Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We intend to develop a travelling ‘ Road Show ’ with display boards , videos , literature etc. supported by live demonstrations where possible . |
| 2 | They complained that they could not get loans from LEDU and if they did , the money only came after long delays . |
| 3 | To Methodists the talk of collectivism remained largely a political debate because , despite their numerous schisms , all five Methodist connexions had strong central authorities much envied by some Baptists and Congregationalists . |
| 4 | One tall girl with curly hair only hitched for two minutes before a smiling family picked her up . |
| 5 | The fieldwork data basically fell into three categories : that which I felt could definitely be published , that which could definitely not be published , and that which I was unsure about . |
| 6 | The fighting apparently started between pro-government forces loyal to Defence Minister Ahmed Shah Masud ( the so-called Shura-e Nazar or Supervisory Council ) and Hezb-i-Wahdat forces . |
| 7 | The conclusion that the speeches largely appealed to long-standing victims of the ‘ Führer myth ’ also seems justified on the basis of an examination of the more nuanced reports from local SD agencies , which , while generally positive , provide a somewhat more varied picture of reactions . |
| 8 | The marble is Naxian , and Naxos dominates early marble sculpture , though quarries soon opened on neighbouring Paros and that marble was afterwards preferred . |
| 9 | Lower and higher concentrations finally led to increased numbers of blue insertless plaques on the selection plates . |
| 10 | Armed forces units loyal to Najibullah immediately responded by attacking the Defence Ministry ; heavy fighting quickly erupted in other parts of the city . |
| 11 | The results for British , Japanese , Finnish , Australian and Hong Kong index futures , which allowed for transactions costs , suggest that arbitrage opportunities also existed in these markets . |
| 12 | The cotton industry also flourished in industrial villages and small company towns so that by 1851 almost 17 per cent of Lancashire men over the age of twenty and 15 per cent of women worked at the manufacture of cotton . |
| 13 | 13 1 ) that a man from Sybaris and another from Siris , both Italian towns , were among Agariste 's suitors at Sikyon ; and some of the poets patronized by the western Greeks had experience of mainland monarchy — Pindar and Simonides both wrote for Sicilian patrons : Pindar composed the Tenth Pythian , his earliest poem , for the Thessalian Thorax of Larisa , and Simonides had been patronized by Polykrates of Samos and Pisistratus of Athens in turn . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | More than 4,400 Teesside homes now stood within 200 metres of overhead lines , almost 900 of them closer than 50 metres . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A potential litigant sometimes went through three persons : the tout , petition-drawer and proctor . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The working-class homes seldom rose above two storeys . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But success breeds replication and good examples of provision soon spread to other centres . |
| 29 | His skill in managing multidisciplinary activities soon led to important successes . |
| 30 | Holding Seawitch on course with one hand , he pushed the other through hair already rumpled by previous displays of frustration . |