Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [vb past] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others worried that riveting led to cancer of the breast . |
| 2 | The steady increase in goods traffic which had taken place over the century can be demonstrated by the fact that during twenty-six weeks in 1847 the London and South-Western took in £38,906.19/11d as a result of their freight traffic . |
| 3 | Lying idle in impregnable harbours , the German fleet could not be enticed to battle by the British , while on land the trench line — now being hastily dug and fortified ran without interruption along the entire battlefront . |
| 4 | Nor yet the immense Catacombs down at the base of the fortress-monastery , where heroes ancient and modern lay in ranks of caskets . |
| 5 | It is clear from the Chronicle account that the English were by now in considerable disarray and incapable of offering serious resistance , so it is hardly surprising that when Swegen arrived with his son Cnut and a further army in 1013 the whole nation submitted to him , and Æthelred went into exile with his brother-in-law , Duke Richard II of Normandy . |