Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conditions at the 20-pitch permanent park led to strong condemnation at Newry and Mourne Council . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But is the thing is budget led at this stage , I mean is n't that , are we really , is n't the |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The 6ft carpet snake crept into Calan Lavender 's bed , wrapped its body around him and plunged in its fangs . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | Her hair glowed like pale flame . |
| 10 | The kitchen smelled of sour milk and woodsmoke . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Among Catholics the response ranged from mild support to disinterest . |
| 15 | Thus housekeeping allowances might bear little relation to the portion of the husband 's net income devoted to collective expenditure . |
| 16 | This judgement was made by comparing the percentage of the regional budget devoted to this service with the corresponding percentages in other regions . |
| 17 | The Pearl Investor Confidence Index rose by 1.2 p.c. last month — its largest rise since August last year — to stand at its highest level since December . |
| 18 | As the driver stopped at this junction the girl managed to jump out of the car . |
| 19 | This exhibition , the first of its kind devoted to Irish art , will chart the development of modern painting in Ireland from 1880 until 1950 . |
| 20 | His literary interests were remarkably wide and his expertise ranged from Anglo-Irish writing to Silver Age Latin epigrammatists ; but he published mainly on seventeenth-century comic or satirical dramatists , as his editions of Marston 's Malcontent and Vanbrugh 's Relapse testify . |
| 21 | In 1937 Sino-Japanese friction erupted into full-scale war , but even this failed to rally much more than token support for China in the West . |
| 22 | As for the reform of the National Health Service , it is already well established that every hour devoted to this subject plays into Labour 's hands . |
| 23 | The writ named the Secretary of State for the Environment as the first party for failing to provide the necessary certificates , with the Coal Board conjoined as second party . |
| 24 | Her heart beat with abrupt violence , sexual attraction crackling between them like electricity . |
| 25 | No great change occurred in this situation until the outbreak of the crisis and the introduction of the adjustment policies . |
| 26 | Stan then moved closer to Melanie , and a major fight erupted without further ado . |
| 27 | Morning and afternoon encircled in one light |
| 28 | The advanced course in information retrieval covers some 70 hours of study which includes a considerable part devoted to online information retrieval . |
| 29 | The highest land is only 2 metres above sea level and even this would be exposed to storm surges if mean sea level rose by 1 metre . |
| 30 | During the recent years after the war the university rose in national importance and always had a close connection with the bishop . |