Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be gathered by inshore divers down to ten metres and where necessary dredged from greater depths by nets weighed down by heavy timber frames . |
| 2 | ‘ Papert asks why half the population are maths phobics , afraid of numbers , and woolly headed about abstract concepts , ’ the narrator announced Any suspicion that this was the preface to yet another attempt to instil numeracy via some twist of new math , quickly disappeared . |
| 3 | This strange rare and peculiar led to Nitric Acid which covered everything , I gave the 6c potency since again I did n't have the LM and after 4 weeks she reported improvement of the anal discomfort and a return of the old stomach symptoms . |
| 4 | Something comparable , and no less surprising , had happened a century earlier with the art-criticism of John Ruskin , and there is often something unnerving in the spectacle of an activity once thought of as specialist and tedious catapulted into sudden acclaim . |
| 5 | London remained unsubdued , and elected Edmund as king when Æthelred died on 23 April . |