Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [adv] [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two other characteristics which mostly attracted indirect mention but which , nevertheless , were important included : purity , in the sense of not containing other substances ; dependability in the sense that the product can always be relied upon to meet the mothers ' standard ( viz softness , non-irritant , pure ) . |
| 2 | The marriage of Henry of Anjou to Eleanor and his accession , two years later , to the throne of England had brought together under a single sceptre peoples and provinces which hardly knew each other . |
| 3 | The gargoyle shower heads which never saw running water . |
| 4 | The War drained men from many schools which then experienced great difficulty in maintaining staffing levels . |
| 5 | A large prospective study by Wald et al found that serum vitamin E values in subjects who subsequently developed colorectal cancer were no different to those of age and sex matched controls . |
| 6 | The data on the nine subjects who correctly identified each insulin were analysed separately but the results were not different from those of the whole group . |
| 7 | Subjects who characteristically had dominant alpha EEG rhythms when awake were most suitable for this task , as the level of alpha rhythm then acts as a good indicator of alertness . |
| 8 | The only light in the room came from the street lamps which vaguely illuminated one corner of the room but left the rest in shadow . |
| 9 | Studies conducted since April 1988 convey mothers ' powerful sense that , as their poverty deepens , strategies which once gave some protection to their families are crumbling under the weight of increasing debt ( Cohen , 1990 , 1991 a , b ; Craig and Glendinning , 1990a , 1990b ; Craig , 1991 ) . |
| 10 | With five and even three elements I always had one element in the centre . |
| 11 | Castro subsequently admitted that he had been opposed to the removal of the missiles , and his adamant refusal to allow US inspections to be carried out on Cuban territory ( despite Soviet pressure ) testifies to the anger and resentment that he felt over the fact that matters which vitally affected Cuban sovereignty were settled without his knowledge or consent . |
| 12 | Gerald Cock , head of Outside Broadcasting , led a team of technicians who increasingly brought live sport into the home . |
| 13 | Yet she felt little had been done to address this problem in school and if in these circumstances she now accepted residential school she would be giving up on Tom . |
| 14 | Because of their early contact with parents they often had considerable influence in steering parents towards specialist provision . |
| 15 | Having coined and rehearsed the right phrases he never saw any reason why he should not use them several times , so he concluded , ‘ We do n't , I take it , want the police putting their big feet in it all over the place . ’ |
| 16 | The bitterness of Maastricht opponents who also included Tory ex-minister Lord Parkinson and former Commons Speaker Viscount Tonypandy signalled that the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill is set for a gruelling passage , despite it being given an unopposed second reading . |
| 17 | Most rural boundary disputes have their roots in the lackadaisical practices of country solicitors who never placed much importance on proper searches . |
| 18 | Edward 's manipulation of the wool trade for his financial advantage intensified the divisions between the small group of wealthy merchants who stood to benefit from Edward 's schemes and the lesser merchants who eventually made common cause with the producers in opposing the monopolistic structure that Edward tried to create . |
| 19 | In chambers 1a and 1b there are some rotted wooden chairs and tables , a couple of quivers of crossbow bolts and a heap of human bones : the inanimate remains of the Skeletons which once guarded this place . |
| 20 | BSE , a disease which attacked the brain and nervous system , was believed to have been passed on to cattle through cattle feed containing the remains of sheep infected with scrapie , a similar disease endemic in the UK for over 200 years which apparently posed little risk to human health . |
| 21 | Is that poor Andrew Collins some sort of old punk or perchance one of those sad tossers who once flogged Socialist Worker to 14-year-olds ? |
| 22 | These findings are in line with those of an earlier study for England and Wales which showed that the mean number of days professionals stayed in hospital was about two-thirds that of unskilled workers who also had higher admission rates ( see Table 3.11 ) . |
| 23 | First , there were those 18 individuals who never had any contact with the Drugs Council . |
| 24 | Heterosexism was a theory that was increasingly attractive to lesbian and gay socialists , but in the mid-1980s it still carried little clout in the lesbian and gay communities as a whole . |
| 25 | If people 's perception of the past performance of the economy and their prediction of future trends was accurate , one would find two identical curves which faithfully followed economic performance , with one lagging twelve months behind the other . |
| 26 | Surrealist photographers indeed developed techniques which self-consciously addressed this juxtaposition of the real as signifier and the signifier as real . |
| 27 | Both are based on the adidas heritage lines of the Lendl Comp and the Equipment Clay Court and include features which recently attracted British No. 1 Jo Durie , who recently signed a one year shoe contract with the company . |
| 28 | On July 28 , the Speaker of the Majlis , Hojatolislam Hashemi Ali Akbar Rafsanjani , was elected President , succeeding Khamenei , and assumed office on Aug. 17 ; also on July 28 voters in a referendum approved a number of constitutional amendments which effectively increased presidential authority . |
| 29 | A referendum held on July 28 , 1989 , backed constitutional amendments which greatly strengthened presidential authority [ see p. 36833 ] . |
| 30 | It involves the incorporation of two large rooms from the Archivio Segreto Vaticano , on the floor above , to house funerary and domestic objects of terracotta , and of other rooms which once housed Greek art . |