Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vulnerability of minor revenue officials to demotion or removal made it imperative for them to remain on good terms with men of influence able to mar their careers , and shortly after his clash with the provost of Inverkeithing Main made his peace with the Cunningham family . |
| 2 | A young student at Bangor University made his first TV appearance with us . |
| 3 | The pope 's ardent desire for clarification and decision made it possible for judges to be used who were not always the bishops , in close contact with Rome , but abbots and other ecclesiastical officials . |
| 4 | The Bournemouth decision made it clear that the Unity Campaign 's success had been more apparent than real . |
| 5 | He acted the fool , losing at first to whet their appetites , but in an hour emptied his three victims ' purses . |
| 6 | Political Islam made its biggest splash not in the Middle East but in distant Algeria , and for reasons wholly unconnected with the Gulf war . |
| 7 | Brenda ( seventeen , Jamaican parents ) commented that in Jamaica she had been teased as a " foreigner " because her Creole was not up to scratch : Oh , they call you all — " English gyal , come here English gyal ! " yeh , my sister 'ad it all , my sister ai n't English , my sister 's Jamaican , because she come over here when she was young , when she went back over there they were callin' her English gyal , the lot [ ] but when she , she ai n't forget nothin' , she can still speak it so she open her mouth and they say sorry [ ri ] ! |
| 8 | On this plate was depicted a map of the heavens , and holes along the line of the ecliptic made it possible for a representation of the sun to be moved at intervals of a day or two in imitation of its annual motion . |
| 9 | The invasion of the non-marine habitat probably first happened in the Carboniferous , but relatives of the living land snails are rare before the Cretaceous , at which time the familiar Helix made its first appearance . |
| 10 | Although the discovery of the double helix made it possible to understand how information might be stored in DNA , revolutionary advances in areas such as nucleotide sequencing and computing have been needed before people can contemplate recovering the stored information on a large scale . |
| 11 | Then a Professor of German Literature applied his literary mind to the Gospels and declared that they were a work of fiction and that Jesus had not actually existed ? |
| 12 | Criticisms within and without Parliament made it clear that this audit model of control was beginning to falter in the post-war period . |
| 13 | Clarkson 's narrative revealed his own perseverance and commitment until exhaustion and financial difficulty overtook him in 1794 and Hoare fastened upon Clarkson 's continuing ‘ zeal ’ . |
| 14 | The writer asked what this was all about . |
| 15 | ‘ After the birth Tony and I both felt very shaky and the midwife got us some tea right away , while they were tidying me up , just to calm us down . |
| 16 | But France 's own reliance on US financial support made it difficult to resist the Anglo-American policy . |
| 17 | In the first period of extra time , Alex Brown put Dynamos ahead and then Nick Crook made it 3–1 with just five minutes to go . |
| 18 | I said , I 'll tell you what , I said er cos my mum lent me seven hundred |
| 19 | Melissa was horrified when the bounder made his own designs clear as she modelled a £700 Prince of Wales check trouser suit in a London park . |
| 20 | This was because the terms of the contract between seller and buyer made it clear that the buyer in re-selling the goods was doing so , not for his own account , but as agent for , and on account of , the seller . |
| 21 | Manville brooded morosely on this topic as the driver manipulated his four-wheeled war chariot in between the busy traffic of the four-lane highway . |
| 22 | The publishing explosion following the development of printing made it necessary for catalogues to give rather more detail : for instance , the edition and date of a book might now be more crucial to the reader , because there were so many variants . |
| 23 | This split made it impossible to unite a broad democratic majority and left the republic divided almost from the start of the regime . |
| 24 | The courts of law , they argued , are procedurally ill-equipped for this task since their formality , cost , speed , and complexity made them inaccessible to , or intimidating for , the ordinary citizen . |
| 25 | The straight forward design and short wheel base made it ideal for negotiating the sharp curves of the Welshpool line . |
| 26 | Well I said to her er your mum asked me last night . |
| 27 | The veteran all-rounder produced his best innings for more than two years , being last out for 129 as India were dismissed for 215 in mid-afternoon . |
| 28 | In 1988 the National Radiological Protection Board produced its first report commissioned by the government into whether there was any link . |
| 29 | The latter measure made it worthwhile for the Americans to try and do what the British had failed at , making British films which would go down well in America . |
| 30 | The judgment on the News International ban made it clear that political censorship , at least , could be fought effectively , and the basis for the defence against censorship was the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 . |