Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [noun] [adv] [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meetings were often held in museums or educational institutions specially built or refurbished to be ready for the great occasion . |
| 2 | Along the Fosse , there was apparently a lull in the sequence between the first-century activity of uncertain military or civilian origins already discussed and the earliest civilian horizons of the second . |
| 3 | Knowledge and expertise in catalysis and high-pressure technology steadily improved and in the 1930s ICI developed a process for converting coal into petrol which involved using what were the forerunners of today 's primary reforming catalysts of nickel and supported nickel . |
| 4 | Miss Hannah Hauxwell , dressed in men 's trousers and old jacket so torn that it looked as though savaging by wolf packs had once been part of her daily routine , looked at me mildly . |
| 5 | The Franco-Prussian war was at this time still a recent memory , and German mathematicians quickly suspected that nationalistic sentiment lay behind the accusations directed at their adopted son . |
| 6 | So closely was Ceauşescu identified with the policy of nepotism that local people and foreign observers often presumed that men like Verdeţ or Manescu were intermarried with the clan . |
| 7 | Yugoslav and foreign observers alike assessed that the effective collapse of the congress heralded the collapse of the LCY . |
| 8 | The JNA and Serbian leaders consistently denied that the JNA was a participant in the fighting in Bosnia-Hercegovina . |
| 9 | The books are graded and individual lessons often numbered and sequenced . |
| 10 | As she lay blinking blindly into the unfamiliar darkness , her ears filled with a strange background hum , her tired and sleepy brain slowly realised that the sound which had awoken her had been her own desperate sobbing . |
| 11 | This is true , of course , in so far as it means that no contemporary authors were going to write stories about a single murderer being exposed when lawlessness was rife and human life generally seen as of little account . |
| 12 | He was almost unique in that the ruthless and suspicious King genuinely liked and trusted him . |
| 13 | His special preserve was Cwm Idwal , and to be shown round that magnificent place , to have its intimacies and grand structure both explained and revealed to you by this gentle , wise old quarryman was one of life 's great pleasures , to be stored and cherished in memory . |
| 14 | Bright canary-yellow blossoms and olive-green foliage liberally splashed and stained with maroon and bronze . |
| 15 | The worry and sleepless nights finally ended when last Thursday morning he heard the news he had hardly dared hope for — Joanna had returned to her family safe and well 36 hours after she had vanished . |
| 16 | The collection of cars and related objects gradually increased and , on Mike 's return to England , came with him . |
| 17 | Right-wing readers of a right-wing paper were more likely than left-wing readers of that same paper to claim that their paper was biased towards the right — though a majority of both left- and right-wing readers typically agreed that their papers were biased and agreed on the direction of that bias . |
| 18 | At his office in the stable block of a former count 's palace in north east Moscow , Grigoriev 's company , Vagrius , has helped set up the Task Force Against Piracy , a legal action fund to combat flagrant breaches of copyright which sees Western books and Russian editions illegally produced and sold . |
| 19 | These and other commentators basically concluded that riots reflected a disturbing degree of political alienation by a substantial minority of inner-urban inhabitants , particularly young , single men . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , Japan 's domestic economy expanded greatly during this period , so commercial and financial practices naturally developed as well , though along slightly different lines from those of the West . |
| 21 | ‘ a systematic analysis of federal administrative , civil and criminal actions either initiated or completed by 25 federal agencies … against the 477 largest publicly owned manufacturing corporations in the US during 1975 and 1976 . |
| 22 | When he had completed the tape , he had absorbed a required unit of work , and subsequent testing generally demonstrated that students were rapidly improving in their grasp of essential material , as well as responding positively to this method of instruction . |
| 23 | Although the plans have been welcomed by the CBI and the British Road Federation they are likely to raise a storm of protest from residents and local authorities directly affected and from conservation groups already concerned at the likely impact of the Channel Tunnel and its rail links with London . |
| 24 | One lad , belonging to a respected family , had been given a long sentence although he and local residents emphatically maintained that he was not at the scene of the incident for which he was convicted . |