Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adv] [vb past] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thinking about that now brought a scowl to her features , till Candy waved a hand in front of her eyes . |
| 2 | The annals for Cnut 's reign are contained in quire 9 ( 1016 – 51 ) , and Ker thought that the scribe responsible for this also wrote the entries for 1071 – 9 . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , the period after 1979 undoubtedly saw a proliferation of inner-city projects . |
| 4 | But the island that in the prohibition years after 1920 profitably ran the rum trade is well placed for bootlegging cocaine . |
| 5 | In consequence , royal borrowing after 1574 largely took the form of interest-free ‘ forced loans ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ But is n't it the case , ’ I ask him , ‘ that while people are piling into the cinemas to see the worst exports of Hollywood , they are also piling in to see our own films , such as Alan Parker 's The Commitments , which has after all just won the Bafta award for best film . ’ |
| 7 | The course of events after 1931 clearly revealed the inadequacy of pure aspiration as the basis for a science of international politics , and made it possible for the first time to embark on serious critical and analytical thought about international problems . |
| 8 | Also , in parallel with the United States , the influence of public policy seems to have been an additional factor of some importance since it has been observed that the policy of the occupying powers after 1947 probably strengthened the tendency to form enterprise-based unions rather than alternative structures for bargaining purposes ( Levine , 1981 ) . |
| 9 | The Public Health Act of 1875 further clarified the duties of sanitary authorities . |
| 10 | The events of 1972 finally persuaded the leaders of organized labour ( and the great mass of trade union members ) that the judges were not to be trusted . |
| 11 | It introduced an attempt to assess the truth of the often reiterated statement that the Great Barbarian Conspiracy of 367 virtually destroyed the villa system in Britain . |
| 12 | From the darkness of the interior of this well came the smell of burned refuse and decaying meat and the stench of urine . |
| 13 | In all of this there existed an air of the cottage industry , with an informality that , consciously or not , took its measure from the example of its chairman , who continued to live and work — now with the added impedimenta of potties and baby-gates — on a houseboat on the Regents Canal ; who drove a second-hand Volvo ; and who had not long come into possession of a washing-machine . |
| 14 | The definition of papal infallibility ( even in its rather restrained terms ) and of papal supremacy over the Church by the Council of 1870 merely formalized the pinnacle of a far larger system , theoretical and institutional , of monarchy . |
| 15 | Other Evenki clans sought to avoid subjection to the Russians by moving north of the Angara , and some of these also crossed the Yenisei into Nenets territory . |
| 16 | The first of these probably had a scleritome similar to halkieriids , with at least one shell and two types of sclerite . |
| 17 | Divergent political objectives notwithstanding , the obvious goodwill between Ho and the Americans , the limited but successful training teams that they provided for Vietminh guerrillas , and the obvious sympathy which many Americans — in particular , it seems the OSS — had for the cause of Vietnamese independence , not to mention corresponding doubts of the French title to Vietnam , all of these understandably encouraged the Vietminh in their political objective of the accomplished fact . |
| 18 | Approximately 12 per cent out of the total population of 32,000,000 currently drew a pension , and the increase in the miminum benefit represented an estimated cost to the treasury of $1,200 million per year . |
| 19 | The decree of 1274 henceforth banned the holding of two or more cures of souls simultaneously except where a papal licence to do so had been obtained . |
| 20 | ( 3 ) The Act of 1976 expressly recognised the possibility that under the pre-existing law ‘ a person could be liable to a child in respect of disabilities with which it might be born ’ see section 4(5) . |
| 21 | The Agrarian Code of 1922 strictly forbade the sale of land and the granting of mortgages . |
| 22 | In the 1960s there is evidence that the process of equalisation began to slow down somewhat and statistics suggest that the first oil shock of 1973 actually reversed the trend altogether with disparities tending to widen . |
| 23 | Some observers have thought that the Falklands crisis of 1982 actually saw a revival , albeit briefly , of classic Cabinet government . |
| 24 | The Hague Conventions of 1907 explicitly prohibited the creation of military bases on the territory of neutral states . |
| 25 | What he did n't know was that the secret military satellite launched on the Columbia space shuttle in the summer of 1989 also had the capability of following the Citation . |
| 26 | Paschal 's grant of 1103 certainly extended the primacy to Anselm 's successors , but only so far as it had been ‘ enjoyed by Anselm 's predecessors ’ . |
| 27 | The spring of 1915 thus found the Allies dug in opposite the German Army , which had been halted on the Marne . |
| 28 | ‘ Coming down in the middle of the night like that probably muddled the hell out of them . |
| 29 | Again , as noted for CCK-8 , pretreatment with L-NAME greatly increased the responses of the gall bladder to bethanechol . |
| 30 | The movement whose new star he became in 1934 soon showed the public how greatly it had gained strength . |