Example sentences of "[vb pp] [coord] [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fitzgerald found that for some books , an increase to six or even nine samples actually produced means which systematically departed even further from the population mean — the true overall difficulty level , Only after the number of samples taken approached or exceeded the critical number did the mean of the samples agree with the population mean . |
| 2 | When the opportunity presented itself some Arab states , for example Egypt ( which formally repudiated its treaty in 1976 ) and Iraq ( 1952–3 ) , discarded or downgraded the Soviet Union in their foreign relations and cultivated the United States . |
| 3 | Tenacious and long-memoried , they had not allowed themselves to be uprooted or changed a second time . |
| 4 | Precisely how he was to be enticed aboard a suitable vessel remained in doubt , particularly as the DEA neither owned nor controlled a suitable vessel . |
| 5 | When an aircraft has been designed and built a full-sized specimen must be tested for strength and stiffness . |
| 6 | Sir Goldsworthy Gurney , a Cornishman , designed and built a steam-powered carriage which carried 19 passengers in 1827 . |
| 7 | De Havilland , a British company , designed and built the first passenger jet airplane , but it did not analyze what the market needed and therefore did not identify two key factors . |
| 8 | Looking back at that period , the crucial difference in Conservative politicians was between those who thought that the last twenty or thirty years had not been too bad , and who were sceptical that anything better could be achieved , and those who hoped that something better could be won and saw the last quarter of a century as a slow but steady decline . |
| 9 | Okland was interviewed in one of the papers on why Frank was included and mentioned the strong Turkey game and also spoke about Frank not playing in Leeds : ’ Frank not playing is strange . |
| 10 | This sudden fame impressed and disturbed the whole school , including the teachers , who called Charlie ‘ Girlie ’ . |
| 11 | THUGS attacked and robbed a young cancer victim as he played on his new mountain bike . |
| 12 | Sensing the danger , Baglin then responded and mounted a final flurry to clinch the Cellnet national title 4–6 6–2 6–2 |
| 13 | The air-gargoyles gently sucked and puffed the aromatic smoke into strange curlicues as if sketching the features of potential daemons which might lurk outside the hull . |
| 14 | For 400 years after this the Romans enslaved , organised and civilised the enormous area of their known world , which encircled the Mediterranean and stretched from Spain in the west to the Black Sea in the east , from Britain in the north to Egypt in the south . |
| 15 | Thus , in Wiseman v. Borneman the Inland Revenue Commissioners believed that part of the Finance Act concerning share transactions was applicable to the case before them ; the taxpayer objected and entered a statutory declaration setting out his reasons . |
| 16 | North Yorkshire chief executive Ron Leyland said they were glad to be among the first considered but felt the present system worked well . |
| 17 | Detectives are working on the theory that he could have arrived home to find his flat in Bisley Court , Darlington , being ransacked and paid the ultimate price . |
| 18 | The Commissioners still believed that the Act applied and referred the statutory declaration , a certificate and counter-statement setting out their views on the taxpayer 's statutory declaration , to a tribunal which would decide whether there was a prima facie case for proceeding . |
| 19 | Working in the enclosed , whitened space which is integral to the piece , Bargh laboriously applied and reapplied the loaded pigment , sanding the surface between each layer . |
| 20 | Our gaze met and became an eternal thing . |
| 21 | On 6 April 1362 these routiers met and defeated a royal army at Brignais , in the Rhône valley . |
| 22 | In an attempt to put the house back in order , Paul drew up a list of jobs to be done and employed a local architect to oversee the work . |
| 23 | This pushed most regions further from their original RAWP targets than the full model would have done and increased the relative shift of resources to the south east . |
| 24 | Three pieces of daub were dated and provided an average age and standard error of 830 plus/minus 40 years . |
| 25 | In 1972 , it was expanded and renamed the National Institute of Arthritis , Metabolism , and Digestive Diseases . |
| 26 | During another epoch , the polar ice-cap expanded and covered a large part of the northern hemisphere , and it was only when that receded about 12,000 years ago that what was left of the Thulean Province reappeared from beneath the ice as the island we now call Iceland . |
| 27 | In the magnificent setting of the Park 's mansion house , the region 's top chefs prepared and presented an eight course banquet for 40 served on Wedgwood fine bone china tableware complemented by Waterford crystal stemware . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , there were some INSET initiatives in this area , and in particular the Special Services Division organized and ran a small number of very ambitious courses . |
| 29 | Bermuda became extremely vexed in 1973 , when the local Black Power movement ambushed and killed the then Governor , Sir Richard Sharples , and his aide-de-camp in the gardens after dinner . |
| 30 | He argues that ‘ the failure of both disputes revealed and reproduced the regional nature of management-labour relations in the industry ’ ( p. 35 ) , because ‘ miners ’ interpretations of the two disputes , and of the underlying arguments , are understood as embedded in the nature of collective social relations at work … the constitution of workplace relations has varied between coalfields and … variations in management and labour strategies have been central to this process ' ( p. 36 ) . |