Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two squadrons of Hessian hussars occupied the lower slopes of the Pratzen , drawn up in battle array , spotless as if on parade . |
| 2 | Participants in the rally , held by a coalition of opposition movements called the National Salvation Front , waved red Soviet and Czarist flags as speakers accused Yeltsin and his administration of destroying the former Soviet Union and Russia . |
| 3 | Espinear assuming that it is question physical action judgements trapped the narrative close , and ask for the order . |
| 4 | The sawdust and bran mixture not only provided a soft base on which to rest the corpse but also acted as a sponge for exuded matter ; the side lining masked the bare wood ; the side-sheets assisted in the presentation of the corpse ; and the frill along the visible top edge formed a seal when the lid was screwed down and helped to keep it all airtight . |
| 5 | During her construction an explosion of welding gas damaged the stern section and killed a gang of welders . |
| 6 | In the western United States travellers encountered the native Americans , the Indians who had so often been dispossessed of their lands and livelihoods by the railway companies . |
| 7 | Our solutions containing rice derived glucose polymer promoted the highest water obsorption in the secretory state but it is not known whether increasing the polymer concentration ( but maintaining ORS hypotonicity ) would enhance water absorption by further stimulating active glucose transport or whether water absorption would be jeopardised , even by a moderate increase in osmolality . |
| 8 | The $18,000,000 sale marked the second failure of a commercial bank in the US capital within the past year , the National Bank of Washington having collapsed in 1990 . |
| 9 | A logging industry representative called the proposed listing part of an overall strategy by environmentalists to use the Endangered Species Act " as a first strike weapon against the northwest " . |
| 10 | An employee 's details are quickly accessible and the Instant validation of the data input achieved the desired levels of speed and accuracy . |
| 11 | The alignment of the bypass through the Baberton/Westburn areas required the permanent closure of Baberton Mains Terrace — thus the housing area at Baberton would have only one entry point . |
| 12 | The curriculum areas accorded the greatest number of teacher-days were maths , English and science , with English accounting for more than twice as many as science , and these two areas between them taking up about as many teacher-days as maths on its own . |
| 13 | The supervisory board would have a ‘ watchdog ’ role , with power to convene a general meeting if it thought it appropriate ; in addition , a company 's articles could provide that certain major actions of the management board required the supervisory board 's consent . |
| 14 | Entred … book or coppy under the hand of Warden MORTLOCK entitled The Fayery Queene , or Midsomers Nights Dreame , A play acted at ye Queenes Theatre Lycensed by JOHN FRASER … vjd |
| 15 | When the 1981 Companies Act implemented the Fourth EC Company Law Directive , it was not generally recognised how the nature of financial reporting would be affected . |
| 16 | As noted , there are few long run effects given the negligible size of the lagged dependent variables — a point which shows in itself the instability of demand for issuance — the market tends to be subject to " feasts and famines " . |
| 17 | In November 1940 the Vichy government abolished the ineffective Commission de Châlons , intending to replace it with an organisation called Le Bureau de Repartition du Vinicole de Champagne , but in April the following year the Germans set up the CIVC . |
| 18 | Had the Home Secretary seen the offensive banners carried by the Party 's youth wing ? |
| 19 | The hon. Member for Lancaster rightly said that what the Home Secretary called the fast-track applicant will go not to a tribunal but to an adjudicator with no new evidence . |
| 20 | She remembers being in a kids ' dance troupe called the Wee Winkies when she was a seven-year-old in Chicago , she enjoyed a run of successes on the TV talent show Star Search , and she was eventually spotted by Prince dancing in a Los Angeles nightclub . |
| 21 | Using the broader measure of the proportion of the population living in a household headed by a NCWP-born person , the South East headed the regional averages in 1981 , closely followed by the West Midlands region , but again the main contrasts are more local in nature . |
| 22 | And then of course they 've got this soldering iron type thing called the diathermy cautery device that seals up the blood vessels and this is being stabbed into her . |
| 23 | There is also a unit of Ministry of Defence civilian intelligence specialists called the British Services Security Organisation ( Germany ) or BSSO . |
| 24 | On Friday 10 May students occupied the Latin quarter of Paris and built 60 barricades , which were violently attacked by the CRS . |
| 25 | The contract with Blue Rondo , and Virgin 's success in another auction for the signature of a limpid guitar group called the Pale Fountains , brought accusations within the industry that Virgin were guilty of ‘ chequebook signing ’ — paying prices that made life more expensive for everyone . |
| 26 | It includes a high availability array system for clustered environments , resource and storage management facilities , a graphical user interface called the Visual System Manager , Fairshare — a control and allocation facility for workload prioritising , network queuing , RxFS — a reliant file system , and C2 security functions . |
| 27 | It 's very interesting to note that in contemporary political philosophy there is almost no room left for democratic decision making because in most theories that we 're given , more or less everything is already decided at a constitutional level I mean think of theory of justice , it 's the theory of justice that decides the basic nature of a constitution so the role of members of a government is simply to interpret and apply the constitution so they can make the most efficient tax policies given the basic constitution , but no individual has the authority to challenge that constitution and change it by democratic means . |
| 28 | On Feb. 19 the UN Security Council authorized the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) to make emergency deliveries of water purification equipment to reduce the risk of epidemics . |
| 29 | It has been claimed that these free-for-all/do-it-yourself Group attacks justified the early Command view that it was wrong to form a corps d'elite . |
| 30 | The war years integrated the Japanese economy far more closely into the international economy , and made Japan a major competitor to the capitalist economies of the West . |