Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stafford 's Sutherland estates produced an annual income of £16,000 , but this was not enough . |
| 2 | When the researchers re-imaged the same area , they found they had created small groups of three atoms , arranged in a triangle , which appeared higher than their neighbours . |
| 3 | The attempt Grumman made in the 1970s to reduce its dependence on Pentagon and NASA contracts produced an excellent delivery truck for the post office . |
| 4 | In the 1980s , the independents became a real force , recording technology is easily accessible , and bands are more energetic and enterprising in producing their own records and promoting themselves . |
| 5 | She began by waking up on the tail-end of absorbing conversations with the white-robed monk who sat on the chair beside her , and it was n't long before the discussions became a full-time activity . |
| 6 | How to avert both these dangers became a major concern among employers , politicians and in the press , although optimism remained that solutions could be found . |
| 7 | Help in maintaining the prices of agricultural products became a permanent feature of government policy from this time . |
| 8 | While these authorities restated the general rule attention was focused upon attempts to formulate and analyse the exceptions , especially where rights were accepted as having been bestowed upon a third party . |
| 9 | All summer English cricket has been highly suspicious about how the Pakistanis made the old ball swing about so violently . |
| 10 | On the Somme in 1916 , the British used 15in weapons , while in 1918 the Germans produced a long-range gun with which to bombard Paris . |
| 11 | It has been reported that the addition of minute amounts of phosphatidylcholines normalised the short nucleation time of bile from patients with cholesterol gall stones while having only a minimal effect on the cholesterol saturation index . |
| 12 | Their discussions produced the Linggajati Agreement , as it is called from the hill station where they met ( 12 November ) . |
| 13 | In terms of arguments about the Caucasian Albanians , a people which no longer exists but which in the Middle Ages inhabited the disputed region . |
| 14 | The simple comparison of mean pulse rate data from before sedation and during the procedure showed both groups experienced a similar degree of tachycardia during the procedure ( Table III ) . |
| 15 | For the first time birds became a common motif . |
| 16 | Overhead he could now hear the dull roar and crackle of fire , as the hungry flames devoured the old house above him . |
| 17 | ULSTER boxers made a strong claim for an monopoly of the titles in the Maxol National Junior championship semi-finals at the National Stadium last night . |
| 18 | Up to then Graham , 33 , had been mainly in control and had at times outclassed the 27-year-old Grant . |
| 19 | Each pair of houses shared a front door , staircase and a passageway which led to the small rear yard . |
| 20 | In Barrow each house had a water tap by the 1880s , but in Lancaster 475 houses shared a single tap as late as 1925 and in Manchester in 1931 there were 70,000 houses classified as ‘ unfit ’ with thirty to fifty people sharing a tap in a tenement building . |
| 21 | However , these were generally riskier and since many savers lacked the necessary information and confidence to invest overseas , it seemed a natural role for investment trusts that they should provide an indirect route into overseas markets for small investors who would benefit from the trust 's professional management . |
| 22 | ‘ Thus the groups countered the social alienation that often divides cancer patients from their well-meaning but anxious family and friends , ’ they write . |
| 23 | Women in nightdresses peeping out of roadside houses lent a surreptitious air to the first few miles . |
| 24 | There may be some weathering her and there After a few weeks which to Willis , however , seemed like a few years , the broker 's solicitors made a conditional offer for the poor old barge , and finally agreed to pay £1500 , provided that Dreadnought was still in shipshape condition six months hence , in the spring of 1962 . |
| 25 | The air raids were commonly known as the Baedeker Raids , after a publishing house that produced travel guides , because the Germans made a sudden switch from bombing major cities , industrial and military targets and bombed cities that did not have anything remotely possible connected with any major war effort . |
| 26 | The Germans made a thin capillary out of palladium , heated it red-hot and diffused hydrogen through it . |
| 27 | The Germans withstood an early flurry before creating chances of their own . |
| 28 | Both policies got a big hand . |
| 29 | We might think that ‘ Naxos ’ in Cantos 2 , 24 , and 78 is the place of that name beneath Taormina , the site ( lately and partially excavated ) of the earliest Greek colony in Sicily , and thereafter the port whence the teams from all the Sicilian Greek cities made a ceremonial departure to compete in the Olympic Games ; but the Annotated Index is doubtless right to identify Naxos , on the contrary , with an island in the Aegean . |
| 30 | During their researches , however , the Canadians made an important discovery . |