Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We met that evening and she asked me straight out if I 'd be interested in an exclusive story : a scandal affecting a government minister . |
| 2 | The agreement covered industrial goods , processed agricultural goods and fish . |
| 3 | The theory was a good scientific theory , in the sense described in Chapter 1 : it was simple and it made definite predictions that could be tested by observation . |
| 4 | Anyway , my ole man 'ad pissed orf an' I was a bit short o' money . |
| 5 | The organization lacked coherent leadership and purpose and was little more than a patriotic group with a foreign-sounding name . |
| 6 | I had the great advantage of being brought up by a really traditional , old-fashioned nanny , who saw us through numerous disasters , one of which was the very memorable moment during the blitz when we were taken to a very smart tea shop in Curzon Street , a place where nannies met each other and their charges were just kept in tow . |
| 7 | Rather , it evolved in fits and starts as its various components were deployed in a variety of areas producing what quickly became classic studies and the base line for a growing corpus of social research findings . |
| 8 | For the discontented populations , the fact that the state outlawed political opposition and ruthlessly crushed popular uprisings served as a handy , and not altogether unconvincing , alibi for their political conformism . |
| 9 | The second wicket , like the first , produced 109 runs and he made 85 of them off 77 balls . |
| 10 | Two Swedes came to a town near here with a grant , and started a factory that made micro-electric parts or something — anyway , it would supposedly employ hundreds of local people . |
| 11 | Work by Kettler ( 1967 ; 1975 ) , Frisby ( 1983 ) , Kettler , Meja and Stehr ( 1984 ) and Loader ( 1985 ) has explored original German writings , studied and translated unpublished notes and lectures ( e.g. Mannheim 1982 ; 1985 ) and criticism to build up a fuller and more subtle context in which to understand Mannheim 's sociology of knowledge . |
| 12 | He was made assistant tutor , proceeding MA in 1812 , when he became sole tutor and vice-principal . |
| 13 | It had surrounded her at her progressive private school , it surrounded her still at her fashionable newish university , but she herself lacked economic grasp and was uncomfortably aware of having lost , of late , a few arguments with outsiders , of having been thrown back on arguments about personalities . |
| 14 | After a four year first team career was ended by injury he became reserve player-coach and progressed to become Lyall 's first team coach . |
| 15 | Among the areas he mentioned was China , which yesterday announced long-awaited plans that will allow Western oil companies to start drilling in 12 onshore areas . |
| 16 | In addition to the above work , BGS staff made short-term training and consultancy visits . |
| 17 | ( 1980 ) , produced little evidence that there really is a substantial difference between homes of different social classes in the quality of interaction that children experience with their parents . |
| 18 | Cowden , from Kilburn , North London , admitted attempted robbery and was given a suspended two-year prison sentence . |
| 19 | He made that noise that men who drink beer make , and wiped his mouth on the back of his wrist . |
| 20 | I like us to think for a little while this morning just what it means to be a Christian , we 've been hearing and seeing and been challenged and accepting Christ as our saviour and over the week in Harlow a number made that response and not only in Harlow and in Earls Court but right across the country and into Europe and into Africa as well , through the , through the life link , men and women who have been challenged into accepting Jesus Christ as their saviour and I 'd like us to think for a little while this morning just what it means to be a Christian now obviously as we perhaps know er , and , and , and God work clearly shows to us that it is not in being religion , somebody well said that religion is man 's attempt to find God but the gospel is God 's method of seeking out and finding men and so just as the same as you 've seen that bridge of life illustration and we try with our planks to get across to God we ca n't make it , |
| 21 | trembling when he made that speech when he remember when he , remember when you , you were n't there , no you were n't there he was shaking like a leaf . |
| 22 | Because he made that statement when discussing the concentric spheres with which Aristotle had built the cosmos , he was evidently aware that authoritative world-pictures were not inviolable . |
| 23 | The round black seed germinated that autumn and the following spring the plants developed long , woody tubers . |
| 24 | For diverse and often disparate groupings , the language of scientificity stood as a metaphor and a referent , which condensed specific anxieties and signified different solutions to different people . |
| 25 | He was subsequently appointed director , Reprocessing Engineering Division , and became technical director and also a main board member in 1984 . |
| 26 | In those days , marriage was mainly a matter of economy and family ; it was not normally possible to marry for love , and indeed the Courts ruled that love and marriage were incompatible . |
| 27 | A trial excavation in 1981 with his YOP team revealed preserved shrimps and complete fossil sharks previously unknown in Britain . |
| 28 | The rule applies in all preconsonantal environments including those that would have a long vowel in monosyllables ( fricative and voiced obstruent environments and liquids ) , except apparently before [ s ] clusters ( as in hospital ) . |
| 29 | The costs associated with collaboration include : i Where national bureaucracies are involved there are delays in procedures and high transaction costs ; ii Generally inefficiencies arise through the work share arrangements , duplicated administrative costs and delays caused by the need to harmonise requirements and delivery schedules . |
| 30 | 1988 ) the government agreed that attendance and financial-loss allowances should be replaced by a basic flat-rate allowance , but not at rates proposed by Widdicombe . |