Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [pron] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Edgar 's male chauvinism ( though this was a phrase not yet current ) and his expectation that his work was always , would always be of greater importance , than her own — these were aspects of their mutual dissatisfaction , no doubt , although both were , decades later , to concede that Edgar at this time was paying a high psychological price for having renounced his theatrical ambitions ( old Cambridge friends of his already had their names in lights in the West End , while he was a mere house officer ) and that Liz was still suffering from the trauma of confronting her mother with her total , final defection . |
| 32 | The battle of wits between them again featured prominently in the proceedings of the Macmillan Committee under the second Labour government . |
| 33 | A region is mediated in our everyday life in the form of various symbols , which are the same for all individuals in the one region , though the meanings associated with them will always be construed personally on the basis of the individual 's life situation and biography … though the regions of a society obtain their ultimate personal meanings in the practices of everyday life , these meanings can not be totally reduced to experiences that constitute everyday life , since a region bears with it institutionally mediated practices and relations , the most significant being the history of the region as a part of the spatial structure of the society in question . |
| 34 | Electrically activated signals worked by small switches and interlocked with the points they controlled were first introduced by Sykes at Penge in 1875 and were the forerunner of large electro-mechanical signalling systems in which electrically actuated signals controlled by small slides were introduced , with lever-controlled points actuated by rodding . |
| 35 | CONGRATULATIONS to which recently celebrated its first birthday . |
| 36 | On the bare and blackened springs of what once had been the driver 's seat , sat the bare and blackened remains of what once had been something or other . |
| 37 | Each one of us was beckoned over to have a go when it was my turn I rushed over and put the tanks on I then submerged It felt strange breathing under water like a fish the bubble emitted from the regulator trickled up the side of my face . |
| 38 | The great beeches towered up towards the sky , their grey smooth trunks like the columns of an abbey church , and about their roots short grasses grew , gay with harebells and scentless violets among which indolently flitted small butterflies more blue than the flowers . |