Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personally , I 'd like to see Deane ( or whoever ) rested half way through the 2nd half if he 's having one of his off days , and Strandli , Whelan or Forrester given a 20-odd minute run out . |
| 2 | Robin Hood Quarry No 3 has seen Upping the Ante given a direct finish , traversing left at the second pair of pegs , and given the grade E5 6b b by Ian Parsons and Jim Ballard . |
| 3 | You can see the one that Scott done the other day . |
| 4 | We er are fortunate enough in having a training scheme , in fact we were able to elect our first pensioner representative trustee two years ago and he is with us today , we 've just had another election and er two this time were elected , they will be trained , they had er Mr Hill had a two-day training by our actuaries er Watsons which are a big company , er but in talking to him about it he felt there was a lot to be said for having continued training , not just at the beginning of a two or three-year stint , but successively later . |
| 5 | Had Therese spent a large part of her salary on a dress she would never wear again ? |
| 6 | After the 0/3 bottle of Nat.mur. given every other day beginning with 0/1 , the warts were gone and she was definitely more open and communicative . |
| 7 | Two minutes later Bird was forsaken and Stephens given the onerous task of kicking the winning penalty for Llanelli , a task achieved with ludicrous ease by a 20-year-old who this time last year was understudying Jonathan Davies ( remember him ? ) . |
| 8 | Has Bloomsbury arranged an Arabic edition ? |
| 9 | An explosion and fire on Sept. 12 at a factory making nuclear fuels at Ulba in East Kazakhstan contaminated a large area , including the city of Ust Kamenogorsk , with highly toxic compounds of beryllium metal . |
| 10 | Thucydides credited the Minoan kings with organizing the first naval fleet , and it is possible that the Minoans did indeed have a squadron of specially designed and equipped warships that were ahead of their time . |
| 11 | It is possible but unlikely that progress might have been made had the UN adopted an investigative role instead of a course of action proposed by the United States . |
| 12 | Has Martin got a new girlfriend ? ’ |
| 13 | She said has Warren got a nice bum ? |
| 14 | Of course — as Titmuss pointed out — had the Luftwaffe launched an all-out offensive on 3 September 1939 , as everyone expected , this scenario would have come about . |
| 15 | Ron Atkinson 's Sheffield Wednesday received a nasty shock away to Cambridge United in their fifth round tie , United going in front after eighteen minutes through Dublin , and Wednesday were to receive another rude shock seven minutes after the break when Philpot made it two nil . |
| 16 | Had Moss joined the great Italian team , he could well have won the elusive World Championship . |
| 17 | The fact that flu and injury had precluded any live scrummaging last Wednesday had a detrimental effect , and that department will have to be better for Twickenham . |
| 18 | He must satisfy me that it will be lawful to administer a blood transfusion in the circumstances now prevailing and so I ask myself , has Miss T. evinced a settled intention to refuse a transmission of blood come what may , even if that refusal costs her her life ? |
| 19 | Not only has Mellor lost the cherished Cabinet post that thrust him to the forefront of British politics , but he has also waved goodbye to the Heritage Secretary 's salary of £63,047 . |
| 20 | But not only have Rickenbacker rotated the whole layout one notch ( front pickup controls forwards and back pickup controls rearwards ) , but the volumes are the two pots furthest away from the player 's hands while the tone controls sit closest to you . |
| 21 | ( 5.13 ) to an empirical ( ex post ) version of the CAPM given the above interpretations of a i and b i . |
| 22 | The ugly tone of the game might have been so different had referee Kelvin Morton taken a firm hand at the start . |
| 23 | Had Charles looked the other way — south , over the town bridge — we have a very good idea of exactly what he would have seen , thanks to a contemporary engraving by Abraham Crocker . |
| 24 | For 12.0% of the first-preference votes the Progressive Democrats won no seat , for 27.5% Fine Gael not unfairly won one , but Fianna Fail won the other three for only 57.6% . |
| 25 | It would have led him badly astray here , had McEnroe suffered an unexpected lapse and succumbed to the efforts of Connors for once . |
| 26 | These matters of a more technical constitutional nature are perhaps not immediately obvious to the man in the street , nor even to politicians ; yet it is incredible that there should still be people advocating federalism for the EC given the abysmal record of other multinational federations . |
| 27 | Back in the late 60s and early 70s , Basil d'Oliveria had with some fine batting displays caught the eyes of England selector and displayed his talents on a world stage with the former Gloucester and Worcester bat , Tom Graveney given the mighty West Indians some headaches . |
| 28 | The basis for such profits , it is argued , are the high disposable incomes of employed Tynesiders given the low level of house prices . |
| 29 | Has John got a new car do you think ? |
| 30 | Articles blurbed on the front of the comics include ‘ Has Fergie got a fat arse , or what ? ’ and ‘ I 'm scared of dinosaurs , says TV 's Spender ’ referring to Jimmy Nail . |