Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commercial procedure of dégorgement crept in in gradual steps sometime in the latter part of the eighteenth century , or soon after , and might have been the producers ' response to an increasing number of complaints about their clouded wines . |
| 2 | Around 30% of the current output consists of high-quality West of England cloth , the remainder made up with technical fibres such as nylons , polyesters and polyamides . |
| 3 | At that time I was strongly in favour of sanctions , and I supported the dispatch of American troops to Saudi Arabia , according to Bush , to deter an attack on that country ; though I would not myself have acceded to an American request to put British ground troops there , and I think many people in the Ministry of Defence argued strongly against that . |
| 4 | The opportunity arose late in 1988 when the MoD had an urgent need for an RB211 engine — of a specific configuration — for fitting to an RAF transport . |
| 5 | So men from the IRA mixed with British squaddies , and through necessity got on with each other . |
| 6 | The Contemporary Masters Index made up of ten internationally shown and collected artists shows a drop of 44% from the peak in 1990 yet an overall rise since 1985 of 235% . |
| 7 | The winner got home by two and a half lengths , but two Irish trained fillies pegged back the formidable Arab challenge of English trained fillies . |
| 8 | The play tottered on like this for a quarter of an hour . |
| 9 | High percentage of farm land or all land in permanent pasture made up of rough grazing . |
| 10 | Although the Democrats had recaptured control of both the Senate and the House , there remained a conservative majority made up of southern Democrats and Republicans . |
| 11 | Fortunately the driver made up for this heresy by roundly cursing the French , whom he disliked for the same reason that most Englishmen do — the way they clutter up the place , never get out of the way and ca n't speak English . |
| 12 | The afternoon passed by in such a confusion of sights and sounds that she thought she would never remember any of them . |
| 13 | This does involve a lot of money laid out on different colours and a lot of time to build up a collection . |
| 14 | From this group emerged a curriculum made up of various modules , for example about document preparation and text processing , database management and data modelling , and graphical and statistical analysis . |
| 15 | Excavations at the Late Hallstatt cemetery of Donja Dolina on the Save revealed seven cowrie shell beads on a necklace made up of hundreds of amber beads and some made of coloured glass . |
| 16 | She indicates a necklace made up of military insignia to illustrate her point . |
| 17 | I like big heads that are flat at the back , not pointed , and for that reason in recent years it is Korean males who have attracted me most , with their rich , straight black hair laid perpendicularly on that square-backed skull — always , to me , the sign of a male good at mathematics , the sexiest science . |
| 18 | As with so many armorial terms the word ‘ quarterings ’ is not used in a conventional way and applied to a shield divided merely into four ; indeed there can be as many ‘ quarterings ’ as there are family affiliations — perhaps the record is held by the five-surnamed Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville family , whose full achievement of arms boasts 719 quarterings . |
| 19 | Trees in the park misted over with young green , bright spring yellow flowers crowding front gardens ; embassy lawns starred with daisies ; snowdrop beds , municipal grass studded with crocuses . |
| 20 | Among these 17 patients , five also had endoscopic biopsies ; two at first had false negative biopsy specimens with malignancy found only on subsequent biopsies one month and one year later . |
| 21 | This is the only fair of its kind devoted exclusively to original works on paper and provides a showcase for over 50 leading galleries and dealers . |
| 22 | FRENCH exports of wines and spirits fell last year for the first time in 20 years as recession caught up with one of the country 's proudest industries . |
| 23 | The porter moved restlessly from one foot to another . |
| 24 | The NYSE 's composite index moved ahead by 0.71 to 246.24 . |
| 25 | The Dow Jones industrial average rose 13.29 to 3,505.01 , while the NYSE 's composite index moved ahead by 0.71 to 246.24 . |
| 26 | Her heart beat erratically at that but she managed to shake her head in disbelief . |
| 27 | This is the first issue of Update devoted entirely to new vocational qualifications being developed by SCOTVEC . |
| 28 | This place had been the first German prison camp built specifically for British air-crew . |
| 29 | There would be opportunities here for a cross-European sharing of expertise built up around bilingual skills . |
| 30 | In ways rather similar to Freud he argued that individualism and group differentiation stemmed less from macro processes and largely from individuals and small groups themselves attempting to assert personal identities . |