Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh pn] [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | True , the Armenians of Beirut have collected some macabre , terrible old photographs that might — had they been studied with more care by the shell-shocked peoples who had just emerged from the First World War — have served as a warning , the shape of things to come . |
| 2 | To those readers who have already contributed to it , the Foundation again expresses its gratitude . |
| 3 | To any readers who feel hard done by or annoyed please accept my sincere apologies . |
| 4 | Those who dismissed the movies were also dishonest in the sense that they very rarely conceded that the whole tone of feature films had been moulded by politicians and largely middle-class pressure groups and religious organizations who had ceaselessly clamoured for censorship and for films to be morally edifying and uplifting . |
| 5 | The estate itself was to be used for the well-being of those Jews who had also suffered at the hands of the Nazis and other oppressors of the faith . |
| 6 | Bellingham , the most expensive and prestigious barber in London and supplier still of razors to those clients who had never adjusted to the shaving habits of the twentieth century . |
| 7 | Following the staging on television of " confessions " by four Iranians who had allegedly acted as " CIA [ United States Central Intelligence Agency ] agents " , the four were hanged on Nov. 4 , 1989 . |
| 8 | This group of ‘ uncounted unemployed ’ is likely to consist largely of women and school-leavers who have not worked before and so are not eligible for unemployment benefit . |
| 9 | As well as NCR Corp , which appears to have favoured Solaris over Destiny , the desktop Unix environment now on offer from parent AT&T 's Unix System Laboratories Inc — effectively a rival product — ICL plc , Zenith Data Systems , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA and Everex Systems Inc join those personal computer manufacturers who have already committed to Sun 's Unix offering , including Dell Computer Inc , Toshiba Corp , AST Research Inc , CompuAdd Corp and NetFrame Systems Inc . |
| 10 | The subjects were 20 of the drivers who had previously participated in Study 2 . |
| 11 | ‘ Certificates issued ’ refers to the number of RETs issued to candidates who had successfully completed at least one module during the session . |
| 12 | A reminder letter and questionnaire were sent 6 weeks later to subjects who had not replied by this time . |
| 13 | The new one-man buses which are everywhere these days are not only designed by maniacs who 've never heard of the aged or disabled , but you ca n't get on one without flashing the cash . |
| 14 | The whole pretence about his future plans does not belong to relations between brothers , especially brothers who have just wept on each other 's shoulders , and who have shown each other such surprising willingness for reunion . |
| 15 | Koreans who had formerly looked to Japan for help against a conservative , autocratic government and for encouragement to ‘ modernize ’ now found themselves subordinated to those self same Japanese , deprived of an independent voice . |
| 16 | However , by the middle of 1990 there were reports of fresh sentences being passed on various dissidents who had recently returned to Taiwan . |
| 17 | As to the much discussed pearwood wall panels , Italo Rota explains : ‘ We were looking for a simple idea that would allow visitors who had already looked at a good many paintings to connect some of them with unfamiliar settings ; the art of memory tells us that it is easier to retain images in one 's head if one can link them to a specific space ’ . |
| 18 | Those unable to attend the parade watched it on television , and were joined later by some of the overseas visitors who had proudly paraded before Her Majesty The Queen outside Buckingham Palace . |
| 19 | Charles did not make extensive changes in the Lombard government , and retained many of the governors and administrators who had originally served under Desiderius . |
| 20 | For the next 4 ½ hours the men held us hostage , told us about their comrades who had already fallen in battle , and threatened to kill us . |
| 21 | Is it not true — as my hon. Friend the Member for Bradford , South ( Mr. Cryer ) pointed out — that as much public money goes to one CTC , to which parents who have not gone through the normal process will have access , as to all the other schools in the area , and that it goes there at the same rate ? |
| 22 | These were the Azems who had once served in the French army or even the French air force but who later turned against their French masters — and their minority supporters in Syria — and died fighting them . |
| 23 | Unfortunately there have been presenters who became better known for hitting the headlines than their ability to turn washing up bottles into handy household objects . |
| 24 | The first , signed by the outgoing Sandinista government and contra leaders , had agreed that an " effective and definitive ceasefire " was to take immediate effect and that the estimated 10,000-12,000 contras who had recently flooded into Nicaragua were to enter five security zones supervised by the 700-strong force of the UN Observer Group of Central America ( ONUCA ) and the staff of the International Commission of Support and Verification ( CIAV ) . |
| 25 | In the event Clinton won the New York contest comfortably , and saw Brown beaten into third place by Paul Tsongas who had already withdrawn from the contest . |
| 26 | These patients were all members of a family of Kurdish refugees who had recently arrived from Turkey , not patients from the AIDS wards or clinic . |
| 27 | Curators of the ‘ Matisse 1904–17 ’ exhibition think Shchukin has started the case to pressure Russian authorities who had not replied to earlier requests about the paintings . |
| 28 | The report was based on the study of 619 non-standard students in twelve higher education institutions who had formally participated in Access course in sixteen further education institutions . |
| 29 | Whichever way his tastes lie , and whatever the capacity of his purse and his bookshelves , it is certain that no other single work offers to the collector such variety of choice , experience and discovery as four and a half centuries of the book of which Lord Chief Justice Sir Matthew Hale ( 1609–76 ) wrote to one of his sons who had just recovered from smallpox : |
| 30 | Elsewhere in the café , one of Sunsail 's flotilla skippers was explaining the difference between a sheet and a halyard to some Germans who had never heard of either . |