Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a familiar case of one of the basic contradictions of modern capitalism , in which increasingly socialized forms of production are defined and limited by privately appropriated forms of ownership and control . |
| 2 | When no trace of hair remained visible , he applied strips of newspaper and a warmed towel to complete the process . |
| 3 | They were rocket propelled bombs with wings that enabled them to be launched and to fly in a straight line until the rocket fuel was used up , then to fall on the unfortunate people and buildings below . |
| 4 | Most of the Elizabethan and Jacobean amateurs who collected his music made copies of parts or all of it , and Byrd himself selected it for his first ( 1589 ) book of cantiones sacrae , along with pieces of the stature of ‘ Ne irascaris ’ , ‘ Tristitia et anxietas ’ , ‘ O quam gloriosum ’ and ‘ Vigilate ’ . |
| 5 | Banks like Childs and Hoares received the rents from the estates , made investments in stocks and collected dividends for their landed clients . |
| 6 | Scathach slung canvases between trees that surged and shuddered . |
| 7 | A joint quality team meets regularly and last year ICI produced improvements in product and delivery performance , resulting in the higher level Q1 Silver award . |
| 8 | Yet even peasants , bounded through their lives mostly by their immediate vicinity , could sometimes travel further afield , whether pursuing a legal claim , like the Mitry group , or about their lords ' business , like the men of St-Germain-des- Prés who owned transport-services between Anjou and the Paris neighbourhood . |
| 9 | Mr first laid plans of mice and men is one page missing as it is only twenty five metres away and I shall have it shortly . |
| 10 | I got loads of toiletries and things this year ! |
| 11 | His cries became screams of pain when the branch whipped against his face , causing blood to spurt from his nose , staining his shirt with crimson raindrops . |
| 12 | Farmworkers led animals to safety as firemen tackled the blaze in a garage and storeroom at East House Farm , Kelloe , near Durham at about 4am . |
| 13 | He timed the swinging of chandeliers in the cathedral and at once abstracted the essence of the problem , so that he made pendulums of string and small weights and established the relationship between length and time of swing , using his own pulse for measurement , for there existed no device for fine accurate timing . |
| 14 | In the early days of aviation he made designs for aeroplanes and , later in life , he took up golf and planned houses for himself and his friends in Berkshire . |
| 15 | In 1887 the Great Eastern Railway produced lists of seaside and country lodgings for tourists using their services . |
| 16 | Yet the Catholic Church violated it and deformed it and made relationships between men and women more difficult in that people became adversaries and exploiters rather than partners . |
| 17 | Guest speakers then led sessions of workshops and discussion groups . |
| 18 | These ideas were circulated in her theosophical society , The League of Isis , which listed rules on chastity and continence , aimed at promoting women 's higher self . |
| 19 | In some of its farthest reaches it has often to be contrasted with routinized or habituated forms of perception and recognition , which can then be falsely specialized as the ‘ merely social ’ . |
| 20 | Calling the UK 's attitude to Tibet " not satisfactory " , the Dalai Lama drew parallels between Tibet and Kuwait and the Baltic states . |
| 21 | But we found forms of collaboration that were more often : |
| 22 | The project analysed relationships of accountability and representation within two forms of economic association ( employers ' and trade unions ) as the outcome of participation in Area Manpower Boards , which advise on the planning and delivery of MSC employment and training services . |
| 23 | Together with the prosperous shopkeepers and merchants , rather than seeking to challenge the aristocracy , they found opportunities for investment and perhaps superior status in the farming of feudal dues . |
| 24 | The prosecution also say police found fragments of glass and residue of petrol in clothing belonging to Richard Duriez and Annette Tibbles . |
| 25 | WALSINGHAM became a shrine to Our Lady at a difficult time when the Turks overran the Holy Land and stopped pilgrimages to Jerusalem and Nazareth for which the English were already renowned . |
| 26 | It is uncertain exactly what contributions Brother Oudart made to the development of the Champagne method but we know that he also used corks from Spain and it has been suggested that he was the first to use a liqueur de tirage . |
| 27 | The palladium absorbed the hydrogen and , glory be , they found traces of helium when they were finished ! |
| 28 | She says she tried to keep changes to a minimum — no more than ten words in any one book — and retained words like Boche because they are not as inflammatory as nigger . |
| 29 | For some architects , the removal of regulations which both provided guidelines for behaviour and also limited the areas in which competition existed has provided a stimulus since they now feel able to compete more efficiently in a less restricted arena . |
| 30 | Many built homes in Brighton & Hove . |