Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its latent function was to ensure that the lower classes fitted in with the designs of their betters . |
| 2 | The greatest changes brought about by war were probably in the development of the cloth industry and the rise of the great clothiers to prominence within the English merchant class . |
| 3 | But they 've got the bloody labels mixed up by the look of it . |
| 4 | ‘ Nobody can predict what will happen over the next decade , particularly with all the agricultural changes brought about by the EC , but East Anglia can grow some of the best and cheapest grain in Europe and we are well placed to benefit from that ’ . |
| 5 | The administrative structures set up by the Colebrooke-Cameron Reforms , though subject to some change in the nineteenth century , remained largely intact until the early twentieth century . |
| 6 | Disraeli 's Government of India Act of 1858 was introduced as a direct result of the Indian Mutiny , and as a consequence of the administrative changes brought about by that Act , Scott 's brief was considerably extended . |
| 7 | To each of these may be added another if we count the faunal extinctions brought about by man in the last million years or so . |
| 8 | ITV 's new six-part series of Medics beginning on Tuesday March 31 puts the spotlight on the embattled doctors caught up in today 's troubled heath service . |
| 9 | The Scottish army marched to relieve Berwick and encountered the English forces drawn up on Halidon Hill , which lies about two miles north-west of the town and commands all approaches to it from the north . |
| 10 | Mr Rawley told the court that he had received full details of the scientific tests carried out by the Ministry that morning . |
| 11 | Of the 49 visits carried out during the year ( 42 routine , seven investigative ) , four were satisfactory , 13 reasonable , 25 not satisfactory and seven unacceptable . |
| 12 | Personal Computer World ( January 1993 ) — the free disk has been removed and the accompanying pages torn out of the journal . |
| 13 | You are faced with half a packet of dusty dried peas , the unopened naan bread mix that seemed such a good idea at the time and the smoked oysters left over from last year 's Christmas hamper . |
| 14 | The Sun , in the title , the photograph of ‘ the mask of fear ’ and the body of the text , refers to the assaults as ‘ a carbon copy of the brutal rapes carried out by pervert Malcolm Fairley , the so-called Fox , who was jailed for life last Tuesday ’ . |
| 15 | Apart from the system of secret diplomacy under his personal control which he developed after 1745 and which served merely to complicate and frustrate the foreign policies carried on by his ministers through regular channels , he took little interest in the machinery of government . |
| 16 | All this would have been unthinkable in the 1930s ; though , as Paul Addison has pointed out , there were signs that a progressivist tide of ‘ middle opinion ’ was rising gently , nevertheless the speed with which these developments occurred after 1940 must be attributed to the peculiar conditions brought about by the war . |
| 17 | If you 'd the old hens closed in with them they the young birds would have no chance . |
| 18 | In the following three chapters I will be examining their significance in three broad contexts : family and community ; the social divisions brought about by age , class , race and gender ; and the criminal justice system and crime control policy . |
| 19 | He whistled ‘ Roll Out the Barrel ’ out of tune as he pushed the few remains left over from the day towards the setting sun . |
| 20 | In one of these , Agdistis , a hermaphrodite , born of the seed of Zeus and Mother Earth , is castrated by having the male genitals torn off through being tied to a tree a not exactly common method , the reader will agree . |
| 21 | This might be because two schools were below average size for a secondary comprehensive ; the instruction to offer tests to pupils in the lowest sets rounded up to a complete set could have resulted in more higher ability pupils being included than was the case in larger schools with more sets . |
| 22 | Some systemically-desirable information , although part of the wider system , was not relevant to the actual activities carried out in the EPH . |
| 23 | The 100 metres turned out to be a controversial race . |
| 24 | It may take some perseverance to get the appropriate files brought out of store , but it is well worthwhile . |
| 25 | One of the crucial changes brought about by Mrs Thatcher is the attitude of those who have made it and believe that others can do likewise , or , if they fail to do so , are judged as having not really tried . |
| 26 | Results of surveys taken in recent years in AIB have indicated that staff morale is low — as it is in all banks — and this can certainly be said for those in Britain where members have had to endure in the past five years a two year period of unreal thinking , the additional pressures brought on by the recession , the pressures brought on by short staffing and on top of all that the lack of recognition in monetary terms for their efforts in ‘ keeping the ship afloat ’ . |
| 27 | Savage little pig , Rose would shout as the hard gums clamped on to her , then she 'd jiggle her , pleased at the child 's appetite . |
| 28 | They told me I had such a heavy infestation , all the little worms hooked on to my gut and sucking my blood , side by side , looked like velvet , and I 'd got tremendous scarring of the gut . |
| 29 | ‘ They told me I had such a heavy infestation , all the little worms hooked on to my gut and sucking my blood , side by side , looked like velvet … ‘ |
| 30 | One of the younger men charged up to Sabine and pulled her into the circle . |