Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through the Double Cross Committee , usually known as the XX Committee , these turned spies sent back to Germany a steady stream of fictitious information garnished with sufficient truth to give it credibility , which the Germans apparently accepted without question . |
| 2 | The authorities then appeared to back down , accepting the students ' own nominees . |
| 3 | The Tans immediately began to prance around him , laughing and howling . |
| 4 | The branches above murmured in supplication and let through a sudden , spiralling shaft of light . |
| 5 | And given the extensive fear of denunciation for critical or defeatist comment , it is hardly surprising that negative remarks about the speeches rarely came to light . |
| 6 | A new entrance capable of allowing these larger ships into Imperial Dock was completed in September while the fitting out quay at Victoria Shipyard incorporating new gates on the slipways also came into use during the year . |
| 7 | ‘ Pole is important , even if the statistics show that no more than 50 per cent of the winners here started from pole in the last 10 years , ’ he said . |
| 8 | The younger men amongst the Jews often roared with laughter when the older men , the original immigrants , talked of some experience or incident , for the young bucks were first generation British and educated . |
| 9 | But if the lizards ever took to forest or crag life , the fringes would be a preadaptation to leaping and parachuting , and — perhaps — a nudge towards the evolution of gliding , independently of the modern flying lizard draco volans . |
| 10 | These three ingredients collectively formed the background in which natural hazards research crystallized , although as noted earlier the origins clearly arose in North America and particularly derived from the work of Gilbert White at the University of Chicago , later at the University of Colorado , and leader of the Commission on Man and Environment ( 1968- ) of the International Geographical Union . |
| 11 | The offences only came to light because of an attempt to inflate profits at Alexander Howden , which was discovered by the American company Alexander and Alexander after it bought the company . |
| 12 | We used to treat our coral cuts with iodine , unaware that the coral polyps which had entered the wounds normally thrived on iodine which they extracted from seawater — and were now extracting from our blood . |
| 13 | But when the owners later asked for permission to erect a temporary office , they were told the greenhouse itself should have had permission … and it would have to come down . |
| 14 | Some of the dancers actually came in contact now . |
| 15 | It answers some of the questions commonly asked about meningitis . |
| 16 | The problems mostly arose from lack of capital and only in a few cases had any action been taken — two had recently purchased houses in nearby villages for their sons and some had been able to purchase or rent some more land . |
| 17 | The ground has only one entrance , so long queues developed , and although the players all arrived on time , one of the staff was stranded at the back of the queue . |
| 18 | The second complaint made by the local authority is that the justices specifically said by paragraph ( 1 ) of their contact order that there should be no contact between T. and her father until after the local authority review in six months ' time . |
| 19 | The moneylenders then looked to Sim for the cash and threatened him and his family . |
| 20 | The pigs the mariners left on the islands probably looked at lot like the ancestral wild boars , and certainly when pink pigs go wild , it 's only a few generations before they 're muscular , nimble and fierce again . |
| 21 | The attackers then vanished in rush hour traffic . |
| 22 | The importance attached to maintaining the ‘ prestige ’ of the emirs soon translated in practice into the importance of maintaining the autonomy of the Residents , and subsequent governors of Nigeria found almost without exception that Lugard had created an administrative monster which it was beyond their power to control . |
| 23 | The Radicals also went into opposition and the Radical Socialists were split three ways ; left , right , and centre . |
| 24 | Indeed , concern about the security of the Church was a major reason why High Tories were opposed to the Union with Scotland , which the Whigs eventually brought to fruition in 1707 . |
| 25 | The symptoms of hyperventilation can therefore mimic virtually all the symptoms also attributed to anxiety and chronic stress . |
| 26 | The men inside yelled in fear as they realised that they were in a bog . |
| 27 | The police always looked on top in an eventful first half and translated their superiority into goals just before half-time . |
| 28 | Without the pounds , boats in passage might have to wait while the locks above filled with water , before the lock through which it is passing can fill . |
| 29 | Not a gentle lot , the bicheiros never hesitated to muscle ( or rub ) out the competition . |
| 30 | The women also called on church leaders to stand by the tenets of truth and justice , and be willing to accept criticism of their own policies . |