Example sentences of "[noun prp] [coord] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jones was handed the biggest fine in FA history on Tuesday and given a suspended six-month ban for his part in the video ‘ Soccer 's Hard Men ’ . |
| 2 | In order to draw this out of him , he wrote a vastly elaborate commentary on the Lay , softening the blow of his harsher criticisms by inventing the personae of a whole group of scholarly editors who are debating the text in the way that scholars have disputed over Homer or Beowulf It would seem that Tolkien took a great deal of notice of Lewis 's invented editors , for he rewrote his Kay and incorporated a high proportion of their emendations . |
| 3 | The incident started on March 12th at around 8 p.m. when Peter Nicholas Bradley of Aldershot , went into Oddbins and selected a four-can pack of beer , the court was told . |
| 4 | As part of the process he resigned as chairman of the ruling MPR and appointed a transitional government headed by a First State Commissioner ( Prime Minister ) . |
| 5 | Mobutu resigned as chairman of the MPR and appointed a Prime Minister ( First State Commissioner ) as head of government . |
| 6 | That afternoon Meehan was released from Peterhead and given an interim compensation payment of £2500 with a promise of more to come . |
| 7 | It could have recognised the independence of Bosnia and begun a negotiated withdrawal to Serbia and Montenegro . |
| 8 | Setting a pair of compasses to measure a distance of exactly 2000 miles , he fixed the point squarely on the Russian township of Kharkov and inscribed a full circle . |
| 9 | There was a certain entrepreneurial spirit about our man ; he seems to have had an eye for the main chance , and at no time more so than in 1854 , when he left behind the delights of Hoxton and begun a brief flirtation with the idea of running a lodging house . |
| 10 | It was not until the year of his death that he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and awarded an honorary LLD by St Andrews University . |
| 11 | By the early 1640s she had moved to London and begun a religious quest in pursuit of whose ends she became involved with the first Quakers in 1654 . |
| 12 | Later we learned that he had gone back to London and given a mischievous account of our conversation in literary circles , and we were ‘ very much blamed ’ . |