Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | One tall girl with curly hair only hitched for two minutes before a smiling family picked her up . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Viennese modernism thus became in large measure a conservative modernism . |
| 9 | In this case , what started out as a sideline soon became of major importance . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Armed forces units loyal to Najibullah immediately responded by attacking the Defence Ministry ; heavy fighting quickly erupted in other parts of the city . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ This is not surprising , ’ notes Correll , ‘ because nitrogen oxide emissions due to fossil fuel combustion also increased during this time . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The applicant also appealed with special leave from the judgment of Barnett J. |
| 17 | The numbers of missing and of discrepant entries were correlated ( r=0.42 , p<0.05 ) , and both of these were also correlated with variability in peak expiratory flow ; this variability also correlated with missing data . |
| 18 | Every offering seems to contain at least four separate songs — so there 's rarely any danger of things descending into the kind of tedium often purveyed by dreadlocked squat-dwellers . |
| 19 | Paradoxically , attending courses at the Civil Service College often led to more dissatisfaction when contrasted with the reality of civil service life . |
| 20 | The tariff for goods carriage now stood at 20,000 times previous rates , but this still fell far below the cost-of-living index due to astronomical inflation . |
| 21 | It is of course possible that where either is inflicted as part of the preliminaries to intercourse , a defendant could be brought within the section even where the recipient fully consented to such acts . |
| 22 | A potential litigant sometimes went through three persons : the tout , petition-drawer and proctor . |
| 23 | Between the wars the kind of juvenile gang-violence portrayed , for example , in Graham Greene 's Brighton Rock again led to unfavourable comparisons being made with the past . |
| 24 | Their work culminated in the drug Tagamet or cimetidine , soon widely adopted as the most effective remedy yet discovered for gastric overacidity and gastric and duodenal ulcers . |
| 25 | Real shame our movie never got past first base . |
| 26 | But success breeds replication and good examples of provision soon spread to other centres . |
| 27 | Holding Seawitch on course with one hand , he pushed the other through hair already rumpled by previous displays of frustration . |
| 28 | In both public opinion of a modern kind scarcely existed during this period . |
| 29 | Her liaison with Wyatt continued apace until late in 1990 when the Duchess finally came under official pressure to cool it . |
| 30 | When Pugh closed the gap with his second penalty , the North Midlands ' response soon followed with another try from Moon . |