Example sentences of "[vb past] a [adj] [noun] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the summer of 1991 he proposed a new party programme which , in effect , would have brought it much closer into line with a social democratic party , competing with others on Western lines . |
| 2 | The company maintained a separate policy unit which is concerned only with interpreting and assessing the impact of environmental factors on the company 's policies . |
| 3 | Eventually , I found a young hospital registrar who said , not entirely as a joke : ‘ I expect we 'll find a cupboard for her ’ . |
| 4 | Next day we found a good army doctor who examined Rachel and said with care she would soon be well , the M & B had done its work , and then to add to our trouble you all went down with scarlet fever — caught on the boat I expect . |
| 5 | When police raided his house , they found a fifteenth century Bastiano which he 'd stolen from a gallery in Venice last week . |
| 6 | He also built a narrow gauge railway which ran round the whole estate . |
| 7 | The Geneva meeting used a clinical approach to health policy development which focuses on individual patients and their available treatment options , whereas the Copenhagen meeting used a public health approach which strives for the best mix of curative and preventive health services , given the existing resources , to maximise the health status of a population . |
| 8 | Simply because the first mass-selling device , Hewlett-Packard 's LaserJet , used a laser-based imaging system we have grown accustomed to calling them laser printers . |
| 9 | They used a thermal imaging camera which gives a picture like this of bodies on the ground . |
| 10 | and all she can think of to say is ( and here he mimicked a heavy filmstar accent which actually was nothing like the actress in the film at all , because the woman in the film is an ordinary , decent , hardworking woman ) , ‘ Oh dahlink , I 'ave missed you so much , ’ and then the first thing she does after waiting for him to come home for seven fucking years is to leave the fucking gas on while she 's making his coffee , and then of course she 's so tense that she just ca n't wait for a fag , she lights up , there you go ; bang . |
| 11 | Eric Cantona went as close as anyone when he tried a 40 yard lob which sailed over the goalkeeper 's head only to hit the bar and bounce into the grateful arms of Dmitri Kharine . |
| 12 | I once visited a local MIND centre which was a day and short-term residential centre for people who had been in institutions with mental illness . |
| 13 | So before Forte Travelodge installed a new booking system it set up a trial in a mock-up of its operations centre . |
| 14 | A week later I transferred an Emperor Peckoltia ( which I have had over a year ) and added a new Emperor Peckoltia which was purchased from Wholesale Tropicals of Bethnal Green . |
| 15 | Britain now opposed a European Community bloc which included West Germany , the Netherlands and Denmark , backing controls on motor exhausts and FGD for power stations . |
| 16 | Dustin played a timid bank clerk who dreams of being a ladies ' man , although he does not seem to be short of girlfriends . |
| 17 | Our results with western blotting contrast with those of Klein et al who identified a 65 kDa band which seemed to be specific for PSC . |
| 18 | The SPD programme , with the slogan " The future has a name again : the SPD " , envisaged a social market economy which protected the socially disadvantaged . |
| 19 | Are these the same fans who at the start of the season boasted a five-man strike force which was going to win them the League ? |
| 20 | More recently , Marzi , Stefano , Tassinari and Crea ( 1979 ) , also using a post-cued partial report technique but without a mask , obtained a partial report advantage which decreased with increasing intervals between stimulus presentation and cue . |
| 21 | In 1944 R. A. Butler , the President of the Board of Education , enacted a new Education Act which gave aid to Church schools in a new compromise and made provision for the raising of the school leaving age to fifteen at the end of the war and to sixteen at some date thereafter . |
| 22 | He actually fired a public relations officer who had dared argue that the real sales figures were one or two percentage points short of the goal . |
| 23 | Cis was coming out of the Co-op one day ( hoping that Rich had not , yet again , taken some cigarettes and put them on her account ) , when she met a bristle-moustached Meredith Jones who demanded , ‘ How can you let him do it ? ’ |
| 24 | Nonetheless , they also found that the professional newcomers to the area were often upset by the environmental consequences of modern farming ( see Chapters 8 and 9 ) and since they lacked a rural power base they formed environmental pressure groups to protest against the farmers , thus creating a new form of social division in the rural community . |
| 25 | However , when calls for a compulsory call-up which would share the burden became stronger , the government passed a Military Service Act which came into force in August 1916 , six months after similar United Kingdom legislation . |
| 26 | In the early summer of 1965 , in the short lull between the Commons debate and the issuing of Circular 10/65 , I enjoyed an hour in the early evening drinking a pint of beer alongside the Thames with one of the senior educational administrators of Oxfordshire , who later became a Chief Education Officer himself . |
| 27 | Norman became a four-handicap polo player He was devoted to sport , golfing around the world 's best courses and still finding time to be an active member of the Royal Yacht Squadron , He owned a 70-ton yacht called Revive . |
| 28 | Then that I got that book back when I became a full time official it was still in the still in the office . |
| 29 | For although his daughter Maire never became a top ballet star she is a member of a highly successful family band . |
| 30 | Not in the same way that I knew of his brother , who made money in biscuits and owned a gleaming Daimler car which he drove very cautiously over the potholes in the road outside our house . |