Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exaggeration or over-simplification of the notion of commonality within the gens as regards ownership of property is also apparent in the discussion of kinship and this led equally to a fundamental misunderstanding . |
| 2 | Since there was a higher population and a greater surplus of output people had a higher disposable income ; this led directly to a desire for more than just food and a demand for material commodities for the household ( pottery , cutlery , more and better clothing in cotton and wool ) . |
| 3 | But the inherent political weaknesses of the struggles , the chronic inability to attract support from other sections of labour , and the social composition of the unemployed led directly to a collapse of militancy after state intervention . |
| 4 | This stemmed largely from a lack of political analysis and clarity in relation to nationalism and feminism on the part of Southern feminists . |
| 5 | prisons , being regarded by most planners and politicians as ‘ non-productive ’ ( short-sighted a view as this may be ) , did not until very recently achieve even token inclusion in a Five Year Plan , and this came only after a lengthy battle by individuals within the Ministries of Home Affairs and Welfare to include a meaningful package for development in the correctional field . |
| 6 | This 21 year old came here after a string of car offences . |
| 7 | This happened more as a result of the need for specialised care and education for citizens to be managed by the state . |
| 8 | They amount to no net tax increase in the coming year , but thereafter very substantial tax increases : £6.5 billion in 1994/5 and £1O.5 billion in 1995/6 financed mainly by a combination of freezing income tax allowances , a 1 per cent increase in National Insurance contributions for employees ( in reality a form of income tax ) and extension tax of value-added tax to domestic fuel . |
| 9 | ‘ He is an old woman , ’ she replied , and half turned away with a swish of her sea-green silk dress . |
| 10 | The vogue for this owed much to a bastard Darwinism ; Latin nations were less taken in by it than were Slavs and Teutons . |
| 11 | This survived only in an underground way in folk song , nursery rhymes , children 's counting verses , and so on . |
| 12 | The first one is to have your eyelashed tinted professionally at a beauty salon — this costs between £6.00-–9.00 at Glemby , takes just 15 minutes and will last up to six weeks . |
| 13 | Again , this worked well for a while . |
| 14 | Levels of caesium in upland grasses increased dramatically after Chernobyl , while the ratio of caesium 137 to 134 fell dramatically to a value characteristic of Chernobyl fallout . |
| 15 | This brought together in a simplified form a number of remedies obtainable from a Divisional Court of the Queen 's Bench Division consisting of two or three judges . |
| 16 | Like the 1970 Werner Report this looked forward to a full EMU in the long term , with free capital movements , fixed exchange rates ( or maybe a common currency ) and a central budgetary institution . |
| 17 | This appeared quickly as a cardinal element in Iran 's strategy when Iranian naval craft , as we have already seen , bombarded the southern Iraqi terminals . |
| 18 | Some carried enough for a family . |
| 19 | While the English waited patiently for a fetch to appear , as a summons for mortals to proceed to the grave , it is interesting to note that the word was adapted by the Portuguese as fetisso ( magician or oracle ) , and involved a concentrated worship of idols to determine the future , including the time of death . |
| 20 | ‘ We 'll keep this tucked away in a corner when it 's not needed , ’ he said . |
| 21 | What attracted me to this way of speaking is that it would seem to allow for a celebration of the diversity of human beings , this held together with an emphasis on the commonness of their humanity . |
| 22 | Pollen entered Lincoln 's Inn in 1893 , and in 1895 stood unsuccessfully as a Liberal for Walthamstow . |
| 23 | NEARLY 200 people were killed and hundreds injured yesterday in a series of bomb explosions in Bombay , the Indian commercial capital still recovering from brutal Hindu-Muslim violence . |
| 24 | NEARLY 200 people were killed and hundreds injured yesterday in a series of bomb explosions in Bombay , the Indian commercial capital still recovering from brutal Hindu-Muslim violence . |
| 25 | British portraiture from 1660 to 1960 charted brilliantly by a relay of scholars |
| 26 | Nizan 's membership of the PCF and his active life as a novelist between 1927 and 1940 coincided precisely with a period described by Lucien Goldmann as a moment of deep structural crisis in early twentieth-century capitalism . |
| 27 | PENSIONERS protesting outside Manchester 's town hall where about 3,000 rallied yesterday at a Grey Power conference . |
| 28 | PENSIONERS protesting outside Manchester 's town hall where about 3,000 rallied yesterday at a Grey Power conference . |
| 29 | I love walking the course , never mind the golf , but on this occasion it all came together with a good score as well . |
| 30 | Stockings were rolled ; nightdresses folded and piled , sachets between each ; camisoles threaded anew with narrow ribbon after every washing all glimmered secretly in a deep drawer . |