Example sentences of "[vb past] in [det] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The duration of such responses would , however , be too great to allow the rapid succession of contractions needed to maintain the high frequency of the wing beat in many efficient flyers . |
| 2 | He drew in several great gulps of air before he had enough breath to gasp out : ‘ Do n't say any more . |
| 3 | The conditions he encountered in these other counties however , appear to have left a deeper , and darker , impression on his mind . |
| 4 | I think I just put up with it because he behaved in such extraordinary ways to me in the time I had known him , of showing affection at all ? |
| 5 | This symbolism is similar to that found in many ancient cultures , including those of Mesoamerica , in which the serpent represents cycles of endless time , perhaps suggested by the fact that the snake periodically sheds and renews its skin . |
| 6 | A likely soup might be gazpacho ( actually Spanish in origin , but found in many Latin restaurants ) , a first course ripe avocado served simply with fresh lime . |
| 7 | His thought had been moving towards an idea of nature , not unlike that found in some Stoic philosophers , as a complex of processes subject to their own natural law . |
| 8 | To excel in these areas , Keyence has had to cultivate an individualist meritocracy unlike that found in most Japanese companies . |
| 9 | Between 1801 and 1851 only limited areas were directly affected by urbanization , and high rates of increase still occurred in many rural areas , especially in the east and the south . |
| 10 | The dispersal of housing and employment growth from the cities to surrounding counties occurred in many different phases , but has increasingly raised major questions in land-use planning . |
| 11 | In 1989/90 , that trend continued , but growth also occurred in all other sectors . |
| 12 | It is possible that a ‘ fire storm ’ condition developed in the town , similar to that which occurred in several German cities during the last war , when saturation bombing raids started so many fires that the city became effectively one big fire , sucking into itself hurricane force winds to bring fresh oxygen to the heart of the inferno . |
| 13 | Shock flooded her as she stared at the tall , dark-haired , dark-eyed man , who seemed in those initial moments not to be believing his eyes either . |
| 14 | Striker who played in several senior games last season . |
| 15 | Debut v World XV in 1989 , faced NZ and Australia and played in both French Tests . |
| 16 | I believe old Mel played in some pre-season games and proved his fitness ? ? |
| 17 | Probably creative work was all the real satisfaction he obtained in those stressful years . |
| 18 | The newcomer , moreover , does not enter the village as a lone individual who has to win social recognition among the locals in order to make life tolerable-Instead , particularly during the 1950s and 1960s , the newcomers arrived in such large numbers — perhaps due to the building of a new housing estate by a local speculative builder — that the individual ‘ immigrant ’ found himself one of many others whose values , behaviour and life-styles were similarly based upon urban , middle-class patterns of sociability . |
| 19 | Jesus replied in those intriguing words , ‘ My Kingdom is not of this world . ’ |
| 20 | Special schools existed in all local authorities but rarely were the children who attended given the opportunity to share everyday experiences with their more fortunate contemporaries . |
| 21 | Concentrations of listeners — and potential listeners — existed in such regional centres as Mwanza , Mbeya and Arusha , where reception was poor . |
| 22 | There was , however , one troubling group inherited from the Roman past , which remained a permanent feature of the social landscape of Western Europe : the Jews who existed in most Roman towns , in large numbers or small . |
| 23 | Animal and plant ecology long remained separate disciplines , and plant ecology itself existed in several different forms . |
| 24 | In France , fertility decline within marriage began a century earlier , in the 1780s ( Wrigley 1983 ) , without industrialization on the scale of Britain's. furthermore the decline began in many rural areas at the same time as in towns . |
| 25 | At the level of the Symon Unconformity , at the top of the Grey Measures , significant gas generation began in some restricted areas away from the basin flank at this time , depending on local position within the developing Jurassic sub-basins . |
| 26 | These birds , with now and then a solitary Rhynchops and frigate bird ( Tachypeles aquilus ) , were all of the feathered race that I observed in these heated latitudes , a part of the voyage which always hang heavily upon those destined to visit these distant regions ; by me , however , it was not so much felt , the monotony being relieved by the occasional occurrence of a whale , whose huge body rolled lazily by ; by a shoal of porpoises , which sometimes perform most amusing evolutions , throwing themselves completely out of the water , or gliding through it with astonishing velocity ; or by the occasional flight of the beautiful flying fish , when endeavouring to escape from the impetuous rush of the bonito or albacore . |
| 27 | This cut was smaller than that imposed in some other sectors , but it none the less entailed over 7,000 job losses , including 2,400 teaching posts . |
| 28 | It was the friendship that developed in those early days which added to the success of Jan 's casting . |
| 29 | In the early days both methods co-existed for some time in Great Britain , but the adherents of each method campaigned against one another here and elsewhere in Europe until towards the close of the nineteenth century , when oralism for the time being triumphed in all European countries . |
| 30 | The next port of call was the Royal Moat House International and Nottingham , for an excellent carvery lunch enjoyed in most pleasant surroundings . |