Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unfinished building stood for several years as a mute witness to their sad state . |
| 2 | Subtle lamps gleamed on pink-clothed tables , each with its own vase of flowers . |
| 3 | On St Kilda solifluction and the formation of pro-talus ramparts occurred at this time ( Sutherland et al. , 1984 ) . |
| 4 | On this side of the Webi , undulating grasslands rose to distant hills , and strips of woodland bordered numerous streams . |
| 5 | The next Allied blow fell on 16 August when Gough 's Fifth Army assaulted the Gheluvelt-Langemarck line , stretching from the Ypres-Menin road to the north-west . |
| 6 | Members of political groups went on brief raids into its ranks , and returned with little except contempt for its prospects . |
| 7 | Disputes , sabotage , mutinies and attempted coups arose from political or ideological disagreements , from resentment at allocation of funds and procurement policies , and from military reluctance to follow aggressive policies against other countries . |
| 8 | Two strong groups emerged behind Long and Chamberlain , about equal in numbers , but there were few backers for Carson or Law . |
| 9 | The fact remains , however , that there was a certain defensive quality in many Nonconformist discussions on their new buildings ; the Editor of the Baptist Times insisted in 1902 that ‘ today , under changed conditions , we are false to no principle and to no tradition in making our Sanctuaries beautiful as well as useful ’ . |
| 10 | Ironical groans began at that . |
| 11 | The sorry story began on 18th March 1612 , when a teenage beggar girl , Alizon Device , flew into a rage when a pedlar refused to give her some pins . |
| 12 | In 1981 broad money rose by 13.9 per cent and in 1982 by 14.3 per cent . |
| 13 | The search for a European base began in 1986 and the company was about to choose Telford when Flint was recommended by Adrian Breger of disposable nappy manufacturers Breger Gibson , who have a factory at Greenfield . |
| 14 | And INFOWORLD recently called Version 4.0 ‘ the nest graphics package for the complex technical graphs wanted by most scientists and engineers . ’ |
| 15 | This judgement was made by comparing the percentage of the regional budget devoted to this service with the corresponding percentages in other regions . |
| 16 | Wharves were constructed to handle the coal and timber traffic , and tall red-brick warehouses arose after 1777 for iron , for cheese , for corn and salt . |
| 17 | For the top teams in the group of eight this would mean a total of 40 league games as opposed to the 44 matches which will have to be fulfilled if the 12-club division continued for another season . |
| 18 | Bottom-placed Barrow came from 14-0 down after 10 minutes to level 24-24 at Bradford but finished as badly as they had started , leaking a further 12 points in the final 14 minutes . |
| 19 | Iran declared its neutrality in the First World war , but most Iranian sympathy lay with German because she was fighting Great Britain and Russia . |
| 20 | The landscape of feeling that this measured upbringing inculcated in countless children has yet to be surveyed ; we should start , perhaps , with the burden of being good , and the painful watchful attention towards the needs of others rather than oneself . |
| 21 | The most striking non-deglutitive motility pattern we found in this group of normal subjects consisted of repetitive bursts of non-sequential pressure peaks in the smooth muscle of the oesophagus . |
| 22 | Florid words fell like unwanted cherry pips , |
| 23 | In serial recall for signs they demonstrated primacy and recency effects in the recall curves and indicated that substitution errors made by deaf subjects coincided with sign-confusable items . |
| 24 | The four tall brothers walked in stooped silence but their wives chatted agreeably . |
| 25 | This striking result led to further investigations , and it was noticed that one drop of the diluted nasal mucus added to 1 c.c. of a thick suspension of the cocci caused their complete disappearance in a few minutes at 37°C . |
| 26 | Cistus ladanifer — A musk scented evergreen rock rose with sticky foliage and huge white flowers . |
| 27 | A used car came in 1959 , a television and a telephone some years later . |
| 28 | He 'd always had the nicest smile , open and boyish , but she 'd forgotten the way his hazel eyes sparkled with greenish lights , perhaps because she 'd never seen him so tanned before . |
| 29 | Total arrears rose by 18 per cent , £70M , over the previous year . |
| 30 | The Liberal Democrats won 50.8 per cent ( 29.7 per cent for the Liberal/Social Democratic Party Alliance in 1987 ) , and the Labour vote fell from 8.8 to 5 per cent . |