Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Setting up of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell had been agreed in October 1945 ; approval to build the first British atomic pile for the production of plutonium had been given in December ; the Chiefs of Staff had stated their requirement for a British manufactured atomic bomb in January 1946 ; William Penney ( later Sir William ) had begun to plan the Atomic Weapons Section of the Armaments Research Establishment , of which he was Director , in mid-1946 ; the Air Ministry placed its first requisition for an atomic bomb on the Ministry of Supply in August ; and Lord Portal , the wartime Chief of Air Staff , who had become Controller of Atomic Energy in the Ministry of Supply , sought a mandate from the Prime Minister to set atomic bomb development in train during the autumn of 1946 . |
| 2 | Last December the Federal Reserve adjusted its reserve requirements on time deposits to encourage banks to lend more . |
| 3 | To the objectors , Barnes 's decision justified our persistent assertion that the Chernobyl accident was central to any assessment of nuclear power in Britain . |
| 4 | Each time he 'd get to the line about going to stoke the brazier it would come out as ‘ stoke the brassiere ’ , which of course stopped everything dead and brought the Director screaming down on us . |
| 5 | Surprise has been expressed in some quarters that Mr Zilligen has been allowed to stay on the Ferranti board given his key role at ISC during the £215m deception . |
| 6 | And just five minutes later the Germans booked their third-round place with a strike by Michael Zorc . |
| 7 | However , the Revenue limited their actual claims to fixed proportions so that the total of the overseas income was not taxed more than once . |
| 8 | Middle class women , including feminists , who deplored the idea of state employees entering working class homes regarded their own activities in this regard as right and proper . |
| 9 | Property might seem to be an unusual investment for pension funds given its volatile nature , but its inclusion can be defended on the grounds of past long-term returns that have been a good hedge against inflation . |
| 10 | Journalists christened his daily briefings ‘ the Falt follies ’ , a self-conscious reference to the American briefings in Vietnam which came to be known as ‘ the five o'clock follies ’ . |
| 11 | A deer jumping out over a hedgerow and straight in front of the car frightened her half to death before she could finish . |
| 12 | Business interests in the music industry occupied his later years . |
| 13 | Since the settlement rested on the simultaneous destruction of both the great powers dominating central Europe — Germany and Russia — it was extremely unlikely to last once those nations rebuilt their military and economic strength . |
| 14 | The centre , if there is one , is in effect granted its limited powers and influence by the members of the group , the states . |
| 15 | So , when at last I came to a small village with a large church , I decided that perhaps the priest might be the best person to tell me where these prehistoric pagans buried their dead . |
| 16 | ‘ Has Breadalbane cowed you all with his recruiting and his threats ? ’ |
| 17 | Had Edward told me this I would not have believed . |
| 18 | A mistake in ritual rendered it ineffective and could be dangerous . |
| 19 | Even the way in which Jews called their religious teachers ‘ rabbis ’ is suspected of applying some form of divinity to them . |
| 20 | The famous metallic voice with its slight Midlands cadences exercised its familiar thrill . |
| 21 | The comprehensive defeat marked their lowest point in the game since America defeated them in a World Cup match 43 years ago . |
| 22 | Blood marked her torn robe in many places and her eyes were closed , but she was breathing . |
| 23 | ‘ An agent fixed it all up for me . ’ |
| 24 | But with the defeat of chartism and a period of stabilisation during which skilled labour consolidated its privileged economic position , the ideology of skilled workers unified increasingly around a discourse of possessive individualism , self help and respectability inscribed within extant relations of production . |
| 25 | The magazine carried an article which announced that due to the high cost of electricity , there was a large growth in membership of specialist goldfish societies , as fishkeepers deserted their tropical tanks , in a bid to cut down their electricity bills . |
| 26 | The Sussex county player from Ham Manor achieved his first major victory by dint of a brilliant afternoon round of 66 for a total of 137 , one better than Stephen Pullan ( Sand Moor ) , who carded a brace of 69s . |
| 27 | THE unit trust industry achieved its best sales for more than five years in February . |
| 28 | Lavoisier established that carbon , hydrogen , and oxygen were the sole constituent elements of this alcohol , and his successors determined its exact structure as CH 3 . |
| 29 | It was in the Jurassic that the ammonoids achieved their greatest flowering , when the clays and shales of the period may be solid with the remains of their shells . |
| 30 | On Jan. 22 the Medellín cartel released its fifth hostage , Alvaro Diego Montoya Escobar ( the son of the General Secretary of the Presidency Germán Montoya Vélez ) , kidnapped on Dec. 17 , 1989 , as proof of its claimed intention to achieve a peaceful settlement with the government . |