Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [vb past] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guerrilla groups such as Carlos Marighela 's National Liberation Action in Brazil , Uruguay 's Tupamaros and the Montoneros in Argentina operated without Communist support and indeed were founded in the belief that the Moscow faithful lacked either the will or the capacity to engage in armed struggle . |
| 2 | At times this caused quite a scuffle , especially when we tried to insist on lumping several together and pretending that the result was a nation , albeit a federal one — rather in the same way as the parliamentary managers of the eighteenth century used to bribe Scottish peers by the batch , half a dozen or a dozen at a time . |
| 3 | For the first sixty miles , State Highway 290 offered hardly a bend , hardly a hill : just dry pastures and an almost empty road . |
| 4 | This is clear from the facts of In re D. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Sterilisation ) [ 1976 ] Fam. 185 , where the child concerned had neither the intelligence nor understanding either to consent or refuse . |
| 5 | There was no alternative to capitalism as a method of economic development , and at this period this implied both the realisation of the economic and institutional programme of the liberal bourgeoisie ( with local variations ) , and the crucial position in the state of that bourgeoisie itself . |
| 6 | If the mammals had prevailed when the opportunity first presented then the scope for speculation becomes mind-boggling . |
| 7 | One immediate response to the CEGB 's announcement was the formation of the Alliance Against Hinkley C. This brought together a mixture of Friends of the Earth supporters from Bristol — only some twenty-five miles north of Hinkley — and others who had been active in the Somerset anti-waste-dumping campaign of the 1970s . |
| 8 | In spite of the profound dissimilarities between father and son , and the bitter personal conflicts between them , Frederick II remained always the executor of Frederick William I. ‘ Only his care , ’ he wrote of his father , ‘ his untiring work , his scrupulously just policies , his great and admirable thriftiness and the strict discipline he introduced into the army which he himself had created , made possible the achievements I have so far accomplished . ’ |
| 9 | While still a medical student Winnicott discovered the work of Sigmund Freud and decided that psychoanalysis should become a part of his professional life ; thus the year 1923 saw also the beginning of a ten-year training analysis with James Strachey . |
| 10 | The year 1953 saw also the appearance of an edition of the difficult Hellenistic didactic poet Nicander , in which Gow collaborated with A. F. Scholfield . |
| 11 | The client concerned wanted both a finance director and a managing director ; the headhunter had found a good candidate with an accountancy background to be MD , before deciding that the same man would be better in the finance director position . |