Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Jane Asher dinosaur cake was introduced recently and buyers inform us that dinosaur shaped canned pasta is now a possibility , together with existing canned lines of this kind . |
| 2 | A year or so later his professional technique scored another success . |
| 3 | Only a last-ditch struggle saved that fragment . |
| 4 | He was a member of a working party which caused ICI to switch to a new approach under which each division took direct control of its own sales . |
| 5 | That decision created tremendous doubt about whether facilities will be made available to service the regions north of London . |
| 6 | In an argument no doubt intended to be attractive to Manchester 's merchants and employers — local abolitionists had specifically asked him to write on the impolicy of slavery and the slave trade — he declared that freedom produced cheaper labour than slavery . |
| 7 | US Cellular Corp saw third quarter net losses of $6m up from losses of $4.4m last time , on turnover up 66.5% at $42.2m ; net losses for the nine months stood at $1.7m down from losses of $26.2m last time , after $14.9m gains from the sale of cellular interests this time and $10.3m tax charges last time , on turnover that rose by 72.2% to $109.7m . |
| 8 | Neither pairing produced conclusive evidence , such was the low key nature of United 's approach . |
| 9 | Neither pairing produced conclusive evidence , such was the low-key nature of United 's approach — and Ferguson refused to say which twosome he would go for . |
| 10 | In this context , Bryan Gould 's decision to challenge John Smith for the Labour leadership , as our political correspondent wrote last week , is welcome — not because he will win , but because it forces a debate to take place . |
| 11 | In neither case did Bcl-2 expression overcome the cytostatic effect of the drugs ( data not shown ) . |
| 12 | The uprising of 1848 gave them an opportunity to alter their status , but they did not take it and by and large seem to have accepted that industrialisation meant inevitable Germanisation . |
| 13 | European interests were secondary to national objectives , except where European political unity carried more clout in the international political scene . |
| 14 | Ackroyd 's strange experience began one day as he looked out from his lonely signal box . |
| 15 | It seems that Parliament accepted this recommendation , although I doubt whether blood donation will create any problem as a ‘ Gillick competent ’ minor of any age would be able to give consent under the common law . |
| 16 | This was anathema to the predominant mentality of the time , and a stark contrast to the later argument of Job Throckmorton [ q.v. ] that Parliament had full competence in the matter . |
| 17 | For the variable we are considering , this prediction implies that the difference between the current value of the retail price index and the expectation of that index formed last period will be a serially uncorrelated random variable with mean zero , that is : where P t is the actual value of the current retail price index , is the expectation of P t , formed in period , and v t is the random forecast error , which is uncorrelated with any information available in period or earlier . |
| 18 | No grouping of the patients according to symptoms or the presence or absence of neurological deficit showed any difference in incidence of transient UOS relaxations . |
| 19 | Places dedicated to film presentation , the penny gaffes , did start to spring up at the beginning of the new century , but it was only with the emergence of long films around 1910 that cinema acquired any sort of institutional presence in British towns . |
| 20 | Perkin-Elmer Corp saw second quarter net profits up 8.5% at $17.8m , after $3.3m gains from the sale of a joint venture , on sales down 89.4% at $243.6m ; mid-term net rose 19.3% to $30.3m , on turnover up 11.5% at $476.3m . |
| 21 | That deal included any company selling livestock through EASE from what was designated Lawrie and Symington 's ‘ area ’ had to pay 0.2 per cent commission to L&S , on top of the franchise fee paid to EASE . |
| 22 | A retrospective study showed that amiodarone was associated with a better prognosis in patients with documented ventricular tachycardia on electrocardiographic monitoring . |
| 23 | The division of the county into electoral districts of equal size within which each ratepayer had one vote — voting to be by ballot ; |
| 24 | Hazel was beginning to feel that all would be well and that Bigwig had more sense than he had given him credit for , when Fiver sat up on his hind legs , cleaned his face with his paws and then , for the first time , looked directly at him . |
| 25 | Joyride victim … a stolen car crushed blind pensioner against a wall . |
| 26 | This combination of giant enterprises and regional concentration fostered working-class militancy . |
| 27 | It 's hard to figure out what exactly is happening with Hunter Systems Inc , Palo Alto , California , since nobody 's returning phone calls : we did manage to find out that its venture capitalist Technology Funding Venture Partners IV in San Mateo , California bought back Hunter 's debt at that auction staged last week ( CI No 2,147 ) — presumably no money really changed hands , and it now owns all of Hunter — but is the company still in business ? |
| 28 | Thousands died but neither side gave any ground . |
| 29 | Using WHO national mortality rates for both colonic cancer and coronary heart disease , Rose et al showed a direct relation between these two diseases , and on the basis of this finding anticipated that serum cholesterol values could be used as a predictor of colon cancer . |
| 30 | It was extremely important that this framework had wide acceptability , as unit writers would be recruited to prepare HN Unit Specifications based on the framework . |