Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This enabled him to tell old jokes as if they were new and made him one of the ‘ all time great ’ story tellers . |
| 2 | This enabled them to handle global constraints on the sentence . |
| 3 | 1 Did you enjoy reading more , or less ? 2 Did you read different kinds of book as you got older ? 3 Did you read comics ? 4 Did you read information books ? 5 Did you have reading tests ? 6 Did you have any favourite books or authors ? 7 Did you have any hates or fears to do with reading ? |
| 4 | 1 Did you enjoy reading more , or less ? 2 Did you read different kinds of book as you got older ? 3 Did you read comics ? 4 Did you read information books ? 5 Did you have reading tests ? 6 Did you have any favourite books or authors ? 7 Did you have any hates or fears to do with reading ? |
| 5 | This would have been so easy had they dug narrow trenches , the practice of the past , as this method can produce only scraps of unrelated evidence . |
| 6 | His lectures would have been more lucrative had they attracted more women . |
| 7 | The multiple alignments whose fragments are shown in Figs. 3 and 4 allowed us to obtain optimized calculations of the similarity existing among the yeast , Drosophila , vaccinia virus and ASFV RNA polymerase subunits . |
| 8 | Er , it 's very difficult , yes you all laughed when I asked a question last year from over there to get a capital P in Pearson because you all laughed it took twenty weeks to get it in The Times , do you remember ? |
| 9 | That enabled it to boost pre-tax profits to March 31 to £101.4m from £65.7m in the previous 12 months . |
| 10 | The young veteran Ronald Ridenhour , whose conscience first led him to question former comrades , was racked by horror at discovering the crimes his friends had committed but felt no fear of official reprisal when he wrote to 30 Congressmen . |
| 11 | The wealth and power of the Victorian cities and the civic pride expressed in their impressive town halls , first enabled them to pioneer public services ; later it permitted them to build up teams of technical staff and take on a range of tasks of increasing complexity and sensitivity . |
| 12 | Thus to those conservatives who , arguing against the ordination of women , contend that Jesus ordained no ‘ priestesses ’ , it must be said that neither did he ordain any priests ! |
| 13 | The dangers which threaten those who make pronouncements about essential books in a National Curriculum had already been revealed when Mr Baker in a speech in 1988 said he thought all children aged 16 should have read George Orwell 's Animal Farm . |