Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | The Brixton Gang Rape case produced several complaints to the Press Council which upheld most but not all of the complaints . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | A square of light coming through the open hatch made half-hearted patterns through the ladder and silhouetted the Negro . |
| 5 | The callous crook got five years after milking two families of everything they owned to pay for his luxury life in a country mansion . |
| 6 | The 1981 census enumerated 19,493,000 households in Great Britain living in the community . |
| 7 | One novel , An Agitator ( 1894 ) , was described by Eleanor Marx as a realistic account of the British working-class movement , but her other fiction avoided social concerns . |
| 8 | The defence lawyers had walked out on the grounds that the trial lacked procedural guarantees , and that the court , as a military one , had no jurisdiction . |
| 9 | Monster cars sharked past , the cluster of Wall Street skyscrapers loomed ; an elite of big names at a very mixed party Freeway became mapled streets , buildings flattened into the four-storeyed Victorian Brownstones of Brooklyn . |
| 10 | Yesterday at Lord 's the Test and County Cricket Board announced separate deals involving both Sky TV and British Satellite Broadcasting for the transmission of a large segment of the domestic game for the next three years . |
| 11 | Yesterday at Lord 's the Test and County Cricket Board announced separate deals involving both Sky TV and British Satellite Broadcasting for the transmission of a large segment of the domestic game for the next three years . |
| 12 | In the United States the State of California 's Air Resources Board announced new regulations for petrol on Nov. 24 , requiring a 30 per cent cut in emissions of air pollutants by March 1996 . |
| 13 | Then she dawdled through the mews where the milk-horses were shod , and the blacksmith made new railings to put in front of the houses . |
| 14 | The New Zealand Toxic Substances Board produced two reports in 1989 in which they compared consumption in 33 countries and prevalence in 20 advanced-economy countries over periods between 1970 and 1986 . |
| 15 | A closer look revealed many discrepancies , the most serious being that the selection procedures had obscured certain factors of the disease itself , and its progress . |
| 16 | At each of the 40 junctions the driver made two judgments . |
| 17 | The position would have been very different in the case of a payment made some years before which was sought to be recovered because a court in another case had ruled that the regulation under which the demand had been made had all along been ultra vires . |
| 18 | We found that the course effected major changes in five of the six women . |
| 19 | As I argued in the previous chapter , boxing was the first sport in which institutional arrangements permitted a black presence : almost every weight division produced black boxers of such brilliance that they were virtually without equals ( see Henderson , 1949 , 1970 ; Maher , 1968 ) . |
| 20 | Where they could , they increased the proportion of their wholly or majority owned foreign affiliates between 1977 and 1982 ( Contractor , 1990a ) . |
| 21 | British Aerospace announced 3,000 losses and the closure of its Hatfield plant . |
| 22 | So the Guardian made some inquiries . |
| 23 | The taxpayer owned 560,500 shares ( allowable cost £214,602 ) in C Ltd , which in turn held 75,328 shares in Lasmo . |
| 24 | The GMB union claimed today the industrial tribunal 's decision revealed double standards . |
| 25 | On the same day the Moldovan parliament passed four laws on military affairs and on March 18 Snegur became C.-in-C. of the Moldovan armed forces . |
| 26 | The impresario got two bedrooms . |
| 27 | During the screening process , however , the Education Ministry made some changes which were criticized by liberals . |
| 28 | A Palestinian stabbed two Jews to death and wounded 20 others in Tel Aviv on March 17 . |
| 29 | The out of court settlement made two days before the trial was to be heard has been hailed as a legal milestone by the Spinal Injuries Association . |
| 30 | He had discarded his jacket and the short sleeves of his shirt revealed strong arms , a sprinkling of dark hairs contrasting with the tanned skin . |