Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They could be seen in constant arguments in every European court , as in the past , about the relative positions of diplomats on formal and even informal occasions , their placing at table at meals where more than one was present , the precise way in which they were conducted to their first audience with the ruler to whom they were accredited , when and whether they stood or sat at such audiences , the precise moment when they or the ruler removed their hats , and a variety of such tremendous niceties . |
| 32 | The problems and criticism that arose from this decision , however , reflected the varying sizes of the administrative units . |
| 33 | Please let us know about EVERY class that operated at any time in 1988 , whether it was only a couple of weeks in January or a short summer course ( children or adults ) and take the highest number on roll at any time in the year . |
| 34 | Please make sure that EVERY class that operated at any time during 1990 is included ( even if now not running ) and give the maximum number on the roll . |
| 35 | Could you please let me have it now , or , if you can not find it , give the following information about all classes that operated in any part of 1989 ( including ‘ IR ’ = irregular , ‘ SC ’ = short course , and any discontinued during the year ) : |
| 36 | It was also obvious that there was no common set of criteria of needs ( ie in terms of access times , location , form , archiving etc ) that applied to all groups , a conclusion that had serious implications for the proposed systems . |
| 37 | I have no enthusiasm for returning to the sort of legislation that applied at that time . |
| 38 | It was also probably a link that led through several species of hominids , some of which died out , to man . |
| 39 | However , most drama activity should not be seen as leading to a polished end product ; even where this is the result , the most significant educational value of the activity will often have been found in the process that led to that end product . |
| 40 | In almost every one of the analyses that he showed , the primary enabling inventions that led to such advances lay in the materials field . |
| 41 | The reasoning that led to this development was clearly expressed in a remarkable passage in a late writing known as the Persian Rivayat : |
| 42 | We have taken steps to ensure that the circumstances that led to this tragedy can never be repeated . ’ |
| 43 | The biographer speculated that it may have been failure in his alchemical experiments that led to this breakdown . |
| 44 | But by far the most difficult and tiresome task had been that of the telephone girls , who had made scores and scores of transatlantic calls that Tuesday morning , afternoon , and early evening : calls made to one address that led to calls to another address ; calls to one friend that led to another friend or colleague ; from one police department to another ; one State to other States ; calls for one set of records that referred to another set of records that led … ad apparently infinitum . |
| 45 | As we chatted and laughed , I noticed a man sitting just behind us on a small staircase that led to another part of the restaurant ; he was holding an umbrella . |
| 46 | In recovery the Anonymous Fellowships , based upon the principles of Alcoholics Anonymous , provide successful continuing treatment for the spiritual disease that led to those disorders of mood so that recourse to addictive substances or behaviours becomes unnecessary . |
| 47 | But it can perhaps be seen as an architectural expression of that scented fin de siècle fascination with the Near East that produced in this period such works as Massenet 's opera Thaïs and Strauss 's Salome and the luxuriant novels of Pierre Loti and Pierre Louys . |
| 48 | The stars lit up the scene , and the little black iron lamps that gleamed outside each villa , in perfect keeping with the traditional style of the architecture . |
| 49 | And it turned out that there was a big goblin that lived on this island and he just ate fairies . |
| 50 | It was not until the twentieth century that visual artists started to look into the landscape of the Highlands and Islands and try to say something about the lives of the people that lived through those times . |
| 51 | Were there any different class of people that lived in that part of town then Street and Street and that ? |
| 52 | What ways did the families differ then that lived in those sort of houses to the families that lived in the terraced houses ? |
| 53 | Contained within the breccias are the fossilized bones of many animals that lived in this part of Britain during the middle Pleistocene , and we will be describing the way in which the fossil bones of the smaller animals came to be deposited . |
| 54 | If the ancient bacteria that lived before that time had been intelligent , they would have recognized it as a very serious pollution . |
| 55 | Over the extended hand she looked up into the prince 's eyes , and saw there the same candid regard she had seen in his model ; yet the shafts that pierced into this boy 's inmost being were somewhere shuttered close , standing off all communion . |
| 56 | ‘ And it came to pass , that when the sun went down , and it was dark , behold a smoking furnace , and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces ’ ; and Abraham in his dream heard that his seed would rule over ‘ the Kenites , and the Kenizzites , and the Kadmonites , and the Hittites , and the Perizzites , and the Rephaims , and the Amorites , and the Canaanites , and the Girgashites , and the Jebusites . ’ |
| 57 | When the man who waited with her crept to her shoulder and whispered in her ear , as he did several times between his nervous pacings about the room , she made him no answer , and never seemed even to be aware of him , though her braced tension made it plain that nothing that passed in this apartment escaped her instant notice . |
| 58 | But beneath it all , beneath the strange rituals that passed in this milieu for normality , there was an undercurrent of fear , of latent panic . |
| 59 | As Philip Warner has said in The Special Air Service , the official history re-issued in an expanded edition in 1983 , the regiment ‘ has often been criticised for the high proportion of officers and N.C.O.s , as well as first-class men , which it absorbed , and the answer must invariably be that used in this way they caused far more damage to the enemy than they would have done if they had been with other units . |
| 60 | What is sad is that caught in this way , they are unable to see or use the opportunities for life-fulfilling experiences spread out before them . |