Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this suggestion would have given the combined group a market share in excess of 50 per cent of the British market , which would have fallen foul of the MMC guidelines . |
| 2 | Have not the Government given the French-backed consortium a licence to print money ? |
| 3 | ‘ You 're saying you 've never given the poor girl a scrap of encouragement ? ’ she mocked scornfully . |
| 4 | That has given the whole company a step up , including Crate , who , as we mentioned earlier , are now making use of the systems that I came here with . ’ |
| 5 | There was one great and essential difference , however , between Haussmann and Wren ; the Great Fire of 1666 had given the English architect a head-start when it came to demolition of existing buildings . |
| 6 | And in this place the people have given the precious rain a name . |
| 7 | Three years earlier , on the conclusion of an Anglo-Dutch peace treaty , it had already voted the same man a gold chain and a medal worth another 6,000 . |
| 8 | Behind them , in the blackest darkness , rode the Lord Satan ( oh , yes , I 've met the evil bugger a number of times ) on his dark-winged steed . |
| 9 | The public grew to hate the licensors , and Parliament eventually uncovered widespread corruption in their operation — fraud , extortion and intimidation had made the whole system a scandal . |
| 10 | In previous talks South Korea had demanded agreement on improving relations before signing a non-aggression declaration , while the North had made a military agreement a priority . |
| 11 | Daredevil bikers a menace on pathway Daredevil young motorcyclists have made a popular path a danger area in East Cleveland . |
| 12 | She had made a wrong choice a year ago , had put Steve and her career before the man she loved , but there had been more to it than that . |
| 13 | He had been dismayed , almost horrified , when she had opened the front door a crack and displayed herself pale and ill and obviously in need of cherishing . |
| 14 | He told us we 'd got a yellow streak a yard wide down our backs . |
| 15 | We 've got a reported-stolen list a mile long , but the media only cares about the sexy stuff . |
| 16 | The Victorian block of flats where Christine Mills lived had been painted a dark green a decade ago and the wood of the frames now showed through in parts , black and rotten . |
| 17 | The formation of planetary systems and the size and chemical composition of each member are , then , remarkably regular : given a sun-sized star a computer generally comes up with a similar range of planets to that in the solar system , with small rocky planets closest to the star and the large gaseous ones further out ( due to the effects of gravity , orbits would later space themselves out along the lines of our own solar system ) . |
| 18 | COURTAULDS has given a local school a leg up the business ladder by helping them ‘ set up shop ’ as scientific equipment suppliers . |
| 19 | George Swinson , a sixty-five-year-old sailor , had sustained a serious accident a year previously when he fell from the upper yard of a ship at Portland , Oregon . |
| 20 | The second final place was contested between Alex A — who had played the first round a player short — and Mason 's packing house . |
| 21 | The play , written by André Birabeau and set in the Paris of 1919 , brought praise for the performances of Crawford and his co-star , nineteen-year-old Sarah Long , who had played the same role a year earlier when a different production was staged in Brighton and London . |
| 22 | Mollie says she wo n't be fooled the next time a conman comes to call |
| 23 | According to Russian press reports , Krayushkin had also given an Austrian diplomat a list of more than 200 Austrian prisoners . |
| 24 | With the awful storms of late February still fresh in most people 's minds , those with four-wheel-drive cars must have found the extra traction a godsend . |
| 25 | The major auction houses have moved with the times and have found new ways of selling works which in both form and content would have proved an unstable investment a decade ago . |
| 26 | Even for the full Welsh side to beat Australia — let alone the second string-would have seemed an outrageous dream a year ago in the wake of humiliating defeats at the hands of the world champions , 63–6 on tour Down Under , and 38–3 in the World Cup . |
| 27 | Bit of both oh right , that 's a good idea , see you Gone the wrong way a post box got a letter to post |
| 28 | He 's forced the Libyan government a cause for celebration the tenth anniversary of the coming to power of their president Colonel Gadaffi . |
| 29 | One , the British gay director Richard Kwietniowski , has taken the simple reading a stage further by making the prize-winning short film , Flames of Passion ( 1990 ) , which is both pastiche of and homage to the Coward original , reworking its iconography into an updated story of gay romance that begins with hurried glances on a station platform and , times having changed , ends with intertwined consummation on the train . |
| 30 | I mean it may have pleased the Irish government a bit but it 's got implications both domestically and internationally . |