Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lower level devoted to educational facilities ( library , auditorium , conference rooms ) leads visitors to an attractive cafeteria , decorated with colourful oriental carpets , and to a large sun terrace . |
| 2 | The unfinished building stood for several years as a mute witness to their sad state . |
| 3 | Subtle lamps gleamed on pink-clothed tables , each with its own vase of flowers . |
| 4 | On St Kilda solifluction and the formation of pro-talus ramparts occurred at this time ( Sutherland et al. , 1984 ) . |
| 5 | On this side of the Webi , undulating grasslands rose to distant hills , and strips of woodland bordered numerous streams . |
| 6 | The next Allied blow fell on 16 August when Gough 's Fifth Army assaulted the Gheluvelt-Langemarck line , stretching from the Ypres-Menin road to the north-west . |
| 7 | Members of political groups went on brief raids into its ranks , and returned with little except contempt for its prospects . |
| 8 | Disputes , sabotage , mutinies and attempted coups arose from political or ideological disagreements , from resentment at allocation of funds and procurement policies , and from military reluctance to follow aggressive policies against other countries . |
| 9 | Two strong groups emerged behind Long and Chamberlain , about equal in numbers , but there were few backers for Carson or Law . |
| 10 | The fact remains , however , that there was a certain defensive quality in many Nonconformist discussions on their new buildings ; the Editor of the Baptist Times insisted in 1902 that ‘ today , under changed conditions , we are false to no principle and to no tradition in making our Sanctuaries beautiful as well as useful ’ . |
| 11 | Moreover , as the University validates the Normal College 's courses , it would seem to us that whatever the pros and cons of retaining a local authority based teacher-training institution in Gwynedd , a much more sensible long-term solution would have been to integrate both the Normal College and St Mary 's College into the University College of North Wales when that opportunity arose after 1974 . |
| 12 | Reddy says that about 40 per cent of that reduction came from improving efficiency . |
| 13 | Ironical groans began at that . |
| 14 | Each field started with 95 cells and images were taken at a rate of 12 frames per hour . |
| 15 | The sorry story began on 18th March 1612 , when a teenage beggar girl , Alizon Device , flew into a rage when a pedlar refused to give her some pins . |
| 16 | Webb 's finest hour came in 1984 when , with Derby just days away from going out of business with debts of £1.5 million , he promoted himself from managing director to chairman . |
| 17 | But I am unable to see , however carefully I reread the 1969 Act , that Parliament had in that year taken any clear stance on it . |
| 18 | I did n't enjoy hurting friends , but each blow did in some way help me to cope with a temper . |
| 19 | Each case came with tasting notes , from which Dennis was given to quoting extensively . |
| 20 | That damage occurred in two ways . |
| 21 | In 1981 broad money rose by 13.9 per cent and in 1982 by 14.3 per cent . |
| 22 | The search for a European base began in 1986 and the company was about to choose Telford when Flint was recommended by Adrian Breger of disposable nappy manufacturers Breger Gibson , who have a factory at Greenfield . |
| 23 | And INFOWORLD recently called Version 4.0 ‘ the nest graphics package for the complex technical graphs wanted by most scientists and engineers . ’ |
| 24 | This judgement was made by comparing the percentage of the regional budget devoted to this service with the corresponding percentages in other regions . |
| 25 | Wharves were constructed to handle the coal and timber traffic , and tall red-brick warehouses arose after 1777 for iron , for cheese , for corn and salt . |
| 26 | For the top teams in the group of eight this would mean a total of 40 league games as opposed to the 44 matches which will have to be fulfilled if the 12-club division continued for another season . |
| 27 | Bottom-placed Barrow came from 14-0 down after 10 minutes to level 24-24 at Bradford but finished as badly as they had started , leaking a further 12 points in the final 14 minutes . |
| 28 | Iran declared its neutrality in the First World war , but most Iranian sympathy lay with German because she was fighting Great Britain and Russia . |
| 29 | The landscape of feeling that this measured upbringing inculcated in countless children has yet to be surveyed ; we should start , perhaps , with the burden of being good , and the painful watchful attention towards the needs of others rather than oneself . |
| 30 | The most striking non-deglutitive motility pattern we found in this group of normal subjects consisted of repetitive bursts of non-sequential pressure peaks in the smooth muscle of the oesophagus . |