Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was felt by many politicians and officials that local government , in its recent form , was slow and inept so that the departments dealing with local authorities either developed a mass of controls to enable them to watch over local authorities or actually withdrew services from the local authorities . |
| 2 | He received no part of the purported consideration of £24,500 nor any benefit therefrom save that £1,800 or thereabouts had been expended in discharging his liability under the local authority mortgage . |
| 3 | I went there and found that people who had been waiting for four hours or more had still not received satisfaction . |
| 4 | Winds of a hundred miles an hour or more roared and whistled round the isolated house on the cliffs , tearing at window catches , rattling doors . |
| 5 | Yet he would have spent far less money if he had bought the first house and completely refurnished the kitchen or even changed it to another room . |
| 6 | I think he should have got a longer sentence or maybe tried in Crown Court , but not just got away with three months . |
| 7 | I think he should have got a longer sentence or maybe tried in Crown Court , but not just got away with three months . |
| 8 | I think he should have got a longer sentence or maybe tried in Crown Court , but not just got away with three months . |
| 9 | Indeed , the specification of grades of untitled gentlemen of £40 or more amounted to an admission that the qualification was obsolete , that this level of income was totally inadequate to support the ‘ port and charge ’ of the dignity of knighthood . |
| 10 | Then they are stoneground or mechanically milled and sieved . |
| 11 | Another pull for ten minutes or so brought me up on to the summit , where I sat down to have my lunch . |
| 12 | Ten more minutes or so went by until she was ready for the net , one scoop followed by some frantic throwing in of excess tail which did n't want to go into the net and she was ours . |
| 13 | For many that was Buncrana or Fahan in County Donegal where they surfed , skiied , took boat trips or just lay in the sun . |
| 14 | How convenient women were , Rupert thought , accepting her offer , the way they were always ‘ just going ’ to make coffee or tea or perhaps had just roasted a joint in the oven or made a cheese soufflé . |
| 15 | On to the Poet Laureate , Lord Tennyson and Volume I only of his Works , a book which ordinarily , as an odd volume , might well have been sold for £1 or less had not the inscription on the title turned it into a desirable association item . |
| 16 | What had begun as a jeu d'esprit of a mere 30,000 words or so made Lewis a household name . |
| 17 | E. M. Byrde , the Police Magistrate at Anuradhapura in 1896 , noted that ‘ cattle stealers do not go about , as witnesses would wish one to believe , removing stolen cattle in broad daylight or along frequented high roads by moonlight . ’ |
| 18 | In areas such as the Baltic provinces and the semi-autonomous Duchy of Finland , the government 's attempts to tighten its control and impose administrative and cultural uniformity created nationalist opposition where little had existed . |
| 19 | The whole notebook is saved as a complete file and would typically contain a large spreadsheet broken down into more manageable sections , sets of related data or similarly formatted spreadsheets . |
| 20 | For several years the number of people out of work for 12 months or more had been steadily dropping , reaching a low in the North-East ( the North excluding Cumbria ) of 36,000 in October 1990 . |
| 21 | The number of people waiting 12 months or more had also fallen from 367 in December to 183 last month . |
| 22 | The number of those out of work for six months or more rose by 10,700 ( 8.8 per cent ) from 122,200 to 132,900 , again the lowest in Britain . |
| 23 | He was dull , untidy in his books , arrogant and morose , with slovenly characteristics that hardly endeared him to his perfectionist mother . |
| 24 | As capacities evolved , they may have combined with others that have evolved for quite different reasons to create new characteristics that then acquired an evolutionary life of their own . |
| 25 | Johnson wrote to Mrs Thrale that however ruined he found it , the Abbey 's ‘ fabrick was once of great extent , and stupendous magnificence ’ . |
| 26 | He has come to terms with his fierce ambition and his temper , the demons that once gave him a fascination with the psychotherapy of Laing and Reich . |
| 27 | She knew at that moment that she wanted to injure every penis that ever came into her hand . |
| 28 | Local private firms had built up a skilled work force that eventually drew in foreign multinationals on terms acceptable to the government . |
| 29 | Often they turned out to be more like shocks , and she disliked the tension , the agitation , the feeling of disruption that frequently accompanied them . |
| 30 | In ex-army gear I would n't be seen , as long as I kept still , sitting on my hands , pale face buried in a heather clump , but those long heads that rose between rasping bites of coarse grass had twitching noses that never stopped their search for the enemy — a very efficient sort of olfactory radar . |