Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] in [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In referring to the Kingdom the Old Testament spoke in such terms as ‘ Behold , the days are coming ’ . |
| 2 | Ultranationalist thinking on the rural sector seemed in many ways only a more radical version of official views . |
| 3 | There 's still a bit of repair work going on on the M forty , that 's between junctions one and one A between Denham and the M twenty five , with the outside lane closed in both directions . |
| 4 | There are still some repairs going on along the M forty between junctions one and one A , that 's between Denham and the M twenty five , with the outside lane closed in both directions , for barrier repairs and some light maintenance . |
| 5 | On the M forty itself traffic seems to be fairly smooth at er , there are some repairs going on still between junctions one and one A , that 's between Denham and the M twenty five , with the outside lane closed in both directions . |
| 6 | Reporters from both The Sportsman and Golf Illustrated were present and comprehensive accounts appeared in both publications . |
| 7 | ‘ Our resident poet could sing of Stalinvast 's lethal festering jungles which I never saw ; and of viscous scabs blasted in those jungles by a host of weapons ; and of all the reef-cities which I never saw either , infested with their slaving grimy weapons-makers . |
| 8 | Early collectors had in many cases got decretals wherever they could find them . |
| 9 | Civil disobedience continued in many cities in western Georgia . |
| 10 | M2 from Dunsilly to Ballygrooby — fast lane closed in both directions . |
| 11 | Units of the centrally planned national economy existed in many forms as they were set up by ministries , ‘ centres of production ’ , and directorates of production and were managed either on the basis of the responsibility of a single individual , namely a state-appointed director , or ( particularly from and after the 1956 Revolution ) by workers ' councils or a council of deputies elected by the whole work-force of the enterprise . |
| 12 | Now Freud , in trying to the explain the origins of ambivalence about incest , suggests the apparently preposterous and farfetched idea , that in the beginning , human beings lived in these kinds of primal hoards , and er , there was no incest prohibition as such . |
| 13 | ‘ Worldly Paris mingled in these sessions with artists in sweaters who had come from the Rotonde and the Dôme … |
| 14 | Discussions with representative bodies resulted in some amendments to the proposals , notably the inclusion of a ‘ matching ’ provision to allow exchange differences on a borrowing , which ‘ match ’ those on a non-monetary asset , to be deferred until the asset is disposed of . |
| 15 | Some speculative builders boomed in these conditions , few having been active prior to the 1920s , though their characteristics suggest some link or other with housebuilding : |
| 16 | During the period of follow up , no significant decrease of the median extent of gastric metaplasia occurred in both groups ( Wilcoxon rank sum test for paired data , p=0.08 for group 1 and p>0.5 for group 2 ) . |
| 17 | Two important things happened in such systems . |
| 18 | Despite the ‘ ceasefire ’ , considerable bitterness remained in several quarters , much of it focusing on Mr Ruslan Khasbulatov , Speaker of parliament , who described ministers as children who had lost their way . |
| 19 | The puzzled head-scratching continued in some quarters , but helpless shrugging had now become the latest craze . |
| 20 | There was no , all these highfalutin er certificates to gain en all you had to , had to gain to be fit for employment then was a qualifying certificate , that was the only certificate issued in those days . |
| 21 | Those in West Germany were utterly opposed , partly because the policy proposals , they had developed , also contained the long-term aim of reducing in a painless manner the number of small , less efficient farm units ; small farms predominated in many parts of West Germany . |
| 22 | Long-term unemployment rose in all regions compared with a year ago , but the largest increases hit the south-east of England , London , the south-west of England and East Anglia . |
| 23 | Long-term unemployment rose in all regions compared with a year ago . |
| 24 | A possible explanation is that the Celtic tradition remained in these areas longer than the south and west , the people of which with their close Gallic links had been subject to greater Roman influence before the conquest , this region too was where the vast majority of the figured pottery was made . |
| 25 | I remind the Minister that , when the National Bus Company subsidiaries were sold off to the private sector , the first thing that the private company did in many instances was to get rid of the management because of its dissatisfaction with it . |
| 26 | It seems odd , now , but so it was : this is what young people did in those days . |
| 27 | She had married one of these complications , for that is what young women did in those days : educated young women married , straight out of college , as she and Liz had done . |
| 28 | Hundreds and hundredal arrangements persisted in most areas for a long time , eventually emerging as the administrative units of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries ( until 1974 ) . |
| 29 | Now I should explain why I believe that Cornwall is a special case and why so many local people argued in these terms . |
| 30 | Overnight nine arrests were made across the province when minor trouble flared in several areas . |