Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It was also to become one of the biggest hits and the one provocative vinyl slap in a chart which reached new depths of blandness : Elaine Page , King , Howard Jones , Foreigner and Russ Abbot . |
2 | The Muslim community in Bradford , where Yasmin comes from , is very strong , and there had recently been a case which made national news of two Muslim sisters fighting for their right to wear their headscarves to school . |
3 | Visitors to Westminster Hall are amazed at Warren Hastings ' ability to survive a case which lasted seven years . |
4 | In a case which occurred some time between 1037 and 1054 , the abbot of Marmoutier complained in Geoffrey Martel 's court that a certain Bouchard had seized back a mill which his brother , with Bouchard 's consent , had earlier bestowed on the abbey . |
5 | They asked me to help dress the models who wandered around showing clothes to the ladies having afternoon tea in the restaurant , and after a bit I did some modelling myself . |
6 | Direct responsibility for DMS policy in England and Wales was initially that of a panel ( a panel for Scotland remained separate for several years ) and this became a Board after the Committee for Arts and Social Studies was split in 1978 and a Committee for Business and Management Studies created — ; a decision which produced some controversy . |
7 | In a decision which surprised many commentators , none of the sons and daughters of top party leaders ( the so-called " princelings " ) were elevated to the central committee . |
8 | Next week , Mr Irons and Sheriff Nicholson are to petition the Court of Session to reverse a decision it took last year , effectively removing them as Torrie trustees , and making the university the sole trustee of the collection . |
9 | A driver who towed another car at a hundred miles an hour on a motorway has admitted reckless driving . |
10 | He was also to experience some awful moments and he was badly wounded in one battle by a splinter from a shell which killed two men immediately behind him . |
11 | Is this a gang you gave some shit ? |
12 | Not only was he one of the very rare examples of a writer who produced great work in more than one genre , but in a career which spanned nearly 60 years , his talent had developed from traditional Victorian fiction to innovative 20th century poetry . |
13 | In my early struggling days as a writer I spent occasional days as a film extra . |
14 | The selectors have only left one rink intact from last year — Billy Montgomery ( Falls ) , Cecil Worthington ( Knock ) , David Gardiner ( Belmont ) and Seamus Elliman ( Falls ) — a rink which had three wins last season . |
15 | The Military Training Act of 1806 — the year after Trafalgar — was to provide for 200,000 troops to be raised by ballot , a measure which prompted serious riots in Frome seven years later . |
16 | Thus Marx 's model of historical development was in many respects only a sketch which left many problems unresolved . |
17 | The information was then fed into a computer which produced individual body reports together with advice on how to become more fit and healthy . |
18 | The Church of England is expected to discipline a vicar who removed wooden crosses from a grave , despite the distress of the family involved . |
19 | It was a technique which required split-second timing and horsemanship of the highest order . |
20 | The little deer was seen staggering in a distressed and bloated condition , captured with difficulty and taken to a vet who pumped fermented corn from the stomach — presumably the fawn had gorged herself on pheasant feed . |
21 | The doctor issued a certificate which gave coronary thrombosis as the cause of death . ’ |
22 | About , for example , the internal problems in what was the Soviet Union , a story we began some years ago , but are now in danger of leaving hanging in the air . |
23 | In fact , I arrived at a look I liked fifteen years ago and I have hardly changed it since then . |
24 | Artists a category which included interior decorators and lowly house-painters were not concentrated in any particular quarter . |
25 | By a coincidence I met this man on the summit of Sergeant Man in the Lake District two months later . |
26 | Thus the early years of the century , when war was taking on ‘ so decorous an aspect ’ in Western Europe , saw the conquered provinces of Livonia ravaged by the armies of Peter I with a ferocity which shocked Western observers . |
27 | Odo 's biography was written by a monk who had little interest in the miraculous and much in practical virtues . |
28 | A MIDWIFE who delivered 42 babies and was present at other births was found to be HIV positive , a health chief confirmed yesterday . |
29 | Like a twat I decided that attack was the best way of preserving my job , and so I demanded that the board give me complete control over team selection , tactics , welfare etc. , with no boardroom interference whatsoever . |
30 | A PENSIONER who kept 84 dogs in her house told a court yesterday she had no reason to live if her ‘ bairns ’ were taken away . |