Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Specials organised by InterCity became geared towards smaller numbers of passengers paying premium fares for VIP treatment in Pullman standard coaches with catering of comparable quality . |
| 2 | The noise of their progress floated back to where Paige and Travis lay hidden for many minutes , before fading away completely . |
| 3 | Singh had served as Prime Minister since early December 1989 . |
| 4 | Twenty minutes later the Tucker , Higgs and Kelly Cessna glided off the runway at Grand Bahama Island and tip-tilted one hundred and six miles north to the Abacos , cays where Sutherlands had dwelt since 1789 . |
| 5 | Johnnie Spencer had called upon some of the highest names in the land as character witnesses , including his ex-wife 's own mother , Ruth , Lady Fermoy . |
| 6 | Yet , running through them , the still more ancient river Indus had existed for millions of years before their rise . |
| 7 | Ewan had heard of some research projects that made him very uncomfortable about these people 's future . |
| 8 | Allegations that Kuwait had moved into Iraqi territory were " a falsification of reality and a resumé of inverted truths " because it was Iraq which had a " full history of violations of Kuwaiti territories " . |
| 9 | During the war , Aziz claimed , Kuwait had advanced into Iraqi territory and had set up military establishments and oil installations . |
| 10 | When Matey had returned on that fateful afternoon , Dr Neil had told her that he had proposed to McAllister , and that she had accepted him . |
| 11 | Dora had asked about sporting facilities in the region and been promised an interview with the manager of a leisure complex in Alès ; Rose , who belonged to an amateur drama group in Carshalton , was to meet the director of a forthcoming performance of ‘ son et lumière ’ whose office was in Anduze . |
| 12 | Mr Adams had replied to dozens of job adverts without success since leaving the RAF in January . |
| 13 | Opening up shop after Pakistan had followed on 473 behind , he was still behind the counter at tea on the final day , ‘ praying for success ’ as he steered his side towards 657 for 8 dec , the highest Test total ever made under such circumstances . |
| 14 | Laybacking had accounted for more than half his leader falls , and retreat did not bear thinking about . |
| 15 | L. Khabarin , B. Mamyrin and V. Yudenich had discovered in 1978 that when they heated several metals to drive out helium trapped within , the gases were almost entirely helium-3 rather than helium-4 ; normally helium-4 is much more abundant , the helium-3 being the rare form . |
| 16 | In a letter to the summit meeting President Gorbachev had asked for immediate support for his economic restructuring programme in the form of credits , technical co-operation , personnel training , joint ventures and joint projects . ) |
| 17 | In 1989 the government banned exports of unprocessed timber , as Indonesia had done in 1985 [ see p. 36794 ] , a move designed not only to slow logging but also to encourage the development of the Vietnamese wood processing industry . |
| 18 | ‘ They say if Jean had stayed in that night and washed her hair then she would be alive today . ’ |
| 19 | According to a report dated May 21 , Bosnia-Hercegovina had suffered by that date material damage estimated at US$60,000 million-100,000 million ; electricity output was down to 17 per cent of normal levels ; and about four-fifths of the republic 's industrial plant had been destroyed . |
| 20 | It was a priority for Soviet leaders to limit the damage their intervention in Afghanistan had wrought on Soviet Iranian relations . |
| 21 | Of course it would turn out that the dead girl was merely someone Jerome Fanshawe had come across that weekend and who had taken his fancy . |
| 22 | The location aside , it was a holiday much like many others which Branson had taken in recent years : the party of friends consisted almost exclusively of Virgin employees — Simon Draper , Nik Powell , Ken Berry . |
| 23 | Then the Metropolitan Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Limited — which the sons of Joseph Wright had formed in 1862 — purchased the unexpired leasehold interest and the Railway Company transferred its activities to Wolverton . |
| 24 | The Israeli delegation rejoined the talks on Nov. 12 after it had received written US assurances that Hallaj 's membership of the PNC had lapsed in 1991 . |
| 25 | As for species origins , Lyell had argued against spontaneous generation and against new species arising by the modification ( ‘ transmutation ’ ) of older ones . |
| 26 | He wondered if this was what Grimma had meant by all the stuff about the frogs in the flower . |
| 27 | By the time the fleet of ambulances arrived , Elfman had metamorphosized from popular hero to universal laughing-stock and he never fully recovered from the experience . |
| 28 | On July 25 the federal government approved the Slovak government 's decision to go ahead with the Gabcikovo hydroelectric project , originally part of a joint Hungarian-Czechoslovakian scheme from which Hungary had withdrawn in 1989 [ see p. 37048 ] and to put the power station into operation from October as " a temporary measure " . |
| 29 | At the meeting , convened to discuss closer ties , the ministers were reported to have agreed to extend membership as rapidly as possible to other states of eastern Europe ( Bulgaria had been admitted in May — see p. 38930 — while Hungary had joined in 1990 and Czechoslovakia and Poland in 1991 ) and to applicant countries which were formerly part of the Soviet Union . |
| 30 | The number of illegal border crossings and attempted crossings in Hungary had risen by 400 per cent compared with 1988 , he said . |