Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his plans became known in cricketing circles and Gooch told senior England tour party officials about the break-up at a Sussex hotel before his team flew to India on Monday from Gatwick Airport . |
| 2 | The air above and beyond the ridge became filled with wind-swirled smoke and the echoes of distant blasts . |
| 3 | There were significant age effects in both tasks on these items , and many of the children in the two younger age groups failed to distinguish between deductive and empirical items and treated them all as if they were empirical items . |
| 4 | When William left school at about the age of twelve , he hoped to become a gardener but his skin became inflamed with constant outdoor work . |
| 5 | A few days later , the storm became so violent that sheep became buried in six-foot drifts of snow , and the camera recorded farmers scrabbling down with their hands to release buried sheep , pin-pointed by amazingly perceptive border collies . |
| 6 | A good illustration of this point is provided by a case in which the London Borough of Greenwich sought to challenge by judicial review the distribution by the Government of a leaflet explaining the poll tax : the Borough argued that the leaflet was inaccurate and , therefore , that its distribution was illegal . |
| 7 | So in March 1866 he offered eight to the town and the Local Government Board agreed to lay on free water . |
| 8 | Similarly Detwyler ( 1971 ) collected previously published papers to produce Man 's Impact on Environment and the Association of American Geographers Commission on College Geography conceived a collection of essays devoted to research on environmental problems ( Manners and Mikesell , 1974 ) . |
| 9 | I do very little research apart from general reading and looking at guides — to be frank , there 's not enough money involved to pay for extensive on the ground or air research . |
| 10 | At first it appeared a good development for the island — the Germans promised to look after poor patients with tuberculosis and , in return , were given many favourable concessions such as duty-free importation of equipment and the right to expropriate land . |
| 11 | Female menstrual blood became endowed with magical power and often it was harmful . |
| 12 | Last week Scottish Secretary Ian Lang announced spending on social work projects would be £22.8 million next year , with provisional figures of £23 million for 194–5 and 1995–6 . |
| 13 | Social Democratic Party seat at risk to Labour : Plymouth Devonport : Dr David Owen 's old seat expected to revert to Labour after heavy job losses at naval dockyard . |
| 14 | The entire form of this species is a kaleidoscope of remarkable colours , from a yellow-patterned purple nose down to the red-banded , yellow tailed edged with royal blue . |
| 15 | AA protein was identified by positive staining with anti-AA antibody and sensitivity to KMnO 4 reaction , while AL protein failed to stain with anti-AA , anti-Β 2 -microglobulin , and anti-prealbumin antibodies , and was resistant to KMnO 4 reaction . |
| 16 | Following the Rhineland-Palatinate election the CSU threatened to withdraw from the governing CDU/CSU/FDP coalition at federal level , but after a five-hour meeting on May 8 the parties agreed to work towards common policies on such issues as abortion and immigration , and to reassert their traditional values . |
| 17 | At the second stage , consciousness became separated from practical action through the division of mental and manual labour . |
| 18 | Despite everything she 'd said , her eyes fluttered closed in unspoken invitation , but at the last second she heard his laughter , low and mocking . |
| 19 | Though its original statute forbad lending to foreign-controlled firms , a 1986 policy statement softened this policy by implying inclusion of local firms with minority shares held by multinationals ( Brazilian Government , 1986 ) . |
| 20 | The standing of Keynesianism seemed to ebb by visible degrees with the publication of each successive article which took as its starting-point the assumption of full employment . |
| 21 | The matron was one of the biggest women Elinor had ever seen ; her neck seemed sunk between strong shoulders , and her red hands hung from beefy arms . |
| 22 | In either case principally Chinese armies would have been involved and , in the short run at least , Vietnam 's political future seemed to lie in Chinese hands . |
| 23 | The number of visits clients received ranged from daily to once a month . |
| 24 | He fell , and the Manchu 's final stroke seemed to descend with unstoppable fury . |
| 25 | On the one hand some psycholinguistic data seemed to point to word-by-word recognition ( Cole & Jakimik 1980 ; Marslen-Wilson & Welsh 1978 ) . |
| 26 | Now that I was home , my religion seemed compounded of polite appearances and the prospect of eternal Hell . |
| 27 | Final days were spent in revetments on Kalaikunda airfield , 100 miles west of Calcutta , where they were used as decoys with the propellers sawn off and the tails lifted to look like tri-gear machines . |
| 28 | Plasma aldosterone concentration decreased compared with active renin concentration with enalapril but increased with hydrochlorothiazide . |
| 29 | When rival gangs began fighting for black market spoils , the ethnic war which has engulfed Sarajevo and Bosnia for 10 months spilled over into Stup . |
| 30 | BUT months spent trekking through Himalayan monasteries and his love of Brigflatts ( a rural Quaker meeting house near Sedbergh ) have rubbed off on him . |