Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are some 120 published clinical studies on procaine , yet rarely has pharmacological research been blessed with such endless bickering between opposing camps . |
| 2 | Some 31,700 took voluntary redundancy and a further 5,400 disappeared as the result of disposals . |
| 3 | Although the inferior vena caval mean pressure and absolute hepatic vein wedge pressure were high this reflected high right sided filling pressures secondary to cor-pulmonale as the right atrial pressure was similar to the inferior vena caval mean pressure . |
| 4 | There is , however , evidence for some 30 tessellated mosaic pavements within the later defences , mostly along the major frontages , suggesting a surprising level of affluence in the town . |
| 5 | SL2 , who got to No 2 with On A Raggatip ; and SUNSCREEM , who enjoyed a Top 30 hit last month with Love U More . |
| 6 | He leads a team of some 53 noted Russian computer scientists . |
| 7 | In the 1830s this provoked significant tension between antislavery parliamentarians and activists in the country . |
| 8 | Among the opposition parties , the Mongolian Democratic Party won 20 seats , the Social Democratic won four seats , the National Progress Party won six seats , and 29 seats went to independents . |
| 9 | FIG. 2 From outside , the Milky Way probably looks rather like this typical barred spiral galaxy , NGC4535 . |
| 10 | A few hours ago this all made some kind of sense . |
| 11 | ‘ This all needed careful sorting , particularly the contents of the deed boxes , and with little space available , it was some time in 1925 before the job was complete . |
| 12 | Other runners in the top ten included third-placed Douglas Speake ( 64 ) , Jon Davy ( 16 ) and Chris Starmer ( 67 ) . |
| 13 | The other factor was the importance of the formations which allowed the archers to act in liaison with the cavalry , of whom some 2,500 served that year . |
| 14 | I did it in ten days , but in 1867 Loving took three months to do it . |
| 15 | Forty one had ulcerative colitis and 32 had Crohn 's disease . |
| 16 | During the late 1930s some four wheeled six ton tractors were purchased , these being Karrier Bantams , Dennis , and the wartime Bedfords . |
| 17 | Smaller regions of DP-1 ( DP-1 146-249 and DP-1 84-166 ) failed to bind to the E2F site , whereas DP-1 84-249 retained sequence-specific DNA binding ( Fig. 4 a and b ; compare track 6 and 7 ) . |
| 18 | Most people who lived on the south-western littoral consumed imported rice , while the plantation workers and those who provided services for the plantations were almost entirely dependent on it . |
| 19 | When introduced in the 1840s this created new possibilities for shipping exotic species around the world , protected from changes in the environment . |
| 20 | Accretion of the Precambrian Southern Uplands basement onto the North-west Foreland during the early Ordovician caused extensive tectonism in the Moine and Dalradian successions , the Grampian orogeny , with metamorphism up to amphibolite grade . |
| 21 | Only in the early 1900s did serious US overseas bank involvement begin to take place . |
| 22 | The sudden and massive expansion of the company 's market in the early Seventies had several repercussions . |
| 23 | Thirteen had an acute or subacute self limiting condition , but the remaining three had several years history of recurrent obstructive symptoms . |
| 24 | The wandering poor got short shrift — a burial is recorded in the Combsburgh register of an unknown man the neighbouring overseers had refused to receive when dying of cold . |
| 25 | However , the production of polyester-reinforced materials in the early 1970s had revolutionary performance implications . |
| 26 | The early 1970s saw additional impetus being given to housing improvements by the designation , under the 1969 Housing Act , of General Improvement Areas ( GIAs ) . |
| 27 | The deterioration in the US balance of payments in the early 1970s caused particular concern since the dollar was the linchpin of the international monetary system . |
| 28 | Parallan , a $10m-a-year , three-year-old private company , will sign a joint development agreement with IBM , paving the way for production of servers that will fit between Parallan 's System 290 OS/2 application superservers and the two new high-end IBM PS/2 Model 95s announced last week . |
| 29 | Legislation on the position of the local languages in early 1989 aroused more controversy : according the views of some commentators in Izvestiya , the new directives , at least in Estonia , placed non-native speakers at a considerable disadvantage and probably infringed their civil rights . |
| 30 | Official figures show 6.5 million watched last Wednesday 's show — up by 1.3 million . |