Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | No great change occurred in this situation until the outbreak of the crisis and the introduction of the adjustment policies . |
| 3 | Morning and afternoon encircled in one light |
| 4 | During the recent years after the war the university rose in national importance and always had a close connection with the bishop . |
| 5 | Portia laughed and looked at Katherine 's shapely figure swathed in blue silk , the glow of her bare shoulders darkened by the sun . |
| 6 | She noted the flowers agreeably disposed in a vase on the mantelpiece , the recent issues of magazines arranged upon the table , the Radio Times open upon the desk with a programme encircled in red biro ( a talk on Handel operas ) . |
| 7 | On September 1 , 1992 , Dubcek 's chauffeur-driven limousine crashed in heavy rain on a motorway some 60 miles southeast of Prague . |
| 8 | Then Jerk came in one night and tightened our chains . |
| 9 | THE principal protein excreted in male rat urine , urinary α2 -globulin and the homologous mouse protein , major urinary protein , have been well characterized , although their functions remain unclear . |
| 10 | Was the fire brigade hindered in any way ? |
| 11 | That is why it disgusts me to see the nobility of grief caricatured in this way . |
| 12 | She felt his fingers tighten spasmodically on her arm as her mouth opened in utter surprise at his unexpected retort . |
| 13 | Then suddenly his eyes nearly jumped out of his head , and his mouth opened in frightened surprise . |
| 14 | His mouth opened in mute protest at this perversion of the proper order of affairs . |
| 15 | The collapse of the Husayn-Arafat accord led to a new phase of cooperation between Israel , the United States and Jordan aimed at objectives similar to those of the early seventies : the erosion of support for the PLO in the territories , the reinforcement of the normality of occupation by a programme to improve ‘ the quality of life ’ , a term coined in this context by US Secretary of State George Schultz . |
| 16 | Williamson 's got five million years of more or less continuous deposit , which he can date pretty accurately erm and he 's got twenty one species of mollusc fossilised in that material . |
| 17 | In the health area , the old fashioned general practitioner functioned in this way ( in contrast to the support structure of a centralised health system ) . |
| 18 | ‘ Thank God for that , ’ Boxer grunted in satisfied relief . |
| 19 | He saved twelve lives when a pleasure boat capsized in heavy surf at Corona del Mar in California in June 1925 . |
| 20 | This oversight resulted in this cartoon appearing on mill noticeboards . |
| 21 | The roof fell in last night . ’ |
| 22 | They had fought off a spirited £1.1bn bid from the BTR conglomerate six years earlier when chairman Sir Antony Pilkington and his team argued the key lay in dedicated research and investment . |
| 23 | To follow Cole that far would come perilously near to accepting that Co-operation was , as nearly as makes no difference , the Consumers ' Movement ; and that its future lay in further growth beyond that already achieved by 1939 until , so long as progress continued , it could within its chosen field have virtually displaced all competing provision and all competing manufacture for the purpose of provision . |
| 24 | I quote from the graphic account of the wife of a teacher who suffered a false accusation of this kind : ’ An article about the allegation appeared in heavy type on the front page of the local newspaper and the headline was on the hoardings outside the newsagents . |
| 25 | Ace 's mouth quirked in polite amusement , but he said nothing as she raised her chin in challenge . |
| 26 | Those of us dropping into Dunedin with a touring international or provincial team could usually rely , if things had not gone well for Otago , on Mains later proclaiming that his side had in some way been unfairly treated either by fate or the referee . |
| 27 | The canteen ran in this form , with a day and night shift throughout the war and after until around 1960 , when the night shift was withdrawn through lack of support and a skeleton staff supplied tea and snacks to order to the Works night shift . |
| 28 | In the second case ( Reg. v. Morris ) the defendant had in similar manner switched price labels on goods in a supermarket but was not arrested until after he had passed the check-out point and paid the lesser prices for the goods . |
| 29 | But the decision for closure had in any case already been made by the predecessor AHA . |
| 30 | Grandma and Granddad slept in one bedroom ; Mother , Father and I in the other ; and my two great-uncles slept downstairs . |