Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb past] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1960s regional policies had remained in national hands . |
| 2 | Technology company AWA had sued DRT ( then Deloitte Haskins & Sells ) , claiming that its negligence during two 1986 audits had contributed to foreign exchange losses . |
| 3 | New political patterns began to emerge in southern England . |
| 4 | As a result a further five political parties decided to withdraw from legislative elections scheduled for Jan. 26 , bringing the number of parties boycotting the elections to 21 . |
| 5 | Despite the problems and doubts , sandwich courses remained a central feature of the polytechnics — even as some institutions began to press for full-time courses to replace or to accompany them . |
| 6 | He was so small that Sir Dermot 's old suits had to go through considerable abbreviations and pinchings-in before they fitted him . |
| 7 | In apparent agreement with this idea , some subjects appeared to benefit from continual advances of their sleep/wake rhythm ( as though they were continually flying eastward ) or by being woken temporarily at about four o'clock in the morning to receive a burst of bright light for about an hour . |
| 8 | In early 1939 , Lord Hailey had voiced fears that ‘ the problem would frankly become unmanageable ’ , but his appeals to the government to support the refugee cause with public funds had met with blank refusal . |
| 9 | Increasingly British crews refused to sail with Chinese seamen and stories were circulated to counter the laudatory accounts of the shipowners of the exemplary conduct of the Chinese , giving instances of mutinies and knifings of officers . |
| 10 | Some taxonomists wanted to go beyond mere classification and investigate the geographical distribution of the various species . |
| 11 | The most worrying aspect of all , for Corby , however , was that many parents felt they were kept in the dark about what was happening , so that while there were exceptions , and in some cases social workers had gone to great lengths to explain the system and the likely outcomes , in two cases the parents were not aware until later in the process that they and their children were the subjects of child abuse investigations . |
| 12 | Since Lord Clyde said in his inquiry report that the social workers had acted in good faith , the social workers would have to keep her children to prove they did the right thing in the first place , she said . |
| 13 | In response , the UK House of Commons select committee on foreign affairs had proposed in late June that a Bill of Rights and a fully directly elected legislature should be introduced in Hong Kong by 1997 [ see p. 36815 ] . |
| 14 | American strategic interest in the British Isles had shifted from land-based nuclear forces to the Polaris facilities in the Holy Loch . |
| 15 | After 1760 bulls were brought in from England , the Netherlands and southern Scotland to improve them and some farmers began to specialise in certain colours or coat patterns . |
| 16 | Executives in high-performing firms tailored scanning to perceived strategic uncertainty in all sectors . |
| 17 | The government has already invested large sums of money in engineering crops that resist insect pests and the climatic extremes expected to come with global warming |
| 18 | Some reports claimed that regular Lebanese forces had fired on Israeli troops positioned within the " security zone " . |
| 19 | Few members dared to dissent in public . |
| 20 | Between the wars , there was little change but county club finances were often sorely stretched and some of the less popular counties had to rely on local patrons for help . |
| 21 | He demonstrated bacterial variability and adaptability and formulated his lifelong belief that disease-producing organisms had evolved from non-pathogenic ancestors . |
| 22 | But while affluent British consumers began to ask for organic vegetables and real meat , total demand for these more naturally produced and more expensive foods remained small . |
| 23 | ‘ Of course , Reichsführer , but German paratroopers did land on English soil and fought a bloody battle . |
| 24 | He might add that , if there had ever been any prospect that the class war would provide its movement , that prospect had patently disappeared except , ironically , in those eastern European countries bound to submit to Russian supervision . |
| 25 | Its major slum clearance programme of the early 1960s was in the area of Dockwray Square where an early nineteenth-century development of very fine terraced houses had degenerated into tenemented slums . |
| 26 | Instead of looking angry , she realised , the dark eyes had kindled with fresh amusement . |
| 27 | Thus even if separate communities had begun with similar ways , it is likely that the processes of structuration would lead to divergence over time . |
| 28 | In the 1840s few such places had emerged from rural simplicity . |
| 29 | A sea of huge , irregularly shaped dunes seemed to tumble from blue , hazy hills over to my left . |
| 30 | Individual farmers had come across difficult times and they needed to borrow to finance seed to plant for the next year 's crop . |