Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dresser/Harris/Kirk/Saunt took 10th place as the Germans achieved a final win . |
| 2 | And we asked them to tie it up , the lads made a bloody job I think they tied it up for coming round . |
| 3 | Following a preliminary examination of these new inward investors by means of a postal questionnaire survey , the authors selected a matched sample ( controlling for employment size , sector and production process ) of old and new manufacturing firms . |
| 4 | And by er nineteen twenty six the engineers suffered a calamitous drop from about er four pound odd down to this two pound sixteen . |
| 5 | At the actual erm meeting which put this into practice the Conservatives suggested a phased in method , some now and some later , and this would have relieved a certain amount of hardship . |
| 6 | He says all the thefts followed a similar pattern . |
| 7 | From there in Michaelmas 1317 the cardinals promulgated a two-year truce , but since they would not recognize Bruce 's claims to the Scottish crown he ignored their pronouncements and prepared to launch another attack on the north of England . |
| 8 | We found evidence that the electors exercised a coherent choice amongst the media sources on offer ; and that they enjoyed exercising that choice . |
| 9 | Constituting themselves as a Council of Action , the leaders called a Special Conference of labour movement organizations for August 13th , at which decisions would be taken to ‘ instruct their members to ‘ down tools ’ … ’ . |
| 10 | A major change in intra-COMECON trade patterns had been introduced on Jan. 1 , when the members implemented a new agreement to settle all accounts in hard currencies . |
| 11 | Unfortunately the newspapers printed a different version of the truth . |
| 12 | Although it is already fashionable to explain away the scale of the election successes — by such factors as the Falklands , Foot , Benn , and an inept Labour campaign in 1983 , and prosperity and the disproportional electoral system in 1987 — the results marked a further stage in the decline of the Labour party . |
| 13 | Thus the Cubans identified a new aggression in Eisenhower 's attitude , and my hypothesis is that it was in response to these events that Castro decided to stake the survival of his revolution on enlisting the total support of the Soviet Union . |
| 14 | I think I would maybe go to a match if the women played a wee game before the men came on . |
| 15 | Reaching the ‘ Men Only ’ sign , we laughed loudly and one of the women painted a massive women 's symbol at the entrance , a sort of ritual ‘ open sesame ’ . |
| 16 | Though greeted with nothing like the derision that met Howarth 's six-page statement , the spokesmen encountered a fair degree of scepticism . |
| 17 | Goodier ( 1984 ) has applied a statistical approach to this question and concluded that ‘ the Anglo-Saxons buried a significant proportion of their dead on the boundaries of their land units ’ ( ibid. , 14 ) . |
| 18 | Beardmore 's loomed like a sleeping giant over the hill , and down towards Shettleston Road a break in the clouds painted a fleeting blue on the topmost windows of the tenements . |
| 19 | But the conquest of the 400ers brought a new age , with fresh eyes hungrily seeking steeper rock and ice that demanded a willingness to take a quantum leap in technical difficulty to achieve a first . |
| 20 | I would say to you that the history of North Yorkshire County is that the house house builders have built , more or less the building rate of planning policy , whatever that has been , and that is a matter of fact , and if and if and if we are in a situation where the market is being fettered , as is the policy , and it 's not a policy which we are seeking to go away from specifically , and it is inevitable that the house builders will build to whatever the policy building rate is , and comparisons of one building rate with another are simply telling you what 's happened in the past , not what needs to happen in the future er in terms of meeting the housing requirement , and quite clearly in any area where you are introducing a new settlement , if indeed that 's the conclusion we come to , er late later on , erm and I hope we do , but if we are introducing a new settlement you are bound to skew the building rates , and the more and more you reduce the area in which you consider what the building rate effect is the more and more that it actually gets skewed , er and erm you know , quite frankly , when the developers built a new estate at the end of my particular street the building rate went up alarmingly in my area , er and er you know , we can go on forever like that , I just think it 's very misleading to just deal with the judgement of building rates . |