Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two styles of pole floats immediately came to hand , the series X and the series S. Both floats had correctly shaped bodies — reversed pear — and at First glance appear quite similar . |
| 2 | Lab work , for example , was a matter of getting the ‘ right ’ answer ; failure to do so resulted in loss of marks . |
| 3 | Suddenly at this culmination point in the healing rite , the whole assembly became unaccountably convulsed with mirth , and the puzzled anthropologist , note-book at the ready , pushed her way forward to the front of the crowd . |
| 4 | All this sounded remarkably easy to accomplish , as invasion plans invariably did on paper . |
| 5 | In order to overcome the problems of a mechanism becoming inadvertently disassembled by component changes , the development of an automated associative procedure was considered . |
| 6 | The new RHA formula for funding district spending also came under scrutiny . |
| 7 | Mr. Barnes ' affidavit quoted above showed beyond question , he submitted , that the Bank of England had asked themselves the right question ( paragraph 9 ) and that they did indeed require the production of the documents reasonably for the purposes of their own domestic supervision ( paragraphs 8 , 10 and 13 ) . |
| 8 | Passenger trains never ran on time now . |
| 9 | Nationalized industries created additional difficulties ; volume planning often led to overcapacity and excessive output , with huge losses having to be written off . |
| 10 | And the pharmacists ' slogan , ‘ If You Want a Tan — Get a Healthy Tan ’ , is worth repeating as thoughts turn towards all those sunshine holiday bargains currently plastered over travel agents ' windows . |
| 11 | Finally , in the second edition of his journal of Researches , the observation emerged fully fledged as testimony to Darwin 's theory of convergent behavioural evolution . |