Example sentences of "a [noun] [noun sg] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He draws his ‘ impression ’ of the entire music business on a Nobo board based 50 yards away from where we 're sitting , and then tries to explain his theories behind the Rolf Harris-style scribblings . |
| 2 | Somewhere , they told me in Nairn , is a hawthorn tree carbon-dated 1372 which I must find , because Boswell mentions it ; the ‘ hawthorn-tree , which rises like a wooden pillar through the rooms of the castle ; for , by a strange conceit , the walls have been built around it ’ . |
| 3 | Two of me uncles have got one stacking system without the put in a cassette or a cartridge type allowed six . |
| 4 | Using a computer technique called automated caricaturing , Dr Phil Benson , of St Andrew 's University , Scotland , altered photographs of students to enhance their most and least attractive facial features . |
| 5 | It 's a Eurythmics song called Sweet Dreams are Made of This . |
| 6 | Imperial College , London , two medical schools and a research organisation called Social and Community Planning Research were standing by to carry out the project after two successful pilot studies earlier this year . |
| 7 | In a review essay written two years before ‘ Pornography and Obscenity ’ , Lawrence attacks the way we have ( allegedly ) come to think of ourselves in modern civilization . |
| 8 | with Mr Ross and is expected to succeed him as chairman , stressed that the board changes come after a review process started last September . |
| 9 | High , frescoed ceilings looked down on a marble floor worn smooth over the centuries . |
| 10 | On July 11 a Nairobi court sentenced four men to seven years ' imprisonment for sedition . |
| 11 | The response remained habituated on a test session given 24 h after the last pre-exposure session ; but when the tone was then paired with shock , conditioned responding developed readily , that is , there was no sign or latent inhibition . |
| 12 | Another strange happening concerns a one-time station master at Wansford Station who had a pet cat called Snowy which used to follow him everywhere . |
| 13 | I work for a record company called Geffen Records . |
| 14 | I have joined a drama group called Open stage we are performing Bugsy Malone in August it 's great fun ! |
| 15 | I have recently joined a drama group called Open Stage ! |
| 16 | I have recently joined a drama group called Open stage . |
| 17 | Intel has a pact with Fluent Inc , developer of software used by aerospace , automotive and chemical firms , and has also co-developed a prototype program called LS-DYNA3D to run on its Paragon XP/S supercomputer . |
| 18 | Other early examples of Culpeper 's work are a wood-block engraving of a trencher design dated 1687 , when he was still an apprentice , and a fine gilt-brass horizontal sundial , signed ‘ E.C . ’ , |
| 19 | By a consent order dated 1 July 1988 the proceedings against the second defendant were stayed , pursuant to an agreement between the plaintiff and the second defendant , entered into by the second defendant in ignorance of the plaintiff 's agreement with the first defendant , under which the second defendant paid the plaintiff £18,000 and costs . |
| 20 | Counsel for the petitioner and counsel for the respondents instructed in connection with the present petition submitted to the Court of Appeal and to the Board a consent memorandum dated 28 April 1992 which makes this position clear . |
| 21 | In early January the government achieved a breakthrough in its investigation of trading fraud in the futures markets , when a Chicago jury convicted 10 soyabean brokers and traders of more than 300 charges including racketeering , mail and wire fraud and violations of the Commodities Exchange Act . |
| 22 | It could be a publicity stunt gone wrong . |
| 23 | In Medellin , a three-week lull in bombings was broken on Saturday night when a dynamite blast damaged two telephone control boxes . |
| 24 | A compromise resolution linked indefinite postponement of the PLO 's application with greater WHO assistance for Palestinians living in the Israeli occupied territories . |
| 25 | By an application dated 26 February 1992 Philip Rodney Sykes and John Roger Hill of Binder Hamlyn , appointed receivers pursuant to a facility letter dated 15 May 1990 and a debenture dated 28 April 1989 made between the respondent , International Bulk Commodities Ltd. of 80 , Broad Street , Monrovia , Liberia , and the Swiss Bank Corporation , sought , inter alia , a declaration on the question whether they were administrative receivers within the meaning of section 29(2) of the Insolvency Act 1986 or receivers whose powers were limited to those conferred by the debenture . |
| 26 | ‘ as to whether the applicants appointed pursuant to a facility letter dated 15 May 1990 and a debenture dated 28 April 1989 made between the respondent and the Swiss Bank Corporation are administrative receivers within the meaning of section 29(2) of the Act of 1986 , or are receivers whose powers are limited to those conferred by the said debenture . |
| 27 | I conclude that I should grant a declaration as in the terms of paragraph 1 of the application , that is , that the applicants appointed pursuant to a facility letter dated 15 May 1990 and a debenture dated 28 April 1989 made between I.B.C. and the Swiss Bank Corporation are administrative receivers within the meaning of section 29(2) of the Insolvency Act 1986 . |
| 28 | He passed Rex a styrofoam carton labelled Old Shep Bar-B-Q . |
| 29 | There was an ale house on the outskirts of the village kept by John Skaling — this is now a dwelling house , with a renovation plaque dated 1818 ; it is known as Skaling House . |
| 30 | In part this is because the 26 variables aggregate several different dimensions of discrimination against women ; a factor analysis identified ten significant factors , which ‘ vividly demonstrates a lack of consistency among the states in support of women 's legal rights ’ ( p. 192 ) . |