Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if it sometimes seems to be saying , on Salim 's behalf , that race or kinship wins , it is also the case that it is full of losers , that it has a lively feeling for the Africans of market and bush , and for their African troubles , and for the situation of Salim as someone evolved or emerged from a tribal narrowness to an experience of sexual love which is liberating and dramatic , and that it does justice to Metty 's last state , left behind in the dangerous town at the bend in the river . |
| 2 | I think that also that said to me at the point that there is , people need to er , be paid attendance because otherwise you deny people the opportunity to be able to stand for council , there , otherwise you are going to end up with those that are either rich or retired as the only people who can attend a council which , and therefore we must remember that and make sure those who want to have the opportunity to participate in local government are actually compensated for their , for their erm , for their work . |
| 3 | We stand either not guilty or condemned before a righteous God and are never excused or condemned because our actions fall above or below group expectations . |
| 4 | related to the existing er agricultural or related to the agricultural buildings , that will be put up before this is built . |
| 5 | Much of the initial cost of setting up the campaign was covered either by various committee members somehow doing things for free or came from the remainder of the money raised at the Comedy Store . |
| 6 | So many of them were interrelated or came from the same Sardinian village that all of them , with or without a record , could usually tell him something if they would . |
| 7 | During the summer , when Sirius rises heliacally , only twelve of these divisions of the sky can be seen rising during the hours of darkness , and it was this that led to the twelve-hour division of the night . |
| 8 | The degree and meaning of prostitution was an important issue in itself ( one estimate would have made prostitution the fourth largest female occupation ) but more important , given the double standard , was the reservoir of venereal disease especially syphilis , that it was perceived as constituting , a threat particularly to the efficiency of the armed services , and it was concern over this that led to the passing of the Contagious Diseases Acts ( in 1864 , 1866 , 1869 ) . |
| 9 | It was this that led to the first hints of how the theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity might affect each other — a glimpse of the shape of a quantum theory of gravity yet to come . |
| 10 | Mr Symington 's campaign was mildly cleaner until a recent commercial that finished with a picture of Mr Goddard being locked behind bars . |
| 11 | The rate recorded for the South East was under half that recorded for the North of England . |
| 12 | The show gathered momentum quickly and finished on a high that lasted through the party held afterwards at the neighbouring Holiday Inn . |
| 13 | She was marked out by her brightly coloured stockings , some red , some yellow and some that looked like a chessboard . |
| 14 | He drew one hand to his lips and kissed it , but his fingers left her other hand to trace the wet that trickled over the blue smudges under her eyes . |
| 15 | erm Well not really because erm I believe erm that one was erm one of a few that survived at the erm time of the change of the erm Prime Minister . |
| 16 | It had been built in 1876 and consisted of a whole succession of low-roofed , dormer-windowed , gabled buildings . |
| 17 | Preston thought about this and came to no satisfactory conclusion . |
| 18 | I thought about this and came to the conclusion that it seemed a very good philosophy . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She expressed her wonder at this and asked for the name in Italian . |
| 21 | She wondered whether Philippa had really outgrown her passion for partially disabled men but she seemed oblivious of all this and sat like a springtime sprig in a bed of roses , contemplating her coincidental twin . |
| 22 | With this and talked about the rest of the the books . |
| 23 | Mandeville sensed this and closed like a hawk for the kill . |
| 24 | She was anxious , for no such thing has ever happened to her before , her memory was always clear and rounded as a bell-note and utterly reliable . |
| 25 | He found it and clung there for a while , then pushed clear and knelt among the waves , head lowered . |
| 26 | He wiped them clear and peered inside the smoking gap . |
| 27 | It was a dazzling Saturday afternoon , and the park was full of contented people : children stood knicker-deep in bliss , stroking the paddling-pool as if it were some great tame animal ; attendant mothers soaked in the sun ; lovers were prone and entranced on the grass . |
| 28 | In tests with intragastric administration of bFGF , the peptide was dissolved in 1 ml of saline and instilled into the stomach via the cannula of the gastric fistula and the fistula was closed for 30 minutes . |
| 29 | The slides were then washed in phosphate buffered saline and incubated with a 1:300 dilution of biotinylated anti-mouse antibody ( Dakopatts , Denmark ) . |
| 30 | He was one of the founders of the Indian National Congress in 1885 and presided at the 1886 and 1893 sessions . |