Example sentences of "[vb past] [num] of [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Cabinet reshuffle announced on Nov. 25 involved 10 of the existing ministers and the appointment of one new minister . |
| 2 | Then we visited one of the 13 tombs , which are like underground palaces , built for the Ming Emperors . |
| 3 | Bob drew one of the rush-bottomed chairs out from the great dining-table in the middle of the kitchen and sprawled in it . |
| 4 | David Scott , when strongly pressing the candidacy of Abram Robinson for a surveyor 's post in the East India Company 's service , encountered one of the occupational hazards of a politician in this period , when he found that his candidate was totally lacking in any manner of qualification for such a situation . |
| 5 | Knight-Ridder sponsored one of the early viewdata tests with a system called Viewtron . |
| 6 | NEXT , which a year ago reported one of the biggest losses ever by a British retailer , yesterday announced a return to dividends and provided the hardest evidence yet that the troubles of recent years are behind it . |
| 7 | ‘ Lyle carpets is also in the early stages of BS5750 ’ said Managing Director , John Stewart , as he described one of the many changes in progress . |
| 8 | The same oppositional balance is expressed in more prosaic language by two men who each described one of the two polarities : |
| 9 | It involved one of the biggest names in the rock world . |
| 10 | The three judges dismissed five of the six grounds of their appeal , quashing the verdicts only on the possibility that their hands could have been " innocently " contaminated with nitroglycerine , perhaps by drying their hands on a contaminated towel in Anne Maguire 's bathroom ( although no towel was tested ) . |
| 11 | ‘ We know how to do it ! ’ shouted one of the younger nomes . |
| 12 | The 19 year old lefthander created one of the biggest match upsets in 92 years of Davis Cup when he surprised world No. 1 Stefan Edberg , , in the opening singles of the first-ever World Group series played in Canada . |
| 13 | I 'd therefore grown used to getting a certain amount of respect from other drivers , so when I found one of the clapped-out Toyotas favoured by Asian families in my path one morning I expected a free passage . |
| 14 | Daly found one of the hardest tasks was getting into Augusta National . |
| 15 | The Spanish National Committee of Pharmacovigilance analysed 16 of the 17 cases reported as being cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome . |
| 16 | In the town of frightened foxes , a British diplomat phoned one of the richest businessmen in the country . |
| 17 | Without any explanation , he jumped out and approached one of the Ayurvedic healers who for centuries have sat on the roadside here , surrounded by the ingredients of their trade : live iguanas whose fried juices are said to cure impotence ; ginseng for philtres used to spread or extinguish the fires of love ; tree bark to ward off a woman 's menopause ; the bringraj herb from the high Himalayas said to conquer baldness or thicken the beard of the most effete Sikh . |
| 18 | To make this very difficult underwater inspection , MI6 approached one of the Royal Navy 's most experienced wartime frogmen — Commander Lionel ‘ Buster ’ Crabb GM OBE RNVR . |
| 19 | The French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau provided one of the earliest examinations of this question . |
| 20 | He said Darlington College of Technology already provided one of the best nursery nurse courses in the country . |
| 21 | A junior branch through Joseph Pease , the India reformer ( uncle of the MP ) provided one of the main strands of support for American Garrisonian abolitionism in Britain , in the form of Elizabeth pease Nichol and her connections . |
| 22 | You can still access the open file if you used one of the static variables ( A% to Z% ) to store the file handle . |
| 23 | Some 35,000 still used one of the 140 Credit Unions operating in Britain in the 1990s as cooperative savings and loan clubs . |
| 24 | General Noriega detained two of the five colonels on his General Staff , both until now thought to have been loyal senior officers . |
| 25 | The town which took Teacher of the Year to its collective satchel was Billingham which provided two of the early leaders in the race . |
| 26 | Head severed two of the cutaneous nerves in his left forearm and sutured the ends together . |
| 27 | Her garden was full of poppies and Alice snatched two of the hairy buds as she went by . |
| 28 | Boro provided seven of the 15 heat winners , with Daz Sumner having his best night so far with a 12-point return from his six rides . |
| 29 | Snow covered 70pc of the longest stage of the 13-hour leg from Wangaratta to Canberra but Clark 's Ford Escort passed six of the front runners to record three fastest stage times . |
| 30 | We excluded such cells from our analysis and studied 100 of the remaining cells , chosen at random , through their first divisions . |