Example sentences of "[adj] [Wh pn] [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are some who have corruptly manipulated the production of state factories for their own personal gain , there are some who have covertly passed on the writings of Alexander Solzhenitsyn . |
| 2 | Donaldson 's Hospital School for the Deaf was evacuated to Cockburnspath and North Berwick ; the nursery department of the Royal Schools for the Deaf , Manchester , was evacuated to Middlewich in Cheshire ; the Old Kent Road School for the Deaf to St. Alban , Glamorgan , temporarily before relocating at Banstead , Surrey , where they were joined by Anerley School for the Deaf who had originally evacuated to the Royal Cross School , Preston thence to the Royal West of England School at Exeter , hurriedly evacuating the latter following the Baedeker Raids on Exeter in 1942 . |
| 3 | He looks not like a peasant from Saratov , but a Civil Servant Grade 5 who has just got off the train from Greenwich . |
| 4 | Many who had earlier worked against Scottish interests had for some time been making covert approaches and promises through envoys between the two Courts . |
| 5 | The Alliance was indissolubly linked to local ratepayers ' organisations — most notably the Forest Gate Ratepayers ' Association ( FGRA ) — which functioned as an effective lobby for those who felt most threatened by rate increases , namely , the manufacturers and petit bourgeoisie . |
| 6 | Those who thought otherwise relied upon the observation that attendance at church was declining . |
| 7 | I spoke to as many reinforcements as I possibly could , especially those who had just arrived from Achnacarry . |
| 8 | Perhaps half of those who had previously voted for the middle-class parties now voted for the NSDAP . |
| 9 | The immediate costs to the United States would have been political , the main gainers being the major gold producers — South Africa and the USSR and those who had previously speculated against the dollar by demanding gold . |
| 10 | Thus , the Gundovald affair highlights the dangers posed by magnates caught in three different situations : by those who were unsure of their position at court , those who had already fallen from royal favour , and those whose royal patron had been killed . |
| 11 | The final version was more stringent than the original proposals , broadening the criteria for screening to ban those who had simply collaborated with the StB ( Security Service ) . |
| 12 | And all those who had silently wished with all their might that they might dare challenge the hegemony of dowdiness took to ‘ Next ’ like ducks to water . |
| 13 | Even those who had never heard of him mouthed his words , repeating them to others as though they had just thought of them themselves , which perhaps they had , for there is surely such a thing as a spirit of the times . |
| 14 | The responses could be analysed for differences in opinion depending on the time since the respondent had suffered from the illness or between those who had ever and those who had never suffered from the illness in question . |
| 15 | Those who had never acted in Guild Mysteries were just as likely to be accepted as those who had all the verses committed to memory . |
| 16 | Yet Grigori Medvedev , the chief engineer at Chernobyl in the 1970s , says in his recent book ( see page 125 ) that Soviet-made Geiger counters registered high levels of radiation on men who had not yet been into the zone , and nothing at all on those who had recently emerged from it . |
| 17 | In the main survey , only one per cent of those who had recently bought on credit had difficulty making payments — because of illness , unemployment , or other unforeseen financial demands . |
| 18 | In the main survey ( Appendix 1 , comments on Table 24 ; and more detailed cross-tabulations not included in Appendix ) , only three per cent of those who had recently bought on credit had had any problems with their credit arrangement , after buying ( nearly half the problems were difficulties over paying , and problems which people thought were the fault of the credit firm were very rare indeed ) . |
| 19 | The issues raised by this and subsequent questions go to the heart of the debate on the Compensation Fund , and it is apparent that many of those who answered negatively felt to varying degrees that in the present commercial climate the public could no longer expect the entire profession to compensate them for any losses they suffered at the hands of a tiny minority of errant solicitors — particularly as no comparable compensation was available from the providers of other professional services . |
| 20 | This has undoubtedly led to the enrichment of specific rural and urban groups in the Third World , those who have successfully adapted to the changing demands of the global marketplace , but it has also resulted in many Third World countries losing their original self-sufficiency in food and becoming highly dependent on food imports from the First World . |
| 21 | This is known colloquially as the old age pension and is payable at a flat rate to all those who have finally retired from the labour market provided they have the appropriate national insurance contributions . |
| 22 | Those who have never lived through it can hardly imagine the fuss that little children can make if they do not get their own way . |
| 23 | Quite distinct from the implications for increased efficiency , where managers are seen as holding positions of power for the purpose of furthering the public interest it is appropriate that there should be public participation in the formulation of appropriate performance standards and that those who have culpably fallen below them should be held to account in a public forum . |
| 24 | On this score there is much to deplore and despise in the activities of those who have systematically contributed to the breakdown of our society by embracing policies which have removed , progressively , the props of discipline and authority . |
| 25 | In this fashion the stoneage men of today throw light on those who have long disappeared from view . |
| 26 | Those who have genuinely fled from persecution and who carry on normal , non-violent political activity and demonstration here have nothing to fear . |
| 27 | Bubble-gum sub- heads like ‘ Material-ismo ’ , ‘ The Beer and Sausage Minuet ’ , ‘ Rusty Tracks and Hotel Love- Sounds ’ , may grab the millions who have already bought into the previous Toffler output . |
| 28 | Because , now Lyndsey joined it and he , he said like when he was eighteen he knew it all , and he says you were watching men of twenty who 'd just joined at training |
| 29 | He was an ailing man of 61 who had never commanded in the field , knew nothing of Gallipoli and was appointed solely because of seniority on the army list . |
| 30 | Legislative power was to be vested in a 50-member ( of which 25 would be elected ) High Council of the Republic , to include three former civilian presidents from the 1960s who had recently returned from exile — Hubert Maga , Justin Ahomadegbe and Emile Zinsou . |