Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His blood vessels dilated or contracted in different parts of his body . |
| 2 | Being a representative of a national race committee , I 'm often dismayed at the ne the lack of black people demonstrated or portrayed in Direct . |
| 3 | He also maintained that increases in public expenditure would lead to increased taxation and higher unemployment . |
| 4 | We found that adjusting for maternal smoking in pregnancy did not change the strength of the association between birth weight and lung function so that the effect of environment in utero on birth weight and subsequently on lung function may be independent of smoking in pregnancy . |
| 5 | In the 1950s many teachers found that exercises in grammatical analysis did not help children to raise their standards in the use of English . |
| 6 | Blue light , and silver and bronze , streamed and bounced and danced through tall windows . |
| 7 | Fairview New Homes has a number of sites in North East London designed and priced for first-time buyers . |
| 8 | This means that , in the main , all SCOTVEC awards are now approved , validated and verified to common quality assurance criteria . |
| 9 | Polly found herself staring at his thighs , mesmerised by the powerful muscles that bunched and flexed beneath bronzed skin dusted with gold-brown hair . |
| 10 | The lamp , a psychedelic icon , contained a brightly coloured waxy substance which rose and fell in strange blobs . |
| 11 | Even though , forged before the introduction of recoil mechanism , they bounced back and had to be relaid after each shot just like cannon of the Napoleonic era , the elderly French 155s cracked and thundered with remarkable accuracy . |
| 12 | I was within half a mile of Darrowby with the lights of the little town beginning to wink between the bare roadside branches when a car approached , went past , then I heard a squeal of brakes as it stopped and began to double back . |
| 13 | He stopped with his hands full of water ; it dripped and fell in little runnels on the earth , but he did not notice . |
| 14 | Jamie Blandford admitted things were different for him than for his predecessors , most of whom he described as living in blissful ignorance of the world . |
| 15 | 38 Engineer Regiment from Claro Barracks , Ripon , search a lake where a light aircraft crashed when hit by flying wreckage . |
| 16 | " So how can I be of assistance to you ? " she asked , fixing a professional smile to her face , the same smile she used when dealing with difficult customers or when fixing the amount to paid out in bribes . |
| 17 | A sizable majority of respondents in each of the remaining categories , including local law societies , agreed that grants to individual clients should continue to be unlimited . |
| 18 | Iliescu also announced that work on unfinished grandiose construction and infrastructural projects had been halted pending an investigation of their economic worth . |
| 19 | The Software Foundation admitted that calls from big industry players such as Novell Inc , which have shied away from committing to Distributed Computing Environment until now , persuaded the organisation to reconsider its pricing policy . |
| 20 | OSF admitted that calls from big industry players such as Novell Inc , who 've shied away from committing to DCE until now , persuaded the organisation to reconsider its pricing policy ( UX No 424 ) . |
| 21 | The young boy quickly became an authority on who received and dealt in stolen goods in London , who specialized in watches , clothes , foreign money , rings . |
| 22 | Sometimes the thread was misery , sometimes the black joy of an earth , blasted and left for dead , that went on labouring in darkness to renew itself . |
| 23 | Third , the political turbulence of the seventies born of economic failure and increasing unemployment , destroyed consensus and brought " conviction politics " and real choice back to the fore with a vengeance : the Conservatives rediscovered old roots in their opposition to state intervention and their commitment to the free market ; the Labour Party rediscovered socialism and attacked the free market of capitalism at the same time as they were eager to fashion an interventionist state ; the specifics of nationalist sentiment ebbed and flowed in unpredictable ways ; and only the Liberal-SDP Alliance seemed eager to try and recreate the moderate consensus politics and policies of the fifties , and they did this despite growing signs that the social and economic conditions that made those policies viable had ceased to exist . |
| 24 | Tenants came and went with great rapidity . |
| 25 | Wycliffe said that he did , which was something of a record , for Franks 's secretaries came and went with bewildering frequency , though all were to a common stamp . |
| 26 | Ten Tory MPs who came and went in mysterious circumstances |
| 27 | Sunday dinner was always a special one , culminating in Auntie 's home-grown fruit , stewed and covered in thick Cornish cream . |
| 28 | Green blood spurted wildly into the air , much of it landing into the stew pot where it fizzed and crackled like little gun shots . |
| 29 | The route was taking her over a highway that twisted and turned across central North Island mountain ranges where the air was fresh and clear . |
| 30 | Dunlin twisted and turned in fast-weaving silvery flocks . |