Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A large marquee had been erected and the camp became giant rave party . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | After the revolution of 1327 the commons in parliament sought statutory protection against the measures Edward II had taken . |
| 5 | The blatant placing of a bolt in a Lakeland mountain crag produced considerable reaction throughout the rock climbing fraternity . |
| 6 | When I gave up cabaret , Roger became musical director on board the Canberra . |
| 7 | Shire difficulty became sheer impossibility after a months long battle to deselect David Abrahams , the previous candidate . |
| 8 | He says ‘ His rules made good sense then and they make better sense now as the pressures grow inexorably , yet they have been ignored in certain sensitive areas , with results which are both plain and heart-rending to see . ’ |
| 9 | Some local authorities made good use of their autonomy . |
| 10 | Following the closure of the line in 1964 , the building became private property while the track and platform disappeared . |
| 11 | The fact was that Churchill and Eden were not of like minds and did not associate closely until Churchill became Prime Minister in 1940 . |
| 12 | When Churchill became Prime Minister Keynes was invited into the Treasury , where he continued to press for some sort of deferred pay . |
| 13 | It was the day Hitler tore into Belgium and the Netherlands , and the day that Winston Churchill became Prime Minister . |
| 14 | President Joao Bernardo Vieira announced structural Cabinet changes on March 9 , 1990 , aimed at improving government efficiency . |
| 15 | The Queen Victoria sold cloudy beer , bad gin and passable whisky , but the main source of its revenue — especially when the docks were quiet — came from the rent it received from its rooms . |
| 16 | In the mid-seventeenth century no text recommended early breast-feeding with colostrum ; by 1800 all did . |
| 17 | The trial made legal history when child witnesses gave evidence using closed circuit television cameras . |
| 18 | The Right Size Theatre Co. present devised physical comedy . |
| 19 | The presence of such oases made human travel and nomadic existence possible in arid lands . |
| 20 | Ellis became chief whip in March 1894 when the fifth Earl of Rosebery succeeded Gladstone as prime minister , and found life exceptionally difficult since the Liberals had only the narrowest of majorities . |
| 21 | TV newsreader Fiona Armstrong met new colleague Michael Wilson yesterday — and talked about going to bed . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , the cities experienced growing disorder ; in the countryside , a diversity of agitations was beginning . |
| 23 | Delivering the Drew lecture on ‘ Government and the Arts ’ at the Central London Polytechnic , Mr Fisher pointed out that when Mr Luce announced three-year funding for the arts in November 1987 , he had said the figure could not be reviewed ‘ unless the situation changes substantially in ways that can not be foreseen today ’ . |
| 24 | The London Borough of Greenwich sought judicial review of a Government leaflet distributed to every household in England which was explanatory of the community charge or poll tax . |
| 25 | Spittals made great play of tapping the microphones and checking that they worked before he introduced the superintendent . |
| 26 | Behind , an older sister manifested sophisticated boredom . |
| 27 | The Sherwood sandstones were shallower and their water correspondingly cooler than expected , whereas the Lower Permian sandstones lacked sufficient permeability to give an adequate supply of hot water . |
| 28 | She got up and checked the wardrobes , and her bemusement became sheer bewilderment . |
| 29 | In fact , the Germans experienced limited success with their Fifth Column in Holland . |
| 30 | Oh yes , if you want to know our assessment read New Scientist 20 January , p 160 . |