Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The industry used local resources ; charcoal and other articles were made from wood ; iron and silver ores were processed and fashioned ; and flax , hemp and wool were spun and woven into clothing , the Italian Chimney sweeps came to symbolize the migration at its most miserable , but other persons repaired watches or became itinerant vendors of fabric , haberdashery , and other items . |
| 2 | Even if this were so , the implication has been made by catholic school supporters that catholic schools have not promoted or reinforced any measure of prejudice , and that no other possible type of school could improve on them ( Daly 1975 ) . |
| 3 | But nothing in the response of the Al Fayeds ' advisers , for all its bluster and menace , rebutted my basic case or added one jot of information to explain the origins of the brothers ' wealth . |
| 4 | He spoke once during the second reading debate , spoke or intervened thirteen times in committee , once on report , and once on third reading . |
| 5 | The GUSTO trial assessed the risks and benefits of immediate intravenous heparin or delayed subcutaneous heparin in addition to streptokinase ( and found no mortality benefit ) , but did not make such comparisons for tPA or anistreplase nor provide any mortality comparison of intravenous heparin and no heparin . |
| 6 | ’ She lay on her bed for hours leading righteous riots of millhands against languid tophatted fops or hardfaced bowlerhatted men of iron and steel . |
| 7 | Thus in a self-contract he may make a contract such as ‘ if at the end of the week I have gone without a drink , or lost x lbs in weight , I can buy myself … ’ . |
| 8 | Reaching an appropriate sociability and the business to be won or lost short space of time and wanted to set the scene and make a right , a right impression at the right . |
| 9 | Social psychologists have conducted thousands of studies about stereotypes of outgroups or desired social distance from outgroup members , etc . |
| 10 | Nurses of the same grade may possess different skills and thus each ward/department must identify its specific skill requirements It may be necessary to employ nurses who have undergone further training or gained additional skills through experience . |
| 11 | Many of her friends had stepparents , and few of them were happy about it : in their rambling and interminable discussions they would deplore the stupidity and selfishness of their elders in introducing into their homes strangers who were not of their blood and who insisted on peculiar foodstuffs and liked or disliked various types of music — whichever was most inconvenient and painful to the children of the house . |
| 12 | As trappers , entire safety of mine depended on the young children & although not physically demanding , they had longest hrs & sat all day in darkness . |
| 13 | Somehow the leader 's speeches , though full of the passionate phrases , could not summon from Majorism the spectre that made past invocations against Thatcherism so memorable . |
| 14 | In the three studies that reported large reductions in mortality and listed causes of death , mortality rates for diarrhoea and measles fell but the rate for acute respiratory infections ( ARI ) did not change . |
| 15 | It is estimated , moreover , that in those countries that reported maternal deaths by age , for every 100,000 live births , 56 women die from related causes ( Table 18 ) . |
| 16 | The month-old ‘ final offensive ’ has been most successful this year because a split that erupted last August among rebel ranks has not yet been patched up in the face of Khartoum 's assaults . |
| 17 | But by now I was crazed with the idea of doing something for this woman that retained some shred of playfulness to it , so she could think to herself : ‘ All in fun , all in fun ’ , and yet which conveyed the full force of the idea that I had been alone in that office that weekend with a huge erection thinking of her . |
| 18 | Darwinism was portrayed as a philosophy that reduced living things to automata struggling mindlessly against the physical environment . |
| 19 | And , with all due respect to the other players , it was , frankly , as well that he did , because time and again it was his superb displays that salvaged precious points for Palace against the odds ; points which , at the end of the season , made all the difference between survival and relegation . |
| 20 | Oh , it was great to have clothes to wear again , real clothes , beautiful clothes , clothes that had been created with genius and handled with adoration , shy , deceiving little artefacts that seemed just lengths of cloth but once you possessed them would flow over your body like enchanted water and transform you into something magical . |
| 21 | Our present study supports the view that whole protein based diets are clinically effective , as suggested in three previous trials that compared this type of diet with elemental formulas , although in one of them the sample is small and the conclusions are only indicative . |
| 22 | Her soft rounded breasts were revealed , peaked by erect nipples that stood up like rosebuds , and when his lips claimed them she was gripped by an aching pleasure that caused small sighs of ecstasy to betray her delight . |
| 23 | The movie that provoked most debate around rape and its representation before The Accused , was Lamont Johnson 's 1976 film Lipstick , which at least did make some attempt to make connections between the rape and the wider social implications of how society constructs images of women . |
| 24 | She dug in her shoulder-bag for dark glasses and retreated behind them , staring in some awe at the magnificent medieval jumble of forts and palaces and strongholds that comprised this stretch of coastline . |
| 25 | The traditional sacred cosmos or canopy of preindustrial society that dominated rural life before modernity ( remember England of 1700 ) was dissolved by the amoral technical and specialised institutions that developed with industrialism . |
| 26 | talk of a ‘ changing moral climate ’ and point to legislative change that decriminalised certain forms of behaviour , but further than that they do not go . |
| 27 | A narrow drive ran through a garden that was full of late summer flowers that were still blooming in the warmth of the autumn sun , and large , spreading trees that threw irregular patches of shade . |
| 28 | Stead 's dramatisation of the issue of sexual exploitation not only stilled for the moment many fundamental conflicts of interest between participants in the agitation , but it also obscured the contradictions inherent in the ideology that informed this agitation against child prostitution . |
| 29 | But it was only about two shops that showed any signs of life . |
| 30 | Once appraised of the real facts , there was only one person that showed any opposition to flying taking place at the airfield . |