Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initially there had been a substantial market for British films in the US , where demand remained for some time ahead of the production levels achieved by American filmmakers . |
| 2 | Sect. 46 , sub-s. 1 , of the Housing Act , 1925 , says this : ‘ Where land included in any Improvement or reconstruction scheme … is acquired compulsorily , ’ certain provisions as to compensation shall apply . |
| 3 | While not the most encouraging offer which a Prime Minister can receive , support from outside is a time-honoured formula and one which has frequently been used with much less excuse than Asquith had on this occasion . |
| 4 | It was the first time that the USA had officially sponsored negotiations between the two sides , although talks mediated by former US President Jimmy Carter had been held in September and November 1989 [ see pp. 36886-87 ; 37034-35 . ] . |
| 5 | During the period from 1938 to 1954 , the world market price of coffee rose twenty-two-fold , so Telana prospered from these boom years . |
| 6 | Although Creggan preferred in such weather to keep inland he had a natural preference for the coast and on calmer days when the wind abated he would spend a few hours along the shore . |
| 7 | If money disappeared from this world entirely , then I would not have to come here in order to get the sort of education I want . |
| 8 | Like his predecessors , Philip VI used the obligations of liege homage , and the threat of confiscation of the duchy if Edward defaulted on these obligations , as a means of putting pressure on the English king when his policies appeared to threaten French interests . |
| 9 | ‘ If Daniel knocked on that door now , dying with the cold , I 'd not so much as cross the room . ’ |
| 10 | The current acceleration delay is compared to the deceleration delay ( in Cation DECEND-COUNT ) which would be used if deceleration began at that position . |
| 11 | She felt a tearing pain as if Terry pushed against some kind of obstacle . |
| 12 | Here 's Thomson and Mills gets his first touch , was n't bad one cos Agnew ran into that space well . |
| 13 | In 1895 he became secretary to the British Association seismological committee for study of earth tremors and the following year he and the seismologist John Milne [ q.v. ] , newly returned from his pioneering work in Japan , became joint secretaries of its newly established subcommittee for seismological investigation , until Davison retired from this position in 1899 . |
| 14 | He was reported to have presented five demands ; if Libya acceded to these demands the imposition of sanctions would be forestalled . |
| 15 | And it was just as well that she did so because Harry appeared at that moment , to lead her out for sherry and soda . |
| 16 | Humanism considered the most powerful or most noble within society to be the best readers and directed writing at them not exclusively because writers looked to this class for generous rewards or for some snobbish appeal . |
| 17 | Joseph and Mary went to Bethlehem , the royal city of David , because Joseph belonged to that family . |
| 18 | Robert knew , as he waited while Lalage laughed with some stranger , that he was standing near a death-bed . |
| 19 | Next morning Helen set off early to see Joanna while Sophie dealt with several clients who , having heard of Joanna 's accident , were sympathetic and concerned . |
| 20 | While officers struggled with each other to improve their own positions they often united to block any attempts at reform by the Crown . |
| 21 | Further east , Yurganysh had a settlement of corn merchants near the station ; Kurgan was important for butter and grain ; Omsk for meat , hides , and grain ; while timber came from any number of sources . |
| 22 | But eight years before Roberts sat on that hilltop above the city , there were only 24,000 Jews living in Palestine . |
| 23 | The UN closed Sarajevo airport , a vital aid lifeline for the Bosnian capital 's 380,000 population , after shells exploded at either end of the runway during fighting yesterday . |
| 24 | The discussions got stuck on the question whether agreements reached at these meetings should remain purely informal or should be translated into Euro-directives . |
| 25 | Also acting against Britain 's interests is that the previous director general before Quistgaard hailed from these isles . |
| 26 | As Fitzgerald said in This Side of Paradise , " None of the Victorian mothers had any idea how casually their daughters were accustomed to being kissed . " |
| 27 | I shared command of the big " V " with two other skippers , Doug Thompson and Denis Mawe , as H.Q. frowned on any policy that kept an officer away from his home port and normal customs duties for too long a period . |
| 28 | And just before half time , the erm visitors got their goal erm when Steven scored from another corner , and the score at half time was two one . |
| 29 | They were good value , because they were in a style that he could wear anywhere and they were strong enough for all his walking and kept his feet from being bruised on the city pavements , for when you walk as much and as far as Boy did at that time you can hurt your feet badly . |
| 30 | Thus what I called Crime and Punishment 's apocalyptic naturalism is its most vital link with The Possessed ; I mean , when Dostoevsky read about that gang murder in the Moscow Record his mind 's eye was caught not by a bizarre and therefore very newsworthy incident but by the seed of a foul commonplace : the seed in eternity , in the deepest realism , though also in the mere mundane future , for Dostoevsky did imagine a time when only the most spectacular acts of terrorism would get headline treatment . |