Example sentences of "[ex0] [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor were there frustrated breakaway movements from a handful of top clubs . |
| 2 | Other villages were sucked dry of their impoverished agricultural workers , who flooded into the expanding cities and there became early victims of incessant toil , undernourishment and insanitary housing . |
| 3 | There arose great , echoing halls of glass and iron , colonnaded , canopied , buttressed , and turreted , living temples to the worship of King Steam . |
| 4 | Most of the evidence for these legends is drawn from some rather vague references by the Greek historian Plato , in particular a passage in his Timaeus : ‘ But at a later time there occurred portentous earthquakes and floods , and one grievous day and night befell them when the whole body . |
| 5 | Is there trained medical help on |
| 6 | Where in previous years these vessels had been purely large fishing vessels loading salted fish into barrels for immediate export to their own ports , now there came great numbers of large factory ships and modern trawlers which could process fish , package it and freeze it for indefinite periods . |
| 7 | At this time , too , there came violent racial disturbances in black ghetto areas like Brixton in London , Toxteth in Liverpool , and Moss Side in Manchester . |
| 8 | After a time there came quick steps and it was opened a crack . |
| 9 | I hope , Mr. Deputy Speaker , that you will be fortunate enough to have the Authorised Version , which contains the passage : ’ There came wise men from the east to Jerusalem . ’ |
| 10 | At the time there seemed good reasons for this assumption , the United States being irreplaceable as mediator with Israel . |
| 11 | There seemed real evidence they would be forgotten over time . ’ |
| 12 | Soon after the discovery of the ‘ battered baby syndrome ’ in the 1960s there seemed considerable optimism amongst health and welfare professionals that such efforts would be effective . |
| 13 | There seemed little support for the students from the workers at this time , who were more concerned with their own problems than abstract calls for democracy . |
| 14 | There seemed little if any concern for research into the description of linguistic interaction in the classroom — a particularly sad observation , as this is an area where teachers are well-equipped to find a base for research , and need to be able to monitor their own and others ' performance effectively . |
| 15 | A few old veterans of the Mosleyite British Union Movement were identified amongst the marchers , and conveniently blamed by some of the more deluded , or self-deluding , but there seemed little escape from the truth . |
| 16 | There seemed little point in er a wife and a child sitting looking at their husband/father er with no clothes on . |
| 17 | Maybe it was the hypnotic , rhythmic drone of the aircraft engines , or the sheer emotional exhaustion of the past few hours , but there seemed little she could do to suppress the memories she had so resolutely buried during the last five years . |
| 18 | There followed protracted negotiations ; and it was not until weeks later that we settled on a permanent arrangement that satisfied everyone . |
| 19 | There followed other capital issues and a disposal programme . |
| 20 | The sergeant marched to the middle of the stage and when , using what he called his stage expertise , she heard him say , ‘ Now I give you three guesses who comes next , ’ there followed ribald suggestions from different parts of the hall . |
| 21 | There followed individual portraits of Bobby ( Walker Art Gallery , Liverpool ) , Eric ( Royal Albert Museum , Exeter ) , Oska , who sat on several occasions , as well as one of Judith Hollman ( Colour Plate VIII ) . |
| 22 | Then there followed polite , slightly hesitant , expressions of mirth . |
| 23 | There followed regular contact between student and professor and more published work by Nietzsche on Greek subjects : besides reviews , there were articles on the lyric poet Simonides , the historian of philosophy Diogenes Laertius and the anonymous quasi-biographical piece known as the Contest of Homer and Hesiod . |
| 24 | There followed lean years in a cottage in Sussex , ‘ living on nothing but spaghetti ’ while he perfected his newly-discovered skill . |
| 25 | There followed severe repression with the aim of terrifying the recalcitrant , and mutinous princelings usually paid for their revolt by death on a gibbet … |
| 26 | There followed Cut-throat Jake and the ugly group which Tom had spotted in Catgut Alley , hands high in the air and escorted by a Dragoon apiece . |
| 27 | There followed distasteful allegations of bribery ( after Benfica 's 5–0 win over eliminated Dynamo Kiev ) and doping ( Sampdoria 's 3–1 win over Red Star with a 5–1 defeat by AC Milan four days later ) . |
| 28 | There followed considerable activity behind the scenes , the Cardinals probably detested the Scheiners etc. — and Francesco Barberini , the Pope 's brother , who remained a loyal and admiring friend to Galileo throughout , was very active . |
| 29 | There followed dramatic confirmation of their worst fears . |
| 30 | Even before the eighteenth century there existed various forms of development around the old Chiswick Parish Church of St. Nicholas , such as the first Elizabethan ‘ Burlington Arms ’ ; Vine House ; Pages Yard-Ferry House-Brampton House and the cottages in Fishermen 's Place , also fronting the river , Bedford House ( which included Eynham House ) , Said House and Cottages ; Thames View ; Lingard House ; Red Lion House ; Prospect Cottages also Walpole House , where Barbara Villiers , Lady Castlemain , created Duchess of Cleveland in 1670 , lived in her later years . |