Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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1 | It met the first two of the quarter-final matches head on as they tackled the shortish par-four 12th which , for a few minutes , became a monster and odd routes were used to reach the green . |
2 | Now it may well be that er that may well be the the position in the south west in in respect of of of that particular criteria , but we would need to see , er how a location in that area , met the other eleven criteria . |
3 | The Bundesrat had opposed the reform , referring it to a conciliation commission of both houses of parliament in April , but lacked the necessary two-thirds majority to block the bill again in early June . |
4 | This construct therefore lacked the first three hypersensitive sites ( HS1 , HS2 and HS3 ) but contained all the downstream HS sites . |
5 | The neutrons thereby produced in turn produced 14 C by interaction with 14 N. This simulated natural cosmogenic production , albeit in large bursts , and roughly doubled the atmospheric 14 C content as measured in about 1965 . |
6 | I live in Galway and have been supporting Leeds since 1977–1978 when I think we finished 5th in the first , endured the bad 80 's and have mostly enjoyed the 90's though a couple more trophies would n't go astray . |
7 | THE NUMBER of people unemployed for more than a year passed the one million mark yesterday . |
8 | An RCM report on girls in nursing appeared in 1944 , when the number of Kindertransporte volunteers in the profession passed the two hundred mark . |
9 | Ten seconds later he passed the two hundred fifty metre mark . |
10 | Well it 's , look he passed the hundred and fifty metre mark , ten seconds later he passed the two hundred and fifty metre mark , how far did he run in ten seconds and you 've put down a hundred metres |
11 | EARLIER this month the Ipswich Grain Terminal passed the five million tonnes milestone . |
12 | In January 1983 the figure passed the 3 million mark , reaching a peak in August 1986 and then declining slowly but steadily . |
13 | In the event of any shortcomings in a document with respect to enterprise content , the subcommittee agreed the following two courses of action : — |
14 | ‘ That 's right , he certainly is , ’ agreed the other two . |
15 | We agreed the sixty eight posts to start off the Poll Tax . |
16 | Cheshire , champions in 1990 and ‘ 91 , had halved the morning foursomes and shared the first four singles when Caldy 's Bailey claimed a 4 and 3 win over Neil Graham of Newcastle United . |
17 | Four other parties shared the remaining five seats . |
18 | When he made The Dirty Dozen in 1967 , he failed to turn up to film the final scene , when he and Charles Bronson drive a huge weapons carrier across a bridge . |
19 | The Three Kings made the final 8 of the competition last year , this year it won hands down after seperate visits from 5 judges , arriving and leaving unannounced . |
20 | and I surprisingly made the final four . |
21 | The burdens of reconstruction made the late 1940s and 1950s particularly inappropriate for a policy of grandeur , whereas by 1958 , when de Gaulle returned to power , France was in a much better position to afford Gaullist ambition . |
22 | A recent CBI report ‘ Crime — Managing the Business Risk ’ made the following three key recommendations on how best to manage , reduce and monitor the risk of crime in business . |
23 | Hidden behind their line of sight was a precision , a passion , a calling which chilled as it touched and made the other two pause . |
24 | On a day that much expensive talent short-changed a dull derby scarred by offside , Strachan made the first two for Leeds and earned an ‘ assist ’ for the third . |
25 | Factory ( six from 11 ) was third , while Mute ( eight from 20 ) , also made the Top Ten , ahead of such giants as CBS ( 27 from 82 ) , Mercury ( 12 from 40 ) and Epic ( 13 from 76 ) . |
26 | Other sins which made the top ten included running red lights , crossing hands on the steering wheel , lack of concentration and insufficient use of the rearview mirror . |
27 | We played to capacity for fifteen weeks , made the top ten shows in London , extended for another six weeks , and I never felt a single twinge of boredom . |
28 | The rising hope of English squash , Cassie Jackman , also made the last eight , but dropped the first game before asserting herself against unseeded Linda Charman , who is a vastly improved player this season . |
29 | About sixteen thousand Frenchmen ruled the fifteen million Annamese , and their government was harsh and uncompromising . |
30 | In the early half of the twentieth century , the burning of fossil fuel such as coal , in which the 14 C had totally decayed away , diluted the atmospheric 14 C concentration relative to 13 C and 12 C. Nuclear weapons testing had an even more dramatic effect on atmospheric 14 C content . |