Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martin Hyman of British Aerospace got five enquiries and said that though he could have wished for more , those that he had talked to had , he felt , benefited considerably . |
| 2 | Despite the stink it raised in some quarters , The Krays made perfect sense as a symptom of the curious British habit of turning petty villains into national folk heroes . |
| 3 | Some cities housed larger proportions of households whose head was born in the New Commonwealth than national statistics would indicate . |
| 4 | Prime Minister Bob Hawke made sweeping changes in his Cabinet , appointed on April 3 following the re-election by a narrow margin of his Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) government on March 23 . |
| 5 | Spilt blood and other body fluids should be cleaned up with household bleach diluted one part in ten parts of water . |
| 6 | The planners could determine the availability of finance : ‘ Every single externally financed project was therefore meant to be scrutinized for conformity with the targets and if the projects passed this test the Commission would see to it that sufficient tax and credit incentives would be made available ’ ( Estrin and Holmes , 1983 , p. 179 ) . |
| 7 | A large marquee had been erected and the camp became giant rave party . |
| 8 | The judgement led one observer to point out ruefully that there now existed a situation where two tribunals faced with similar circumstances could quite reasonably come to different conclusions , and that their rulings could not be overturned on appeal in the Interests of consistency ( IRS , 1985a ) . |
| 9 | Successful missionizing activities and the extending of the boundaries and powers of states led secular authorities to an examination of the sources of power and to its exercise . |
| 10 | Unfortunately he made the mistake of undoing his straps before force-landing in the water and was thrown forward , breaking his nose on the remnants of the windscreen as one of the Messerschmitts passed low overhead . |
| 11 | After the revolution of 1327 the commons in parliament sought statutory protection against the measures Edward II had taken . |
| 12 | In the fourth condition they were asked to judge whether a sentence made any sense . |
| 13 | The Brixton Gang Rape case produced several complaints to the Press Council which upheld most but not all of the complaints . |
| 14 | The Dreyfus case produced grave excesses , when Frenchmen were urged to ‘ arroser du sang des Juifs l'arbre de la liberté ’ and a Papal Nuncio reminded a French diplomat that ‘ la religion catholique avait en reserve des indulgences spéciales pour ceux qui , lorsque la bonne cause le réclame , versent le sang des juifs et des paiens ’ . |
| 15 | The blatant placing of a bolt in a Lakeland mountain crag produced considerable reaction throughout the rock climbing fraternity . |
| 16 | When Mr Rocard made that speech , the ecologists were being credited with almost 20 per cent of the vote . |
| 17 | Russians made repeated attempts to break through the encircling enemy — only and always to be driven back by the murderous fire of Francois 's 1st Corps , which barred the line of retreat along the route by which they had earlier advanced . |
| 18 | Throughout the 1970s , its annual meetings passed regular resolutions in support of nuclear expansion . |
| 19 | Labour support tended to be concentrated in already safe seats while the Tories swung many of the southern marginals , as many of the managerial , professional and small business strata registered Tory votes where they had previously voted Liberal or not voted at all ( Bonham , 1954 ) . |
| 20 | Then Harvey produced two items from his own pocket . |
| 21 | In this Minton admitted that lithography for him remained ‘ a business of surprises , hazards and disasters ’ . |
| 22 | When I gave up cabaret , Roger became musical director on board the Canberra . |
| 23 | BORIS Yeltsin chose the best word to describe the economic recovery plan which the Congress of People 's Deputies passed this week . |
| 24 | and then time went along until it was September and September the third I was in church when the vicar announced that war has just been declared . |
| 25 | The 38 bulls sold averaged £1,738.57 compared with £1,665.24 last year and four steers were sold for an average of £475.13 . |
| 26 | His researchers made excellent observations on 178 separate UAPs which Rutledge has published in Project Identification ( Prentice Hall , 1981 ) . |
| 27 | Three weeks ago Goering met some Englishmen on Sylt , you know it ? |
| 28 | Shire difficulty became sheer impossibility after a months long battle to deselect David Abrahams , the previous candidate . |
| 29 | There is even the suggestion of a ‘ conspiracy ’ , that the authorities manipulated these troubles , realising the existence of conflicts between Chinese and African students and hoping to divert attention away from the disastrous economic forecasts for the coming year . |
| 30 | Last October , Swiss bondholders agreed that interest on the bonds should be deferred with the bonds not being declared to be in default until 1 March . |