Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The smash paralysed the notorious M62 Pennine Way in West Yorkshire and 70 firemen helped to douse blazing wreckage . |
| 2 | The proportion of Sinhalese policemen passed the fifty per cent mark in the 1920s , and continued to rise thereafter . |
| 3 | Both Beckett and Gould are firmly of the view that Prescott 's vote will be squeezed , although , contrary to predictions , he easily passed the 20 per cent nominations mark . |
| 4 | Outwardly Carter was more polite towards Congress than Nixon had been , but he shared the latter 's contempt for the legislature and was no less shocked by its disorderly , undisciplined ways and its vulnerability to special interests . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , none of the data really substantiated the imaginative tour de force of Gall and Spurzheim ( in Kolb and Whishaw 1985 ) who , at the turn of the nineteenth century , argued that the human cerebral cortex is subdivided into functional areas , each responsible for a different mental faculty . |
| 6 | All in all , it 's easy to see why a small-town club called the Rovers made the fancy dans in the big cities . |
| 7 | It was the United States ' adamant policy with respect to the PLO that made the latter 's relations with Moscow so robust . |
| 8 | They did in fact get a horse erm and er they had a small carriage , er and er a horse made the odd er visit up the line , from time to time . |
| 9 | The real beginnings , however , were made in 1969 when a central cataloguing institute was set up in Rome , which became the present Istituto centrale per il catalogo e la documentazione ( ICCD ) when the Minstero per i Beni Culturali was founded . |
| 10 | According to Sark law , by her marriage her estate , including the seigniory , passed to her husband , but she had no intention of relinquishing her hold on island affairs and , although he then became the official seigneur , she sat beside him at meetings of the chief pleas ( Sark 's governing body ) , prompting his actions and continuing , albeit illegally , to give voice to her own opinions . |
| 11 | Nicolet announced the new 740i research grade FTIR system which expands the System 740 's frequency range from near through far IR . |
| 12 | Hugh and Aline Jones , of Glanrafon , near Corwen , who showed the supreme champion in 1992 , produced the Blue Du Maine championship and a Roiuge De L'Ouest ram lamb from E A Davies & Co , of Llangernyw , Abergele , headed the any other breed classes . |
| 13 | Geoff Lawson ( above ) headed the styling team that produced the stunning X100 |
| 14 | About utility furniture , well you know the G Plans that now that there is , well this utility furniture to my mind if you choose really good makes of your utility furniture it was rather , after the style I would say G Plan , that was I 've always imagined it were , it was good quality of , of a price that people could afford , if you got the right erm , type of stuff . |
| 15 | I mean in , in , in retrospect they probably could 've achieved it because they , they got the military er they , they , they did get the military security and you probably could 've afforded actually to , to mobilize the peasants through land reform . |
| 16 | Thompson got the damaged Z3034 down safely , having suffered a minor splinter wound in his leg . |
| 17 | • One senior Mercedes-Benz executive admitted the vulgar V12 badge on the C-pillar of the S-class was a triumph of marketing over design and quickly added that it was a delete option intended for the Japanese and Americans . |
| 18 | In late November 1989 , Geaga offered to give military support to Aoun if Syrian troops attacked the latter 's Baabda headquarters [ see p. 37030 ] , but as the likelihood of a Syrian offensive diminished , relations between Aoun and Geaga again deteriorated . |
| 19 | On 1 November , the Germans again attacked the salient 's belly , but this time at night , a ruse that enabled them to capture the Messines Ridge . |
| 20 | The in-betweens , a group of five fields ( Cumberland , Durham , Derbyshire , Lancashire — or Northwest — and Northumberland ) which provided the 55 per cent vote at each of the first two ballots but on average produced only 42 per cent support for the strike call across the other four . |
| 21 | Of the two principal features of citizenship , political stability , including social harmony , was by far the most comprehensive and provided the fundamental raison d'être . |
| 22 | DIY giant Great Mills described the 12 per cent rate as ‘ suicidal ’ . |
| 23 | He always charged the full 33.3% fee , however enormous the successful candidate 's remuneration — a policy shared by Gerry Roche — to the extent that Byrne quoted an observer as saying ‘ he has never been known to leave a nickel on the table ’ . |
| 24 | I had no drivers for it at all ; instead I downloaded the normal ET4000 drivers from CIX . |
| 25 | In the winter of 1976 , Rod Johnstone , who started out as a schoolteacher before taking up naval architecture , designed and built the first J/24 in his garage . |
| 26 | Some would say that Habitat used the two per cent to great effect in creating a unique style of goods that appealed to the popular taste . |
| 27 | Possibly Mr Quekett came to his aid : it would be a simple matter to consult the parish registers for St George 's until they found the bridegroom-to-be 's baptism in 1818 , son of Benjamin Titford of Chapman Street , ‘ Outrider ’ — and so the entry reads on the marriage certificate . |
| 28 | From time to time we visited the old barrio chino , the red-light district , which formed a kind of everyman 's land at the heart of the bell-haunted , church-loaded city . |
| 29 | On March 20 , during President Lech Walesa 's visit to the United States , President Bush promised a 70 per cent cut in Poland 's $2,900 million official debt to the USA . |
| 30 | On Jan. 29 Kohl promised a further DM8,300 million towards the US military campaign for the first three months of 1991 plus further military assistance to Turkey ( air defence missiles and 600-strong crew ) and to Israel . |