Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friction led to furious rows and the rows led to Willy demanding that he should be allowed to take a room where he could look after himself . |
| 2 | Despite this , only 50% of cancers in this group were actually detected by faecal occult blood testing , the remainder arose as symptomatic cancers in the period between screenings . |
| 3 | It led to an abandoned fishing hamlet called Hamningberg , where we camped for the night in a grassy field studded with interesting saxifrages and other flowers . |
| 4 | Provision made by other agencies , Guide Post Trusts , for example , MENCAP Homes and so on and so forth . |
| 5 | Conditions at the 20-pitch permanent park led to strong condemnation at Newry and Mourne Council . |
| 6 | In 1801 the population of England and Wales was under nine million , of whom the great majority lived in rural communities outside London . |
| 7 | All the local authority associations ( including those with a Conservative majority ) opposed rate-capping in principle , the local government press , and the media generally were hostile , while the Bill 's passage through Parliament led to strenuous opposition from senior Conservative MPs and sizeable backbench revolts in some votes . |
| 8 | But is the thing is budget led at this stage , I mean is n't that , are we really , is n't the |
| 9 | He saw a house , the house , almost the house a child draws in its infant school , four windows , chimney , door , garden path , lazy-daisy looped flowers in rectangular parterres , only this house was also a crudely three-dimensional flimsy box , barely containing something very large and very much alive , covered with rusty pelt , so that every aperture bulged with glowing fur , was pushed outwards , cracking , and a claw showed here on a sill , and a ripple of muscle there . |
| 10 | She tried a red-and-pink Chanel shift , a Lacroix confection splattered with turquoise roses and a long green tube by Azzedine Alaia which made her six foot , 128 lb body look like some exotic serpent . |
| 11 | It was a period when the newly ( re ) found sense of idealism and hope led to great expectations of the rehabilitative force of prison and its alternatives . |
| 12 | The 6ft carpet snake crept into Calan Lavender 's bed , wrapped its body around him and plunged in its fangs . |
| 13 | In a computer oriented towards numerical calculation , the operations must include provision for addition and subtraction , and probably multiplication and division as well ; on a computer oriented towards character manipulation there would be various operations for moving and scanning character strings . |
| 14 | Just under half lived in the same household as the dementia sufferer ( 45 per cent ) ; most of the remainder lived within easy reach : 14 per cent in the same street or only a few minutes ' walk away , 20 per cent within two miles , ten per cent within five miles , and only 11 per cent further than five miles away ( although in Newham 36 per cent of the principal carers lived more than two miles away compared with only 12 per cent in Ipswich ) . |
| 15 | One by one , from about 5 April , their supplies depleted , badly damaged , often without masts and rigging , and with exhausted crews , Alberoni 's armada crept into any ports its captains could find . |
| 16 | This seems to be the logical approach , as the surplus giving rise to the refund arose from excess contributions in past years on which tax relief was claimed . |
| 17 | The freedom to experiment , to organise classrooms in a way which supported and encouraged children 's learning , and which incidentally ( though not haphazardly ) covered the key areas of the curriculum led to many innovations . |
| 18 | One Soviet writer argued in this vein that the EEC proposal was not directed at the neutralisation of Afghanistan at all but at hiding the ‘ undeclared war against the Afghan people ’ . |
| 19 | Another correspondent asked for cheap tracts which she could distribute to the poor as the middle class were already knowledgeable . |
| 20 | Her hair glowed like pale flame . |
| 21 | The kitchen smelled of sour milk and woodsmoke . |
| 22 | Her hair clung in damp strands to her forehead , emphasising the whiteness of her face with the starkness of a black border on a mourning card . |
| 23 | So the struggle became to some extent a contest between the German bishops and the pope , and the position of the German bishops in extending the conflict can only be understood if we understand their relationships with the political parties and the rival claimants . |
| 24 | On 9 January 1872 the Minute Book kept by the clerk now called Registrar , recorded the commitment of Richard Piper sued by Henry Pierpoint for 5s ( money lent on 14 November 1871 ) . |
| 25 | The yard was still noisy with jangling harness and talk at dusk when the women had gone and the bracket-torches below the fiery sky to the west glowed like running water dyed red . |
| 26 | The 1988 budget occurred during that period and proposed legislation such as the Housing Bill , poll tax , Education Bill , Consumer Protection Act , Financial Services Act , Legal Aid Bill , Immigration Bill and Criminal Justice Bill had to be monitored . |
| 27 | The severity of damage ranged from small islets in which the surface remained completely denuded ( Fig 5C ) to areas in which the continuity of the surface epithelium was nearly complete ( Fig 5D ) . |
| 28 | ‘ Among Catholics the response ranged from mild support to disinterest . |
| 29 | Thus housekeeping allowances might bear little relation to the portion of the husband 's net income devoted to collective expenditure . |
| 30 | This judgement was made by comparing the percentage of the regional budget devoted to this service with the corresponding percentages in other regions . |