Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun sg] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many pre-eminent people working with older people have considered reminiscence a mixed blessing , particularly for those whose past life experience seems to have lacked fulfilment and purpose . |
| 2 | For that reason we have not considered sigmoidoscopy an essential part of the investigation , but would do it if the patient was an unreliable historian . |
| 3 | Now I 've just seen traffic a long way down here , leading to Ella Park and Warren Lane , now I , I 've never been along here and I do n't know but I c coming up the road I saw cars down here |
| 4 | Charles Innes , an experienced lawyer who advised Lord Dundas in political matters , had no doubt about the desirability of acting to meet Glassford 's wishes , pointing out that Carrick had not been dismissed for malversation , which would have made reinstatement a difficult matter , but for ‘ some piece of neglect or inattention ’ , and in fact another of Dundas 's correspondents appeared to get closer to the heart of the difficulty when he met with Glassford , reporting that |
| 5 | The Government has made Clydeside a Special Development Area where it is helping to provide the capital for these new industries , new housing and a new infrastructure . |
| 6 | For the Latin that the adult Charles read , and presumably wrote , so fluently , he must have owed Walahfrid a large debt . |
| 7 | ‘ You 've made Knocker a rich man , so how about starting on me , regular like ? ’ |
| 8 | Dury , who says he has problems getting past the RSC doormen , but is ‘ persona grata in the Dirty Duck ’ , is the only man I have ever heard glottal-stop a dead language . |
| 9 | Villa 's comeback powers were revealed when Cyrille Regis equalised in the 34th minute after Roy Keane had given Forest a ninth minute lead . |
| 10 | mm , I 've got mum a nice cardigan |
| 11 | The Home Secretary , David Waddington , has told Parliament a special war crimes squad is being set up to investigate alleged atrocities committed by nazis living in Britain . |
| 12 | Home Secretary David Waddington has told parliament a special war crimes squad is being set up to investigate alleged atrocities committed by nazis living in Britain . |
| 13 | And so the point I 'm making is that , is that a modern insight into Darwinian evolution is based on a wholly scientific basis and social Darwinism may have got Darwinism a bad name by associating it with slogans like survival of the fittest , but modern Darwinism er is n't like that . |
| 14 | These and other strange animals would have given Olduvai a unique ambience , but the basic framework of the present-day savannah environment had already been established . |
| 15 | A major reason for this unconcern is that various fraudsters who have operated in the field have given ESP a bad name : underfunded scientists have far better things to investigate than a phenomenon which seems , on the basis of the available evidence , to be nothing more than a farrago . |
| 16 | Mandy , who had blacked Tommy Bellinger 's eye because he had called Charity a four-eyed freak . |
| 17 | That 's what the country was it was always to be remembered feat a giant killing match of all time . |
| 18 | With a well placed hole a considerable quantity of rock could be broken off ; all that was necessary was to have a free face to work from . |
| 19 | Earlier Mr Branson had given BA a 24-hour deadline to settle the original dispute . |
| 20 | He had also taken piano lessons for three years , when a pupil of Hutcheson Grammar School for Boys , and had abruptly terminated his musical venture , though it had cost Mum a small fortune . |
| 21 | And though he more than once declared suicide a selfish act , he must also have foreseen that there are certain states of mind in which sensitive consideration of others becomes impossible . |
| 22 | And it says a , i , i it 's stating things here er if you 've been wanted operation a long time the N S H er N S H that is it , yes . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've given Oscar a nice wash and mended his tail with Elastoplast . ’ |
| 24 | The box brainchild of Unilever research workers Christine and David Gorman has given science a new slant for pupils at Ladymount School , Pensby , Wirral . |
| 25 | The box the idea of Unilever research workers Christine and David Gorman has given science a new slant for pupils at Ladymount School , Pensby . |
| 26 | Hostile critics have given Hartman a hard time . |
| 27 | And then suddenly she felt something running up her leg she looked down it was the spider , it had left Mademoiselle a long time ago and had secreted itself under a desk afraid of all the trampling feet around . |
| 28 | In one of the book 's earliest essays , titled Feminism a Transformational Politic , Hooks argues that some white feminists incorrectly locate the roots of wide-ranging global crises such as third world famine , ecological devastation , industrial contamination and the possibility of nuclear destruction solely in the fact of patriarchal domination . |
| 29 | I have given way a great deal , and I must pursue my speech . |
| 30 | I have given way a great deal , and I must pursue my speech . |