Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [conj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These tournaments were also not being played on clay , and she obviously felt that participation in the Olympics would damage her chances on the tournament circuit , where failure to defend her points would mean that she might drop out of the top 100 in world rankings . |
| 2 | Their strength has been that recruits came to them already vetted and character-tested through membership of a church or Orange lodge . |
| 3 | ( Lemon curd has been one of the most painfully travestied and ill-used of all our true English preserves . |
| 4 | He thus emerged as champion of the free market , appointing western-educated technocrats as ministers . |
| 5 | Although Constance soon learned that life in a couture house was more about hard work than glamour , she loved Maison de Levantiére . |
| 6 | From what depths of unease and powerlessness emerges all this gratitude desperately proffered as pay for services not rendered ? |
| 7 | I suppose she just hoped that news of her disappearance had n't made it as far as the Glasgow papers . ’ |
| 8 | Members of the nursing profession , who once assumed that training for registration would equip them for a career in nursing now realise that this is no longer the case . |
| 9 | JIM MILLS yesterday resigned as manager of the Welsh Rugby League team in protest at his side 's omission from the World Cup , to be staged in Britain in 1995 . |
| 10 | Joe Strummer once said that listening to John Peel was like a dog being sick in your face . |
| 11 | Back in the late seventies Ernie was a regular in the Island and he achieved his ‘ ton ’ on the Lightweight class but he also rode as passenger for his brother Wallace as they too put up a three figure lap . |
| 12 | Mr Dalyell also asked whether work on controls over radioactive emissions , particularly at Aldermaston , Amersham and Burghfield , was being hampered , and for the reasons for the recruitment difficulties . |
| 13 | It also proposed that legislation on political parties should include stipulations that all parties should be national organizations , embracing both sides of the union ( i.e. mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar ) , and that they should not divide people along tribal , religious or racial lines . |
| 14 | It also noted that ownership of and access to environmental data was a policy matter of the greatest importance ; this may be more difficult in ‘ within country ’ data than with global data since the latter are often already the subject of international exchange agreements at zero cost . |
| 15 | The FMLN also claimed that aid from international organizations was being prevented from reaching them and that captured FMLN members were now being held as political prisoners . |
| 16 | Trade unionists also discovered that provision of benefits were an effective means of retaining members between periods of industrial militancy . |
| 17 | These councils ' low-key approach had saved them from widespread media hostility , but it also meant that awareness of the funded projects was limited to those who were already , to some extent , part of lesbian and gay networks . |
| 18 | I also knew that eating in the way I did , stuffing and starving and taking laxatives when I felt guilty about what I 'd eaten , was dangerous too , and affecting my health . |
| 19 | I 'd caught him once or twice patting her bottom which the silly girl probably took as evidence of her superior attractions , whereas I knew he did it to every woman under forty . |
| 20 | They also insisted that selection by the environment had no effect on the characters that appeared in this way . |
| 21 | The congress also elected as editor-in-chief of the BCP daily newspaper Rabotnichesko Delo Stefan Prodev , a reformist who in November 1988 had been dismissed as the editor of the newspaper Narodna Kultura for his association with the unofficial Club for the Support of Glasnost and Perestroika in Bulgaria [ see p. 36771 ] . |
| 22 | He also said that part of the deal would be that the IAAF would not be informed that a doping offence had taken place which , given that the athletes were suspended by the IAAF , suggested that Mr Emig was not fully conversant with international regulations . |
| 23 | The sources also said that intervention in the currency markets was not expressly aimed at averting an increase in interest rates . |
| 24 | Two members of the Warnock Committee dissented from the majority to the extent of permitting surrogacy as a treatment for childlessness under the general supervision of a licensing authority ; and they also suggested that payment to a surrogate mother should not be a barrier to the child being adopted by the commissioning couple . |
| 25 | He now realized that specialization for a particular way of life was an advantage even in a stable environment , because it allowed a species to escape from the pressure of rivals seeking to exploit the same resource . |
| 26 | He now believed that reference to individual cruelty cases hindered the argument of the cause . |
| 27 | Having obtained legal powers to build itself a tramway system , Croydon Rural District Council then discovered that legislation at that time made no provision for a Rural District Council to own , operate , or perhaps more important , to raise the necessary finance to construct a tramway system . |
| 28 | He then served as curate at St Ignatius , Ossett and St Nicholas , Gipton , but by this time he was becoming increasingly involved in additional administrative tasks . |
| 29 | They initially thought that competition from powerful foreign interests would encourage the national bourgeoisie to take an anti-imperialist stand . |
| 30 | Judge Lauterpacht however felt that extension of the Organisation 's powers could only be justified where it was necessary for the performance of its functions and , in this instance , was caused by South Africa 's non-performance of its obligations . |