Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adv] [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agricultural institutions also began to play a major role in applying biological theory to the problems of agriculture . |
| 2 | Working-class political parties also came to serve a useful integrative function for monopoly capital . |
| 3 | It had been Lewis himself who a few minutes earlier had taken the call from the Met . |
| 4 | This is the same room where Jesus a few hours earlier had celebrated the last supper . |
| 5 | This noticeboard had already played a significant part in my life : nearly thirty years before then it had displayed the result of my own first degree ( second-class honours ) ; a few years later had come the perfunctory notice saying my doctoral thesis had been accepted by the college ; and shortly after that an even briefer note to the effect that I had joined the teaching staff . |
| 6 | The people were so strong in the faith for which their forebears had fought and suffered ; their steadfastness and courage , handed down through the ages , lived on in the men and women who only a few years ago had defied the invader of their homeland . |
| 7 | That 's why all cars a few years ago started looking the same , now they all look sort of like this . |
| 8 | Most of all , after a few days there began to appear a growing chorus of complaint from hosts about the condition of some of the evacuees . |
| 9 | Some patients truly did require an asylum from the strains of the world . |
| 10 | Slim spires still soared to support the ebon umbrella shields . |
| 11 | A bemused Southall found himself cautioned for time-wasting and a few seconds later had to pick the ball out of the net . |
| 12 | He hurried through the open doorway into the house and a few seconds later reappeared carrying a rifle which he passed from one hand to the other as |
| 13 | Some shots undoubtedly had hit the hulls also , but the effect of these was not so evident to the onlookers . |
| 14 | Exotic substances owed part of their prestige to their mere difference from ones available in the home environment , but even more to the fact that obtaining them from a distance might and in civilized societies normally did reflect the exercise of power . |
| 15 | Medieval travellers usually had to pick a way over boggy ground as they came off the hills . |
| 16 | Aisha 's annual visits home had sown the seed of travel in my spirit and this seed had grown and opened out and reached my eyes and tongue . |
| 17 | Linfield 's shamed opponents yesterday admitted making a 5,000 dollar payment to the Turkish referee before their 2–1 first leg win in Georgia on August 18 . |
| 18 | Suppose one or more of those who visited Burford three weeks later had witnessed the murder or knew what Everett had discovered . |
| 19 | Section 123(1) of the Insolvency Act 1986 provides that a company is deemed unable to pay its debts if a creditor ( by assignment or otherwise ) to whom the company is indebted in a sum exceeding £750 then due has served on the company , by leaving it at the company 's registered office , a written demand ( in the prescribed form ) requiring the company to pay the sum so due and the company has for three weeks thereafter neglected to pay the sum or to secure or compound for it to the reasonable satisfaction of the creditor . |
| 20 | Popham Down was a 66–1 outsider for the 1967 Grand National — a decent price for a horse who three years previously had won the Scottish equivalent at Bogside — but his backers did not enjoy much of a run for their money . |
| 21 | The uniform hour of sixty minutes soon tended to replace the day as the fundamental unit of labour time in the textile industry . |
| 22 | All subjects then learned to push a handle ( R1 ) in response to A and to pull it ( R2 ) in response to B. The test phase showed that stimulus C tended to evoke R2 , that is , to evoke the response acquired to the training stimulus that had received equivalent pre-training . |
| 23 | It was almost as small as the circle of names and acquaintances of the average senior civil servant , and was reduced further by the fact that once they had got on to a board , many businessmen rapidly came to resent the amount of time the job demanded . |
| 24 | Too many electors evidently wished to reject the terms of Heath 's question , wished for neither Heath-style confrontation nor a politics dominated by trade union power . |
| 25 | The experimental birds now tended to avoid the viceroys , and the control birds to peck at them ( Table 5.1 ) . |
| 26 | The curriculum in secondary schools also began to take a predictable shape , mathematics , English , RE and PE for all plus a ‘ choice ’ from six option columns . |
| 27 | I wondered what memories were passing through the minds of the other members of the group , especially those that 50 years earlier had paid a flying visit to Norway in rather different circumstances . |
| 28 | The Welshman grabbed a 58th minute headed equaliser after Steve Staunton 's spectacular strike five minutes earlier had threatened a dramatic smash-and-grab of three Premier League points by former manager Ron Atkinson . |
| 29 | Such conscientious couples even tried to share the child bearing as far as possible . |
| 30 | It should be stressed again , however , that although a specialized function might well exist , many small towns ultimately came to possess a range of functions , not least those which were most conveniently placed to exploit their full urban potential . |