Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Behind the glass an official from the Political Branch scowled at a worried-looking black . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Gabriel waited for him to break away and in that instant got in a good burst , peppering the cockpit . |
| 11 | Her elder sister perished in a concentration camp ; her father was killed in a motor-car crash ; and a love affair with Walter Carr , a member of the newspaper family , ended with his death from a brain haemorrhage . |
| 12 | ‘ That watch belonged to a nobleman , my father , and is all the inheritance I have . ’ |
| 13 | Recruited from the lower-middle or working class , the representative benefactor lived in a small house in a town or city , had no children or had children who were grown up , spoke not a word of German , knew nothing of Germany beyond the front-page news of the Express or Mirror , and did not begin to understand the trauma of being a young refugee . |
| 14 | Consequently , once the northern campaign was resumed , on 20 April , the task of political reorganization came to a temporary halt . |
| 15 | was a bottle of of whisky from that distillery went for a huge p price at one of the big |
| 16 | A JOYRIDER aged 21 died yesterday when a stolen car somersaulted into a garden after a 60mph police chase in Bristol . |
| 17 | A joyrider of 21 died yesterday when a stolen car somersaulted into a garden following a 60mph police chase in Bristol . |
| 18 | THE mother of one of two west Belfast teenagers killed when a stolen car crashed into a tree , today urged young people to turn their back on joyriding . |
| 19 | A thirteen-year-old school boy has been charged with a series of motoring offences after a stolen car crashed into a row of parked vehicles . |
| 20 | University students have been moved to temporary accommodation after a stolen car crashed into a block of flats , demolishing a wall . |
| 21 | Several sessions of sports talks , designed to agree upon the formation of a single Korean team for the 1990 Asian Games [ see pp. 36975 ; 37041 ] , were equally unsuccessful and finally broke down on Jan. 29 after the North Korean delegation arrived with a three-metre long picture of the concrete wall to whose alleged existence Kim had referred . |
| 22 | In London , the National Deaf Club boasted as a member a Henry John Jacobs , who was a barrister of the Inner Temple . |
| 23 | The failure of either the June or the November 1989 general elections to resolve Greece 's political impasse led to a rapid deterioration in the country 's economic position during 1989 . |
| 24 | When , indeed : but practical measures were the immediate need ; and it was in the absence in America of Owen himself that Owenism emerged as a response to that need and Owenites as those who formulated the response . |
| 25 | I always thought Australia 's finest export came in a cold can — until I heard the incredible slide playing of ex-patriate Dave Hole . |
| 26 | This change arose from a realization that war provided opportunities for the nobles not only to increase their honour and their prestige but also to enrich themselves . |
| 27 | This sketch belonged to a group of seven oil paintings by Cezanne formerly in the collection of Auguste Pellerin and offered by an unidentified European foundation . |
| 28 | We allmost fainted with fright and was only stayed from the same fate by the hand of his Lordship , who handed the keeper the dove ( fake ) the keeper shut its hand and with a gurgling noise vanished with a clang of its lid , and all went pitch . |
| 29 | Looking at it from the club 's point of view I can see how this ban arose in a situation like this . |
| 30 | This case arose from a contract under which the pursuers , an engineering company , were to supply and install a conveyor belt system at the premises of the defenders , a brickmaking company . |