Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dan realised with growing dismay that at forty-six he was qualified for nothing . |
| 2 | As we have seen , in the past false biological views led to false reasoning . |
| 3 | The East German won , the Frenchman came second and Allan qualified in third place . |
| 4 | The relative lack of council housing has made this system more important : in 1948 34 per cent of farmworkers lived in tied housing , but by 1976 this figure had increased to 53 per cent . |
| 5 | It was also partly in response to the effects of overaccumulation that deflationary policies led to decreased capacity utilization in the United States . |
| 6 | Briefly , antigen strips preincubated for one hour in blocking buffer ( 5% non-fat milk powder in phosphate buffered saline pH 7.2 , containing 0.05% Tween 20 ) were incubated overnight at room temperature in serum samples ( diluted 1:100 v/v in blocking buffer ) or mouse monoclonal antibody GL2 that recognises Giardia heat shock antigen ( diluted 1:1000 v/v in blocking buffer ) . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've never seen anything like that in my life , ’ Mitch announced in absolute awe . |
| 8 | During the budget debate many deputies argued for heavier spending on public works projects to cut unemployment , rather than the introduction of measures to reduce the budget deficit . |
| 9 | Teesside Crown Court heard how blonde Julie Spence agreed to four sex sessions with her husband when they split after ten years of marriage . |
| 10 | The widening of the EEC argued for greater awareness of the European market and the need for both young people and businesses to face the real demands for new skills , greater knowledge of other languages and more mobility in moving throughout other countries . |
| 11 | Trent rode in first gear , headlight tunnelling into the forest gloom through which the rain bucketed . |
| 12 | Conditions at the 20-pitch permanent park led to strong condemnation at Newry and Mourne Council . |
| 13 | In this way , Man and Daurog lived in uneasy harmony for many generations , each keeping to their realm , each finding power in the other , each recognizing the other in themselves … |
| 14 | In the decade before the war , Jewish settlement in the East End led to some involvement in the London underworld on the part of the Jewish population . |
| 15 | The red warning lights of The Sandhopper glowed like boiling blood in the blackness . |
| 16 | Clubs asked for early warning |
| 17 | The Germans argued for increased centralization in order to fight the empire . |
| 18 | All the local authority associations ( including those with a Conservative majority ) opposed rate-capping in principle , the local government press , and the media generally were hostile , while the Bill 's passage through Parliament led to strenuous opposition from senior Conservative MPs and sizeable backbench revolts in some votes . |
| 19 | The Soviet Foreign Minister Boris Pankin also visited Jerusalem , on Oct. 17 , and met with Israeli Foreign Minister David Levi , while Baker met with Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir . |
| 20 | But is the thing is budget led at this stage , I mean is n't that , are we really , is n't the |
| 21 | He saw a house , the house , almost the house a child draws in its infant school , four windows , chimney , door , garden path , lazy-daisy looped flowers in rectangular parterres , only this house was also a crudely three-dimensional flimsy box , barely containing something very large and very much alive , covered with rusty pelt , so that every aperture bulged with glowing fur , was pushed outwards , cracking , and a claw showed here on a sill , and a ripple of muscle there . |
| 22 | The 6ft carpet snake crept into Calan Lavender 's bed , wrapped its body around him and plunged in its fangs . |
| 23 | He has winged his way across the world in pursuit of his hobby , a mission that has included Venezuela , Thailand , Africa and Israel among others — with Costa Rica planned for this year . |
| 24 | In a computer oriented towards numerical calculation , the operations must include provision for addition and subtraction , and probably multiplication and division as well ; on a computer oriented towards character manipulation there would be various operations for moving and scanning character strings . |
| 25 | Just under half lived in the same household as the dementia sufferer ( 45 per cent ) ; most of the remainder lived within easy reach : 14 per cent in the same street or only a few minutes ' walk away , 20 per cent within two miles , ten per cent within five miles , and only 11 per cent further than five miles away ( although in Newham 36 per cent of the principal carers lived more than two miles away compared with only 12 per cent in Ipswich ) . |
| 26 | But their efforts to collect the money from Germany met with little success ; and when French and Belgian troops occupied the Ruhr in 1923 in an attempt to force payment , the German economy collapsed amidst wild inflation ( CORE , pp. 6–7 ) . |
| 27 | Hun Sen met with Foreign Minister Qian Qichen and other senior Chinese leaders . |
| 28 | Mr Nightingale beamed with gentle superiority . |
| 29 | Mitch asked with real surprise . |
| 30 | These cases led to profound questioning in social services departments , and in the inquiries that ensued , of the desirability of attempting to keep the family together wherever possible . |