Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a developing awareness that politics went beyond the institutions of government , and that the connections between state and society involved more than attending to the formal implications of regular general elections and the play of party politics . |
| 2 | It accelerated more than anticipated with the result that the capsule landed in the Atlantic over a hundred miles away from the target area . |
| 3 | Mandeville sensed this and closed like a hawk for the kill . |
| 4 | The final hymn had eight verses , not to speak of a chorus of Hallelujahs at the end of each one ; Mr Frizzell enjoyed this and sang in a pleasant tenor voice . |
| 5 | Discreetly sited cameras and sound equipment recorded all that occurred over the counter . |
| 6 | Towards the end of the eighteenth century Anglican evangelicalism reinforced the attack , but it operated on the poor ; Methodism did that and worked in the hearts and minds of the poor . |
| 7 | Le Monde of Sept. 6 said that an estimated 400,000 hectares of rice had been affected , adding that rice prices had more than tripled in a week . |
| 8 | This is mainly because salaries have not kept pace with the rise in house prices which , until this year 's slump , had more than tripled from an average £19,925 in 1979 to £61,965 by August this year , according to the Building Societies Association 's latest figures . |
| 9 | After she left school she came to London from her home in Yorkshire in order to attend a secretarial college , but abandoned that and enrolled with a secretarial agency . |
| 10 | She had studied , worked , travelled some and blossomed into an attractive , intelligent , perhaps slightly too conventional , young woman . |