Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only that , he says would ensure that such disputes over legal procedure were sorted out before a case ever went to trial . |
| 2 | Thus for BrF the first band shows a splitting of about 0·32 eV and is clearly due to a level largely localized on Br ; in IBr ( Fig. 6.18 ) the first two bands show splittings of 0·58 and 0·36 eV and are assigned to lone-pairs mainly localized on I and Br , respectively . |
| 3 | Statutory town planning of a kind therefore got under way after the hiatus of war , with only limited experience to guide it , as summarized by Adshead ( 1923 ) . |
| 4 | Modrow entitled his proposals " For Germany , united fatherland " , using a slogan often chanted by East German demonstrators . |
| 5 | Cliftonville , with a defence well marshalled by Marty Tabb , a strong running mid-field and dangerous strikers just about deserved to win this one and top the group . |
| 6 | Norman Crawford 's men have a point advantage , a defence superbly marshalled by Stephen Martin and which has conceded just six goals in 17 games , and an attack led by the prolific Kenny Morris . |
| 7 | SDPP leaders in seven south-eastern provinces where Kurds formed a majority also resigned on Nov. 22 . |
| 8 | Laidlaw trailed off when a car suddenly came into view at the other end of the dimly lit street . |
| 9 | The bus letting me off at a convenient corner in the city , I walked to the Sheraton and from a telephone there spoke to Mrs Baudelaire . |
| 10 | Finishing her coffee , she collected some leaflets from the hall table , and , with the intention of taking them up to her room to read , returned to the lounge to say goodnight — a plan instantly foiled by Feargal 's mother , who seemed to have shed her vagueness , along with her daughter , who had disappeared , and patted the seat beside her in silent invitation . |
| 11 | In spite of the local Comune 's siting of a modern aqueduct through the grounds of the former villa , ( leaving the oddity of a twentieth-century industrial ruin within a sixteenth-century one ) a grotto , three fountain niches with inscriptions , and a tabernacle formerly frescoed by Allori all survive . |
| 12 | Was it a household so permeated by dislike and distrust that only the bald fact of dependence constrained them to preserve an uneasy peace ? |
| 13 | There are early mentions of the Portadown district in Latin documents about Papal taxation in 1296 and 1302 where the references are to Plebs Varren ( or , more familiarly , Ballyoran ) and the name ‘ Ballywarren al' Portadowne ’ is in the Ulster Inquisitions of 1609 but Portadown as a village only came into existence at the Plantation of Ulster . |
| 14 | A crisis simultaneously erupted in relations with Spain , Cuba 's main Western trading partner , which refused to hand over four men who had sought asylum in the Spanish embassy on July 18 . |
| 15 | Charlie heard the sound of a bullet that came from behind him and a moment later watched in horror as Tommy collapsed on his stomach and lay motionless in the mud . |
| 16 | His torso lifted from the ground for a moment then collapsed into unconsciousness . |
| 17 | That result surpassed Saturday 's victory over Downpatrick by runs , a match also played at Upritchard Park . |
| 18 | It failed to resolve the question of foreign influence in Korea , which a decade later led to war between China and Japan . |
| 19 | Ann Petty , Carlisle Grove , Bishop Auckland : It was my half day off when myself and a friend usually went into Newcastle to the pictures , but because of public mourning they were all closed . |
| 20 | The last pitch was a real sting in the tail , but the perplexing moves up a short crack in a wall soon succumbed to brute force and determination and I swung exultantly over a final bulge on the monstrous , weathered holds to sit satiated on the plateau , soaking up the sun until Alec pulled over , grinning with triumph . |
| 21 | Certainly Fleet Street as a whole never plumped for ITV . |
| 22 | Subodh Kant Sahay , Minister of State for Home Affairs , in a statement on Jan. 2 to the Indian parliament announced that 890 people had been killed and nearly 4,000 injured in 15 weeks of Hindu-Moslem riots triggered by Hindu agitation around the disputed sacred site where a mosque currently stood in Ayodhya , Uttar Pradesh . |
| 23 | Starting and finishing at the Hill Inn , the walk passes through a district liberally pockmarked with caves and potholes of which Bruntscar and Gatekirk Cave are especially worth a halt to inspect the outsides . |
| 24 | Starting and finishing at the Hill Inn , the walk passes through a district liberally pockmarked with caves and potholes of which Bruntscar and Gatekirk Cave are especially worth a halt to inspect the outsides . |
| 25 | It sounds unfair — to a visitor just arrived from Mars . |
| 26 | In other words , he wished to give his own canvases a dimension that in a sense already existed in sculpture , or at least in free-standing sculpture . |
| 27 | Instantly familiar ( and , some would claim , too much soin opera these days ) is the white box set perched on a floor steeply raked from left to right , under which coffins are piled in increasing numbers as the work unfolds . |
| 28 | A thought suddenly came to mind . |
| 29 | They had almost passed the Royale , when a thought suddenly occurred to Benny , and she stamped the driver 's foot to the brake pedal . |
| 30 | The latter example also shows the inversion of the subject and verb in the source marker — a form never found in conversation . |