Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lamp could be hooked onto the front of a miner 's cap or hung on a wooden roof support while he was working . |
| 2 | Brian knows Brian knew everything more or less or arranged quite a few things anyway |
| 3 | Where the vessel is left unattended moored or anchored off an exposed beach or shore no claim will be payable for breaking adrift from the mooring or anchor and the subsequent damage . |
| 4 | Edna often took Celia down there , carefully going first and waiting while the little girl slid or scrambled down the awkward parts of the cliff into her waiting arms . |
| 5 | James inaugurated the modern or as it is sometimes called , the ‘ modernist ’ novel in England , a kind of fiction which , in pursuit of a more faithful representation of reality , attenuated or eliminated altogether the authorial narrator . |
| 6 | I was struck by the fact that the majority of people visiting our stalls at summer shows had either not heard of us , or had only the vaguest idea about what we do . |
| 7 | Others have found it more advantageous to acquire a local bank or set up a joint venture with local banks . |
| 8 | Leyshon and Stokle suffered horrific injuries when they were trapped in a burning car that plunged down a steep hillside near Birdlip in Gloucestershire in November two years ago . |
| 9 | She had reached the place where the Dalek Killer had entered one of the six squat buildings that made up the central complex . |
| 10 | At the top right of the figure , which shows the highest level of completeness , there is a cluster of owl assemblages containing the same species that made up the typical owl pattern designated in the previous section : barn owl , long-eared owl , short-eared owl , great grey owl and Verreaux eagle owl . |
| 11 | ‘ It was this cordiality ’ , wrote Tout , ‘ that made easy the mutual renunciations of the treaty of Paris of 1259 . ’ |
| 12 | In the first section ( music ) you failed to answer the part of the question that asked why the particular form used was appropriate , rather than the other forms available . |
| 13 | I see from today 's Financial Times that a leading member of the board of the Bundesbank said yesterday that the Maastricht summit was a failure and might prove to be ’ a suicidal failure ’ — serious words from a key member of the body that drew up the detailed proposals for European economic and monetary union . |
| 14 | So he took it , and played something soft and sad , something plaintive and melancholy that rose up every third line as if it was going to shake off its sorrow and fly forward and free ; but then in the fourth it curled back on itself and fell again : reluctantly , sometimes , but always resignedly , as if it knew it was going to fall ; as if it had been striving and falling back again for hundreds of years . |
| 15 | Quite by chance he heard that they had another depôt off Mitcham Road , West Croydon and on visiting that found quite a different state of affairs . |
| 16 | More than anything else , it was the apparently infinite duration of the Verdun bombardments that reduced even the strongest nerves . |
| 17 | Yet another method was to harness the fish , with a thin silk cord that unwound over a large pulley , actuating an electric relay once every revolution . |
| 18 | Now the major problem that came up the other day was that , I thought I had given you a very easy extract to translate into modern English , and it turned out not to be such an easy extract , obviously . |
| 19 | One of the most important steps for the complete colonization of the land was the evolution of herbivorous ( plant-eating ) reptiles , tapping a prolific and nourishing source of food that opened up a new dimension to the ‘ food chain' . |
| 20 | The development of Amazonia began in 1960 after the completion of the Belém-Brasilia highway that opened up the eastern part , and in the mid-1960s the government adopted numerous policies that , via tax incentives , were designed to encourage private sector development ( Browder 1988 ) . |
| 21 | A hospital for pensioners that opened almost a hundred years ago is about to close its doors for the last time . |
| 22 | As Taylor began planning an improbable revival in Washington on Sunday against a Brazilian side that threw away a three-goal lead in a 3–3 draw with Germany last night , FA chairman Sir Bert Millichip emerged as a key figure . |
| 23 | It was his dead-pan delivery that turned even the daftest joke into a side-splitter . |
| 24 | It was Bob Dwyer 's quality machine that mowed down a pathetic Wales 18 months ago , a staggering 63–6 blitzing in Brisbane . |
| 25 | A glance through the catalogues soon brings the realisation that the choice is much greater than existed even a few years ago . |
| 26 | Here was the partial and still nuanced defiance of their respective Alliance masters that indicated both a German refusal of the role of victims in the superpower struggle and a sense in both German states that the room for manoeuvre was growing . |
| 27 | She had found the tennis courts and the machine that served up a constant succession of tennis balls . |
| 28 | Well , each of the seven great churches had a peel of six bells that hung on the outside wall of the church tower . |
| 29 | Measurement , and the reason why Lazarsfeld was so insistent on developing a social research format that permitted even a modest level of quantification , is one of the procedures that facilitates the mathematisation of theory , a feature which is the hallmark of the most advanced of the natural sciences , such as physics . |
| 30 | To read a complex spreadsheet was something that required not a little experience , but these days , it 's the presentation and ease of use of the spreadsheet that is being sold . |