Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We intend to develop a travelling ‘ Road Show ’ with display boards , videos , literature etc. supported by live demonstrations where possible . |
| 2 | They complained that they could not get loans from LEDU and if they did , the money only came after long delays . |
| 3 | To Methodists the talk of collectivism remained largely a political debate because , despite their numerous schisms , all five Methodist connexions had strong central authorities much envied by some Baptists and Congregationalists . |
| 4 | One tall girl with curly hair only hitched for two minutes before a smiling family picked her up . |
| 5 | Recently , for instance , the GHI Taste Panel tucked in to ready-made Christmas cakes ( see page 107 ) , while two more GHI researchers literally went into cold storage ( -18°C ) to test out the thermal properties of the vests featured on page 105 . |
| 6 | The lessee in a lease — the defendant so covenanted in this case — covenants in effect that he or his assignee will perform the covenants and observe the conditions contained in it ; and when , as in the present instance , the defendant sets up no performance by himself of the covenants sued on , his defence must be either that his assignee has performed them or that his assignee is in some way as between himself and the lessor absolved from performance . |
| 7 | The fieldwork data basically fell into three categories : that which I felt could definitely be published , that which could definitely not be published , and that which I was unsure about . |
| 8 | The fighting apparently started between pro-government forces loyal to Defence Minister Ahmed Shah Masud ( the so-called Shura-e Nazar or Supervisory Council ) and Hezb-i-Wahdat forces . |
| 9 | Rather than stick to these ‘ origination ’ strengths , however , BZW has tried to build the kind of corporate-finance department long boasted by old-established merchant banks that advise on mergers and acquisitions . |
| 10 | The conclusion that the speeches largely appealed to long-standing victims of the ‘ Führer myth ’ also seems justified on the basis of an examination of the more nuanced reports from local SD agencies , which , while generally positive , provide a somewhat more varied picture of reactions . |
| 11 | Phizacklea and Miles show some sensitivity to the contradictory nature of working-class consciousness and emphasize that in a number of workers high levels of class consciousness nevertheless coexisted with considerable hostility towards local blacks . |
| 12 | The branches above murmured to each other and refracted the light from the street lamps into kaleidoscopic shapes on the pavement , shades of concrete grey , forming and reforming , overlapping and separating . |
| 13 | Viennese modernism thus became in large measure a conservative modernism . |
| 14 | The marble is Naxian , and Naxos dominates early marble sculpture , though quarries soon opened on neighbouring Paros and that marble was afterwards preferred . |
| 15 | As was to be the case with far more important orders to the peasantry from the very highest level at the start of collectivization after NEP , bureaucratic delays and excessive central demands soon resulted in comparable excess of zeal at local levels . |
| 16 | Lower and higher concentrations finally led to increased numbers of blue insertless plaques on the selection plates . |
| 17 | In this case , what started out as a sideline soon became of major importance . |
| 18 | Football people were far safer , although a man from the Football Association once wrote in pained protest at the implication that Premier League chairmen were a bunch of avaricious mediocrities with the industrial attitudes of 19th century mill owners . |
| 19 | Armed forces units loyal to Najibullah immediately responded by attacking the Defence Ministry ; heavy fighting quickly erupted in other parts of the city . |
| 20 | LABOUR backbenchers yesterday called for two Cabinet ministers to explain how they allegedly spent £6,000 of taxpayers ' money on three urgent flights home from France , or repay the money . |
| 21 | It was observed that Joanne 's temper tantrums always began with shrill screaming , the other behaviours followed on as she got ‘ into the swing of it ’ . |
| 22 | In fact , about the only contact Edward ever had with other people 's flesh was when the school maids , and then their friends from round about , began to share their sexual favours with him . |
| 23 | Oh it was a hard working night for all the women and the dances went on t four o'clock in the morning and a wedding nearly went on all night . |
| 24 | Gorbachev also called for international regulation to protect zones with a " unique place in nature " , especially the Antarctic . |
| 25 | ‘ This is not surprising , ’ notes Correll , ‘ because nitrogen oxide emissions due to fossil fuel combustion also increased during this time . ’ |
| 26 | The results for British , Japanese , Finnish , Australian and Hong Kong index futures , which allowed for transactions costs , suggest that arbitrage opportunities also existed in these markets . |
| 27 | The cotton industry also flourished in industrial villages and small company towns so that by 1851 almost 17 per cent of Lancashire men over the age of twenty and 15 per cent of women worked at the manufacture of cotton . |
| 28 | The ‘ feeble minded ’ children labelled cretins also suffered from thyroid deficiency , or , usually , from a deficiency of the iodine which is necessary for the gland to function effectively . |
| 29 | The Community Programme also met with some suspicion when it was first introduced by the MSC in the early 1980s but it proved to be a boon for many bureaux to expand their services and broaden their workforce . |
| 30 | 13 1 ) that a man from Sybaris and another from Siris , both Italian towns , were among Agariste 's suitors at Sikyon ; and some of the poets patronized by the western Greeks had experience of mainland monarchy — Pindar and Simonides both wrote for Sicilian patrons : Pindar composed the Tenth Pythian , his earliest poem , for the Thessalian Thorax of Larisa , and Simonides had been patronized by Polykrates of Samos and Pisistratus of Athens in turn . |