Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 When the First Duma met in April 1906 it was dominated by Kadets , led by P. N. Miliukov , and peasant deputies loosely bound together in the Trudovik ( Labour ) Group .
2 Paul was singing to himself and asking questions of the type children tend to , such as why were n't the birds all blown away during the storm , and why did n't the sea fill up with water with the stream going so hard ?
3 But I think the actual situation in some of these countries is that erm the loggers especially say like in Sarouac , where the government 's only granted three year licences to logging companies , they 're just going in there , cutting everything down because they 've only got a short space of time , and they 're trying to maximise , obviously , their profit .
4 While it is true that the terms of the debate are often unclear , and while confusing signs constantly come even from the Euro-enthusiasts ( such as when the French Foreign Minister called for ‘ une fédération d'Etats souverains ’ the overwhelming evidence indicates that the prime movers in European union mean business .
5 Instead of being nearly square uprights they have a length almost half as great again as their height , which is nearly two feet ; the triglyphs apparently stood only over the columns , not between .
6 Patients were then treated with 120 mg tripotassium dicitratobismuthate ( DeNol , Brocades , Weybridge , Surrey , UK ) four times daily for one month , 400 mg metronidazole three times daily , and 500 mg tetracycline four times daily taken concurrently for the first two weeks of treatment .
7 Her lovely fingers merely hovered momentarily over the sugar-coated biscuits arranged on a china plate with tiny pink flowers and a fluted edge .
8 It looked like hundreds and hundreds of houses all piled dangerously on top of each other and Endill wondered if it was safe to live in such a place .
9 ‘ What time did your husband leave this morning ? ’ he asked quietly , noting a pair of nervous eyes suddenly flash across at him .
10 In Kendal prosperous merchants and clothiers had established a middle class , and the Kendal yards , with the merchant 's house , the workers ' cottages , and the spinning and weaving lofts all packed together under close supervision opened up new conditions .
11 More directly , the cause of integration has been served by the formal incorporation of subjects hitherto taught separately into new programmes with new names .
12 You also grew up watching Grandfather 's clients literally get away with murder . ’
13 An avid traveller in Mediterranean lands and an early exponent of the use of audio-visual teaching aids ( using lantern slides in a lecture in 1929 ) , he was the only man to have led his bride from Church under an archway of History notebooks suddenly held aloft by two lines of boys from School .
14 The business did very well with the two lads greatly appreciated locally for their hard work and quality of service .
15 In contrast , with inside out patches ( for example , Fig 2A ) channels generally spent longer in the open state at equivalent values of V c o m , while closed times were similar to those seen in cell attached patches ( see below ) .
16 Both chromatographic methods thus consist essentially of two steps : 1 .
17 Dominance relationships thus exist both between and within age classes .
18 Wolf identified himself with the existing élite of Anglo-Jewry in regarding Jewish emancipation in England as a success story , and expecting that the growth of tolerance would enable Jews elsewhere to live both within their ancestral religion and culture , and as full citizens of their respective countries .
19 The practice of ‘ practical criticism ’ in fact unconsciously takes it for granted that the readers already know enough about poetry to have a grasp of rules and conventions sufficient to make adequate sense of the passage .
20 In the 1970s , most Keynesians , monetarists and marxists still believed firmly in the validity of their diagnoses and the efficacy of their remedies .
21 These organizations usually consist entirely of older people committed to fighting elderly issues directly .
22 Croatian and Bosnian forces recaptured Mostar from the Serbs last June , but the shells still fall sporadically from the mountains , and no-one here believes the Serbs are finished yet .
23 The two large propeller fans still rotated slowly above the room , the prostitutes still mingled with the foreign journalists and Jenkins was still behind the counter .
24 Peruvian taxi drivers still smiled broadly at the memory .
25 These repetitive simultaneous pressure waves usually occurred together with the lower oesophageal sphincter component of the migrating motor complex .
26 American style restaurants usually cater well for children so The Manhattan in Bradbury Place looked an ideal spot and they did have a kiddies ' menu .
27 Whereas Budget speeches once consisted mainly of a very detailed and technical discussion of taxation and borrowing , they now also contain a review of the progress of the British economy against the world economic background and a description of government economic policies .
28 It is important to note that the elimination of the conditioned response is not accompanied by any motor dysfunction ; the animals still blink normally to the air puff .
29 Their heads always turn either to right or left : one of their eyes turns inwards , the other upwards .
30 Its correspondents are such irritating pedants that we listeners always feel completely on the BBC 's side .
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