Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opportunity arose in the close season when the FA decided to form the Mid-Counties Combination . |
| 2 | In her early thirties , her raven black hair gleamed in the overhead light . |
| 3 | But the new cohorts felt much less keenly the social conditions from which the class alignment arose in the first place . |
| 4 | Her olive skin glowed in the artificial light , the curves of her naked breasts softened into a newly voluptuous sensuality that reflected and heightened her resolution . |
| 5 | When Parliament met in the autumn of 1381 , the Speaker expressed the view that the troubles had been caused by abuses in government , notably by purveyance for the royal household and by the levy of taxation for the defence of the realm , particularly as this did not prevent the King 's enemies from raiding England . |
| 6 | The difficulty arose in the present case because of the Divisional Court 's decision in R v Board of Inland Revenue , Ex parte Goldberg ( 1989 ) QB 267 . |
| 7 | Savage , Evans and Savage ( 1981 ) could find no effects on reading performance of having introduced a one-handed fingerspelling system , though , not surprisingly , part of the difficulty arose in the methodology of the comparisons made . |
| 8 | ‘ The recession got in the way . |
| 9 | The Dover Harbour Board argued in the early 1980s that ferries would be both cheaper and more reliable than a fixed link , a stance later adopted by the Flexilink consortium of ferry companies in its attempts to convince Parliament that the Channel Tunnel would be a financial disaster . |
| 10 | As Alan Dukes TD argued in the Dáil in response to the pastoral letter : |
| 11 | The original claim by the present plaintiff against the appellants was one for money lent in the sum of £500,000 . |
| 12 | With regard to UK source income it was accepted , because the income arose in the United Kingdom , that the trust was liable to tax at the basic rate and the additional 10 per cent rate ( p474(h) ) . |
| 13 | Funds could therefore be appointed out to the children or other relevant UK beneficiaries without a tax charge ( although if subsequently income arose in the structure that could be assessed on the beneficiaries to the extent of the relevant income ) . |
| 14 | Thunder crashed in the sky , and Cardiff felt the vibrations in his feet . |
| 15 | Prince was ordained in 1840 , became curate in Charlynch , near Bridgwater , Somerset , where the rector was the Revd Dr Samuel Starky , and started a religious revival in Charlynch and the surrounding area , which Prince described in The Charlynch Revival ( 1842 ) . |
| 16 | In consolidating data from several areas it has been proposed that a rapid rise of sea level occurred in the early Holocene but that in the last 6000 years the rate has been far less , although it may have diminished progressively , it may have risen to c . |
| 17 | If two such solutions were displayed as in Fig. 24.2(b) , the overall impression given would be the same ; however , sufficiently long after initiation , the times at which the changes of level occurred in the two solutions would be totally uncorrelated . |
| 18 | This price rise occurred in the context of restrictive policies , rapidly decelerating output and double-digit inflation . |
| 19 | The voice of Chaos thundered in the valleys . |
| 20 | The owl hooted in the beech tree and , to Erika 's deep delight , it was answered by another owl . |
| 21 | As the election approached in the spring of 1761 , and it became certain that there would be a close contest in Perthshire , even a single vote could be of material importance , and Drummond was well aware of the strength of his own position . |
| 22 | He was about four feet away when his foot caught in the electric flex he was dragging and he stumbled forward off balance . |
| 23 | A major episode of mountain building occurred in the Late Cretaceous-Early Cenozoic to the east of the earlier orogeny ( Fig. 3.13(C) ) . |
| 24 | The monumental Portland Building rose in the early 1950s and teaching and residential accommodation space grew rapidly in the 1960s and 70s to keep pace with the growing demand for university places . |
| 25 | Felicity flung herself down on the sacrificial stone , opening wide her legs , arching her back , so that her pudendum rose in the air like some nocturnal flower . |
| 26 | A second and more fundamental change occurred in the tenth and eleventh centuries in Europe and in the Islamic world , when lead was added to the ingredients for the inlay . |
| 27 | A notable change occurred in the criticism of Georgia O'Keeffe 's art in the early years of her career . |
| 28 | The leaves in the canopy trembled in the breeze , as if conversing soundlessly . |
| 29 | She noticed the black bruise on her arm and a wicked light glowed in the back of her eyes . |
| 30 | The concept of a Common Market is not new , the term arose in the 1950s , to describe an area where there exists free movement of goods , services , capital and labour . |