Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The importance of livestock on the farms surveyed led to many farmers being less confident in machinery work . |
| 2 | Well , United started in fine style as early as the twentieth second ; Martin Foyle was brought down on the edge of the penalty area and Paul Simpson 's free kick was headed away for a corner . |
| 3 | Roy Jenkins , usually so percipient an interpreter of the public mood , became caricatured in popular legend as the libertarian Home Secretary who wanted to insulate policemen in Panda cars . |
| 4 | The tents were straw-coloured , ranked in orderly rows , and every so often they passed a larger pavilion which Rostov guessed belonged to some kind of nobleman or senior officer . |
| 5 | At the time when we were at work , interest in what we did was widespread and encouraging because the area in which we were engaged and the questions we addressed seemed to many people important . |
| 6 | The prescription that Janice collected consisted of two syringes , each filled with a measured dose of the drug , ready to load into an autoinjector , a spring-loaded plastic ‘ gun ’ . |
| 7 | The data collected fell into two categories : those related to operations management and those related to R&D project management . |
| 8 | ‘ We are a Pacific people , ’ I heard said on many occasions , ‘ and we are proud . ’ |
| 9 | I just got razzed by some faggots . |
| 10 | The Thaxted tradition which he established consisted of three features : firstly , a very thoroughgoing Christian socialism ; secondly , a marked attention to music and all that went with it ; and thirdly , a liturgiological care for distinctively English medieval antecedents . |
| 11 | Several were in groups of four , three standing slabs of stone over which a fourth lay as a roof , others lay tumbled in meaningless heaps , but still others seemed to be set in distinguishable lines and circles . |
| 12 | Given the fact that less than 30 per cent of charges brought resulted in successful conviction ( when the rate for most other crimes was about 50 per cent ) , we may wonder how much substance there was in many of the accusations , or whether at times of political anxiety certain types of people were likely to be vulnerable to false accusations because they conformed to the popular stereotype of who a Jacobite was . |
| 13 | In the most organic , visceral way possible they now felt bonded with utter intimacy to their Chapter , digested by it . |
| 14 | I felt vivified by that kiss . |
| 15 | He had had 2,500 letters from members of the public expressing their grief , sympathy and admiration for a man who they felt had in some way belonged to ordinary people and understood them . |
| 16 | Nothing satisfied his urge to descend lower , until he was low enough to identify with these men who lay entombed in cramped cells , and crawled on all fours in the dark . |
| 17 | Virgin snow lay heaped on royal-blue tarpaulins which covered glistening black gondolas riding gently on the dark , silky water . |
| 18 | Where the misconduct complained of consists of both words and conduct , it seems likely that both will be considered by the magistrates in deciding whether or not what the defendant did amounted to disorderly conduct . |
| 19 | The problems presented ranged from sexual problems within marriage to alcoholism , suicide , attempted suicide , indecent assault upon a child , physical violence between husband and wife , family breakdown , learning and behavioural problems of children ( eg sibling rivalry , stealing , incendiarism ) , terminal illness within the family and bereavement . |
| 20 | I naturally charged him as little as possible but the money he earned went on other things — fresh meat from the butcher , extra milk and biscuits . |
| 21 | In this last case , since we are detecting endogenous C/EBP δ/NF-IL6; β production , virtually all Hep3B cells became immunostained after IL-6 treatment . |
| 22 | Wexford kept his face unmoved , but for the faintest flicker of what he hoped looked like sophisticated amusement . |
| 23 | We had some very , very moving speeches yesterday , as we had had at previous meetings , which made it quite clear that a few pounds were vital and crucial to people 's lives , so we thought it was a a gesture that was worth making , and I have to say that probably our group also includes people on , as members , as Councillors , who are themselves on income support , so it was a move which was n't without it 's personal difficulties for us either . |
| 24 | Trying to exit the airfield after the show ended resulted in large queues of vehicles all trying to get out of one gate . |
| 25 | The lowest 30 per cent of the population remained mired in unchanging misery , she added . |