Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun] [vb past] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Redundancy and dismissal were , not surprisingly , the most important reasons for job loss , but one survey found as much as one in five people who entered into unemployment did so after finishing a temporary job , whilst another put the proportion at only six per cent . |
| 2 | These ‘ environmental areas ’ were not car-free precincts on the Tripp model , but consisted of areas penetrated only by ‘ local distributors ’ and ‘ access roads ’ that carried traffic essential to the local conduct of shopping , living and working . |
| 3 | The equality of treatment boasted by GATT worked only among equals and to the detriment of the small . |
| 4 | The defects that existed in regimes resulted generally from staff shortages , concentration on other priorities , lack of good management or , at worst , lack of concern ’ ( Home Office 1989b ) . |
| 5 | The ‘ epidemic delusion ’ of Pantisocratic brotherhood had perhaps never been more powerful than at that moment , life on the banks of the Susquehannah never a more siren prospect , and a conversation which began by Coleridge asking Sarah if she would write to him when he returned to Cambridge led quickly to a proposal of marriage , which she accepted . |
| 6 | There had been a time when she had thought of going with Roman and dreamed of dancing held tightly in his arms , but now she doubted she would go at all . |
| 7 | Twelve patients also complained of diarrhoea defined either as frequent passage of small amounts of stools or as habitual passage of liquid or semiliquid stools . |
| 8 | As it turned out , the police officer concerned told us that , provided the details Carol remembered under hypnosis tallied precisely with the details she had given immediately after the crime , there would be no problem . |
| 9 | In many towns they had for generations lived peaceably with , and often trusted by , their Christian neighbours . |
| 10 | Both had in May called publicly for a return to a multiparty system . |
| 11 | In the course of his career , Darwin had in fact turned away from the idea that the physical environment is the crucial factor to which species must adapt . |