Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also to become one of the biggest hits and the one provocative vinyl slap in a chart which reached new depths of blandness : Elaine Page , King , Howard Jones , Foreigner and Russ Abbot . |
| 2 | I loathed sport well into my teens ; a distinct disadvantage , as I had decided I wanted to be an Officer in the Parachute Regiment or the Royal Marines , a vocation which demanded exceptional physical fitness and courage , qualities I did n't possess . |
| 3 | Jail chiefs have been told a prisoner snatched the keys from a warder who fell asleep on duty . |
| 4 | As we shall see , this was a unity they found impossible when their own country went to war with the Boers in the following year . |
| 5 | The Muslim community in Bradford , where Yasmin comes from , is very strong , and there had recently been a case which made national news of two Muslim sisters fighting for their right to wear their headscarves to school . |
| 6 | Visitors to Westminster Hall are amazed at Warren Hastings ' ability to survive a case which lasted seven years . |
| 7 | In a case which occurred some time between 1037 and 1054 , the abbot of Marmoutier complained in Geoffrey Martel 's court that a certain Bouchard had seized back a mill which his brother , with Bouchard 's consent , had earlier bestowed on the abbey . |
| 8 | They asked me to help dress the models who wandered around showing clothes to the ladies having afternoon tea in the restaurant , and after a bit I did some modelling myself . |
| 9 | After a bit she became used to being stared at , even taking it as a compliment . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , US military authorities have dropped charges against a marine who shot dead a 13-year-old Somali boy last month , Mr Peck said yesterday . |
| 11 | Detectives think the haul could from a burglary which went wrong . |
| 12 | Direct responsibility for DMS policy in England and Wales was initially that of a panel ( a panel for Scotland remained separate for several years ) and this became a Board after the Committee for Arts and Social Studies was split in 1978 and a Committee for Business and Management Studies created — ; a decision which produced some controversy . |
| 13 | In a decision which surprised many commentators , none of the sons and daughters of top party leaders ( the so-called " princelings " ) were elevated to the central committee . |
| 14 | As we know , the committee decided to ignore that last objective in 1991 and plumped for five countries , a decision which left those playing in France out in the cold . |
| 15 | Next week , Mr Irons and Sheriff Nicholson are to petition the Court of Session to reverse a decision it took last year , effectively removing them as Torrie trustees , and making the university the sole trustee of the collection . |
| 16 | Voting for Maastricht and hoping that the Tories can be beaten at a later date on the Social Chapter was a decision I found difficult to accept and I have done my homework on this issue . |
| 17 | A driver who towed another car at a hundred miles an hour on a motorway has admitted reckless driving . |
| 18 | EARLY-morning commuters on the A8 were simply minding their own business one day last week when they were set upon and assaulted by a driver who used all the remaining power of his ageing Vauxhall Senator to bludgeon his way in and out of traffic . |
| 19 | He was also to experience some awful moments and he was badly wounded in one battle by a splinter from a shell which killed two men immediately behind him . |
| 20 | Is this a gang you gave some shit ? |
| 21 | Sumner was a tall , strikingly handsome man with dark hair and a beard which turned white in old age . |
| 22 | Not only was he one of the very rare examples of a writer who produced great work in more than one genre , but in a career which spanned nearly 60 years , his talent had developed from traditional Victorian fiction to innovative 20th century poetry . |
| 23 | In my early struggling days as a writer I spent occasional days as a film extra . |
| 24 | The selectors have only left one rink intact from last year — Billy Montgomery ( Falls ) , Cecil Worthington ( Knock ) , David Gardiner ( Belmont ) and Seamus Elliman ( Falls ) — a rink which had three wins last season . |
| 25 | The simple demand for the vote , the be-all and end-all of most suffragettes , was truly seen by McAllister as a minor step compared with relieving poor women 's social and economic disabilities , a measure which had little to do with suffrage . |
| 26 | What we have , it seems , is a Court–Country division cutting across party , but one that is blurred by the fact that some old Tories ( even though backbenchers ) opposed a measure which they thought was an encroachment on the royal prerogative , whilst some Whigs ( even those close to the Court ) felt obliged to support a measure which reflected old Whig principles . |
| 27 | The Military Training Act of 1806 — the year after Trafalgar — was to provide for 200,000 troops to be raised by ballot , a measure which prompted serious riots in Frome seven years later . |
| 28 | Thus Marx 's model of historical development was in many respects only a sketch which left many problems unresolved . |
| 29 | What happens if a hypothesis which looked poor initially benefits from later right context information ? |
| 30 | The information was then fed into a computer which produced individual body reports together with advice on how to become more fit and healthy . |