Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reddy says that about 40 per cent of that reduction came from improving efficiency . |
| 2 | But I am unable to see , however carefully I reread the 1969 Act , that Parliament had in that year taken any clear stance on it . |
| 3 | I did n't enjoy hurting friends , but each blow did in some way help me to cope with a temper . |
| 4 | That contest began with great fear , and ended with mercy never dreamed of before . |
| 5 | Scintigraphic findings during simultaneously manometry and pH monitoring indicated that cycling resulted from repeated reflux events and their oesophageal clearance . |
| 6 | At the most critical moment of the Seven Years War it amounted to 4.4 per cent of the total population of the country , the highest proportion of this kind reached in any State during the century . |
| 7 | Scholars in this field had for some time been engaged in a debate over the importance of acquired and inherited personality traits in behaviour . |
| 8 | Between 1927 and 1933 Nizan was clearly in a contradictory situation : at one level committed to sectarian communist ideology , at another level implicated in bourgeois careerism . |
| 9 | The experimental service in this study consisted of task-centred casework ( Reid and Epstein 1972 ) provided by social workers . |
| 10 | This reasoning came from early reading of a Ladybird book on Lautrec , van Gogh and Gauguin . |
| 11 | This reasoning came from early reading of a Ladybird book on Lautrec , van Gogh and Gauguin . |
| 12 | This oversight resulted in this cartoon appearing on mill noticeboards . |
| 13 | They were charged that they did contrive , design and plot to murder MOIR NcILCHENICH widow of Ellister for mere avarice and covetousness to attain to her money which they supposed she had lying by her in her house and in pursuance of this plot did upon some day of April 1698 in dead time of night murder her by strangling her with her own belt and thereafter threw her body over a rock into the sea so that the deed was not discovered for some time . |
| 14 | According to the Justinian Digest , ocean carriers , among others , were distrusted by their clients , and this distrust resulted in strict liability for delivery . |
| 15 | Many women in this diocese participated in this consultation . |
| 16 | In the centre was inset yet another millstone seeded with yellow stone-crop . |
| 17 | After the 1992 election , this process continued with Labour overtaking the Liberal Democrats in a rush to the right . |
| 18 | And some of the worst excesses during this period came from Third World governments , such as Sanjay Ghandi 's notorious sterilisation campaign in India in 1976 . |
| 19 | A very simple ( and true ) illustration of this point arose in one accident where a BOAC pilot died flying his own privately owned small aeroplane only the day after he had landed his Boeing 707 full of passengers at Heathrow . |
| 20 | This debasement resulted from imperial extravagance and the catastrophic loss of Asia Minor . |
| 21 | This conflict led to industrial unrest in the winter of 1978 — 9 , the breakdown of the Government 's pay policy and the Conservative election victory in 1979 . |
| 22 | This procedure resulted in considerable damage to the sphincter and was replaced by a technique of abdominal mucosectomy and sutured ileoanastomosis for the next 58 operations . |
| 23 | This request led to agonized debate within the Israeli Foreign Ministry . |
| 24 | Briefly , this trade consisted of large factory ships or latterly , freezer trawlers , lying in the more sheltered anchorages around the coasts of the UK where they would load fresh herring and mackerel from British fishing vessels directly arrived from their fishing grounds . |
| 25 | And this goblin came along one day and says to this peedie fairy that like he was coming to get her in the morning . |
| 26 | This student had at one time worked in catering until her love for learning foreign languages prompted her to tackle French and Spanish as a mature student . |
| 27 | This train ran for some time , but was not considered entirely successful . |
| 28 | Another woman stood on one leg by the window and stared at her . |
| 29 | Another argument ranged against post-accretional veneering is based on the inert gases in meteorites , particularly the carbonaceous chondrites ( section 14.5 ) which many scientists believe typify the small bodies from which much of the Earth accreted . |
| 30 | Dennis , who was down to ride work with her on another twoyear-old smiled with open hostility as they made their way up to the gallops . |