Example sentences of "[det] [vb past] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she lowered herself into the chair , there was a loud squelching noise similar to that made by a hippopotamus when lowering its foot into the mud on the banks of the Limpopo River . |
| 2 | That led to a strike , followed by tough new pay and conditions package , before the dispute reached its climax with the sacking of virtually the entire 340 staff . |
| 3 | The remainder of the land was subdivided into several hundred domains ( han ) , each ruled by a lord , or daimyo . |
| 4 | eleven forty six , he 's got them inside , I think I told you about this did n't I ? , and I was inside helping them out like , he was outside , he did n't have his gas mask , we were doing the things , like M B C stuff , and I 'm inside and he said right you will each go to a post , where inside this tent , each to go to er , erm , cos there was six people inside and like there was six posts , he said you each got to a post inside the tent and on the you will pick up the tent , and I new what was coming , done it before sort of thing and erm , were all in M B C stuff cos there 's still lots of gas , but there was n't for very long , and he said right on the you will , er he just said , we picked it up right , were all fucking all fucking I said go on then , |
| 5 | These symbols are used to denote particular aspects of the hotel 's operation which are considered significantly above the standard applied by the star classification granted , but not necessarily above that expected from a hotel in a higher classification . |
| 6 | From the King 's workmen I ordered fifty heavy metal hooks , each fastened to a piece of strong rope . |
| 7 | These well-protected dinosaurs each diversified into a number of genera ; the three main groups are : the stegosaurs of the Jurassic , with paired plates along the back and a nastily spiked tail ( Stegosaurus ) ; the ceratopsians , horned , rhinoceros-like dinosaurs of the Cretaceous , including the familiar Triceratops ; the spiky armoured ankylosaurs , tanks on stumpy legs . |
| 8 | A college … should provide a school … and the subscribers , becoming Governors of the new institution , should proceed to choose a President , Vice-Presidents , Treasurer , Secretary , and such other officers as should appear convenient … to institute their Veterinary Professor … that His Majesty , and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales , be humbly prayed to take it under their joint patronage : and , the Master of the Horse , the President of the Royal Society , the President of the Royal College of Physicians , and the President of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts , Manufacturers and Commerce , should be each invited to a government of the college … |
| 9 | Rawlings worked out a procedure for network meetings similar to that used in a child abuse case conference . |
| 10 | The magnitude of the enteroglucagon response elicited by deoxycholate was similar to that reported for a test breakfast , measured using the same assay system . |
| 11 | Indeed , this became for a time a veritable obsession , giving rise in some academic circles to the idea of a whole new field of study , to be called ‘ psephology ’ , and in the lower reaches of political communication to the massive television coverage of national elections , in which precise calculations of ‘ swings ’ from one party to another and predictions of the eventual outcome of the electoral contest tended to overshadow any serious discussion of the substance of political conflicts . |
| 12 | The trade union officials involved in the agreements were fully aware of their two-sided nature , and some admitted to a sense of bad conscience at seeing the regular dismissal of " involuntary " temporary workers . |
| 13 | Some skidded to a halt and deposited their jockeys on the landing side . |
| 14 | This amounted to a withdrawal of $115 billion from the economy , about a third of Brazil 's GDP . |
| 15 | This amounted to a misrepresentation . |
| 16 | This amounted to a reversal of the earlier gradualist assumption that a virtually full preparation of slaves for freedom was possible within the structure of slavery . |
| 17 | This led into a couple of summers acting as a professional lifesaver during summer vacations from Sheffield University . |
| 18 | Then to the important part — Exercise — and this led into a Movement session . |
| 19 | This led to a decision by the Civil Aeronautics Board in 1945 to distribute routes in the Pacific , Latin America , and Europe to various other American airlines , some of which continue today . |
| 20 | ‘ This led to a tightening up of the law and Knowsley 's environmental health and trading standards officers will continue to monitor the sale of food in the borough to ensure that it is as safe as the public rightly expects it to be . ’ |
| 21 | This led to a problem in at least one case described below , where there was a contextual clue to the speaker 's ethnicity . |
| 22 | This led to a famine and a delay in the wheat harvest of 2 months . |
| 23 | This led to a reduction in the amount of capital available for new investment in manufacturing and to a fall in the ability of private individuals to change jobs and move houses . |
| 24 | This led to a reliance on an elaborate system of committees and subcommittees and a failure to trust officers sufficiently in the taking of routine decisions . |
| 25 | This led to a discussion of favourite books and authors , then on to music and art . |
| 26 | This led to a discussion of timetabling and the constraints imposed by group sizes , and how these constraints might be eased . |
| 27 | This led to a discussion on the EC wishing to abolish quarantine altogether , and Robert grew heated as he spoke of the risks . |
| 28 | This led to a reappraisal by the Euro-currency markets and banks-of their exposure to borrowers in the non-industrialized world , carrying With it the danger that attitudes could swing too far in the opposite direction and that too restrictive a stance might jeopardize international trade and economic growth . |
| 29 | His chief early interest , inherited from his grandfather , Philip Henry Gosse FRS [ q.v. ] , was natural history ; this led to a trip to Newfoundland in 1895 . |
| 30 | This led to a deterioration in relations with the Thai army . |