Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | James Thomas Knowles senior and his son James Thomas Knowles junior entered separately for all parts of the competition with designs in an eclectic manner . |
| 2 | • Hundreds of original , flavour-tested recipes , each created especially for this series . |
| 3 | He gave the explicit coordinate transformation by which the line element ( 10.24 ) becomes , ( 10.26 ) where the coordinate t is not the same as that used elsewhere in this chapter , and ( 10.27 ) which clearly satisfies the necessary conditions . |
| 4 | On the DEC PDP-10 computer , subroutine call instructions are provided for saving the return address either in the first location of a subroutine or in an accumulator ; but it also has call and return instructions which treat a specified area of store as a return address stack , in a manner similar to that described earlier in this section . |
| 5 | When parents ceased to be available , primitive man could well have felt the loss , and the need to transfer the dependence elsewhere and this led eventually to some form of imagined substitute , or ‘ god ’ as the surrogate . |
| 6 | This came primarily from those who had adopted what Keeble called the restructuring hypothesis ( section 2.4.1 ) . |
| 7 | This came partly from that confidence built up in the wide affection of the large family , partly perhaps from the arrogance of the supreme athlete , mostly , though , from his view that writing and learning were the real thing : acting was fine and dandy but not in the same league . |
| 8 | The English stuck together against those Alex called the ‘ fucking frogs ’ , and Marius , the Scandinavian , attached himself to us . |
| 9 | This worked well for those in the A stream but not so well for those in the B stream , and badly for those in the C stream , who got discouraged . |
| 10 | At a personal level the visit had obviously been a great success , but Napoleon III came away without any specific extension of the Entente and he left the British Ministers unconvinced of his desire for peace and stability in Europe . |
| 11 | Despite the disputes that had occurred , and even though 1963 gave a strong indication that de Gaulle 's interpretation of the treaty might be very different , the Six had still in many ways continued to work in reasonable harmony on the Rome timetable . |
| 12 | Jackie pulled another one out of his pocket and all three munched avidly for several minutes . |
| 13 | It 's like this film I seen about these penguins — you know , how they all lived together on this island , and they was loads of them , all jammed together . |
| 14 | Modern critics were not good at Anglo-Saxon echoes , especially at ones which hung on into modern times in phrases like ‘ mock ’ and ‘ make ’ , ‘ chance ’ and ‘ choice ’ , ‘ bullet ’ and ‘ billet ’ , all mentioned already in this study . |
| 15 | But it all started long before that . |
| 16 | We all looked forward to these occasions as it was a chance to meet and converse with V.I.P. 's on our own ground in the relaxed atmosphere of a cruising holiday . |
| 17 | Cleo Sinister possessed neither of these qualities , nor did she appear to be familiar with other desirable attributes such as obedience , silence and the possession of gentle manners . |
| 18 | Something gigantic waded past during that long night . |
| 19 | An attempt to contest Japan 's control over Korean foreign policy at the Hague peace Conference in 1907 fell on deaf ears ; whether Korea was , or was not , independent meant little to most of the nations of the West . |
| 20 | Only three of the whole group had worked since redundancy , and only one of those did so for more than half of the time between redundancy and interview . |
| 21 | The battles between Fascists and the Left which began in 1934 looked superficially like those which had marked the last years of the Weimar republic . |
| 22 | The tragedy at Glanrhyd Bridge in October 1987 brought home to all rail enthusiasts the frailty of human endeavours . |
| 23 | It is unclear why he so suddenly dropped the idea that he first pushed forward with some vigour . |
| 24 | If one accepts the story of Molla Yegan 's bringing Molla Gurani to the Ottoman court-and there seems no reason not to-then on the basis of what appears to be the fairly firm evidence for this part of Molla Gurani 's career , Molla Yegan 's return from his journey can not be dated earlier than 845/1441–2 ; and on the reasonable assumption that the purpose of Molla Yegan 's journey was to make the pilgrimage , it seems entirely likely that it was in the year 844/1440–1 , the same year that Molla Gurani made his abortive pilgrimage , that Molla Yegan also performed the hajj and that the two met somewhere after that pilgrimage , though clear information about the actual time and place of their meeting is entirely lacking . |
| 25 | They both laughed quietly at this . |
| 26 | As the table shows , the level of conflict in the early 1980s fell far below that of the 1970s , but the pattern was certainly not one of uniform decline . |