Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Help in maintaining the prices of agricultural products became a permanent feature of government policy from this time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | Mr Cardoso said the battling started after three black American seamen attacked a white US sailor at the Passport Bar in the gaudy , neon-lit Cais do Sodre area . |
| 8 | For the first time birds became a common motif . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Each pair of houses shared a front door , staircase and a passageway which led to the small rear yard . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Women in nightdresses peeping out of roadside houses lent a surreptitious air to the first few miles . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The Germans made a thin capillary out of palladium , heated it red-hot and diffused hydrogen through it . |
| 16 | Both policies got a big hand . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Prior to the general election , when many experts expected a Labour victory followed by a rise in base rates , there were several enticing bonds to go for . |
| 19 | Subsequent Georgian investigations produced a different version of events . |
| 20 | Karriers produced a similar coupling and did good business through this with many transport firms . |
| 21 | The availability of legal aid to those unable to afford to pursue their legal rights in the courts made a practical reality of the access to justice to many who could not have afforded to do so . |
| 22 | On the economic front , the latest Dun and Bradstreet survey of UK business , carried out before last week 's increase in interest rates to 15 per cent , warned that the British economy was on the brink of a ‘ major slowdown ’ as high-interest policies produced a dramatic downturn in confidence . |
| 23 | When it was first recognised that the atom could be likened to a small solar system in which the electron planets orbited a nuclear sun , theorists were Puzzled as to why the electrons in their tightly curved orbits did not radiate their energy away and spiral into the nucleus as predicted by classical , that is pre-quantum , theory . |
| 24 | MARTIN O'NEILL saluted his Wycombe warriors last night as the Buckinghamshire part-timers produced a stunning FA Cup fightback against Ossie Ardiles ' West Bromich Albion . |
| 25 | It is also the final of the Marley National Pony Society Mountain and Moorland Ridden Championships , and thirty quality native ponies made a splendid sight in the vast Grand Hall . |
| 26 | With an interlude for a half-yearly general meeting to approve the audited accounts , a somewhat frenetic round of discussion groups produced a remarkable degree of consensus on various fronts . |
| 27 | These violent rituals became a regular event and the police and I were soon on first-name terms , although most of the beatings took place at the week-ends when I was at my Pop 's house . |
| 28 | The suppression and control of internal and external enemies became a useful safety valve for German society , but in practice there was little in the way of a genuine Polish threat for the Prussians to fear . |
| 29 | He would mysteriously shake so badly sometimes that old-timers recommended a large brandy . |
| 30 | In the end , wherever NIREX held ‘ consultation ’ meetings , its teams of experts met a frosty reception . |