Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] [pron] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The union discontinued its " social evenings " in 1951 , but carried on holding occasional events or tea-parties which served as reunions for increasing numbers of retired compositors . |
| 2 | First , the lists mention only those performers singers , dancers , or instrumentalists who appeared on stage , but not any musicians who may have been placed elsewhere . |
| 3 | Essentially , the cases and their history were studied to establish what factors or characteristics they had in common . |
| 4 | The small tradesmen or shopkeepers who made up most Boards of Guardians throughout the period were unlikely to resist such pressure since their elections to the Boards depended upon the ratepayers . |
| 5 | The US administration announced on Nov. 18 that President George Bush had vetoed legislation imposing mandatory trade sanctions on countries which used chemical weapons , or companies which assisted in the development of such weapons . |
| 6 | agreement had called for a " report " , but the Court of Appeal did not agree that the use of the word " report " required the expert to set out the reasoning or calculations which led to the conclusion . |
| 7 | She had always avoided books or films which dealt with carnage and its attendant gore . |
| 8 | I 've always wanted an en suite bathroom , she would say to visitors , to her friends on the phone , to , he would n't be surprised , tradesmen on the doorstep or strangers she accosted in the street . |
| 9 | When the patterns of magnetic anomalies across mid-oceanic ridges were mapped out it was noticed that in several cases the parallel bands of similarly magnetized crust were broken by numerous offsets or displacements which seemed to be aligned approximately at right angles to the axis of the ridge . |
| 10 | When Queen Elizabeth , on a state visit to Germany in May 1965 , arrived in Stuttgart for a formal lunch , John took care over his clothes but either forgot or did not think it necessary to find a pair of socks less obtrusive than the bright reds or blues he favoured at that time . |
| 11 | Acknowledging that it would appear unjust to pay higher allowances out of taxation to the middle classes , she argued that it would only be possible if the higher allowances were paid for by the income groups or occupations which benefitted from them . |
| 12 | Edinburgh was totally different from London ; a royal burgh , it was built according to some sort of plan : long narrow streets with timbered and stone houses on either side , some joined together , others separated by narrow runnels or alleyways which led to a small garden or croft behind each tenement . |
| 13 | The result was that sometimes members of the family or others who went to her for help came away empty-handed , however great their needs or deserts might be ; Addy never used need as a yardstick But on the other side of the medal were the occasions , such as this one , when she volunteered something you 'd never have dreamed of asking for , and you were free to accept it because you knew she 'd be disappointed , not relieved , if you refused . |
| 14 | The schools themselves could never have flourished so significantly without the presence in the town ( at roughly the same time as Gratian ) of the great father-figure of the Roman law school , Irnerius , and the group of glossators or commentators who gathered under him . |
| 15 | But even if that is held to be culpable ignorance , it can not be assumed that if the voters did know of those plans or intentions they approved of them . |
| 16 | In nine cases a subject described a situation which was not at one of the 40 junctions of interest , these were either descriptions of junctions on the practice route or events which occurred between junctions on the route , these were not coded . |
| 17 | THE WAITS were a group of four musicians or minstrels who performed for the local corporation and received a badge and annual payment for their services . |
| 18 | Not surprisingly , the bourgeois ideology of domesticity had a major impact on the subordinate elements in the bourgeois coalition itself , those class fractions and groups who aspired to its social standards and standing , the middle and lower bourgeoisie . |
| 19 | Then they gave her a battery of psych-tests that plugged straight into her nervous system ; though she fought against it , they strapped her down and there was nothing she could hide , no way to stop the relentless tide of data and attitudes they programmed into her , or the probing of her mental set . |
| 20 | The green forest now flared with colour as the plants advertised the delights and rewards they had on offer . |
| 21 | Meanwhile Winnie , who for several years ran the old Slazenger Club Championships , continued to repay the joy and rewards she enjoyed from tennis by passing on her knowledge and experience to later generations of British juniors . |
| 22 | And to coincide , the Bodlean Library has opened an exhibition showing original sketches and maps he drew on the back of exam papers . |
| 23 | This partnership was dissolved in 1882 to become Robert Blackwood and Sons which lasted to the formation of Blackwood Morton , when Robert Blackwood 's son William Ford Blackwood joined forces with Gavin Morton in 1908 . |
| 24 | Jon , as he proudly watched the Union Jack raised above his head , must have thought back to the days when , as Oxford University Boat Race president , the only flag he looked at was the skull and crossbones which hung in his study with a menacing message written underneath : ‘ Death Zone — No Prisoners . ’ |
| 25 | No fewer than six play in central European football with three coming from Austria Vienna — Robertas Fridrikas — a player who hits a free kick like Ronald Koeman — Valdas Ivanauskas and the skilful midfield playmaker Arminas Narbekovas , It was Narbekovas and Fridrikas who scored in Belfast while the strong runs of 6 foot 2 inch Ivanauskas caused the Irish defence many problems . |
| 26 | They constantly warned us of the danger of the roads , about the thieves and vagabonds who dressed in green or brown buckram and played Robin Hood in the dark forests or wastelands we passed through . |
| 27 | Tom Slack 's sense of fun effectively camouflages the dramas and dangers he endured as a pilot , as an escaper and ultimately as a POW . |
| 28 | He was full of all the gossip and rumours , most of it picked up from the ships he visited and seamen he talked to . |
| 29 | We were pleased to find the palace deserted ( or so we thought ) except for the usual steward and bailiffs who stayed throughout the year to clean the rooms , wash the hangings and sweep out the dirt once the court moved on . |
| 30 | My deeper antipathy to Germany and Germans I restrained for a while , on the absurd grounds that it was somehow unreasonable to abominate each of two mutually ill-disposed nations . |