Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the milk teeth came in that shape , Dinah had taken no heed ; no doubt the matter would rectify itself in time . |
| 2 | Members of certain ethnic and caste groups clustered into specific occupations . |
| 3 | By 1987 , 57 local authorities were requested to submit Inner Area Programmes which were to outline the objectives of Urban Programme funding , and to indicate how other funding programmes dovetailed into Urban Programme activities ( DoE , 1989 ) . |
| 4 | The wages of building craftsmen rose from 1s 4d ( 6½p ) a day in the 1750s to 2s ( 10p ) in the mid 1770s and 2s 6d ( 12½p ) around 1790 , with the most distinct upward trend peaking around 1780 . |
| 5 | Possible causes of ozone depletion identified to date include various combustion products emitted from supersonic aircraft ; nitrous oxide released from nitrogen-based chemical fertilizers ; oxides of nitrogen produced by nuclear weapon testing ; and chlorofluorocarbons used in aerosol sprays , refrigeration systems and industrial processes . |
| 6 | London-based Iraqi opposition parties appealed in late April to the UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to postpone UN approval since the proposed new border would sow the seeds for future disputes with Kuwait . |
| 7 | The high molecular weight proteins phosphorylated in this experiment are proteins endogenous to the nuclear extract ( lanes 7 and 8 ) . |
| 8 | In both directions — south towards the Grand Parade and Patrick Street , and north to the quays — other horse-drawn vehicles threaded their way , wheels screaming , drivers cursing and cracking whips , the while throngs of Friday shoppers darted from one side of the unpaved road to the other , dodging between carts and traps and under horses ' necks as if they were n't there at all . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , long-running tensions between Spanish and other EC fishing boats broke into open dispute in April 1991 , when Ireland accused a Spanish vessel of deliberately ramming an Irish vessel within the statutory 12-mile range of the Irish coastline reserved for Irish vessels . |
| 10 | In the midst of despair the movie producers drifted amongst other things into a new realism . |
| 11 | Spring dates fell between 9 May ( 1971 , Beachy Head , the earliest county record ) , and 10 June , and autumn dates between 16 August and 24 October . |
| 12 | Arc lights fell into cardboard forests . |
| 13 | The incandescent flowers of roadside flame trees blazed like orange candles overhead as Jacques Devraux 's gleaming black Citron B-2 landaulet slid through the shadows they cast on the road leading northeast out of Saigon . |
| 14 | A partnership practice that operated from two offices ceased to be carried on when the partnership was dissolved and the two main equity partners continued as sole practitioners from their respective offices . |
| 15 | Yet merry silver and azure pennants flew from those domes , stretched out on wires to suggest the presence of a fresh breeze . |
| 16 | During that same period , food export prices fell by eleven percent alright , whereas manufactured export , prices of manufactured exports rose by twenty percent . |
| 17 | Most easily identified are the Easton carbon/aluminium shafts with the unidirectional carbon fibres bonded to thin wall aluminium tube . |
| 18 | The companies often preferred slaves to white skilled labour and as a result slaves aspired to skilled positions which were later denied to them as freedmen . |
| 19 | The unavoidable reliance upon existing data sets led to many problems due to non-harmonization even of commonly used variables , e.g. eight different definitions of potential evapo-transpiration were in use in the Member States and ‘ maximum temperature ’ at each weather station was defined in at least four different ways ; |
| 20 | Progress towards political diversity under Vietnam 's , primarily economic , Doi Moi or " rejuvenation " campaign [ see p. 36696 ] suffered a number of setbacks during the latter half of 1989 , as CPV leaders reacted with some unease at the trend towards pluralism among their communist allies in Eastern Europe . |
| 21 | The world 's equity markets came under renewed pressure at the beginning of 1990 due to in particular to concerns over inflation and higher interest rates . |
| 22 | The most ancient burial chambers consisted of huge stone slabs forming a chamber with entrances through which further corpses might be introduced . |
| 23 | In Seoul , riot police battled with 4,000 students who were demanding the arrest of two former South Korean presidents , Chun Doo Hwan and Roh Tae Woo . |
| 24 | The spring records fell between 16 March and 28 April , and the autumn records between 11 August and 4 December ; although there are old spring records up to 8 May , and autumn records from 1 August . |
| 25 | Spring records fell between 24 March and 11 June , with a marked peak of c. 70 per cent . |
| 26 | Eighty-seven per cent of entanglement deaths occurred within 10 km ( 5 nautical miles ) of the shore , and 60 per cent occurred within 2 km ( one nautical mile ) . |
| 27 | The structure of the open warehouse floors consisted of cast-iron columns supporting steel , iron or heavy timber beams . |
| 28 | Hoskyns shares closed at 458 pence on Friday . |
| 29 | Ahead , to the left , tin roofs glinted on another plateau , which rose at a distance of eight miles away . |
| 30 | The representative there of the Bosnian Serbs , Misha Milosevic , told the commission ( i ) that no concentration camps existed in Serbian territory in Bosnia-Hercegovina ; ( ii ) that no hidden camp had been created ; ( iii ) that the [ self-proclaimed ] Serbian government of Bosnia-Hercegovina had never carried out operations of " ethnic cleansing " on its territory ; and ( iv ) that the same government had never refused international control over the prison camps in its territory . |