Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The charge of racism arose after the recent British National Party bye-election victory in East London .
2 Stress applied to a migrating epidermal cell at right angles to its direction of movement ( tangential to the leading edge of its lamellipodium ) causes the lamellipodium to retract and brings about a reorganization of the cell 's actin into a cable oriented along the major axis of stress .
3 They fell victims , along with others , to the belief that if a building complied with the existing building regulations and Codes of Practice it must be deemed to be safe .
4 Gabriel waited for him to break away and in that instant got in a good burst , peppering the cockpit .
5 The gravelled drive split into two ; one branch led to the front door , the other to the back of the house and , according to a finger post , to waiting room and surgery .
6 The opportunity arose in the close season when the FA decided to form the Mid-Counties Combination .
7 A opportunity arose from a primary study of proliferation in gastric malignancy to investigate BrdUrd labelled gastric mucosa .
8 In her early thirties , her raven black hair gleamed in the overhead light .
9 As a result , his skin glowed more healthily and his halo of hair gleamed like the outer circle of the sun .
10 They also found that an error of eight weeks in the date of payment led to an average error in the proportionate mispricing of only 0.01% .
11 The coast ( or cliff-top ) walk from the hostel in the other direction led to the delightful settlement of Robin Hood 's Bay , where the slipway resembles a drawbridge let down from the towering sea walls .
12 By 1941 Spitfires arrived at Benson and the base became to the top secret photo reconnaissance unit .
13 Far from being ad hoc , the move to save Newton 's theory from falsification by Uranus 's orbit led to a new kind of test of that theory , which it was able to pass in a dramatic and progressive way .
14 Her olive skin glowed in the artificial light , the curves of her naked breasts softened into a newly voluptuous sensuality that reflected and heightened her resolution .
15 This change led to an enormous effort to begin active treatment in the neonatal period for virtually all infants with this condition .
16 In Britain it was too good to last , but the slogan led to a disastrous period of false optimism .
17 The Albion board over-reacted to the whole situation .
18 Technically , it is on commercial grounds , and they can not recoup the money made from the everyday operation of the reactor to pay for the refurbishment of the reactor , that is true .
19 The impetus for the following review of the literature arose from a detailed study of 15 published reports of empirical research in the field of ‘ environmental scanning ’ .
20 The difficulty arose in the present case because of the Divisional Court 's decision in R v Board of Inland Revenue , Ex parte Goldberg ( 1989 ) QB 267 .
21 Dawn broke as the field passed through a shuttered Bridgetown , and I began to pass through the field .
22 Below the well , a waterfall tumbled across an artificial rockery .
23 The addition of cisapride led to a significant increase of median contraction amplitude and duration , but only in the mid and distal oesophagus .
24 The combination of ranitidine with cisapride further diminished the acid reflux found with ranitidine — that is , cisapride led to an additional reduction of total reflux ( from 6.4 ( 1.2- 22.8 ) % to 3.7 ( 1.0–12.7 ) % , p<0.01 ) , supine reflux ( p<0.05 ) , and postprandial reflux ( p<0.05 ) .
25 The conference decision arose from an implicit assumption by the Carnegie Trustees that following a three-year funding of successful pilot schemes , subsequent responsibility would be assumed by LEAs .
26 Quite what the taxpayer got for the extra money is not readily apparent .
27 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 .
28 The report continues with a list of cases in which disputes over fixtures in listed building led to a public enquiry , a court case , or both and concludes with a section entitled ‘ How to make the legislation more effective ’ , which provides advice to owners , information on Stop Notices and calls for control over the sale of fixtures .
29 Edward 's regular trail led to the nest-box area in the centre , where there were old trees and the open space with the big fallen mossy trunk on which he sat .
30 The sum of £250 had been borrowed from Joseph Barnard , the treasurer , to make good the actual deficiency which ‘ had not arisen from any defect or negligence whatever in the management of the institution , but on the contrary arose from the great success of the Infirmary and the high reputation it had acquired , so that the number of patients had increased rapidly ’ .
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