Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both the army and the navy had rudimentary organizations : naval supplies were provided by a clerk acting under the spasmodic supervision of the Lord Admiral while specific operations continued to be mounted by ad hoc commissions . |
| 2 | An unprecedented sporting contact between the two Korean states occurred on Oct. 11 when the first round of the North-South Korean Unification Soccer Matches was played in Pyongyang before a crowd of 150,000 . |
| 3 | Subtle lamps gleamed on pink-clothed tables , each with its own vase of flowers . |
| 4 | Labour fingers jabbed at the Liberal Democrats , while Tory order papers were waved in the air . |
| 5 | Particular attention is given to the provision of financial services for industrial development and agrarian improvement ; the extent of movement into and out of Edinburgh ; the social structure and occupational zoning within Edinburgh ; demographic change ; the role of the law and of secular and ecclesiastical institutions in helping or hindering change ; the nature of social relationships within the town and the extent to which new and more progressive values existed in the city . |
| 6 | Changes in political institutions culminated in cabinet government from 1885 , the promulgation of a constitution in February 1889 and the opening of an elected assembly in 1890 . |
| 7 | Mandeville sneered as his strong teeth tore at the coarse rye bread . |
| 8 | In response to appeals by AI members last year , the Israeli authorities replied in April 1991 saying that ‘ Abd al-Ra'uf Ghabin had been arrested due to his activities relating to his alleged involvement in the PFLP — printing and distributing PFLP leaflets . |
| 9 | On St Kilda solifluction and the formation of pro-talus ramparts occurred at this time ( Sutherland et al. , 1984 ) . |
| 10 | On this side of the Webi , undulating grasslands rose to distant hills , and strips of woodland bordered numerous streams . |
| 11 | Members of political groups went on brief raids into its ranks , and returned with little except contempt for its prospects . |
| 12 | Evidence that drug-related corruption had penetrated Venezuelan institutions came with the arrest in June of Adolfo Ramirez Torres , a former governor of the Federal District of Caracas , who was accused of being part of a cocaine smuggling ring . |
| 13 | Easy-virtue Oscars went to Jo van Fleet in East of Eden ( 1955 ) , Dorothy Malone in Written on the Wind ( 1956 ) , Donna Reed in From Here to Eternity ( 1953 ) , Shirley Jones in Elmer Gantry ( 1960 ) , Liz Taylor in Butterfield 8 ( 1960 ) and Jane Fonda in Klute ( 1971 ) . |
| 14 | Eight riders galloped from cover and came thudding across the cleared land towards the settlement . |
| 15 | Disputes , sabotage , mutinies and attempted coups arose from political or ideological disagreements , from resentment at allocation of funds and procurement policies , and from military reluctance to follow aggressive policies against other countries . |
| 16 | As he pressed eagerly forward , his long beard streaming In the wind and rain , two Spanish friars snapped at his heels , still desperately trying to persuade him in Latin to die in the faith ; they continued to exhort him at the stake , where , according to Foxe , he lifted up his eyes to heaven , as he held his offending hand in the fire , and died using the words of Stephen : ‘ Lord Jesus receive my spirit . ’ |
| 17 | At the same time , disputes between France and the rest over institutional , political and economic plans grew to the extent where they called into question not just the desirability and possibility of the ultimate goal of political union , but also the current shape and even the viability of the Community . |
| 18 | Now their raging passions looked like tearing asunder one of the strongest rigs in the North Sea . |
| 19 | In 1981 a report to the European Parliament by P. de Keersmaeker of the European Commission expressed wholehearted support for the principle of a fixed link , and in the same year reports based on consultations with the Council of Europe 's Conference of Local and Regional Authorities came to a similar conclusion both about the fixed link and other gaps in the European network of trunk communications . |
| 20 | Two strong groups emerged behind Long and Chamberlain , about equal in numbers , but there were few backers for Carson or Law . |
| 21 | Hong Kong manufacturers employ perhaps 2m workers in southern China , and last year nearly 58% of Hong Kong 's total exports consisted of re-exports from China . |
| 22 | Uniformed cops went on shift in pairs , joking , or came off singly , depressed . |
| 23 | Swire 's finest hours came after VJ Day . |
| 24 | Between 1987 and 1989 annual salaries for assistant solicitors rose by well over half , to £20,000–70,000 . |
| 25 | Thus many though by no means all European States had at their disposal means of recruiting by compulsion considerable numbers of men for military service . |
| 26 | The relations of the European States continued to be influenced in the eighteenth century , almost as much as in the age of Louis XIV , by the idea of the balance of power . |
| 27 | That of the southern European states led to the establishment of commonplace majority voting , as enshrined in the Single European Act . |
| 28 | Those were some of the high hopes at the start of Challenge 93 as representatives from seven European states parachuted into RAF Weston On The Green in Oxfordshire . |
| 29 | Moreover the armies of all West European States tended to be slow-moving , tied to fixed magazines and supply depots and further restricted by the ever-present fear of desertion . |
| 30 | Such lack of interest in any active Turkish diplomatic relationship with the European states stemmed from a deap-seated view of the world . |