Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From palaeomagnetic evidence , it is alleged that the African and European continents moved vast distances during the Devonian and only began to approach each other during Carboniferous times . |
| 2 | A number of new political groups included pro-Yeltsin formations and an opposition " Civic Union " associated with Vice-President Aleksandr Rutskoi . |
| 3 | These highly professional artists presented popular programmes of light opera and semi-classical works that seemed to please the thousands who flocked to hear the concerts . |
| 4 | At the 2½ hour meeting , private shareholders raised persistent questions over the auditors ' and the directors ' actions . |
| 5 | King Hussein of Jordan yesterday promised a referendum on a plan to liberalise political life following a parliamentary election in which Islamic groups made striking gains . |
| 6 | Eire and Italy had to be given special concessions in order to take part , Britain refused to join the ERM , and French economic policies caused five changes in the ‘ central rate ’ in 1981–3 . |
| 7 | A pre-emptive strike by a minority of non-Jewish Germans turned German Jews into foreigners in their own homeland . |
| 8 | Georgian values glamorized fine ladies into sex objects . |
| 9 | The surveyor can easily assess the relationship between earnings on measured work and daywork , in order to verify the daywork hours , provided he is aware of the total hours worked each week . |
| 10 | A typical simplified bonus calculation would , therefore , be as follows : Total hours worked 40 Target hours for completed operations 50 Actual hours booked 35 Hours saved 15 % bonus payable ( 90% ) 13½ Hours paid 53½ |
| 11 | In constructing subject hierarchies , the subject working groups faced conflicting demands . |
| 12 | Bankers are generally in a position to make specific conditions for providing finance and so have little need for the audit , abbreviated accounts filed 10 months after the year end are of little value to trade suppliers and customers , and the Revenue 's reliance on audited accounts is ‘ largely illusory ’ , the Institute says . |
| 13 | Impractical plans absorbed imaginative people for weeks . |
| 14 | The East Gate of Karak Eight Peaks lay several miles inside the pass through a broad side valley paved with ancient stones and studded with the ruined tombs of Dwarf ancestors . |
| 15 | The caeruloplasmin values detected by the combination of monoclonal antibodies were lower than those by polyclonal antibody in the patients with Wilson 's disease , whereas normal subjects had similar values . |
| 16 | Animals that received infusions during pre-exposure sessions showed normal habituation of the UR ( heart-rate deceleration ) evoked by the tone used as the stimulus . |
| 17 | Spanish Steps carried one pound less . |
| 18 | Feudal organizations provided historical precedents for and in some cases even the institutional forms for modern corporatism ( Maier , 1981 ; Kocka , 1981 ) . |
| 19 | Finally Mary Knelle and I were on our way once more , driving past hillsides where neat black cut-away shapes showed that turf had been extracted . |
| 20 | Free neutrons are unstable , with a half-life of about 11 minutes , so as observed , the intensity drops off with time as the slower-moving neutrons had more time to decay . |
| 21 | It was for them that the vision of a transformation in political , social and economic relationships held greatest appeal . |
| 22 | Their quarrels with one another did not really compromise these benefits , any more than quarrels between European nations prevented colonial administrators from giving much of the world the framework of European law and order . |
| 23 | The foundations of the colonial era , during which white European nations dominated vast areas of Asia , Africa and Latin America , were fatally undermined for the first time during the turbulent second decade of the twentieth century . |
| 24 | Rural districts showed more support for the Polish Peasant Party , which was the successor to a party formerly allied with the Communists , than for the post-Solidarity party , Peasant Accord . |
| 25 | Provisional casualty reports suggested that allied losses included 12 US Marines killed and 15 Saudi troops ; 30 Iraqi soldiers were reported killed and several tanks destroyed . |
| 26 | About 70 million years ago the brain of the most advanced animals had cerebral hemispheres , but they composed a third or less of the whole brain . |
| 27 | Some Tory loyalist backbenchers said last night that this episode could not be compared to the attack on Mrs Thatcher by the then Sir Geoffrey Howe , which is acknowledged to have cost her the keys to No. 10 . |
| 28 | As a final bonus , the senders of the first 500 entries received each month will be sent a 50p money-off voucher redeemable against any future purchase of Guinness Original . |
| 29 | This latest incident , involving the sixth IAEA team which arrived in Iraq on Sept. 22 , occurred when armed guards prevented some inspectors from leaving the premises of an office block in the centre of Baghdad , the capital , where , on Sept. 24 , they claimed to have discovered evidence of an Iraqi uranium enrichment programme based on sophisticated centrifuge technology . |
| 30 | Indeed , until acts of 1775 and 1777 introduced bottom limits of £1 and £5 respectively , some north-western manufacturers issued promissory notes to facilitate the payment of wages for denominations as low as a shilling . |