Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the light of the advice from their own officers and consultants , the Council decision to reject all inner northern routes , throws doubt on the decision making process which led them to support an outer northern route . |
| 2 | They were also concerned that their Equal Opportunities policies should apply to all funded groups , and their awareness of the multi-faceted discrimination experienced by black lesbians and gays led them to fund the Black Lesbian and Gay Centre Project . |
| 3 | ‘ In the end Becky helped me to choose a long beaded dress with a side-split and see-through sleeves . |
| 4 | MIKE RAFTER has been the white knight for Bristol Saracens , the Gloucestershire Division Two club , who invited him to halt a rapid downhill slide two years ago . |
| 5 | He pushed one of the doors open and invited her to enter the pretty pink and white room . |
| 6 | While her mother helped her choose the famous blue engagement suit which she bought from Harrods , she asked her sisters ' friend Anna Harvey , the fashion editor of Vogue magazine , for advice on building up her formal wardrobe . |
| 7 | Three generations of Aylings ran a respectable newspaper and I handed it over to someone who sent it plummeting down-market , used it to promote an extreme political view and was a thoroughly bad employer . ’ |
| 8 | The machine was examined by Home Office scientific experts in Huntingdon who found it used a battery-operated self-arming mechanism and was fired by a motor . |
| 9 | She advised me to ring the free 0800 number in London . |
| 10 | One of the duke 's groundsmen advised me to reconnoitre a nearby converted abbey which has recently been turned into a hotel . |
| 11 | Carver knew for a fact that Hauser had a collection of Roosevelt film clips , that he studied them to perfect the famous American president 's mannerisms . |
| 12 | Because transplanted quail cells will behave normally in chick embryos , she realized she had an invaluable natural marker . |
| 13 | The predominantly transparent colours of the gouache gave my washes a strong tint , and so allowed me to apply the broad washed demanded by a large watercolour . |
| 14 | Chemical analysis of coals after heating at 400°C for three days showed them to have a residual gas-generating capacity . |
| 15 | His hair was still quite closely cropped , and his beard now followed the lines of his jaw and allowed her to see the hard fierce lines of his face . |
| 16 | Then , in the last four years of her life , working with a small devoted group of students and collaborators , she succeeded in obtaining spectacular X-ray patterns of the virus that allowed her to determine the precise helical geometry of the protein sub-units , and , above all , to show that the ribonucleic acid ( RNA ) of the virus — the carrier of the genetic information , and hence the infectivity — formed a long single chain embedded deeply within the protein framework . |
| 17 | So the cock and the hen allowed him to take a glistening burnished black and emerald feather and a soft creamy-white feather , and he bade them all good-bye and went into the clearing , and called to the West Wind , holding up his key . |
| 18 | Someone claimed they saw a huge wormlike thing slither out of the meteorite and bury itself in the earth . ’ |
| 19 | Analysis showed it to have a definite Valencian chemical composition : in Figure 6.2 it is part of the Valencian sub-group with black filled circles . |
| 20 | The tragedy of Oedipus Rex was given archetypal significance by Freud when he claimed it encapsulated the universal unconscious wish of young boys to dispense with their fathers in order to establish an exclusive claim upon their mothers . |
| 21 | I listened closely to what he had to say , but I then pressed him to name the best-known avant-garde artists for me . |
| 22 | He was in coma , and as he breathed he made a terrible bubbling sound . |
| 23 | ‘ Like everything else Bernard does , he suddenly decided he needed a large Welsh farmhouse TODAY and so they bought Rhydoldog , ’ a friend recalls . |
| 24 | He was a keen student of the scriptures , particularly the Book of Revelations , and while meditating in his Calabrian retreat on the mystery of the Trinity and how it related to the time-process he had moments of intense spiritual illumination that led him to formulate a new millenarian philosophy of history . |
| 25 | This led him to propose a new evolutionary ‘ law ’ , which , in brief , states that within a relatively homogeneous higher taxon , subtaxa tend to become extinct at a stochastically constant rate . |
| 26 | His research on ‘ bio-energetics ’ led him to develop the prize-winning chemiosmotic theory while at Edinburgh University in the early 1960s . |
| 27 | It must be his over-sensitive suspicious mind that made him see a relieved relaxing of those muscled shoulders . |
| 28 | I could n't be certain but in the hubbub that followed ( shrieked squeaks and ‘ hahas ’ from the audience ) I thought I heard a definite mechanical ‘ click ’ , but when the stage lights came up again , nothing had happened . |
| 29 | She had just started her act in the southern city of Adana when Haci Tepe , a member of the ‘ Grey Wolves ’ , an extremist right-wing paramilitary group , demanded she sing an old nationalist song . |
| 30 | Early yesterday morning in a nightclub in Adana , a member of an extremist right-wing paramilitary group , the ‘ Grey Wolves ’ , demanded she sing an old nationalist song . |