Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Animals also benefited from these operations : gravel pits have allowed many birds , including the Great Crested Grebe and the Little Ringed Plover , to increase in number or extend their range . |
| 32 | The applicant also appealed with special leave from the judgment of Barnett J. |
| 33 | The main parties also agreed on constitutional changes to stem the influx of immigrants , one of the main reasons for the rise in attacks on foreigners . |
| 34 | The hon. Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire also referred to cold weather payments . |
| 35 | The numbers of missing and of discrepant entries were correlated ( r=0.42 , p<0.05 ) , and both of these were also correlated with variability in peak expiratory flow ; this variability also correlated with missing data . |
| 36 | Absolute losses also fell in Outer London , from 26,000 to only 3,000 per year over the same period . |
| 37 | Every offering seems to contain at least four separate songs — so there 's rarely any danger of things descending into the kind of tedium often purveyed by dreadlocked squat-dwellers . |
| 38 | Paradoxically , attending courses at the Civil Service College often led to more dissatisfaction when contrasted with the reality of civil service life . |
| 39 | The words blazed from lips now denuded of artificial colour , their natural flush wrought by the man — the enemy — she confronted , but she made herself be silent when they were said . |
| 40 | The tariff for goods carriage now stood at 20,000 times previous rates , but this still fell far below the cost-of-living index due to astronomical inflation . |
| 41 | More than 4,400 Teesside homes now stood within 200 metres of overhead lines , almost 900 of them closer than 50 metres . |
| 42 | The highly-charged atmosphere in the aftermath of the Sacheverell affair meant that the partisan use of public anniversaries often resulted in violent clashes between rival groups . |
| 43 | Disputes often arose between various parishes and during the reign of Henry VIII there was a dispute between Henry Johnson , Vicar of Halling 1534–45 and John Wildbore Master of Strood hospital , concerning the proportion of tithes each should receive . |
| 44 | Product plans from 18 months ago called for first Alaska shipments this quarter , a date HaL is obviously not going to make . |
| 45 | Product plans from 18 months ago called for first Alaska shipments this quarter , a date HaL is obviously not going to make . |
| 46 | Even after many of the separate grants were amalgamated in 1958 into a single general grant , government continued to expand its financial support quite rapidly to make it possible for local councils to fulfil the pledges which national parties frequently gave in general elections — to replace slums or old schools , to reduce the size of classes , and much else . |
| 47 | Notable performances here came from 10 year old Ben Bransby , who finished seventh in the men 's event , Emma Williams , who dominated the women 's event , and eight year old Adam Dewhurst , who would have placed higher than his tenth if he had been able to reach all the holds ! |
| 48 | It is of course possible that where either is inflicted as part of the preliminaries to intercourse , a defendant could be brought within the section even where the recipient fully consented to such acts . |
| 49 | Penny almost forgot about poor Kelpie during Pow-wow , for Brownie Owl had some rather startling news for the Pack . |
| 50 | A potential litigant sometimes went through three persons : the tout , petition-drawer and proctor . |
| 51 | Between the wars the kind of juvenile gang-violence portrayed , for example , in Graham Greene 's Brighton Rock again led to unfavourable comparisons being made with the past . |
| 52 | Their work culminated in the drug Tagamet or cimetidine , soon widely adopted as the most effective remedy yet discovered for gastric overacidity and gastric and duodenal ulcers . |
| 53 | Toby certainly looked in better shape than when I last saw him , but these things are comparative . |
| 54 | Real shame our movie never got past first base . |
| 55 | Walter Brennan never gargled with methylated spirits , or wore the same ragged T-shirts for months on end , or slept in a cardboard cocoon in a condemned house , or bothered young women on the subway . |
| 56 | The working-class homes seldom rose above two storeys . |
| 57 | There were many food kitchens and supplementary feeding centres run by Unicef and the Red Cross ; several were based on projects already started by local women . |
| 58 | But success breeds replication and good examples of provision soon spread to other centres . |
| 59 | His skill in managing multidisciplinary activities soon led to important successes . |
| 60 | Holding Seawitch on course with one hand , he pushed the other through hair already rumpled by previous displays of frustration . |