Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has certainly not been the only movement , nor has it always taken the same form or led to the same conclusions . |
| 2 | After forceful driving by the male , eggs are laid in , or moved to the brooding tunnels or cave and protected carefully mainly by the male , sometimes apparently actually sitting on the eggs . |
| 3 | as if this were n't enough , we bounced on oversized ball , wielded staves for posture , learnt national dances and songs , explored the mediaeval charms of Coburg and neighbouring Bamberg or wallowed in the thermal baths of Rodach — and of course consumed enormous and excellent meals at the college , supplemented with German cakes in the town ( not to mention German wine … — . |
| 4 | Nothing more was seen or heard of the two men , and after a few days , the event was forgotten . |
| 5 | Source C describes how they bravely took over the dangerous jobs in munitions factories , and how they joined or worked alongside the armed services , either joining women 's armed services , or working as nurses out on the battlefront . |
| 6 | This is total rubbish , as if the body is to be buried or cremated within a few days after death , no such risk exists . |
| 7 | related to the existing er agricultural or related to the agricultural buildings , that will be put up before this is built . |
| 8 | The public would no more identify with the new councils than they did with the present ones or did with the old councils , Prof Midwinter stressed . |
| 9 | The rest bobbed up and down at chin height , or remained by the bathing-machine steps . |
| 10 | On all the imperial and foreign policy issues that arose over the succeeding years ( the Cold War , Germany , the Atlantic Alliance , Indochina , Korea , the European Defence Community ) , he insisted on defining a " party line " . |
| 11 | My last charter had begun ; I had one week to work , then it would be back to Masquerade , and then to the long winds of the southern ocean that led to the uttermost ends of the earth , and thus to happiness . |
| 12 | Father showed Duncan the path that led to the grassy slopes of the hills . |
| 13 | The Purple Hour was descending as the Robemaker thrust Nuadu Airgetlam before him down the final stretch of road that led to the grisly Workshops . |
| 14 | It was this that led to the first hints of how the theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity might affect each other — a glimpse of the shape of a quantum theory of gravity yet to come . |
| 15 | These images paled before the man who came through the archway that led to the deeper mysteries of the church . |
| 16 | What ways did the families differ then that lived in those sort of houses to the families that lived in the terraced houses ? |
| 17 | Shallow cores show that the pebbly sands and clays that came originally came from the ice-sheet contain shells that lived in the shallower waters of the continental shelf . |
| 18 | He looked about the room , conscious suddenly of the lowness of the ceiling , of the dark oak beams that divided up the whitewashed walls , the fresh cut roses in a silver bowl on the table in the corner . |
| 19 | The most important Romanesque churches of this type in the city of Cologne are that dedicated to the twelve apostles ( S. Aposteln 328 , 330 ) , S. Maria im Capitol , the earliest of the group , constructed on the foundation walls of the Roman Capitoline Trias , S. Martin ( Gross S. Martin ) , S. Gereon ( 329 ) and S. Pantaleon . |
| 20 | The thaw which had so earnestly menaced France 's lifeline to Verdun became , on balance , more her ally than her foe ; it turned the pulverised earth into a glutinous quagmire that sucked off the close-fitting knee-boots of the German infantry ; the 8-ton howitzers sank up to their axles in it , and the Germans ' new motor tractors were too few and too under-powered to extract them . |
| 21 | This was no doubt reinforced by a growing concern over disaffection and alienation among black youth , culminating in the ‘ moral panic ’ that erupted after the urban uprisings of 1980–81 ( cf. |
| 22 | In patients with episodic hypoxaemia and a normal baseline Sao 2 the clinically apparent episodes were considered to represent severe manifestations of the self resolving hypoxaemic episodes that occurred on the physiological recordings . |
| 23 | Table II shows this further by the changes in juice concentrations that occurred in the two subgroups according to whether the final plasma vitamin C concentration was high or low . |
| 24 | The riots that occurred in the British cities in 1981 and in Brixton and Tottenham subsequently , were an expression of the double — class and racist — nature of ethnic disadvantage in Britain . |
| 25 | The shots had sounded from the hills somewhere to the north , and rather than wasting time on the main path that rose with the gentle contours of the valley , we took a short cut up the steep , almost sheer , cliff behind the houses . |
| 26 | In his ‘ Small History of Photography ’ , Benjamin ( 1979a , p. 248 ) notes that in photography 's early mid-nineteenth-century days , ‘ the client ’ who came to be photographed was ‘ the member of a rising class equipped with an aura that seeped into the very folds of the man 's frock coat or floppy cravat ’ , but that the later ‘ imperialist bourgeoisie ’ lost its aura in its ‘ deepening degeneration ’ , its Jugendstil photos featuring a fashionable ‘ twilight ’ and a ‘ non-auratic pose ’ . |
| 27 | The only relaxation presently available from the absolute prohibition against foreign lawyers ( other than those who duly obtain the professional qualifications necessary to become members of the legal profession in England and Wales ) undertaking the work of solicitors and barristers is that afforded under the European Communities ( Services of Lawyers ) Order 1978 which , as amended , has effect for the stated purpose of enabling an EC qualified lawyer to pursue his professional activities in any part of the UK by providing , subject to conditions , the services otherwise reserved to the local professions ( advocates , barristers and solicitors ) . |
| 28 | FLEXIPOP : Brilliant , ahead-of-its-time pop mag that came with a free flexi ( Blondie , The Jam , Adam And The Ants etc ) on the cover . |
| 29 | Striped deck chairs had gone from the long , grey stretch of shingle below the Promenade , and the fairy-lights that spiralled around the white lampposts were never turned on after the beginning of October for reasons of economy . |
| 30 | He stood up , his deep blue glance moving over her in a slow appraisal that burned into the very pores of her skin , and she realised , in those few heart-stopping moments , what a mistake it had been to confront him . |