Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The circumstances of Gray 's resignation helped to fuel long-standing allegations that the financial and private affairs of elected black officials were routinely investigated with greater vigour than those of their white colleagues . |
| 2 | Despite Leon 's words , despite my certain knowledge that the spirit of Francis had sailed after its living son away , down the drive , out of Sleet to freedom , I entered Leon 's room determined to winnow some vestige of that poor ghost , Francis 's ghost , from what I would find in there ; and , having found it , perhaps my intention was to sit with it awhile uttering such emptinesses as , I 'm sorry and , Forgive me . |
| 3 | Allied to Wordsworth 's campaign for the free child was his campaign against ‘ edifying children 's literature ’ ; instead of , for example , Harriet Martineau 's stories designed to illustrate economic principles , he asserted the child 's right to works of imagination and fairy-tales . |
| 4 | The exchange 's members helped encourage this backwater , however . |
| 5 | But Haverford 's daughter found sleep that night hard to come by . |
| 6 | The Government endorsed and supported the Countryside Commission 's target designed to bring 120,000 miles of rights of way into good order by the end of the century . |
| 7 | Predictably , however , Scargill 's arrest brought scores more miners into the area . |
| 8 | In our own tests we found that the Grizzled Skipper with 512K RAM fitted showed little speed advantage over a Super VGA card with 1MB RAM which is commonly fitted in many high-end machines . |