Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun pl] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jane found animals a great prop to sanity . |
| 2 | He untangles his father 's early life — tangled chiefly by Brynner himself who always told interviewers a different story — from Switzerland to the farthest reaches of Russia and then to Paris as a teenager in the Thirties , where he joined a Romany gypsy troupe . |
| 3 | Bill Jordan , president of the engineers ' union AEU , was hissed when he told delegates a Labour government should be ready to play a positive role in a Nato that was now ‘ reaping a spectacular harvest of peace ’ from years of multilateralism . |
| 4 | The 1893 Act allowed institutions a Parliamentary grant per pupil , but only if the institution/asylum met the standards set by the periodic visits of Her Majesty 's Inspector , so in order to meet these standards and obtain their grants , schools had to improve on the conditions in which the pupils were taught . |
| 5 | For instance , in an experiment conducted by Dr Graham Wagstaff of Liverpool University 's Psychology Department , he showed subjects a realistic video containing violent crime . |
| 6 | After an abortive attempt to force Shamil into the open in 1845 , Vorontsov combined a policy of gradually strangling the rebellious highlanders with an approach to civil administration which allowed natives a little room for manoeuvre . |
| 7 | For example , in time constrained situations a good decision support system is required capable of synthesising a great deal of information and from this rapidly producing the best solution with as little input as necessary from the aircraft engineer . |
| 8 | True , Rupert had proposed the match , and sent envoys a full year previously to treat for Blanche 's hand , and the alliance was not one to be despised . |
| 9 | Shortly afterwards a wide range of new channels offered viewers a greater choice of television programmes from sport to movies and from news to music . |
| 10 | Finally , after the third month passed with no rent received , Debbie phoned the tenants , asked them to pay her directly , and sent Landlords a recorded-delivery letter , which was returned , and finally one by ordinary post stating that Landlords were no longer employed as the managing agents . |
| 11 | And we took mushrooms a little bit too much . |
| 12 | WARSAW ( Reuter ) — The Polish Finance Minister , Leszek Balcerowicz , offered Poles a harsh dose of economic austerity yesterday , but said no relief from soaring prices and food queues could be expected for at least a year . |
| 13 | There seemed little chance of an away win when Lineker and a Teale own goal gave Spurs a 2–0 cushion after only 13 minutes . |
| 14 | Barmby , a chunky Yorkshireman from Hull , gave Spurs a 36th-minute lead with a superb volley and then created captain Gary Mabbutt 's winner five minutes from time . |
| 15 | FORMER transport minister Peter Bottomley today described as ‘ potentially murderous ’ a claim that wearing helmets gave cyclists a false sense of security and could encourage them to take greater risks . |
| 16 | Moreover , the Welsh Intermediate Education Act of 1889 gave authorities a flying start in establishing publicly provided secondary schools . ) |
| 17 | Gone is the wide fast road and its dangerous crossing , where the stripes gave walkers a false sense of security . |
| 18 | Miss Bedwelty cried out , and as Hoomey 's tugging proved ineffectual she crossed over and gave Bones a severe slap across the muzzle , raising his head to receive an aggrieved stare . |
| 19 | Rapid acceleration gave pilots a false nose-up sense and they were correcting this with nose-down on the flying controls and flying into the ground . |
| 20 | ‘ Co-determination ’ gave workers a legal right to sit on management boards , so as to influence management decisions . |
| 21 | President Juvénal Habyarimana on March 14 gave rebels a 15-day deadline to lay down their arms and accept an amnesty , which was reported on March 19 to have been rejected , amid further reports of fighting . |
| 22 | Paul Smith put Falkirk ahead after five minutes but Brian Hamilton , Graham Donald and Tommy McIntyre gave Hibs a 3–1 interval lead . |
| 23 | Goals from Joe Robertson and James McGinty yesterday earned Rangers a 2-1 win over Partick Thistle , while Celtic beat Queen 's Park 4-2 in the tournament in which the clubs now field their youth sides . |
| 24 | Matthew Le Tissier gave Saints a 12th-minute lead , only for Rangers to reply with two second-half goals in as many minutes . |
| 25 | Dave Wensley 's hat-trick in the opening 10 minutes of the final period gave Tigers a 6-5 lead and with 28 seconds left , Alan Gould 's goal made it a 7-5 win for Telford . |
| 26 | Health knowledge resided with the " experts " , essentially the medical profession , and this won doctors a privileged place in administering the new system , denied to other professional groups . |
| 27 | The abstracting and indexing journals provide from articles published in periodicals and learned journals a valuable way of finding relevant information . |
| 28 | Yet the tsar replaced Putiatin with Golovnin , appointed a commission which " conducted the most extensive investigation into the idea of a Russian university ever undertaken by the old regime " , took advice even from the liberal Professor Kavelin , and introduced a law which improved the funding of universities , gave professors a large degree of control over university affairs , maintained the principle that universities were open to all classes of the community , and allowed universities to go on dedicating themselves , first and foremost , to the study of the liberal arts . |
| 29 | He gave events a new reality for those who had hardly realised that politicians were people just like themselves — presumably the Karl Marx Memorial Library acquired the copy here on the principle ‘ Know thine Enemy ’ . |
| 30 | The independence of Croatia and Slovenia left Bosnians a terrible choice : staying with Serbia and Montenegro or declaring an independent state , sovereign and recognised but unable to defend itself . |