Example sentences of "[coord] a [adj] [noun sg] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All employees or a representative sample answered the questionnaire . |
| 2 | The choice for the pedestrian is either a leap into the ditch for safety , or a nasty death smeared over their ridiculous tin box like a dripping red caravan-club sticker . |
| 3 | Occasionally a shout or a loud laugh broke the gloom . |
| 4 | Innovation is the specific function of entrepreneurship , whether in an existing business , a public service institution , or a new venture started by a lone individual in the family kitchen . |
| 5 | ‘ Look , son , if it 's not about sex , how to convert your loft into a spare bedroom or a new diet guaranteed to lose ten pounds in two weeks , then this new magazine of yours wo n't sell . |
| 6 | At this stage the old outlet might be reoccupied or a new breach used . |
| 7 | Even among those who had a connection with the power station ( because either they or a close friend worked there ) there was a third against . |
| 8 | This is not a book for the general manager or lay reader — it is certainly not a book for the commuter or a late night read . |
| 9 | because they do n't give a specific definition as to what a landlord is or a rich peasant or a middle peasant meant that how that there was a lot of flexibility within that and it 's only later that they have to reissue those two documents on how to analyze the classes which erm which had been published in nineteen thirty which they felt that you know the Party 's moving too far away , but why did n't they do it at the time ? |
| 10 | So anything that a landlord or a rich peasant had owned in terms of industry or commerce would be left alone and i it would still be his . |
| 11 | A flower bed could be used , or a low wall built . |
| 12 | When Bloomsbury House or a regional committee acted as a Labour Exchange , it was a case of take it or leave it — there was no time for career advice . |
| 13 | Within private care where the element of choice might have been thought to be an advantage it was found that a third of residents did not choose , and for 22 per cent the unsolicited efforts of either a relative , the general practitioner or a social worker led to their admission ( Weaver et al . , |
| 14 | He showed that many young children separated from their mothers for admissions to hospital or a residential nursery experienced an acute stress reaction followed by disturbing behaviour lasting many months . |
| 15 | The load was fixed across the poles of shafts by means of a wicker basket or a wooden container made to fit horizontally on the sloping shafts . |
| 16 | Treasure Trove laws do not apply to fossils any more than they would to a lump of raw gold or a precious stone imbedded in rock . |
| 17 | Nineteenth-century choreographers creating either a character or a national ballet used both occupational and natural emotional gesture in their dance designs . |
| 18 | [ After a 1985 survey of corporate intelligence-gathering activity in 25 Fortune-500 companies ] All the companies surveyed have an individual , a group within a department , or a full department devoted to gathering competitor intelligence … . |
| 19 | The Washington Post commented that " some politicians wonder , however , if Meciar 's shift is a genuine retreat , or a tactical manoeuvre intended to buy time and lay blame for an eventual split on the Czechs " . |
| 20 | The Washington Post commented that " some politicians wonder , however , if Meciar 's shift is a genuine retreat , or a tactical manoeuvre intended to buy time and lay blame for an eventual split on the Czechs " . |
| 21 | As Sun Tzu himself had said , the reason why an enlightened prince or a wise general triumphed over their enemies whenever they moved why their achievements surpassed those of ordinary men — was foreknowledge . |
| 22 | He and a 12-year-old boy robbed a middle-aged man of £25 at gunpoint in a Leeds park . |
| 23 | On March 16 , a policeman and a 12-year-old boy died during violence in Lomé , heightening public displeasure with the authorities . |
| 24 | ONCE UPON a time , somewhere in Ireland , two brothers and a like-minded friend decided to form a band . |
| 25 | Stan then moved closer to Melanie , and a major fight erupted without further ado . |
| 26 | Some weeks after this Party launch , one key member was shot and a major split created the Irish National Liberation Army . |
| 27 | Earlier , there had been fighting at Mannar on Aug. 1 as the LTTE attacked an advancing troop convoy ; naval artillery was used against rebel positions on Aug. 3 for the first time since the resumption of large-scale fighting on June 11 ; and a major clash took place on Aug. 4-5 , involving the repulsing of an unsuccessful rebel attack against the Jaffna fort . |
| 28 | She produced from her shopping bag the box of crystallized fruits she had bought for him , and a mutual exchange took place . |
| 29 | She visualized it written in scarlet on a square grey board , and a glorious idea began to take shape in her brain . |
| 30 | While other newspapers were wrongly calling it a second honeymoon , TODAY revealed that virtually the only time the couple acknowledged each other was when Diana intercepted a phone call from Charles to Mrs Parker-Bowles and a screaming row erupted . |