Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since there was a higher population and a greater surplus of output people had a higher disposable income ; this led directly to a desire for more than just food and a demand for material commodities for the household ( pottery , cutlery , more and better clothing in cotton and wool ) . |
| 2 | But the inherent political weaknesses of the struggles , the chronic inability to attract support from other sections of labour , and the social composition of the unemployed led directly to a collapse of militancy after state intervention . |
| 3 | This stemmed largely from a lack of political analysis and clarity in relation to nationalism and feminism on the part of Southern feminists . |
| 4 | This spilled over to a fall in the reservation prices . |
| 5 | And this came about through a sequence of catastrophes , movements of people , and trade . |
| 6 | But this came out in a stumbling , heavy voice ; he still could hardly believe it all . |
| 7 | As they left the turn the French paddled off at a tangent and tried to run the Romanians into the landing pontoon in front of all the VIPs . |
| 8 | This 21 year old came here after a string of car offences . |
| 9 | This happened more as a result of the need for specialised care and education for citizens to be managed by the state . |
| 10 | They amount to no net tax increase in the coming year , but thereafter very substantial tax increases : £6.5 billion in 1994/5 and £1O.5 billion in 1995/6 financed mainly by a combination of freezing income tax allowances , a 1 per cent increase in National Insurance contributions for employees ( in reality a form of income tax ) and extension tax of value-added tax to domestic fuel . |
| 11 | ‘ I thumped one of them then another turned up with a gun . |
| 12 | ‘ He is an old woman , ’ she replied , and half turned away with a swish of her sea-green silk dress . |
| 13 | But , on the stroke of midnight , Prince Charming turned back into a rat . ’ |
| 14 | The vogue for this owed much to a bastard Darwinism ; Latin nations were less taken in by it than were Slavs and Teutons . |
| 15 | The first one is to have your eyelashed tinted professionally at a beauty salon — this costs between £6.00-–9.00 at Glemby , takes just 15 minutes and will last up to six weeks . |
| 16 | Again , this worked well for a while . |
| 17 | This grew out of a Loan Exhibition ( accompanied by lectures ) of scientific apparatus for the 1862 Exhibition at South Kensington , which turned out to be a pale shadow of the Great Exhibition of 1851- the death of Prince Albert adding to the gloom . |
| 18 | Levels of caesium in upland grasses increased dramatically after Chernobyl , while the ratio of caesium 137 to 134 fell dramatically to a value characteristic of Chernobyl fallout . |
| 19 | shur shur shur shur shur shur shur , and this went on for a week an little teacher , Miss , she called out stop doing that ! |
| 20 | Some carried enough for a family . |
| 21 | He half walked , half ran on without a word . |
| 22 | ‘ We 'll keep this tucked away in a corner when it 's not needed , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Set the temperature to a degree or two higher than that of the maintenance tank and place the female in this set up for a time to associate herself with the layout and hiding places . |
| 24 | In their haste to dispose of the money some of it was burned and some ended up in a sewer . |
| 25 | The FT-SE 100 woke up with a bang to finish 20.3 points ahead at a record 2847.8 , after an earlier 1.9 point downturn . |
| 26 | According to government claims , over 250 LTTE rebels were killed between Aug. 22 and Aug. 26 , including over 100 shot down from a helicopter as they cycled to reinforce LTTE positions near Kopay . |
| 27 | British portraiture from 1660 to 1960 charted brilliantly by a relay of scholars |
| 28 | A little Fulham girl who he said was quite promising came in with a friend or two to dance with her . |
| 29 | The park is pretty dialled in with a food shop , skate shop , and the midi ramp . |
| 30 | She held out her arms and tried desperately to grab at Jones 's reins , but three quarters of a ton of racehorse hit her head-on at nearly forty miles an hour and the three went down in a heap . |