Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No person or group has claimed responsibility or given any reason for the attacks . |
| 2 | At second hand we could have enjoyed the thrill of dangerous living or shown magnanimous sympathy with the victims of oppression . |
| 3 | She sulked in her white crocheted cardigan and modelled tiny men from the dough of her bread . |
| 4 | Rowse was at that time in London , or I might ( I said ) have asked him to tea and taken some soundings . |
| 5 | South Africa got to the extended West Indies tail , starting with wicket-keeper David Williams at number seven , just after tea and encountered little resistance after that . |
| 6 | Women were granted the vote and given equal citizenship for the first time in the 1950 Constitution . |
| 7 | No one was injured in the blast which wrecked one car and damaged several others at Wood Park station . |
| 8 | Once on the ferry , Amanda and he had gone to the snack-bar and eaten prepacked sausage rolls and washed them down with beer ; she seemed to be able to drink quantities without degenerating into giggles like one or two earlier companions . |
| 9 | ‘ What were you confessing ? ’ she asked , bold as brass , walking up to him in her everyday short skirt and torn black stockings , as if the terrible incident on the stairs had not happened at all . |
| 10 | But we made rather a mistake on the way back , and we were picked up by an Army lorry and taken to West Friar House on the south side and given hot tea and something to eat . |
| 11 | The work is produced in direct response to a particular scene or constructed still life , and only when finished is consideration given as to whether to present it to a gallery or publisher . |
| 12 | For exposures from an HBsAg positive source to previously vaccinated employees , the exposed employee should be tested for antibody to hepatitis B surface antigen and given one dose of vaccine and one dose of HBIG if the antibody level in the employee 's blood sample is inadequate ( i.e. <10 SRU by RIA , negative by EIA ) . |
| 13 | In what was construed by observers as a blow to Iraq , the communiqué welcomed the restoration of Kuwait 's sovereignty and omitted any mention of the Western air exclusion zone over southern Iraq . |
| 14 | The moth was still fluttering between the pane and pinned scarlet cotton . |
| 15 | Three new coins have been minted , gold five dollar , silver dollar and clad half dollar . |
| 16 | He was wearing a balaclava helmet , tee shirt and grey pullover with a grey overcoat and worn white training shoes . |
| 17 | While Henry II talked of peace and allowed first Geoffrey and then Henry to pull the wool over his eyes , Richard 's duchy was slipping away from him . |
| 18 | The coup was crushed when Turkish troops invaded from the mainland and occupied northern Cyprus to protect the 150,000 Muslim Turkish Cypriots . |
| 19 | In the time it took you to write this letter you could have stripped the guitar down , sprayed the switch with contact cleaner and fitted new strings — you do change your strings occasionally , I assume ? |
| 20 | She conceived and gave birth to her only child and transferred this intensity of attachment to her daughter , Chloe . |
| 21 | An austere Maronite Christian who commanded the loyalty of both Christian and Muslim brigades in the US-trained and equipped Lebanese Army , Aoun had many friends in the Pentagon but none in the State Department , which saw his ambition to let the Lebanese choose their own government without foreign interference as a threat to America 's interests . |
| 22 | Cornered in a garden shed , the frightened cat was caught by the vet and given protective injections . |
| 23 | Co-operative Development Environment is built using application programming interfaces such as Open Data Base Connectivity and Distributed Relational Database Architecture . |
| 24 | Co-operative Development Environment is built using application programming interfaces such as Open Data Base Connectivity and Distributed Relational Database Architecture . |
| 25 | It was a long , low , seventeenth-century farmhouse , a mixture of pale pink brick and dressed grey stone . |
| 26 | They acquired a reputation for ferocity and committed many atrocities . |
| 27 | Chatham Dockyard , now extensively preserved , was Ron Mardol 's subject , in particular its considerable length of rail and preserved industrial type locomotives . |
| 28 | There 's been a recent H M Is report , which has asked some questions about mixed ability teaching and expressed some worries about those teachers who perhaps do n't have the adequate support and preparation for mixed ability teaching , but they 're certainly not against it , or the H M Is are certainly not against mixed ability teaching . |
| 29 | There has been a recent H M I report which has asked some questions about mixed ability teaching and expressed some worries about those teachers who perhaps do n't have the adequate support and preparation for mixed ability teaching , but they are certainly not against it , or the H M I is certainly not against mixed ability teaching . |
| 30 | In Kosovo , which like Vojvodina was officially administered as an autonomous province within Serbia , and where elections to a 130-member " constituent Republican Assembly " on May 24 [ see p. 38919 ] had been declared illegal by the Serbian authorities , the assembly was prevented from proceeding because on June 23 Serbian authorities surrounded the building and arrested several deputies . |