Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Jane Asher dinosaur cake was introduced recently and buyers inform us that dinosaur shaped canned pasta is now a possibility , together with existing canned lines of this kind . |
| 2 | He was a member of a working party which caused ICI to switch to a new approach under which each division took direct control of its own sales . |
| 3 | That decision created tremendous doubt about whether facilities will be made available to service the regions north of London . |
| 4 | In an argument no doubt intended to be attractive to Manchester 's merchants and employers — local abolitionists had specifically asked him to write on the impolicy of slavery and the slave trade — he declared that freedom produced cheaper labour than slavery . |
| 5 | Neither pairing produced conclusive evidence , such was the low key nature of United 's approach . |
| 6 | Neither pairing produced conclusive evidence , such was the low-key nature of United 's approach — and Ferguson refused to say which twosome he would go for . |
| 7 | In neither case did Bcl-2 expression overcome the cytostatic effect of the drugs ( data not shown ) . |
| 8 | The uprising of 1848 gave them an opportunity to alter their status , but they did not take it and by and large seem to have accepted that industrialisation meant inevitable Germanisation . |
| 9 | It seems that Parliament accepted this recommendation , although I doubt whether blood donation will create any problem as a ‘ Gillick competent ’ minor of any age would be able to give consent under the common law . |
| 10 | This was anathema to the predominant mentality of the time , and a stark contrast to the later argument of Job Throckmorton [ q.v. ] that Parliament had full competence in the matter . |
| 11 | For the variable we are considering , this prediction implies that the difference between the current value of the retail price index and the expectation of that index formed last period will be a serially uncorrelated random variable with mean zero , that is : where P t is the actual value of the current retail price index , is the expectation of P t , formed in period , and v t is the random forecast error , which is uncorrelated with any information available in period or earlier . |
| 12 | Places dedicated to film presentation , the penny gaffes , did start to spring up at the beginning of the new century , but it was only with the emergence of long films around 1910 that cinema acquired any sort of institutional presence in British towns . |
| 13 | Little Chef had other ideas . |
| 14 | That deal included any company selling livestock through EASE from what was designated Lawrie and Symington 's ‘ area ’ had to pay 0.2 per cent commission to L&S , on top of the franchise fee paid to EASE . |
| 15 | The division of the county into electoral districts of equal size within which each ratepayer had one vote — voting to be by ballot ; |
| 16 | Each tape contained 30 films , recognition tapes each contained 15 films from each of the two judgment tapes . |
| 17 | Hazel was beginning to feel that all would be well and that Bigwig had more sense than he had given him credit for , when Fiver sat up on his hind legs , cleaned his face with his paws and then , for the first time , looked directly at him . |
| 18 | Each programme had exciting graphics , instantly identifiable signature tunes and a competition . |
| 19 | It 's hard to figure out what exactly is happening with Hunter Systems Inc , Palo Alto , California , since nobody 's returning phone calls : we did manage to find out that its venture capitalist Technology Funding Venture Partners IV in San Mateo , California bought back Hunter 's debt at that auction staged last week ( CI No 2,147 ) — presumably no money really changed hands , and it now owns all of Hunter — but is the company still in business ? |
| 20 | Perhaps only the first Test between New Zealand and South Africa in 1952–53 can rank with it , when each side had four players whose surname started with the letter M. South Africa had McGlew , McLean , Murray and Mansell , while the New Zealanders fielded Meuli , Miller , Mooney and Moir . |
| 21 | These questions were , to a greater or lesser degree , part and parcel of the armed confrontation , in so far as each side had opposing views on them , but they were merely strands in the overall picture , not the underlying design . |
| 22 | Although each side made significant compromises — the bill 's proponents rewrote at least four of its sections whilst the Administration withdrew its objections to at least two provisions — they remained divided . |
| 23 | Neither side gave any details , apart from the fact that it had been decided to disregard the existing agreement and formulate a new one . |
| 24 | Thousands died but neither side gave any ground . |
| 25 | First he came across the reserve trenches a few hundred yards in front of the hospital tents , known as the ‘ hotel area ’ as they were a quarter of a mile behind the front line , where each soldier spent four days without a break before being allowed four days of rest in the reserve trenches . |
| 26 | Conclusions drawn from that study raised new questions concerning the size of early medieval London ; the degree of its late-medieval contraction and of the renewed growth in the early modern period ; and the varying contribution which , at different times , population levels , standards of living , commerce , and the role of the city in the kingdom made to the pattern of London 's development . |
| 27 | Of note is that the study by Vijayaraghavan et al is consistent with this overall effect : the confidence interval of that study included this 30% reduction , and the test of homogeneity did not suggest a difference between studies . |
| 28 | Using WHO national mortality rates for both colonic cancer and coronary heart disease , Rose et al showed a direct relation between these two diseases , and on the basis of this finding anticipated that serum cholesterol values could be used as a predictor of colon cancer . |
| 29 | This grant included those territories or cities disputed between Lombardy and the pope , and basically reaffirmed arrangements made between Charles ' father , Pepin le Bref , and Rome . |
| 30 | It was extremely important that this framework had wide acceptability , as unit writers would be recruited to prepare HN Unit Specifications based on the framework . |