Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] [adj] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the 11 million German workers less than 1.5 million worked in enterprises employing more than 1,000 people . |
| 2 | More than three thousand worked in woodland throughout the country to ensure British industry never ran out of timber . |
| 3 | And when they came to the sea , so great was the press among them to get to the ships , that more than ten thousand died in the water . |
| 4 | While the war continued , and until early 1945 continued on French soil , the General 's main concerns remained to secure the authority of his state , to maximize the French military contribution in the war against Germany , and to ensure as large a role as possible for France in the formulation of the peace settlement . |
| 5 | Marcus rather absently , as if all this belonged to the remote past , asked Pat how he was getting on , and Pat reported how much better he was feeling . |
| 6 | If all this had to be summed up in one sentence I suppose it would have to be that Wittgenstein 's treatment of the ‘ Other Minds ’ problem is an extended illustration of a point in philosophical logic : namely , that the meaningfulness of some of the things we say is dependent on contingent facts of nature — such as that the Earth revolves on its axis , and that we moan with pain and react as we do to others who moan . |
| 7 | ‘ And apart from Barbra arriving late — which she would n't have done had she only been given one hairdresser instead of three , because all three insisted on fixing her hair , and that took time — everything went smoothly . ’ |
| 8 | Of these , 1,558 were taken for Yorkshire , while another 144 came in his forty test appearances . |
| 9 | his face at moment , he had n't been anywhere round to , since all this happened before Christmas . |
| 10 | They had been booked in advance on a quota basis by Čedok , so they would be paid for whether any one ate at them or not . |
| 11 | Bucks Railway Centre staff could fairly be described as confused when Ex-GWR 6024 arrived at 08.55 hrs at Quainton without any coaches on Sunday morning . |
| 12 | But it is one thing to thumb your nose at Mr Gorbachev over the Kremlin wall , as many thousands did in a demonstration in Moscow last weekend . |
| 13 | The experiment was not a great success , though all three stayed in the force for some time . |
| 14 | ‘ Christ , that was close , ’ Yanto gasped , as all four lay on the grass gulping air . |
| 15 | They were at their strongest when all eight figured in the opening set as well , notably on Illuminations , which mixed bop-derived figures with much freer playing . |