Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chinese government in May 1990 rescinded the martial law order in Lhasa ( imposed in March 1989 following outbreaks of secessionist unrest ) , although a heavy armed presence remained in the city [ see p. 37454 ] . |
| 2 | For Bernadette Quli , that worry turned into a nightmare when the woman she had taken on to look after her six-month-old daughter , Farrah , fled to Ireland with the baby . |
| 3 | Daphne studied the menu a new one , a friendly dinosaur snaked down the side holding the printed menu between its paws . |
| 4 | Difficulties of a more acute kind began with the arrival of Charles Lloyd on 22 February . |
| 5 | Bits of the well-organised election looked like a utopian dream of the new world order : Indians and Canadians , Ghanaians and Australians , travelling the countryside with helicopter-borne polling stations , bringing democracy to grateful if puzzled peasants in distant Cambodian villages . |
| 6 | Isolated for long periods amongst little-known peoples , our sole defence lay in a sort of encounter therapy , a complete vulnerability to our hosts ' ways of being and seeing . |
| 7 | The bridge was complete , the air blowers on each rig whined as the remaining air bags were inflated for additional buoyancy , and footwalk posts and ropes were installed . |
| 8 | His broad chest heaved from the cold and his exertion . |
| 9 | ( Had this kind of European provision existed in the 1920s and 1930s it might and probably would have made it much more difficult for the Fascist and other extreme forms of government to take hold . ) |
| 10 | In the Netherlands , however , it appears that for much of the past 30 years , a substantial reduction in levels of imprisonment occurred with no greater rise in crime than occurred in Britain ; and that reduction occurred at a time of rising crime in Holland . |
| 11 | He was wise enough in his broadcasts to refrain from one tactic , the inspiration of that chill fear which some of his political ranting achieved in the 193()s . |
| 12 | First his Y-reg Yugo crunched into the back of a trailer behind a broken-down Austin Ambassador . |
| 13 | Behind the glass an official from the Political Branch scowled at a worried-looking black . |
| 14 | Most social historians have tended to stick with Raymond Williams 's argument and have been reluctant to give up the notion that what was most lively and energetic in all that variety came from the working class . |
| 15 | She turned on the maxiscreamers , and the riot-control noise boomed through the town , shaking teeth loose , bursting eardrums , bringing rickety buildings down . |
| 16 | Each trial consisted of a visual warning ( two arrowheads indicated the subject should attend to a particular area of the screen ) , a series of digits ( varying in length from 1 to 6 digits ) presented at a rate of 1.2 seconds per digit , a gap of 2 seconds , and finally a probe digit . |
| 17 | This notable agreement between men who might be supposed to represent the opposite poles of economic ideology came on a day when Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov disclosed grim new evidence of wage inflation here , and Dr Alan Greenspan , the visiting chairman of the US Federal Reserve Board , wound up three days of discussions with Soviet ministers , bankers and economists . |
| 18 | Rain said , exasperated , that each route led to the same point and that meant back to the Tunisian . |
| 19 | They had grubby overalls on , and caps with protective masks , through which each gang peered at the other . |
| 20 | Was it really a fact that a significant section of the public really did not know — not that Champagne came from a Province in France historically called Champagne — but from France at all ? |
| 21 | It is unnecessary to say anything about the reason why leave to apply for judicial review was granted except to say that the whole or part of the reasons in each case went to a complaint that the particular composition of the disciplinary tribunal gave rise to an appearance of bias . |
| 22 | For a few years a lean-to building stood against the remaining old wall which sheltered the homeless and I have spoken to one old inhabitant of Halling who remembers coming to the village as a young child and whose parents , being unable to afford other accommodation , sheltered there . |
| 23 | That tovarisch lay in the earth , |
| 24 | My right foot hovered over the accelerator pedal and I balanced Armstrong on the clutch . |
| 25 | Stirling accelerated and immediately a loud screaming noise came from the front of the vehicle . |
| 26 | That part seemed like an afterthought . |
| 27 | Gabriel waited for him to break away and in that instant got in a good burst , peppering the cockpit . |
| 28 | The regional award went to the Northern region — for its good programme of events , good communications and for tackling difficult issues . |
| 29 | Ever since that story broke in the papers , Creed seemed to be testing loyalties . |
| 30 | A narrow rio ran past the bottom of Calle Nerone , and waiting by some steps was a small boat . |