Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Total losses amounted to £5 million over three years . |
| 32 | The tallest of the tall Nubians spoke to Mahmud , enquiring about us , the foreigners . |
| 33 | Poor communications meant that very little news from outlying districts appeared in ZANA output , the only notable exception being when the president went on one of his tours of the country and a journalist from ZANA accompanied the party . |
| 34 | New York was long known as the imperial city — the place that drilled tunnels and threw majestic bridges across the East and Hudson rivers , whose railway stations celebrated beaux-arts architecture , and where rich visionaries went to town with such mighty groups of buildings as the Rockefeller Centre . |
| 35 | His rounded shoulders collapsed further and his timid eyes quested to right and left to avoid her gaze . |
| 36 | A decree permitting the free formation of political parties came into force in March 1990 . |
| 37 | Coal for the pumping engines on the Cornish mines came from Swansea , and the copper ore went back to be smelted in South Wales . |
| 38 | He said in a letter : ‘ Attacks on British personnel resulted in injury to Lieutenant Justin Freeland . |
| 39 | Many of Britain 's waste managers are in the aggregates business ; the two French giants began as water companies ; Browning Ferris started life as a haulage company ; some of the German companies are owned by electricity utilities . |
| 40 | Some employers reneged on agreements once the slump set in ; a few new agreements were made . |
| 41 | The detailed notes appended to Ord 15 or amendments should be referred to . |
| 42 | He did not know of it , a thought which after a few minutes occurred to Wainfleet when Wickham encountered him in the pub . |
| 43 | Pressures from the DES and what in some cases amounted to directives from local authorities , led the colleges concerned to move away from outright hostility to testing out what degree of autonomy and protection for art and design would be forthcoming within the polytechnic structure . |
| 44 | The farmers ' protests , over falling prices and the prospect of even lower prices under the common agricultural policy of the European Communities ( EC ) [ see p. 38352-53 ] , had initially been peaceful but in some cases deteriorated into violence [ see p. 38446 ] . |
| 45 | The same is true of the Marques de Pombal , who for over a quarter of a century ( 1750–77 ) was virtual ruler of Portugal as all-powerful chief minister of King Joseph I. His efforts to revive the country 's economic life and challenge the dominance which British merchants had for decades wielded over its foreign trade , his ferocious repression of noble opposition , his brutal expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767 ( see p. 454 ) , show a far more truly radical attitude to tradition and established interests than Frederick II displayed . |
| 46 | In all , his public bequests amounted to c . |
| 47 | Mortified , he dropped his arms in a gesture of defeat , and the ruined peonies fell like garden rubbish around his feet . |
| 48 | She was small and slim , red-haired like her Altun cousins , and her brown eyes sparkled with pleasure . |
| 49 | Her brown eyes blazed with indignation . |
| 50 | On July 20 a group of French inspectors arrived in Ukraine to monitor implementation of the treaty , marking the start of an intensive 120-day period of mutual " baseline inspections " to establish current holdings in each country . |
| 51 | More than ten thousand British fans travelled to Barcelona last months to witness the first Olympics to be held in Europe for 20 years . |
| 52 | The sponsorship money for the 30 squares amounted to £150,000 and paid all the production and advertising costs for the game . |
| 53 | One of my favourite combinations consisted of Patrick Moore , Alan Coren and Zsa Zsa Gabor . |
| 54 | Latin temperaments rose in exasperation in direct proportion to their owners ' frustration . |
| 55 | Within months , some clients had in excess of 25 dealers contacting them from the same firm ; many were also being contacted from other licensed dealers . |
| 56 | Mendel was led to this conclusion by the fact that individuals with different characteristics appeared in families in fixed ratios . |
| 57 | Since ITV had the TV monopoly of advertising and ‘ editorializing ’ was not allowed , few anxieties surfaced about advertisers ' influence on programmes . |
| 58 | EGG production could not have been better in the new EC-regulation , stress-free perchery barn of Mr Tony Wilson-Brown on his Lincolnshire farm , when his 2,700 brown hens listened to Radio 4 for 13 hours a day . |
| 59 | The finished design was brought to life with the help of four top craftsmen handpicked by Carol . |
| 60 | Nellie 's last few words stayed in Fred 's mind and later , in the comfort of the cosy front room above the dining rooms , after Maisie had left , he was moved to speak to his young wife about what her mother had said to him . |