Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imagine , for example , a problem of tantrums where each one lasted several hours . |
| 2 | Cole & Cole ( 1967 ) studied the possible correlation of quantity of output of 120 physicists ( publications , citations , number of awards ) with the perceived quality of their work , as determined by peer assessment , to see if the reward system in science favoured highly productive researchers , or those who produced high quality research . |
| 3 | This award was instituted in 1900 in recognition of French firemen who distinguished themselves through their courageous actions ; or those who completed thirty years of irreproachable service . |
| 4 | He played the first 11 well enough , but the putts refused to drop apart from at the eighth and 10th , where first he faced little chips . |
| 5 | Leeds goal came with a move started from the middle of the Oldham half with a ball stabbed forward from McAllister ( probably the only thing either good or bad he did all night ) to Speed on the edge of the box . |
| 6 | Or are you going to go on pretending that all we did last night was make love ? |
| 7 | it 's just that all I heard all morning was there 's so many delays there with all the water , surface water erm so I thought well let's try and avoid that . |
| 8 | As regards the legal position of some 350,000 Chinese living in Indonesia , it was eventually agreed that China would offer them citizenship , and that those who declined this offer would be granted permanent residency rights by the Indonesian government . |
| 9 | He stated that those who disobeyed this order ‘ will be severely punished ’ . |
| 10 | Criminal bankruptcy orders , designed to ensure that those who committed large-scale crimes , especially fraud , should not be able to benefit from the fruits of their criminal activities , were also included . |
| 11 | It seemed that those who augmented inadequate incomes by poaching or stealing food raised physically healthier families than the more law-abiding . |
| 12 | Undoubtedly the cloth industry was the most famous in late medieval England , but one should remember that its importance may have been exaggerated by its being par excellence an export industry , and , because its products paid dues on export , being better documented than those which met domestic requirements . |
| 13 | Leading 10-8 and within a frame of the title , Wattana had the sublime confidence of youth to go for the $100,000 jackpot prize on offer for a 147 , choosing reds more suitable for continuing the red-black sequence than those which offered maximum certainty of winning the title-clinching frame . |
| 14 | This means that British Coal has to shut down a large amount of its production capacity , and this they attempted last autumn . |
| 15 | Between 1378 and 1407 he enjoyed thirty-five benefices ( although never more than twelve at once ) . |
| 16 | During 1971 and 1972 he surveyed four oil refineries — two each in France and Britain — interviewing a total of over 800 workers . |
| 17 | The fifth , René Lévesque , likewise recognized for his visionary leadership , was the premier of Quebec between 1976 and 1985 who brought that province to the brink of separation from the rest of Canada . |
| 18 | She was able to chat to Ana for most of the meal and what with one thing and another she felt some progress had been made , though what she was doing in this situation she did not know . |
| 19 | Between 1616 and 1629 she bore eight children , and with her husband was active in a Shrewsbury conventicle . |
| 20 | Even a courtier admitted that although he was tactful and judicious he possessed less character , less resolution and less intelligence than his father . |
| 21 | As dean of Winchester he was an active servant of James I. Between 1616 and 1621 he made repeated visits to Scotland on royal business , accompanying the king in 1617 , and attending the general assembly in Perth ( 1618 ) in support of the king 's ‘ Five Articles ’ of ceremonial reform . |
| 22 | Has not my right hon. and learned Friend conclusively convinced the House that only a Conservative Government have the courage to reduce taxation on the one hand and to get rid of taxes on the other , in contradistinction to nearly all other Governments before them , and especially the one between 1974 and 1979 who found endless ways of leaching money out of other people 's pockets ? |
| 23 | In 1927 and 1929 he designed stylish bodies for the Hillman 12 hp and then Straight Eight chassis ; as technical adviser to the Aircraft Investment Corporation , which he joined in 1929 , he shared in the design of the Segrave Meteor , an advanced four-seater , twin-engined monoplane . |
| 24 | Between 1895 and 1898 he published regular articles in the Studio . |
| 25 | On the other hand , there were gifts in kind : when Alfred Rowland was in Frome in the 1860s and 1870s he got free milk , and sometimes game and fowls . |
| 26 | During the 1930s and 1940s she helped German refugees from Nazism . |
| 27 | In 1648 and 1649 he encouraged disgruntled Virginia Puritans to settle in Maryland . |
| 28 | ‘ My heart misgave me when I saw his livery at Parfois , for Isambard is close and confidential with him , and sure they had some business between them that bodes us no good here in Wales . ’ |
| 29 | The publisher Grant Richards encouraged her to turn to novel writing , and between 1907 and 1916 she produced six books which are the perfect expression of her personality : frivolous and witty , but with an underlying sense of melancholy . |
| 30 | Between 1914 and 1918 he spent six months among the Mailu and then two years among the people of the Trobriand Islands , both in south-east New Guinea . |