Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As expected Object World ‘ 92 got off to a dramatic and bitchy start with the opening panel session which , on the day , featured Paul Allchin , Microsoft Corp 's vice president for advanced products , Philippe Kahn , founder of Borland International Inc , Steve McKay , SunSoft Inc vice president for user environment software and Joe Guglielmi , head of Taligent Inc as the great and glorious warm-up act for NeXT Inc 's Steve Jobs who topped the bill . |
| 2 | So it was that the most innovative proposal in the Criminal Justice Bill presented to Parliament on 10 November 1971 stemmed not from the Tory manifesto , nor from Crime Has No Boundaries , but from an official committee chaired by a Labour life-peer . |
| 3 | Use of mundic tailed off in the Fifties . |
| 4 | This expanded dramatically in the 1980s . |
| 5 | The exaggeration or over-simplification of the notion of commonality within the gens as regards ownership of property is also apparent in the discussion of kinship and this led equally to a fundamental misunderstanding . |
| 6 | This centred originally on the right-wing Nation Party and the sentiment has persisted , with clashes between rival fundamentalist groups common before the 1980 military coup . |
| 7 | The former believed that it was possible to regenerate people ( this applied emphatically to the young ) and , therefore , progress could be assumed . |
| 8 | This applied particularly to the employed-as-required surface or day-workers . |
| 9 | Some of them started to run towards the airport building , and a few knelt down on the wet tarmac . |
| 10 | This referred less to the irreligious habits of the people than the fact that the village as yet contained no place of worship , for Wesley went on to say that when he began his service ( probably at a spot near the present Ulster Bank and using a mounting block as his pulpit ) ‘ the people gathered form all sides and , when I prayed , kneeled down upon the stones , rich and poor , all round me ’ . |
| 11 | This stemmed partly from the plain fact that the Plantagenet king-duke owed homage to the Capetian crown for his south-western French possessions . |
| 12 | He landed and stared down at me and at the blood of my broken wing , his terrible beak opening just a little with the pleasure of what he saw ; while I hung there , trying to watch all three at once and knowing that one of them would attack suddenly and then be gone as another came in from a different direction . |
| 13 | prisons , being regarded by most planners and politicians as ‘ non-productive ’ ( short-sighted a view as this may be ) , did not until very recently achieve even token inclusion in a Five Year Plan , and this came only after a lengthy battle by individuals within the Ministries of Home Affairs and Welfare to include a meaningful package for development in the correctional field . |
| 14 | An ordinary member of parliament who attempted to gratify constituents by pressing for a senior appointment was likely to be put firmly in his place by the Treasury , for this happened even to the well-connected David Scott , when representing the Dundee burghs in 1796 . |
| 15 | This happened only for the deeper intervals and also had the effect of nearly destroying the core . |
| 16 | She turned up ten days later , stranded on a coral reef in the Bahamas with most of her gear missing and her starboard bilges half ripped out by the savage coral heads . |
| 17 | Most of the true species are single-flowers , and seldom bloom beyond the one initial burst — this showed out in the early English crosses . |
| 18 | Some developed differently in the American context . |
| 19 | This fed directly into the large 40 foot high chimney that formerly graced the mill and of which the lower dressed masonry section remains . |
| 20 | This merged quickly with the rolling creamy wake . |
| 21 | This survived only in an underground way in folk song , nursery rhymes , children 's counting verses , and so on . |
| 22 | A few of these papers became firmly established ( and the latter helped kill the London evenings ) , but more , including some founded later in the 1970s ( such as the Chelmsford Evening Herald and the Guildford Daily Advertiser ) , did not survive long into the 1980s . |
| 23 | Unfortunately this fell out on the third ascent . |
| 24 | stop it , so so he had to erm just talk to our solicitors this morning and try and get this sorted out between the two solicitors . |
| 25 | This brought together in a simplified form a number of remedies obtainable from a Divisional Court of the Queen 's Bench Division consisting of two or three judges . |
| 26 | Three or four dropped into the darkness and choc ice wrappers , dead ; a few fluttered aimlessly to rest around us ; some took off into the vast space above . |
| 27 | The combined effect of federal , state and local taxes in the United States in 1985 fell heavily on the poorest . |
| 28 | This went on for a long time . |
| 29 | Er , thank you , Mr Chairman , to me erm , this went on from the first paper that chose the effects of the food and management of the er , the fire local services , whereas carried through and it will be interesting to see next year er what the situation is , in order to the position of the as it were , this year , benefit of everything that has previous administration . |
| 30 | This went on until the sixteenth century when Henry VIII ordered his chief fruiterer , Richard Harris , to visit France and learn about apple cultivation . |