Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The events associated with the prisoners ' rights movement that flourished for a time in the late 1960s and early 1970s in parts of the United States , Scandinavia and Britain had by the early 1980s largely disappeared without trace .
2 The fifth seeded American won the third round encounter 6–3 6–4 then raced for shelter as the rain flooded the Edgbaston Priory club .
3 Oh it was the first that ever started in Orkney , nobody ever thought You see before they used to cut their crop and set it in stokes .
4 The men from Big Blue originally came to Microsoft 's founder , Bill Gates , to license the programming languages that he had written for the early personal-computer enthusiasts , most of whom had built their own machines .
5 A few dozen of the 64-seat YS-11s eventually went into service and are now , to the delight of jolted passengers , nearing the end of their lives .
6 The Supreme Soviet also resolved on Oct. 25 to send a delegation of observers to the USSR Supreme Soviet 's Soviet of the Republics [ see below ] , noting that it was inexpedient for Ukraine to take part in inter-republican structures which could entail its forming part of another state .
7 Tatarstan 's Supreme Soviet also declared on Dec. 28 that the autonomous republic was joining the CIS with the status of co-founder .
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