Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spanish attempts to get themselves seeded ahead of England came to nothing . |
| 2 | Spanish attempts to get themselves seeded ahead of England came to nothing . |
| 3 | What emerge is the Shahs complete inability to understand what had gone wrong , what mistakes he had made . |
| 4 | And the London-based scientist said he believed it was more than a coincidence that the same colony seemed to have been affected by a second strain of the gizzard worm infection which killed 137 birds last year . |
| 5 | There is a strong incentive for local Labour parties to get everyone registered , even in safe urban seats , to avoid the seat disappearing altogether . |
| 6 | Left influence was sustained increasingly by events overseas , events over which most Labour supporters felt they had little control and which most of them probably saw as secondary to their still-lingering economic burdens . |
| 7 | Mr Brown said : ‘ Even those who are not Labour supporters recognise he grew in stature during the campaign . ’ |
| 8 | Caught off balance , Kate tried to keep her teetering emotions on an even keel as she strove to find the right words to explain what had happened in Jason 's office . |
| 9 | It may also have been the political considerations involved which led both the WJEC and the University of Wales to remain silent throughout the argument . |
| 10 | Repeated attempts to salvage her had been made up to 1840 , CH 1 . |
| 11 | On hearing of the atrocity Wilson thought it his duty to cancel the concert and to call together the 800 German seamen to explain what had happened and to share with them his horror at the deed . |
| 12 | The Iranian Foreign Ministry said it summoned representatives from Western capitals , where the incidents took place , yesterday to deliver a ‘ strongly-worded protest ’ . |
| 13 | In July Higgins had been accused of " compromising national security " in an article about a crackdown on nationalists in Nei Mongol province ( Inner Mongolia ) , based on an internal party document which the Foreign Ministry claimed he had obtained " illegally " . |
| 14 | Unfortunately our Mid-Term Wave was drawn from the 1986 British Social Attitudes Survey which asked no questions about television viewing or radio listening . |
| 15 | BRITISH Rail thought they had a new excuse for late trains yesterday — THIEVES on the line . |
| 16 | But British Rail said it did not believe the maps were authentic . |
| 17 | The British decision confirmed what had become increasingly apparent since 1958 , that the EEC was central not just to European integration , but to Western Europe as a whole , and that after 1957 the history of West European cooperation would centre upon the EEC , upon both its activities and the response to it by the other European states . |
| 18 | The Law Centres Federation today called for proper funding to ensure everyone had access to high-quality free legal advice through its centres . |
| 19 | The twenty year old salesman claimed he 'd just pushed the animal away with his foot after it had messed all down his clothes . |
| 20 | True , both the English and the Latin forms indicate he lived by the ash tree , but did they merely permit the taxatores to avoid confusing him with all the other Johns who lived in the same village ? |
| 21 | as new pro as old projects went we threw the old one away and we put a new leaf , loose-leaf sheet in . |
| 22 | In a separate development , British Aerospace confirmed it had raised its stake in Ferranti to 1.7 per cent through the purchase of 5.72 million shares . |
| 23 | Whatever evidence the IAAF officials discovered in the laboratory , one only needed to look at recent pictures of Johnson , in which he resembled an inflated balloon , to guess that his improved times showed he 'd been sucked back into the drug culture . |
| 24 | Water from a nearby spring kept it filled . |
| 25 | The Bosnian Serb high command denied it had attacked the town . |
| 26 | Never again was there to be a nation-wide intervention by the railway-workers , although those social tension persisted which had helped the bolsheviks to divide and rule in 1912 . |
| 27 | The National Audit Office in its oversight of the work of the Inland Revenue revealed what triggered the probe into suspected widespread tax evasion by farmers . |
| 28 | In front of them , about twenty yards away , he had seen a barbed-wire fence some three feet high which an old corporal told him had already cost a thousand lives of those who had done nothing more than erect it . |
| 29 | But as my historical data grew I discovered , from other sources , statements which contradicted the statements of the local historian and in most cases when I checked carefully I found that he was inaccurate . |
| 30 | Her own family has suffered the anguish of repossession , and her personal story of how her local Liberal Democrat-controlled council helped them made her the winner in the school 's mock election . |