CBS identified refugees walking on the Pakistani border as Afghans evacuating villages following fighting , identified a Pakistani jet as a Soviet fighter and used film stolen from another cameraman . |
| 7 | While she chatted I could feel the hard knots inside me untying themselves , the way tensed muscles relax in a warm bath . |
| 8 | As a consequence of the talks the Assam government lifted restrictions imposed under the Disturbed Areas Act on Sept. 1 and asked the ABSU to stop the violence in response . |
| 9 | eg. lifts , stairs , paths , rubbish chutes etc. this case concerned a path used by a plaintiff confined to a wheelchair who received injuries related to the poor state of the path . |
| 10 | When section 42 was under discussion , the government ignored recommendations made by the Fair Employment Agency , as well as recommendations in the Standing Advisory Commission on Human Rights ( SACHR ) report of 1987 . |
| 11 | These included the treeless spaces north and south of Brocklebeck ; he recommended places sheltered from the northern blast and with ‘ commanding prospects of that noble lake , ’ ‘ the hollow between Derwent Park and Castlehead , and the fields extending from Castlehead to Keswick . ’ |
| 12 | Many bright ideas — and failed ideas looking for a second lease on life — are being put forward as ways of converting weapon-grade plutonium into a form too awkward for the weapon-minded to bother with . |
| 13 | Polymeric materials are normally either amorphous , or partially crystalline with randomly oriented crystallites embedded in a disordered matrix . |
| 14 | The Soviet Communist Party 's ideology chief denied on Monday that the entire ruling Politburo had offered to resign or faced calls to resign at a key party meeting this month . |
| 15 | It is unknown whether low amplitude propagated contractions and high amplitude propagated contractions have the same physiological basis and serve the same function — that is , whether they are parts of a continuum of propagated contractions. ( 3 ) High amplitude propagated contractions start from the ascending colon ( old observations also suggest that the appendix may be involved in such forceful activity ) , and most are propagated in an aboral direction . |
| 16 | Not all high amplitude propagated contractions result in an immediate defecation , however , and not all defecations are immediately preceded by high amplitude propagated contractions , because subjects normally store stool in the rectum or distal bowel until defecation is socially convenient . |
| 17 | This scheme allowed individuals to arrange for an interest-free loan of up to DFl.12,500 ( £4,460 ; $7,140 ) to finance the purchase of a work of art . |
| 18 | The Director encouraged individuals to respond to the Scottish Office — to ensure these efforts are guided , it would be useful if your Divisional response on strategic planning was circulated within our Division as a standard framework . |
| 19 | He welcomed reforms proposed by the Financial Reporting Council and its satellites and supported moves to introduce a British version of the American-style management discussion and analysis in the annual report . |
| 20 | Palestinians on Nov. 15 disregarded curfews imposed by the Israeli authorities and openly celebrated the second anniversary of the Palestinian declaration of independence . |
| 21 | And ( b ) rigged prices lead to the dumped surpluses that distort world trade ; so the goal is to move the EC 's intervention prices down towards world-market ones — down , as a minimum , towards what a truly efficient European farmer can survive on . |
| 22 | A particular difficulty would seem to be that the proportion of left handed inverters found in the general population does not correspond to the proportion of sinistrals estimated on other grounds to have left hemisphere speech ( Searleman , Tweedy and Springer , 1979 ) although it must be admitted that the range of estimates of both proportions has varied quite widely and there is at least some overlap . |
| 23 | The human world and hell joined forces to scoff at the dying man . |
| 24 | These precedents encouraged lawyers to talk of the immemorial law of the Salian Franks under which women were excluded from the succession . |
| 25 | Travellers faced delays caused by the appalling conditions . |
| 26 | When he went to Waitrose to buy the food for their contribution to what everyone in the street was calling ‘ Donald 's funeral breakfast ’ Henry spent hours browsing through the domestic cleaners , all of which sounded pretty lethal . |
| 27 | It 's been a long day — I spent hours working on a new program . |
| 28 | He heard vespers sung in the deep dusk from his father 's church , and his heart stilled and quietened in him with wonder , as though at last he felt himself to be drawing near to the heart of a mystery . |
| 29 | He spent months recovering in a private clinic in Bordeaux . |
| 30 | Presently she heard footsteps slipping on the wet grass , and then one of the doors groaned open . |