Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These reflected the extraordinary complexity of the political situation which had developed in Yugoslavia during the years of the German occupation , when different ethnic , religious and political groups had formed shifting alliances , according to whether their main enemy at any time had seemed to be the occupying Germans or Tito 's partisans working to establish a Socialist state in post-war Yugoslavia . |
| 2 | In Manchester , Liverpool , the Greater London Council , and some London boroughs left-wing Labour authorities sought to implement local socialism and use the town hall to challenge Thatcherite Whitehall . |
| 3 | The cost-improvement programmes had produced annual savings of between 1.1 and 1.5 per cent per year in real terms since they were introduced in 1984 – 85 . |
| 4 | On Feb. 5 the Interior Ministry renewed a security warning stating that it would " strike most severely " against anyone committing acts of " anarchy , sabotage or aggression " , and on Feb. 13 Algerian radio reported that the Saudi authorities had arrested 12 persons for " terrorism " since the beginning of the Gulf war . |
| 5 | Once the industrial and social changes which were transforming the West during the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries began to find military expression , of course , the limits of Russia 's resources would be fully exposed . |
| 6 | that was n't terribly elegant but anyway his blue labels had got , these little sticky labels had got blue stripes on them |
| 7 | Re-constituted in 1979 , with a clerk provided by NACRO and administrative expenses funded by a grant from a charitable trust , MPs and peers from all the main political parties met to discuss current issues of criminal justice policy and practice . |
| 8 | The political parties began to consider future manifesto proposals . |
| 9 | Abolitionists had to face the fact that for many of their fellow countrymen during the next thirty years open public meetings continued to have this resonance . |
| 10 | Nor is there any mention of the problems which would arise if ( as seems likely ) different franchisees decided to offer different levels of discount on their ‘ discount rate ’ tickets . |
| 11 | Certainly , further investigations aimed to clarify these aspects are warranted . |
| 12 | Some employers tried to make potential participants swear allegiance to heterosexuality before they would pay their conference fee . |
| 13 | He argued that as old institutions failed to meet new expectations , so legitimacy in government would falter and trust in its equity and effectiveness would decline . |
| 14 | Higher social groups appeared to make more use of health services in relation to need however ( Brotherston 1976 ; Forster 1976 ) and research published shortly after the Black Report argued that they also obtained a disproportionate share of NHS resources when ill ( Le Grand 1982 ) . |
| 15 | In Russia English merchants had gone some way south of Moscow , and trade was also being carried on in the Eastern Mediterranean or Levant . |
| 16 | It may be difficult to explain why a few minutes spent reading fourteen lines of Shakespeare should be a higher pleasure than reading an equivalent length of a James Bond story , but the analyses of literary criticism elucidate how in the former case one is living those few minutes in intensified awareness with an extraordinarily extended span , from the texture of the words sounding in one 's inner ear to the remotest implications for the living of one 's whole life . |
| 17 | I 'd always suspected big-wave riders had to have more cojones than the average human being , and there was at least one of that species who seemed to bear out my hypothesis . |
| 18 | Some authorities wanted to develop new forms of secondary education . |
| 19 | Some schools hesitated to implement new ideas , others retreated into the safety which traditional methods appeared to provide . |
| 20 | Gloucester showed no desire to unleash a northern invasion of the south , although a few northerners did receive minor pickings there . |
| 21 | Gloucester showed no desire to unleash a northern invasion of the south , although a few northerners did receive minor pickings there . |
| 22 | Despite a concomitant drop in household disposable incomes , some sectors did report significant increases in spending — during the third quarter of 1989 , new car registrations recorded 20-30 per cent rises above levels in previous years . |
| 23 | Faced by an enemy triumphant on their own territory , the French parties tried to make common cause . |
| 24 | Probably the greatest cause of discontent was the issue of Public Lending Right , only partially defused since some authors began to receive Public Lending Right payments in 1983 . |
| 25 | It emerged that Michael Heseltine , Kenneth Clarke , Malcolm Rifkind and Tristan Garel-Jones from the Trade , Home , Defence and Foreign Ministries had signed public interest immunity certificates to keep the Whitehall memos out of court . |
| 26 | Earlier some engineers had derided this side of the business as mere ‘ ironmongery ’ , and there had also been political constraints on development . |
| 27 | I had no idea of doing anything else but study there for the first three years after school , for which my hardworking and frugal parents had saved enough money . |
| 28 | But there was an element of luck in yesterday 's performances because the British crews decided to defy political reality by going hard left on the first beat and were pleasantly rewarded by a massive windshift in their favour . |
| 29 | The pioneer of bee research Karl von Frisch recalls ( and we have observed ) instances in which the trained foragers began to anticipate subsequent moves and to wait for the feeder at the presumptive new location . |
| 30 | Some refugees managed to obtain extra ration cards , and at the Harshin and Hartishek camps food repeatedly ran out before everyone had received their ration . |