Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pron] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the case was ‘ exceptional ’ , due to the size of the financial crash , and a careful balance between the administrators ' reasonable needs and the oppression of the addressee was necessary , applications were not necessarily unreasonable because they were inconvenient to the addressee , caused a lot of work or made them vulnerable to future claims . |
| 2 | Then , on the eve of the second Test in Madras , Gooch had his infamous encounter with a poisonous prawn that laid him low for several days and was out of the match with diarrhoea and sickness that laid him low for several days . |
| 3 | Then , on the eve of the second Test in Madras , Gooch had his infamous encounter with a poisonous prawn that laid him low for several days and was out of the match with diarrhoea and sickness that laid him low for several days . |
| 4 | He intrigued her , there was something about the way he acted , the way he spoke that made him different from all the other vagrants that she had met . |
| 5 | It had come to him over the last year or so that there was only one thing that made him different from other men , and that was the weight he was carrying on his mind . |
| 6 | The high proportion of royalists looks embarrassing not only for Merton 's thesis but for variants of it which have claimed that it was the political radicalism ( not the puritanism ) of the parliamentary radicals that made them receptive to revolutionary science . |
| 7 | The words were insignificant , but there was something in his tone that made her happy for some reason . |
| 8 | One of the features of the cerebral hemispheres is that they have more extensive interconnections from one part to other parts than is usual in sensory centres , and perhaps this was the feature , inherited from its origin as the smell-brain , that made it useful for other modalities as well ; global pattern recognition requires taking into account large chunks of sensory information , not just localised patches . |
| 9 | It was having the camera there that made us aware of those questions . |
| 10 | I would say the thing that kept me sane during that period was the fact that I had a part time job , and erm we were able to pay for some home help . |
| 11 | But let's face it , the sleeping bag that did you proud on those hot summer nights in Italy , and got you through the night on the floor after the party , is n't exactly going to be your best friend when the temperature drops below freezing . |
| 12 | Whether , for instance , concepts such as ‘ ethnicity ’ , ‘ class ’ , ‘ politics ’ are ‘ culture-free ’ , that is whether academics have succeeded in freeing them from their narrow everyday cultural uses and made them available for cross-cultural use , is a question of judgement and , ultimately , of ontology . |
| 13 | ‘ So we set to work on the pictures , enormous ones and little gems which would all go in the modern interior , and made them full of off-white and near-pink . ’ |
| 14 | I am quite pleased that Auckland fly-half Grant Fox has changed his mind and made himself available for international action . |
| 15 | No mourners followed but an unmarked car appeared in the road and made it impossible for any vehicle to tail the hearse . |
| 16 | Important debt agreements ended the country 's isolation from the international financial community and made it eligible for fresh multilateral agency loans . |
| 17 | Dr Walter Kilner developed some screens filled with a dicyanin solution which sensitized the eyes and made it easier for more people to see the aura . |
| 18 | She switched on an overhead lamp and unrolled them one by one . |
| 19 | as if , in part , to fight back at their crushing fate , the Welsh families in those industrial valleys bred and grew and savoured their own with biblical fruitfulness and devotion . |
| 20 | She turned to the door and flung it open with one contemptuous move . |
| 21 | These workers have designed primers to the organism , and found it present in extraintestinal tissue from unrelated cases of Whipple 's disease . |
| 22 | ‘ I knew all about calories , but I really enjoyed food and found it difficult to lost weight ! |
| 23 | Alain Lemarchand turned and regarded them both with ironic amusement . |
| 24 | Those of us near enough to have observed this were by now climbing onto chairs and beds and squealing , ‘ It 's a mouse ! ’ , but Rosie continued her progression into bed , pulled the clothes up to her nose and regarded us all with mild astonishment . |
| 25 | He had worked so long on it and filled it full of malicious remarks at Gina 's expense . |
| 26 | Cairnpapple is one of the most important archaeological sites in Scotland and was where prehistoric man worshipped and buried his dead for 3000 years . |
| 27 | SUPERMAN Derek Kaye leapt into action when a trailer loaded with a car ran over his godson — and lifted it clear with ONE hand . |
| 28 | She took out little leather boxes and opened them one by one . |
| 29 | The staff denied the charge and declared themselves independent of any political party or movement . |
| 30 | The cantor , the rabbi , the chosen laymen stood before the open Ark , cradling the Torah scrolls , which looked like stiff-necked royal children , and returned them one by one to their golden stall . |