Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [adj] [noun] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lloyd George was upheld in this division by the votes of Labour and Asquithian Liberal M.P.s who at the time vigorously opposed his repression of Ireland . |
| 2 | What happened was a mixture of biochemical hubris and technical muddled thinking which between them were to confound memory research for more than a decade . |
| 3 | And when I daydream of its beauty I think , too , of the people I met on Koraloona , of Doc Reid , the eccentric , wayward medic who first taught me about the island ; Bill Robins , the captain of the Mantela when our ship was attacked , and who before that was to become my first real friend ; Jason Purvis , the starving beachcomber and would-be great novelist who at last did achieve a kind of fame ; Paula Reece , the beautiful American with cold , appraising eyes who so loved the island — and several of its free and happy inhabitants . |
| 4 | The bride was an attractive and lively young woman who under normal circumstances would have made a sympathetic wife for an energetic and ambitious young man . |
| 5 | By 1971 , the tension was so great that Kapwepwe broke with Kaunda and formed the United People 's Party ( UPP ) which depended on a flimsy alliance between the Bemba and other tribal groups who at that time felt they were out in the political cold . |
| 6 | Some memoirs , too , take us much further than official material ; those of de Gaulle are a case in point , while British official documents which in their original form remained hidden from the historian by the thirty-year rule were printed in the books of Winston Churchill and Eden , or have been unearthed in private collections by scholars able to disregard the consequences of publication . |