Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [conj] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he looked at the old eagle again and shaking his head said , ‘ During the last war when I was a prisoner I knew men who were nearer to death than this and yet by some force of will or perhaps some power greater than us they survived . |
| 2 | Through informal contacts in 1971 and 1972 and formally in 1972 agreement was reached in principle to amalgamate . |
| 3 | Major demonstrations , not only outside the council offices where the charges were being debated and fixed but also in some cases involving violence within the council chambers themselves , occurred in particular over the period March 5-12 as councils took their final decisions . |
| 4 | Grossly updating our estimation of surviving Airspeed Oxfords , Jonathan Spinks has found a cache of no less than four substantially complete ( see photos ) airframes and six or so in poor condition at a site in Canada . |
| 5 | But these priorities have been predominantly short-term and fluctuating and often in open contradiction with the formal longer-term objectives of the railways . |
| 6 | Mrs Thatcher 's style certainly contributed to the Cabinet divisions between 1979 and 1981 and again after 1987 . |
| 7 | The ‘ authoritarian populism ’ of the 1980s , the corporatism of the 1960s and 1970s or presumably of some other form of nationalism in the 1990s are simultaneously a product of both capitalist social relations and the instinctive support which people , especially those least certain of their and their family 's future , give to parliaments and their leaders . |
| 8 | A hoard at Ardnave may have been hidden at the time of the Civil War , between 1638 and 1650 and certainly after 1640 . |
| 9 | Professor Alan Everitt 's analysis of these registers , in Ways and Means in Local History ( 1971 ) , shows that forty-five different trades and crafts were recorded between 1562 and 1601 and that this figure rose to eighty-three between 1654 and 1705 and then to 114 between 1716 and 1776 . |
| 10 | Under Labour , between 1964 and 1970 and again between 1974 and 1979 , a total of 295 pits were shut down ; since 1979 , there have been just under 140 closures . |
| 11 | A Compact , though , provides great potential for making the curriculum more realistic and relevant and hence for improving student motivation . |
| 12 | And last but far from least , the greatest pleasure of all — and sometimes the most hard-won — freedom . |
| 13 | He was frequently arrogant and overbearing and far from suffering people he regarded as fools gladly , he would n't suffer them at all . |
| 14 | The makings of a quite substantial tomato salad mystique are scattered around waiting to be gathered up by some enterprising buyer who will get the produce flown in from Barcelona or Marseilles , Naples , Valencia or even possibly from Portugal , where the tomatoes are as good and plentiful as anywhere in Mediterranean lands . |
| 15 | But they show him as being very bright and intelligent and far from naive . |
| 16 | Similarly , three 8 ml urine samples collected at 240 , 300 , and 360 minutes after the onset of the meal from the third morbidly obese subject were pooled , lyophilised , and reconstituted as before with 6 ml distilled water . |