Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experts ruled out equipment failure as a million-to-one chance . |
| 2 | The knights engaged in close combat but the jousting was cancelled after the first few contests as the horses were unsure of their footing in the mud and consequently the inept efforts of the knights produced only laughter from the spectators . |
| 3 | Compaq Computer Corp announced both desktop machines and servers and is actually placing most of its valuable early Pentiums into the desktop products so that the new Deskpro 60/M and 66/M machines will debut first . |
| 4 | The bitter sarcasm welled up unbidden . |
| 5 | George Watson , responding to this proposal , asserted that such topics were inappropriate for a course leading to a degree called " English " , and in any case dismissed both marxism and structuralism as outmoded " intellectual dinosaurs " : " No doubt a university is the place to study discredited intellectual systems ; but we risk derision if we propose them to the exclusion of others . " |
| 6 | Lawton sucked in air . |
| 7 | The canoe moved swiftly south from Oahu , west of Molokai , towards the Big Island at the southernmost tip of the Hawaiian chain . |
| 8 | One version of the Edinburgh syntactic component used pair-wise transition probabilities between words . |
| 9 | Lucie sucked in air through his teeth . |
| 10 | The debate over the salmon is likely to prove an even bigger political issue than that of the future of the northern spotted owl ( see ED No. 40 ) because it involves several industries , whereas the owl involved only logging . |
| 11 | Yes … the company appointed to sell Robert Maxwell 's shares in the second division club have announced they intend to adjourn the Oxford United AGM at the Manor Ground tomorrow night almost as soon as it starts . |
| 12 | One Over the Eight starts next Monday … there 's still a few tickets left … well worth a night out … we could have some real sporting drama at the Manor ground tomorrow afternoon with Oxford playing Newcastle in a relegation battle … |
| 13 | Sir David asked why education should be subject to such intensive assessment . |
| 14 | Neither of the main parties ruled out formation of a coalition ; no party in Israel had ever won the 61 seats necessary to secure a majority in the Knesset . |
| 15 | JD and the Left Front parties ruled out participation in a coalition , but agreed to support a Congress ( I ) minority government from outside on specific issues . |
| 16 | Retailers and manufacturers sought both clarification over what does constitute safe use , and a definition of cling film ( any stretchy film which clings to itself ) . |
| 17 | The result being , this episode wiped out Father Christmas and Our Father in one flash of green wool . |
| 18 | The majority of the houses in the neighbourhood lacked both electricity and running water . |
| 19 | Oh yeah , oh it 'll be a long mean fought out battle . |
| 20 | The Great Britain international hooker charged down full-back Garry Jack 's clumsy attempt to kick up field and then pounced over the line , Paul Eastwood adding the two points . |
| 21 | For example , McGuire 's ( 1964 ) classic study demonstrated how laboratory subjects could be induced to reject unconsidered assumptions when receiving new information ( see also , Szybillo and Heslin , 1973 ) . |
| 22 | Bernice sucked in air with a rasping gasp that hurt her throat . |
| 23 | But on the first night at least Richard Hague 's careful Figaro seemed only part way there , tentative and restrained in his guile . |
| 24 | The French were restless , and Joan of Arc stirred up patriotism and led a revolt against the reign of King Henry VI . |
| 25 | On the 6th S/L W M Kynock took the veteran Lancaster to Ijmuiden in Holland , but owing to cloud cover over the target , the Master Bomber turned back Sugar and the rest of the Lancaster force and no attack was made . |
| 26 | In addition to writing plays by the dozens , D'Urfey turned out song lyrics by the hundreds . |
| 27 | OSF mapped out Motif 's future : it plans to start work on the Next Generation User Interface by 1993 , which will evolve into a fully object-oriented use interface by 1995 . |
| 28 | In Uzbekistan , President Islam Karimov stepped up pressure on the democratic and Islamic opposition and tightened border controls with Tajikistan . |
| 29 | Similarly a few LEAs stepped up pressure on schools to implement anti-sexist policies , asking for school policies within a particular time limit ( e.g. Brent , ILEA ) pressuring heads to implement change ; organizing inservice courses ( Humberside , Brent ) replacing text books and appointing Advisers/Inspectors . |
| 30 | ‘ She 's been slowly going out of her mind stuck here day in day out , and do you care ? |