Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opportunity arose in the close season when the FA decided to form the Mid-Counties Combination . |
| 2 | In her early thirties , her raven black hair gleamed in the overhead light . |
| 3 | But the new cohorts felt much less keenly the social conditions from which the class alignment arose in the first place . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In consolidating data from several areas it has been proposed that a rapid rise of sea level occurred in the early Holocene but that in the last 6000 years the rate has been far less , although it may have diminished progressively , it may have risen to c . |
| 8 | If two such solutions were displayed as in Fig. 24.2(b) , the overall impression given would be the same ; however , sufficiently long after initiation , the times at which the changes of level occurred in the two solutions would be totally uncorrelated . |
| 9 | He was about four feet away when his foot caught in the electric flex he was dragging and he stumbled forward off balance . |
| 10 | A major episode of mountain building occurred in the Late Cretaceous-Early Cenozoic to the east of the earlier orogeny ( Fig. 3.13(C) ) . |
| 11 | The monumental Portland Building rose in the early 1950s and teaching and residential accommodation space grew rapidly in the 1960s and 70s to keep pace with the growing demand for university places . |
| 12 | A second and more fundamental change occurred in the tenth and eleventh centuries in Europe and in the Islamic world , when lead was added to the ingredients for the inlay . |
| 13 | The concept of a Common Market is not new , the term arose in the 1950s , to describe an area where there exists free movement of goods , services , capital and labour . |
| 14 | The practice arose in the last decades of the nineteenth century within the ruling class . |
| 15 | It was by no means clear how the figure arose in the first place . |
| 16 | has been undertaken and the result analysed in the full report , the summary of which is produced as a |
| 17 | Moreover , the effect occurred in the early post-mixing period and mainly in the 0–4 age group , in keeping with findings in rural new towns in their early growth period . |
| 18 | A notable example among many of government intervention to avoid strike action occurred in the 1954 pay negotiations . |
| 19 | It is believed she became caught between two rival gangs when violence erupted in the packed pub . |
| 20 | Although the figure rose in the latter half of the year as the Gulf crisis drove up oil prices , the growing recession in November and a fall in the volume of oil imports saw the deficit fall to $9,700 million , and to $6,300 million in December . |
| 21 | This tragedy occurred in the last Grand Prix race on the old circuit and was won by James Hunt in a McLaren . |
| 22 | Serious rioting erupted in the northern town of Ramtha on Feb. 6-8 when police intervened to protect Syrian and Turkish trucks en route to Saudi Arabia . |
| 23 | The maximal effect during the four hour experiment occurred in the fourth hour after administration of cholera toxin ( Tables I-V ) . |
| 24 | In the gastric body crypts , intense labelling occurred in the proliferative zone , with cell migration up the crypts taking place over 96 hours . |
| 25 | As he had argued in Totem and Taboo , murder occurred in the first human groups , and the prohibition on killing came from the father . |
| 26 | But the big break came in the early '60s , when Moseley met Nokie Edwards of top guitar instrumental group The Ventures . |
| 27 | Another strip light exploded in the roaring maelstrom , showering them with glass . |
| 28 | And as you said , really some of the football played in the first half was quite delightful was n't it ? |
| 29 | The first chance of real action came in the late summer of 1940 after the retreat from Dunkirk . |
| 30 | Much of the rise in employment in the boom came in the marginal , part-time jobs generally done by women . |