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 . |