Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun pl] [pron] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wealth went on a circular tour , and royal taxation was either wasted or enriched a class of profiteers , either the war captains or the purveyors who operated between the Exchequer and the army . |
| 2 | How could the child he loved most have failed to inherit either his instincts or the opinions he had with such difficulty acquired ? |
| 3 | ‘ She might have married any of the Chieftains or the Lords who came to Tara , or the foreign Princes , for all knew that Ireland went with her . |
| 4 | These things were symptoms of intimacy , like the way she talked of Julian or the things she said about her father . |
| 5 | In the nineteenth century , however , those who conducted the research did not really believe that their subjects would tell them the truth reliably if they asked them for information directly , and so they drew inferences about people 's ideas , religious beliefs , political commitments and so on from the type of literature they had on their shelf or the pictures they had on their walls . |
| 6 | And I think I believed , or tried to believe , him when he repeatedly told me that the restrictions he placed upon me were for my own good . |
| 7 | But it was Eliot who in the end loosened the hold of the " modernists " on English culture — not only did he assert the public role and " social usefulness " of the writer in an almost nineteenth-century manner , but he also announced that the principles he derived from his religious belief were more enduring than literary or critical ones . |
| 8 | Foxe describes how ‘ Master Tyndale , a man of no great stature ’ , was courteously persuaded to walk ahead , whilst the tall and comely Philips behind him pointed over his head ‘ so that the officers who sat at the door might see that it was he whom they should take ; as the officers that took Master Tyndale afterwards told Poyntz , they pitied to see his simplicity when they took him . ’ |
| 9 | I am afraid that the forecasts we produced under the old regime are now too optimistic . |
| 10 | In view of these deficiencies , it was hardly surprising that the reformers who centred on the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich addressed themselves to transforming the courts very soon after Alexander II ascended the throne . |
| 11 | Despite the accident , sponsors were impressed with the PJC-1 's performance , and the first PJC-2 was soon built , modified so that the crossed-controls which resulted in the earlier accident , could not again occur . |
| 12 | ‘ I wish to impress on you that the rules I made in London still stand . |
| 13 | That boy Ronan could convince even his own mother that the wounds he got in a playground were superficial , that the dirt on his clothes would easily wash out . |
| 14 | Professor Davis noted that the industries which expanded before 1780 did not transform themselves in the dramatic way we have come to know as an industrial revolution . |
| 15 | It has not taken IBM Corp long to admit informally that its target of 25,000 job cuts this year is on the low side , and the company now says that it expects at least 6,000 jobs to be cut at its three main operations in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York , where previously it had forecast between 3,000 and 3,500 : IBM told Reuters that the job cuts , which will likely include layoffs , will come from the company 's mainframe business in Poughkeepsie and Kingston , where at least 2,000 jobs will be cut , up from the company 's previous expectations of between 600 to 800 , and it also sees bigger staff cuts at the East Fishkill chip facility , which now expects to lose about 4,000 workers , up from about 3,000 — IBM is phasing out semiconductor operations in East Fishkill , moving some of the work to Burlington , Vermont , some to Essonnes , France ; advanced semiconductor research and packaging remains in East Fishkill ; the company says that despite the increased cuts , it believes that the charges it took in the fourth quarter will still be sufficient . |
| 16 | Braque , on the other hand , although he was only six months younger than Picasso , was slower in his development and had not yet established himself as a particularly original or significant painter ; indeed , Braque subsequently came to feel that the paintings he executed in Antwerp during the summer of 1906 were his first creative works . |
| 17 | He told me he was about to go into a ‘ sealed camp ’ somewhere in the south of England , and that the letters he wrote from there would not be released until the invasion had safely begun . |
| 18 | ( 4 ) The closure order shall remain in force until such time as the board satisfied that the matters which led to the closure order have been satisfactorily remedied . |
| 19 | ( 5 ) The licence-holder may apply to the board for the cancellation of the closure order on the ground that the matters which led to the closure order have been satisfactorily remedied . |
| 20 | ( 5 ) An order under subsection ( 4 ) above shall remain in force until such time as the board is satisfied that the matters which led to the order have been satisfactorily remedied . |
| 21 | ( 6 ) The licence-holder may apply to the board for the cancellation of the order on the ground that the matters which led to the order have been satisfactorily remedied . |
| 22 | The Rugby Union then received the report from Yorkshire referee Stewart Piercy , whose verdict was that the studs he inspected before the start were not the studs he later outlawed when he inspected the boots of Moore , Leonard and lock Alex Snow during play . |
| 23 | Contemporaries believed that the riots which occurred at elections were frequently caused by " hired gangs " employed by one of the parties to prevent their opponents ' supporters from coming to the poll . |
| 24 | However , Tess began to find that the cows which came to her usually happened to be her favourites . |
| 25 | It was not that the athletes who won in 1924 were any less determined or committed in their approach . |
| 26 | Again he felt himself thinking brilliantly , knowing at the same time that the words he heard in his head would sound ridiculous if used in speech . |
| 27 | Modern biblical scholars concur that the churches which evolved in Syria , in Asia Minor and in Egypt embodied a form of ‘ Christianity ’ no less valid than Rome 's , different from Rome 's though it was . |
| 28 | Celano , in his Life of Francis , says that the brothers who lived with Francis ‘ desired to meet , and together they were happy ; on the other hand , absence was painful for them , separation was bitter and parting sorrowful ’ . |
| 29 | Slater and Woodside found that the couples they interviewed in the 1940s showed ‘ a mutual liking canalised by prudential and social considerations ’ . |
| 30 | Can it be that the tales I heard in Geneva were true ? |