Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To watch Reutemann on a tennis court , for instance , was painful ; even Hunt , a splendid athlete , really lacked that sort of fluency which expresses real ‘ style ’ ; Jody Scheckter , doing almost anything , was incredibly clumsy . |
| 2 | Harold Wilson 's words are remembered today , 25 years after he led Labour back to power , from 13 wilderness years . |
| 3 | He was later to become owner of a Beirut company that dubbed educational films and translated technical books into Arabic . |
| 4 | In Britain the revelation that the correspondence of Mazzini , the Italian nationalist leader then a refugee in London , was being opened and read in this way produced strong criticism in parliament and the press . |
| 5 | The first six months produced strong growth in compound feed sales , led by a recovery in pig tonnage and our continued success in the dairy sector . |
| 6 | After her miscarriage so long ago , Elizabeth met each change with apprehension , but she seemed well and in fact , bloomed in her pregnancy . |
| 7 | My Working Group recommended that knowledge about language should be an integral part of work in English , not a separate body of knowledge to be added on to the traditional English curriculum . |
| 8 | The Transport Act 1968 applied that exclusion to road transport services provided by the newly created STG . |
| 9 | Britain 's industrial revolution made ample use of child labour . |
| 10 | The two polls revealed lower levels of trust in those countries and people that historically have been Britain 's enemies . |
| 11 | Having switched to engineering , he became technical director of Blease Anaesthetics Equipment and two years later was appointed managing director . |
| 12 | Those incomers with whom I discussed class agreed that awareness of class is a typically British trait . |
| 13 | Throughout the first two weeks of the campaign almost twothirds of our panel cited unemployment as the ‘ main issue ’ that should be discussed but it got little coverage on television news . |
| 14 | Understandably , given their numerical disadvantage , Grimsby made little headway in attack , although Alexander , at 6ft 4in , was of a nuisance value against a defence deprived by injury of Brian Kilcline 's aerial authority . |
| 15 | She made little money from journalism , having criticized too many auras for her own good . |
| 16 | Indeed , after 1322 Edward made little use of parliament . |
| 17 | Strocchi et al did not enumerate viable sulphate reducing bacteria in their study , and the addition of 20 mM sulphate to non-methanogenic faecal slurries made little difference to sulphide production , indicating an absence of viable sulphate reducers . |
| 18 | He made little attempt at conversation and showed no surprise that he should be asked to drive to Boulogne in the middle of the afternoon to pick up a well-dressed but grubby Englishman . |
| 19 | David Owen 's SDP made little impact on council elections during the conference season . |
| 20 | In seemed that the Minister expected little opposition in Parliament , where all MPs were members of TANU . |
| 21 | We sought 169 records from district general or teaching hospitals and 34 from cottage or private hospitals . |
| 22 | He was one of those who led that assembly in prayer on its first full day 's sitting , which it devoted entirely to religious exercises . |
| 23 | AS WE reported at the beginning of September , an increase in the fixed price agreed each year between Champagne 's growers and merchants seemed inevitable , putting further pressure on prices that are already affected by rising demand . |
| 24 | The same might be said of Redon 's frequently alluded to fragility : according to Eisenman he was ever teetering on the brink of depression and death , though this in turn does not explain why the artist lived seventy-five years of life quite satisfactorily . |
| 25 | His childhood was spent in Cranleigh , and he was educated at Edgeborough School , Guildford , where he revealed precocious talents as artist , poet , and sportsman , and at Christ 's Hospital , London . |
| 26 | Henry VII himself supplemented the eyre with judicial proceedings of other kinds , such as the judicial inquiry in 1494 into offences in Pickering Forest , which revealed extensive destruction of vert and venison . |
| 27 | US representatives rejected any new " global " talks unless the EC made specific concessions on agriculture . |
| 28 | ‘ For candour read complete lack of tact , not to mention rudeness , ’ she said ruefully . |
| 29 | They hugged each other in silence for a long time . |
| 30 | JCI 's gold mines produced 51.7 tons of gold in the past financial year Johnnies ' diamond interests comprise of holdings in unlisted diamond trading companies and in De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd/De Beers Centenary AG Johnnies ' non-managed investments date as far back as 1895 when it became a founding shareholder of South African Breweries , one of the 10 largest breweries in the world |