Example sentences of "[vb past] a [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the successful launch of the Sainsbury 's Book of Children 's Cookery , the company sponsored a Today newspaper competition in which children were asked to answer questions about food and cooking . |
| 2 | Parkin interviewed a giggly Mrs O'Mara who said her husband ate tons of biscuits every week but added that , now Ken was to leave TV London , she would have her revenge . |
| 3 | Well just colleagues about the Burnsall dispute erm er clearly and I 'm just anticipating the views of Congress that since we adopted a particularly way of making up the er Dispute Fund , I think we should certainly adopt exactly the same practice in relation |
| 4 | Though most rural settlements practised a predominantly subsistence economy , they needed certain goods and commodities from elsewhere which they could not provide themselves , and they were usually dependent on and subsidiary to somewhere else in terms of ownership , administration , and religious provision . |
| 5 | Government has not only turned its attention to the professions as economic entities , but in the 1980s adopted an increasingly dirigiste approach to higher education . |
| 6 | On one issue which centrally concerned the Consultative Councils — electricity prices — their attitudes were predictable and damaging : the Councils generally added to the pressure for uneconomically low prices , though members who adopted an aggressively consumerist line were unlikely to find themselves reappointed by the Minister . |
| 7 | Much of Pushkin 's poetry exuded an almost Renaissance delight in the richness and beauty of life . |
| 8 | Liver biopsy showed a predominantly T cell mononuclear cell infiltrate and although the possibility of lymphoma was raised it was considered that this may also have been caused by an inflammatory process . |
| 9 | In specimens from normal or alcoholic patients , expression of Lewis antigens was mainly in small bile ducts and showed a predominantly luminal pattern , while in the cholestatic disease groups , expression was mainly cytoplasmic and was seen in small and large ducts ( Fig 1(C) and ( D ) ) . |
| 10 | Plumpton yesterday passed a 10am inspection , and prospects of racing tomorrow are looking good . |
| 11 | Thus although the authorities had their wish and Leese was effectively silenced for six months , during which time the IFL became a virtually moribund organization , the Rex v. |
| 12 | Well I got a little Dundee cake . |
| 13 | Authorities in the Bosnian capital , Sarajevo , imposed a 10pm-to-6am curfew last night , amid reports of widespread looting and continuing gun battles . |
| 14 | The debt-ridden division two side met an 11am league deadline to confirm that they would be able to fulfil their fixtures next season . |
| 15 | In 1877 , the manufacture and repair of locomotives at Wolverton was given up and the whole of this work was done at Crewe , so that Wolverton became an exclusively carriage building centre . |
| 16 | Mary 's ordeal included a 4am raid on her home by Scotland Yard and social workers convinced she had kidnapped Alex and smuggled him into England from Cyprus . |
| 17 | In the mid-1880s , Mr Lawson Tait , who as police surgeon in Birmingham during the 1890s exhibited a profoundly misogynist attitude in his treatment of rape victims , commented that ‘ to leave only the inferior women to perpetuate the species will do more to deteriorate the human race than all the individual victories at Girton will do to benefit it ’ . |
| 18 | They founded a little Punjab through whose gates they left in the morning and returned in the evening , glad to be back among their own kind . |
| 19 | The structure plans tended to be based on a survey — analysis — plan approach which required a rather determinist view of the issues which they examined . ’ |
| 20 | Yes briefly Mr Chairman I sent a simply acceleration in meeting so I wo n't keep you . |
| 21 | It also campaigned for maternity benefit to be paid to the mother and for maternity care to be improved , and , under Margaret Llewelyn Davies 's leadership , took a strongly pacifist line . |
| 22 | Angry Hollywood residents slapped an 11pm curfew on the flashes and bangs during night-time filming of 45-year-old Arnie 's new film The Last Action Hero in the secluded hills . |
| 23 | Both of these veteran airliners gave a spritely performance despite their age , proving that there are no bounds to what can be preserved in flying condition in the USA . |
| 24 | As they cycled along side by side , Deirdre put a comradely hand on Jacob 's shoulder , as if to deny any accusation in her words . |
| 25 | They had a generally depressive effect on domestic rice prices , and threatened to undermine the prosperity of the majority of domestic farmers for whom rice was still a staple crop . |
| 26 | This was , in fact , not too big a problem : Cracow had a 10pm curfew , and was in any case ‘ dead ’ after 9pm , she said She did try the odd night club and cinema , and was surprised to find English films with Polish sub-titles . |
| 27 | GH Fashion Editor Caroline Baker compiled a go-anywhere wardrobe for Clarissa , based around two essentials : a polo-neck black body leotard and slimming black ski pants ( Clarissa is a size 14 ) . |
| 28 | The only team to hold off the accounts onslaught seems to be the well-respected Streatham team who drubbed them 5:1 before Christmas , though accounts admittedly had an under par team . |
| 29 | DUBIOUS goings-on marred an otherwise textbook election campaign at a Darlington School yesterday . |
| 30 | In January 1919 , while still an able seaman , he accepted an almost chance offer of a tutorship in modern history at St Edmund Hall , Oxford . |