Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [vb past] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | CO molecules adsorbed in the vicinity of this charge will , to a first approximation , have their orbital binding energies rigidly downward-shifted , allowing increased electron transfer from the substrate into the lifetime-broadened CO 2 antibonding orbital . |
| 2 | When the Secretary of State endorsed the curriculum framework proposed by Munn he also intimated that the assessment proposals foreshadowed in the Dunning report would be implemented . |
| 3 | On Oct. 9 the government refused a US extradition request for Salomom Shourter Benitez , and on Oct. 19 Gonzalo de Jesus Rincon Perez was the first drug trafficker wanted in the USA to surrender under these conditions . |
| 4 | It suffered its next severe blow in 1968 , when it was left on the shelf after a round of mergers from which the British banking industry emerged in the state it remained in until this year . |
| 5 | However , in the early evening , British troops moved into Derry , and negotiations between the British commander and representatives of the Bogside Defence Association resulted in the withdrawal of B Specials . |
| 6 | The maximal effect during the four hour experiment occurred in the fourth hour after administration of cholera toxin ( Tables I-V ) . |
| 7 | The gyro-compass was delayed because precision ball bearings were not available and the self-winding watch because no British watch industry existed in the inventor 's time . |
| 8 | Boys and girls from Stirling District primary schools competed in the schools soccer challenge . |
| 9 | Another strip light exploded in the roaring maelstrom , showering them with glass . |
| 10 | Enemy resistance came in the form of accurate flak and fighter attacks . |
| 11 | The Dover Harbour Board argued in the early 1980s that ferries would be both cheaper and more reliable than a fixed link , a stance later adopted by the Flexilink consortium of ferry companies in its attempts to convince Parliament that the Channel Tunnel would be a financial disaster . |
| 12 | Father Matthew nodded and the silver coin disappeared in the twinkling of an eye . |
| 13 | In particular , incendiary devices and car bombs exploded in the city centre of Belfast on Jan. 5 , 21 and 31 , causing major damage but no injuries . |
| 14 | Readers were settling down to the novel 's opening instalment — not a venture to be recommended for ‘ people with weak nerves ’ remarked Strakhov , the gifted critic — when a murder story broke in the newspapers . |
| 15 | How ancient this thought is we can see by noticing that it is just the figure Plato used in The Republic to supply his political myth justifying political inequality ( Bk . |
| 16 | The hammer blow came in the 62nd minute . |
| 17 | The fighting cocks lived in the house with us , sleeping under their owners sarongs , and periodically exploded , at all hours , with stentorian " cock-a-doodle-doos " — or , rather , their Indonesian equivalent , for here , of course , the animals speak differently . |
| 18 | Other changes in structure developed more slowly , but although the pattern looked different over a period of a few years , analogues of the basic groups seem to have been present ever since the phenomenon of the contemporary football fan arose in the middle to late 1960s . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Berkshire 's formidable Drake/Smith partnership began in the opening double confrontation in perfect harmony as they out-pointed Queens Patrick Hughesman and Mark Loosemore , 6–4 6–4 . |
| 21 | Some indeed , Ramsey recounts , supposed as they saw the fires in rioting Bristol reflected in the night sky , that the English revolution had begun . |
| 22 | AT LEAST two people were killed and 80 injured when a car bomb exploded in the heart of the City of London last night in a suspected IRA attack timed to detract from the Tory General Election victory celebrations . |
| 23 | On Dec. 30 a large car bomb exploded in the busy Basta quarter of west Beirut , killing at least 17 people and wounding over 100 others , mostly women and children . |
| 24 | A rock body emplaced in the surrounding country rock in this way is called an intrusion or , alternatively , a pluton . |
| 25 | A few fishing boats sat in the lagoon , some outrigger canoes were drawn up on the sand and one small pleasure yacht , which must have come from another island , was anchored to a buoy . |
| 26 | Then a tea trolley clattered in the distance , and the tension broke . |
| 27 | The original auction price remained in the record books , but Irises slipped from number one spot to number three , just two months after its resale — overtaken by another Van Gogh and a Renoir . |
| 28 | One of the 40 or 50 burial urns survived in the ‘ closet of rarities ’ at Lambeth known as Tradescant 's Ark , which in 1682 formed the basis of Elias Ashmole 's bequest to the University of Oxford ( Daniel 1981 , p. 42 ) . |
| 29 | It was an exciting finish to the game because after dominating 70 per cent of the play , and leading through Proctor 's 14th-minute goal , it looked as though Middlesbrough had failed again when Tranmere 's record-breaking scorer Muir equalised in the 86th minute from a centre by Malkin . |
| 30 | Bangers punctuated the soundtrack , snow fountains cascaded in the aisles , and the film ended abruptly when a five-bob rocket went straight through Bill Haley 's open mouth . |