Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This raucous noise only seemed to emphasize the ominous silence of the island and reminded me of a story I had heard from a traveller who claimed to have sailed the Western Ocean and come across islands inhabited by ghosts of dead sailors . |
| 2 | He noted that the Clinton administration apparently wanted to make the drops in the dark , from high altitudes and without ground support , ‘ so the likelihood is that a lot of the supplies will end up outside the targeted area . ’ |
| 3 | Violence suddenly seemed to colour the air between them , a red mist igniting . |
| 4 | So to enter 11-Sep ( into a cell already formatted to display a date in this way which A7 in our example is ) you have to type in : @DATE(92,9,11) |
| 5 | Later cases witnessed the ‘ competitive invocation ’ of the two tests , the authority whose decision was to be impugned claiming that the applicant still had to satisfy the higher hurdle of real likelihood of bias . |
| 6 | Bremner once tried to rile an opponent by drawing attention to his pock-marked face by shouting ‘ Go and get it filled in with polyfilla ’ , but the crunch came when he was sent off in 1967 for fouling the Nottingham Forest keeper Grummitt . |
| 7 | A well-informed horseman simply had to grasp the horse 's head firmly and give it a sharp turn and back him out of the area that had been contaminated by the jading substance . |
| 8 | Returning , he set the two large pieces of the broken bowl to one side then began to sweep the tiny slivers of porcelain into a pile . |
| 9 | He peeled it off and threw it to one side then sat facing the three Americans . |
| 10 | When the plaintiff 's employee then chose to accept the delivery note and deliver the goods his conduct constituted an unconditional acceptance of the last counter-offer and the defendan t's terms were held to apply . |
| 11 | There were some signs of encouragement for manager Brian Clough , but his side again failed to make the most of their scoring chances . |
| 12 | Dona never had to feel the pain , torment or be racked with guilt as Anna did . |
| 13 | My Canon Typestar typewriter occasionally forgot to type the letter ‘ R ’ and its successor , a Typestar 90 , would sometimes forget to transport the next line , thus printing a new line over the previous one . |
| 14 | An opportunity soon arose to broach the question of Herr Beethoven 's new opera . |
| 15 | Thick was the snow on field and hedge And vanished with the river 's edge , Where winter skilfully had wound A shining scarf without a sound . |
| 16 | A long and somewhat rambling discussion followed during which the judge effectively tried to persuade the barrister that he must get up before the jury in order to say , ‘ in terms that the remark that you made was a remark which should not have been made and apologise , and you can say in terms that one of the reasons why it was a remark which should not have been made was that you had never seen the document ; you did not know what it contained . ’ |
| 17 | The sun suddenly seemed to lose a little of its warmth . |
| 18 | Dichotic listening thus appeared to offer a comparatively simple , non-invasive technique for determining the speech dominant hemisphere in neurologically intact subjects as well as in neurosurgical patients , since the side of speech dominance shows up as an advantage for digits presented to the contralateral ear . |
| 19 | His pet tortoise just happened to choose the ‘ Matter Does n't Matter ’ chamber as a suitable spot for hibernation . |
| 20 | When everyone first subbed , the local mailer machine always chose to use the long form ( eg ) . |
| 21 | The likeliest explanation is that Greek settlers moving in from the south gradually came to dominate the many hill tribes of the region — much as , a little later , Chinese moving into what is now Vietnam came to dominate the local tribes there . |
| 22 | A BLIND computer expert yesterday vowed to beat the Buckingham Palace ban on guide dogs . |
| 23 | Despite the provision for votes ( weighted broadly according to members ' population size ) the Council usually tried to establish a unanimous position among the member states . |
| 24 | The London International Stock Exchange yesterday voted to bring the costly Taurus paperless trading fiasco to an end and kill the project , and the Bank of England established a task force on securities settlement following an approach by the Stock Exchange , to consider best way forward for development of securities settlement , share registration and share transfer in the UK and to identify possible alternatives to Taurus , having regard to speed of implementation , cost , ownership , governance and financing , as well as system structure , to recommend a preferred option and to make recommendations for managing its implementation and to report to the governor of the Bank of England by the end of June 1993 at the latest ; the abandonment of project , which cost the Exchange £75m and City firms preparing for it a lot more , cost 220 direct employees and another 130 contractors their jobs . |
| 25 | The judge also had to consider a submission made by the mother that the return of the children ( if ordered ) would expose them to a ‘ grave risk of physical or psychological harm or place them in an intolerable situation ’ within the terms of paragraph ( b ) of article 13 . |
| 26 | The Act also sought to restrict the extent to which a woman 's prior sexual history could be used as admissible evidence in court , thus indirectly affecting the material available to the press to publish . |
| 27 | Trying a pure tone stimulus , light flashes , and a water spray on an exposed part of the body , Dement and Wolpert found that the water spray was most effective in influencing the content of dreams ( although this stimulus also tended to wake the subjects up ! ) . |
| 28 | The committee also agreed to pay the master his expenses in apprehending runaway boys from the workhouse . |
| 29 | The girl clearly missed having a woman around who was closer to her age than the rather stiff-faced servants who ran the great hacienda . |
| 30 | It was when the draft for a document on revelation was presented in November 1962 that the Council really began to experience the creative polarization that was to shape its whole history . |