Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stafford 's Sutherland estates produced an annual income of £16,000 , but this was not enough . |
| 2 | How to avert both these dangers became a major concern among employers , politicians and in the press , although optimism remained that solutions could be found . |
| 3 | Help in maintaining the prices of agricultural products became a permanent feature of government policy from this time . |
| 4 | On the Somme in 1916 , the British used 15in weapons , while in 1918 the Germans produced a long-range gun with which to bombard Paris . |
| 5 | The simple comparison of mean pulse rate data from before sedation and during the procedure showed both groups experienced a similar degree of tachycardia during the procedure ( Table III ) . |
| 6 | Then the pendulum swung too far in the other direction , towards an assertion that the Russians avoided the unpleasant aspects of colonialism as exemplified in Spanish , Portuguese or British experience . |
| 7 | The researchers met the social workers at the start of the study , and after each completion of the schedules , when they were also asked to fill in a brief checklist . |
| 8 | Overhead he could now hear the dull roar and crackle of fire , as the hungry flames devoured the old house above him . |
| 9 | ULSTER boxers made a strong claim for an monopoly of the titles in the Maxol National Junior championship semi-finals at the National Stadium last night . |
| 10 | Women in nightdresses peeping out of roadside houses lent a surreptitious air to the first few miles . |
| 11 | There may be some weathering her and there After a few weeks which to Willis , however , seemed like a few years , the broker 's solicitors made a conditional offer for the poor old barge , and finally agreed to pay £1500 , provided that Dreadnought was still in shipshape condition six months hence , in the spring of 1962 . |
| 12 | The air raids were commonly known as the Baedeker Raids , after a publishing house that produced travel guides , because the Germans made a sudden switch from bombing major cities , industrial and military targets and bombed cities that did not have anything remotely possible connected with any major war effort . |
| 13 | The Germans withstood an early flurry before creating chances of their own . |
| 14 | Subsequent Georgian investigations produced a different version of events . |
| 15 | PEDIGREE Limousin bulls met an unprecedented demand at the annual spring show and sale at Carlisle yesterday , selling to a top of 14,000gn and producing a record average for the sale of £3,450 , £900 up on the year . |
| 16 | The availability of legal aid to those unable to afford to pursue their legal rights in the courts made a practical reality of the access to justice to many who could not have afforded to do so . |
| 17 | Boxers fought an enormous number of contests by modern standards to satisfy a working-class public who wanted to see regular bouts . |
| 18 | On the economic front , the latest Dun and Bradstreet survey of UK business , carried out before last week 's increase in interest rates to 15 per cent , warned that the British economy was on the brink of a ‘ major slowdown ’ as high-interest policies produced a dramatic downturn in confidence . |
| 19 | It is also the final of the Marley National Pony Society Mountain and Moorland Ridden Championships , and thirty quality native ponies made a splendid sight in the vast Grand Hall . |
| 20 | With an interlude for a half-yearly general meeting to approve the audited accounts , a somewhat frenetic round of discussion groups produced a remarkable degree of consensus on various fronts . |
| 21 | A strike by machinists at Boeing Co. in October 1989 [ see below ] and the resultant decline in exports produced an increased deficit in November , but the end of the strike in November and the resumption of the export sale of aircraft , coupled with a fall in oil imports , produced a deficit in December of only $7,200 million , the lowest in five years . |
| 22 | On the militarist question , there can be no doubt that the Boy Scouts made a significant contribution to the growth of the war mentality , although the early movement was nearly torn apart by the question of militarism which eventually led to break-away groups such as the Woodcraft Folk . |
| 23 | But there can be no doubt that the Boy Scouts made an extraordinary impact on the era . |
| 24 | Other presentments concerned the unwarranted felling of trees and cutting of branches in the forest coppices , and the overburdening of the forest pastures with unauthorized numbers of cattle , sheep and pigs . |
| 25 | Islamic states interrupted the planned order of speeches and stood up one after the other to back his call for an immediate appeal to the Security Council . |
| 26 | Young people approaching the age when they would no longer be the formal responsibility of the local authorities became the primary consumers of residential care for several reasons : first , many had been placed with a family and temporary readmission to residential care was needed when such placements broke down ; second , some did not wish to join a new family and preferred group living amongst other young people and appointed caregivers ; and third , some were admitted to a residential setting for help with specific problems or as part of a strategy to prepare them for independent living . |
| 27 | Voluntary organisations in many cases became the effective agents of enforcement , as well as pressure groups constantly campaigning for further intervention , and here they became quasi-state apparatuses , a pattern which had a long history . |
| 28 | Opposition groups dismissed the constitutional changes as a device to gain Western aid and approval at a time of economic crisis . |
| 29 | Both groups proposed a modified version of Gower 's initial findings and in January 1985 the Government published its long awaited White Paper . |
| 30 | Part of the police investigations involved a young policewoman from the Northern Constabulary . |