Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , there were a few Conservative politicians who fundamentally disagreed with Conservative policy . |
| 2 | Teaching and organ-playing gave Benjamin James ( hereinafter simply ‘ Benjamin' for the sake of conciseness ) the wherewithal to leave one place for another if he wished to — they were skills more marketable over a wide area than those of his father , for example , who presumably relied upon local contacts and reputation in order to earn a decent living . |
| 3 | AN OBJECT lesson for all those who bemoan the artistic indifference of government , last night 's Omnibus ( BBC 1 ) looked at a political leader who took the closest interest in art , a mediocre and embittered water-colourist who eventually turned to another medium — mass emotion and warfare . |
| 4 | We report a formerly healthy boy who suddenly died at 11 months after a Reye-like syndrome . |
| 5 | Also involved with the Hoptons was Philip Bothe of Coddenham ( Suff. ) a second generation emigrant from the north west who suddenly rose to local prominence after 1483 — which seems to imply an earlier connection with Richard . |
| 6 | Also involved with the Hoptons was Philip Bothe of Coddenham ( Suff. ) a second generation emigrant from the north west who suddenly rose to local prominence after 1483 — which seems to imply an earlier connection with Richard . |
| 7 | Let loose on the family estancia during the holidays , he and Pedro had played cops and robbers on horses , and later polo with his cousins , who all came from large houses nearby . |
| 8 | Derby are offering trials to three Trinidad and Tobago internationals , Russell Latapy , Leonson Lewis and Philbert Jones , who all played in last month 's World Cup defeat by the United States . |
| 9 | Derby are offering trials to three Trinidad and Tobago internationals , Russell Latapy , Leonson Lewis and Philbert Jones , who all played in last month 's World Cup defeat by the United States . |
| 10 | If I analyse the bosses I 've worked for , the ones who irritated me the most were the ones who were indecisive and who constantly asked for more information just to delay making a decision . |
| 11 | Another youth patrol fended off neighbouring peasants who constantly tried to fell trees belonging to the colony ( shades of Nikol'skaia volost' ) . |
| 12 | This was a man who perhaps gave to all tube buskers indiscriminately , without even looking at them , for he tossed a 5P piece on to the ground as he strode past . |
| 13 | Surely it is possible that a jury might decline to convict of murder a person who intentionally killed under gross provocation , even though they knew that the judge could give a lenient sentence , because they wished to signify the reduction in the defendant 's culpability by using the less stigmatic label of manslaughter . |
| 14 | Presumably , if any of those Kurds who desperately clung to snowy slopes at border mountains , trapped between the armies of three states that did not recognise them , had been able to reach an aeroplane and fly to Britain , they would have qualified for asylum under the 1951 convention . |
| 15 | Cut off from God 's communion and divine love , the rebels still clung to their leader Lucifer , their fallen star , who still glowed with forgotten glory and the heat of defeated bitterness . |
| 16 | From the book he 'd just put down he knew that vast tracts of virgin tropical forest covered those mountainsides and large areas of the lowlands too ; in the book there w.ere sepia-tinted photographs of primitive tribesmen who still hunted with stone-tipped arrows and poison darts in those same forests that also teemed with elephant herds , tiger , buffalo , black bears and countless other rare species of animal life that had been left undisturbed by the march of civilization . |
| 17 | An overwhelming majority of those who still baulked at actual sacking favoured return to uniform , with the view that ‘ CID officers who are lazy and incompetent were so primarily because of the absence of the eventual sanction of removal from specialist duty . ’ |
| 18 | Welsh rulers , with whom Offa may have been at war and who possibly ruled in British territory subject to him , could have been among the kings of the Scots ( Irish ) who recognized the lordship of Charlemagne . |
| 19 | These colleges , though , soon proved inadequate for the ‘ all comers who promiscuously flocked from all parts to this University ’ ( Peck ) and other friaries , disliking the mixture of lay and secular education , established their own schools . |
| 20 | One thing that struck me about this contraceptive suggestion was that it was being made by people who totally disapproved of all experimentation on animals . |
| 21 | A MAN who usually stuck to soft drinks died after downing at least a dozen whiskies , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 22 | In the Birmingham hardware trades the increasing use of stamping and piercing machines from the mid eighteenth century increased the employment of women , who usually earned between 2s 6d ( 12½p ) and 7s ( 35p ) a week , similarly well below the wages of male artisans . |
| 23 | They are more concerned with the lost and how best to win them than with maintaining traditions : who ever dreamt of Anglican ethos in a church meeting in a pub anyway ? |
| 24 | Monique Javer , now 23 , was born near San Francisco of an English mother , who once played at junior Wimbledon , and an American father , who is a distinguished brain surgeon . |
| 25 | Consumers who once stuck to favourite brands most or all of the time are now willing to try any item that catches their eye . |
| 26 | And I 'm left to wonder if a little of the sheen has gone from a club who once shone like burnished gold . |
| 27 | Dovaston , who formerly worked for 25 years as a senior detective in the Liverpool area , explained that every fact that can be gleaned from the investigation into the boy 's murder so far will be punched into CATCHEM . |
| 28 | This frequently necessitated the redistribution and scattering of men who formerly worked in one department and under one roof . |
| 29 | The greater prominence of physiology in geographical botany dates from the time when physiologists , who formerly worked in European laboratories only , began to study the vegetation of foreign countries in its native land . |
| 30 | Dodge and Wells return in place of Alan Warwood and Adey Marriott while Jez Harris , who also played in last weekend 's hefty win over Coventry when Cusworth kicked his heels on the bench , remains at stand-off . |