Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [noun pl] [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accumulation could be maintained only if wages rose and scrapping accelerated . |
| 2 | Pyramids are found in both the Middle East and the Americas , perhaps because men reflected that mountains were closer to the heavens , where the gods were said to live , so they built the pyramids as their own mountains . |
| 3 | The course of the boundary should be examined critically and questions asked as to why it follows the features it does , what sort of land is enclosed , and why the land unit is the shape it is . |
| 4 | Hundreds gather on the platforms at Hof station , Bavaria , holding sheets of paper with names aloft on sticks , anxiously scanning the faces of the crowds pouring out of the trains , just as Germans did when millions fled before the advancing Russians or the avenging Poles and Czechs at the end of the war . |
| 5 | The all-clear was given three hours later after police confirmed that the fumes were not poisonous . |
| 6 | This was shouted so loudly that passers-by reacted and Bernie put his hand out to her . |
| 7 | In their rural isolation Belorussian peasants were at first little affected by anti-religious campaigns and actions emanating from the towns , even if priests disappeared and churches were commandeered . |
| 8 | I say about and that is the reason I got the book : because I discovered I was forgetting when things happened , and sometimes even whether things happened or not . |
| 9 | The British penchant for shooting themselves in the foot emerged again when officials decided that professionals who resided and worked outside Britain were ineligible to play , although they qualified by birth . |