Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | These courts were not subject to judicial review at all which only applied to administrative authorities and inferior courts . |
| 2 | The first of these strands , taken up vigorously by many economic commentators in the press and the City , undermined confidence in the ‘ Keynesian ’ approach to demand management and employment policy by suggesting that in the ‘ long run ’ government deficit-financing merely led to higher inflation and was impotent to control employment . |
| 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 | Arbitration not only led to centralised wage-fixing and a high degree of centralised decision-making by both employers and unions , as well as inhibiting the development of a strong shop steward movement , it also fostered a fragmented union movement ( Lansbury , 1978a ) . |
| 5 | Mr Callaghan 's famous speech to the 1976 Labour party conference ( subsequently cited in many Conservative party publications ) admitted that governments could not spend their way into full employment ; that way only led to more inflation and eventually more unemployment . |
| 6 | Conversely , the Na + /H + exchanger is down regulated by intracellular alkalosis and is usually inactive above a pH i of 7.20 , despite ion gradients which facour continued Na + /H + exchange . |
| 7 | In 1651 Parliament appointed commissioners to sell Exmoor Forest , which was reported to be ‘ mountainous and cold ground , much beclouded with thick fogges and mists and … overgrown with heath and yielding but a poor kind of turf of little value there . ’ |
| 8 | Well , I was already in and he came in and just erm I was here and he just suddenly came round that way and he sat down next to Louise and and he said how are you ? |
| 9 | I could no longer talk or laugh freely , as I knew he only approved of serious moods and studies . |
| 10 | One can see , then , a philosophical crux in the very nature of the Ring , one that was certainly apparent and deeply interesting to Tolkien , and one which he furthermore expressed with great care and deliberation . |
| 11 | Not only are these particularly effective on hard ground , but they obviate much of the bending down needed with normal trowels and can thus save on the backache that sometimes results . |
| 12 | The next top up was n't so good as it only worked on one side and all the pain was concentrated in one place . |
| 13 | They believed , by contrast , that all the parts of the embryo were preformed from the very beginning and merely grew during embryonic development and so gradually became visible . |
| 14 | They were not silent but only spoke after long intervals and what they said did not carry to the upstairs rooms . |
| 15 | In all these cases , what needs to be inferred is the relationship between what has become generally conceptualized in grammatical form and what is particular in context . |
| 16 | He declared that the sane and sound advocacy of social democracy by the SDP would outlast all the various actionist ‘ will o ’ the wisps ' which , while apparently indicating easy roads to the promised land of social and economic emancipation , finally led to anarchical swamps and morasses ( SE 6 August 21 . ) . |
| 17 | Bacon , however , soon came into financial difficulties and he tried to foil a £90 debt owed to a local stonemason by forging a receipt . |
| 18 | The branches above murmured to each other and refracted the light from the street lamps into kaleidoscopic shapes on the pavement , shades of concrete grey , forming and reforming , overlapping and separating . |
| 19 | The gold coinage of the period was suffering a considerable debasement ( whereby the alloy progressively consisted of less gold and more silver ) , and the metal analysis of the royal pieces has allowed the stages of this debasement to be dated . |
| 20 | The marble is Naxian , and Naxos dominates early marble sculpture , though quarries soon opened on neighbouring Paros and that marble was afterwards preferred . |
| 21 | Intended at first for the church , he was sent to Göttingen , but he soon turned to legal studies and the pursuit of mineralogy under Johann Friedrich Blumenbach . |
| 22 | ‘ Or else it just died of old age and the owners dumped it . |
| 23 | And biological means of treating pollution are routinely used in modern sewage works , where billions of bacteria — admittedly cosseted in concrete tubs and so protected from the ravages of the natural environment — busily consume waste . |
| 24 | When she finally looked into clear water and saw her face , she wept bitterly as she greeted the old woman who stared back at her . |
| 25 | I just went past these fellows and one of them shouted , ‘ Hey , speccy four-eyes , ’ and I ignored them like you told me and then they came and took them off and stamped on them . ’ |
| 26 | But when we got to the studio , the first thing we saw were all these picture frames suspended from the ceiling — we just looked at each other and burst out laughing . |
| 27 | Above the cave we found an overgrown track which soon emerged onto bare rock and led steeply up to the cliff edge . |
| 28 | These annual Councils normally lasted for three days and were composed of official sermons , addresses and conferences on various topics . |
| 29 | ‘ Police blocked farmers from coming inside and they just stood in front shouting and calling messages over a loud hailer . ’ |
| 30 | Cut off from God 's communion and divine love , the rebels still clung to their leader Lucifer , their fallen star , who still glowed with forgotten glory and the heat of defeated bitterness . |