Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The settlement does not , however , protect E&Y from civil suits filed by former investors in S&Ls — the $63m it paid in connection with Lincoln arose from a civil suit .
2 She stared at him , her mouth slightly open so that her rather small even teeth gleamed in the thin October sunshine that was now filling the kitchen .
3 Flora Macdonald lived in a small farm estate , off this road .
4 The charge of racism arose after the recent British National Party bye-election victory in East London .
5 Stress applied to a migrating epidermal cell at right angles to its direction of movement ( tangential to the leading edge of its lamellipodium ) causes the lamellipodium to retract and brings about a reorganization of the cell 's actin into a cable oriented along the major axis of stress .
6 Where no expansion was taking place , the only chance of transfer was if vacancies arose in the regular workforce .
7 On the other hand , in a short-term study using the artificial pancreas , normalisation of blood glucose for 48 hours led to a significant fall in β-thromboglobulin levels ( Voisin et al , 1983 ) .
8 They fell victims , along with others , to the belief that if a building complied with the existing building regulations and Codes of Practice it must be deemed to be safe .
9 The Foleys lived in a large Victorian house with a garden in Donnybrook , a couple of miles from the centre of Dublin .
10 ‘ Me too , ’ Kelly interrupted with a sweet smile .
11 Gabriel waited for him to break away and in that instant got in a good burst , peppering the cockpit .
12 The gravelled drive split into two ; one branch led to the front door , the other to the back of the house and , according to a finger post , to waiting room and surgery .
13 At Oxford United a person occupying such a role would have been one of six or seven boys who were always at the front when conflicts arose with the rival fans .
14 After 1620 Warner lived at the Woolstable in Charing Cross and at Cranborne Lodge , near Windsor , with Sir Thomas Aylesbury [ q.v. ] , who sponsored his continued work on optics and mathematics .
15 The opportunity arose in the close season when the FA decided to form the Mid-Counties Combination .
16 A opportunity arose from a primary study of proliferation in gastric malignancy to investigate BrdUrd labelled gastric mucosa .
17 In her early thirties , her raven black hair gleamed in the overhead light .
18 As a result , his skin glowed more healthily and his halo of hair gleamed like the outer circle of the sun .
19 Britain 's Courtaulds and Hoechst of Germany agreed on a joint venture that will merge their viscose and acrylic-fibres businesses in Europe .
20 They also found that an error of eight weeks in the date of payment led to an average error in the proportionate mispricing of only 0.01% .
21 The coast ( or cliff-top ) walk from the hostel in the other direction led to the delightful settlement of Robin Hood 's Bay , where the slipway resembles a drawbridge let down from the towering sea walls .
22 All the way from the shrine down the hillside and through the pine trees , hundreds of flames glowed like the roving eyes of night-prowling animals .
23 By 1941 Spitfires arrived at Benson and the base became to the top secret photo reconnaissance unit .
24 Newman asked in a low voice .
25 Hull levelled with an excellent try by Rob Nolan from a pass by Aussie Scott Gale .
26 WILLOWFIELD ace Paul Rowan cruised to a comfortable win in the Conlig Six-mile Road Race organised by Pyramid AC .
27 All parties to the Afghan conflict had been invited to talks , which were postponed after disagreements arose between the rival groups over the conference .
28 But the alliance with Athens must have been renewed before the beginning of the Peloponnesian War when Thessalians fought on the Athenian side again ( Thuc. ii.22 ) .
29 Far from being ad hoc , the move to save Newton 's theory from falsification by Uranus 's orbit led to a new kind of test of that theory , which it was able to pass in a dramatic and progressive way .
30 At Maastricht , the Germans argued for a common foreign policy for the European Community .
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