Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Schorne 's real fame in picture and text lay invariably in his exploit of trapping the Devil in his boot , but what , if any , incident or allegory underlay this celebration remains completely obscure .
2 Where they could , they increased the proportion of their wholly or majority owned foreign affiliates between 1977 and 1982 ( Contractor , 1990a ) .
3 ( It may seem ironical that the initial question of whether the case should go to arbitration or trial involved three hearings — two in the county court and one in the Court of Appeal . )
4 There is a tricuspid or heart shaped apical papilla flanked on each side by two distal oral papillae , which arise on the adoral shields occasionally the more distal one is divided making it appear as two papillae .
5 There is a pointed or heart shaped apical papilla with one pointed oral papilla on each side usually arising on the oral plates .
6 As a predominantly passenger line , the L & NWR had more locos and more passenger carriages than its contemporaries .
7 The risk of lung cancer increases in relation to the number of cigars or pipefuls smoked each day and the degree of inhalation .
8 No evidence that Italy or Germany had prior knowledge of outbreak of war yet arms aircraft sent within a fortnight of rising 15th July 1936 .
9 Skinhead haircuts & Crombies missed each other by the better part of a year & ‘ crombie boys ’ as they became known , often had shoulder length hair .
10 Peter Smith of Coopers & Lybrand expressed some doubt about whether the necessary guidance was practicable yet , and therefore whether a statutory duty was appropriate .
11 Turnbull & Spears acquired some machines at the end of 1906.20 In February 1908 , the manager of the Collins " Edinburgh branch threatened to buy Monotypes and set " girls to work on them " if there was any attempt by the union to stop him recruiting women hand-compositors .
12 Perinatal mortality is the seventh most common cause of death and only one-third of all deliveries or miscarriages received medical attention in 1975 .
13 Pell & D'Alonzo reported that hypertension was more frequent in diabetics at 37 per cent prevalence compared to matched non-diabetics at 24 per cent , employed at the Dupont Electric Company ( Pell & D'Alonzo , 1967 ) .
14 Hay & Maddock found joint authorship in only 6% of their sample of thesis-derived research on human geography , which does suggest a different pattern of publication in geography to that in geology .
15 Timothy Gedge was as ordinary as anyone else , but the ill fortune of circumstances or nature made ordinary people eccentric and lent them colour in the greyness .
16 The court held that the section applied to people who in the course of a trade or business applied false trade descriptions and that that could include the buyer .
17 On a somewhat linked matter , you will I am sure , have read of the Home Office sponsored report on voluntary organisations or charities published last week .
18 Still , industrial work itself , in its characteristic structure and setting , and urbanisation — life in the rapidly growing cities — were certainly the most dramatic forms of the new life ; new because even the continuity of some local occupation or town concealed far-reaching changes .
19 Rohm & Haas reported net profits of $29.5m last year , a 20 per cent decrease from 190 .
20 All those surveyed by Caterer & Hotelkeeper made sure charges were displayed and also offered guests the choice of using telephone call boxes in the hotel lobby .
21 Under attack on all sides , not least from the infant population which was itself unwittingly helping to spread disease through the narrow streets and alleys of the town , some Frome people found a temporary escape in one or other of the forty or more pubs which vied with each other for custom ; drunkenness was commonplace , and many of those who did n't go to an early grave with some infection or other departed this life with a putrid liver .
22 Available commercially either in interleaved sheets , rolls , or drum shaped coreless rolls , from which the paper is drawn from the centre , paper is invariably obtained from a dispenser of which there are several kinds .
23 & Co. produced 4480 gallons at Bridgend .
24 In 1821 Neill MacEachern & Co. made 6798 gallons of 70 proof at Daill .
25 Booz , Allen & Hamilton and McKinsey & Co. dominated this business , which sought to find guidelines for company regeneration and solutions for management problems .
26 Yet the documents , which for the second time this decade give Solidarity the right to exist , go much further than either the communist party feared or Solidarity dreamed nine years ago .
27 Morrison & Gibb had 136 women and 112 journeymen ; Neill 's had 109 women and only 37 journeymen compositors .
28 Erm the U V A machine , the problem we 've got on there which Ray 's explained or Peter raised this morning , there is in between the the drive belts that take the film down the former and which They 've put a new set on which is a hundred and forty pound a pi They 're in between the two drive wheels , there is a plastic adjuster .
29 Generally , peasant proprietorship or sharecropping meant low productivity .
30 All this changed in the spring when the Centre for Research into Environment & Health conducted two studies based at Holme Pierrepont in Nottingham and the Canolfan Tryweryn at Bala .
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