Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [conj] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's like fairyland , ’ Susan commented referring to the candle light and the light from the storm lanterns that illuminated the various windows they passed . |
| 2 | He knelt on the sanctuary steps and began the Divine Office . |
| 3 | She then talked to some pig experts and compiled the following pig compendium . |
| 4 | As war in Europe approached , Yakovlev began looking at fighter and bomber designs and produced the Ya–22 twin-engined , high-speed combat aircraft which entered series production as the Yak–2 bomber and was later completely redesigned as the Yak–4 . |
| 5 | To co-ordinate with the modern kitchen , it is finished in dove grey and charcoal with discreet red styling lines and had the full complement of the labour-saving features you demand . |
| 6 | We have clearly defined our investment priorities and established the right strategy to meet the challenges which face us , to exploit LASMO 's business strengths and to achieve our objectives . |
| 7 | The patients with gastric ulcer had significantly fewer gap junctions than did the healthy volunteers . |
| 8 | The fried bean curd put one in mind of oriental griddle cakes and needed the hot sauces to extract their inscrutable flavour . |
| 9 | From the late eighteenth century the rise of the cotton industry not only reversed the long relative decline in the importance of textile exports but pushed the first industrial nation , if not in an entirely new direction , at least up a much steeper path . |
| 10 | In rapid succession , he unzipped her moleskin trousers and drew the skimpy white lace G-string from her thighs . |
| 11 | Mr Lamont clearly had his hands tied by the Public Sector Borrowing Requirement figures and made the best of a bad job with £1.5bn in tax cuts and other incentives mainly for small businesses . |
| 12 | He immediately garrisoned the crucially important Chunuk Bair and Sari Bair ridges and halted the Anzac advance . |
| 13 | The session also established the Supreme Court and the Office of Public Prosecutor , dismissed the people 's auditing bodies and revoked the 1957 law on taxation of single and childless people . |
| 14 | The Times Educational Supplement applauded the increased use of intelligence tests and deplored the existing exams : ‘ Some day our successors may come to marvel at the degree of assurance which leads us to think that ability to profit can be predicted thus . |
| 15 | The 1980 WIRS contained an identical question on the use of fixed-term contract workers as did the 1984 survey ( the question on the use of agency workers was not consistent ) . |
| 16 | Everything about the room charmed her , from the chintz curtains to the cherry-red linen sofas that flanked the enormous fireplace . |
| 17 | To begin with there must be detailed analyses of small and intermediate-size LOCA 's as well as the large double ended breaks that used to be at the centre of safety analyses and formed the so-called ‘ design basis ’ accident . |
| 18 | Having set up the functioning New Business teams and created the essential facilities for servicing in the first few months , much further development was still needed to create procedures to service business once on the books . |
| 19 | Such restraining views are typical of many that are fully justified by the emphasis upon process studies that characterized the 1960s and 1970s and led to smaller investment of resources in historical studies and to the fear that process studies will not profitably link back with chronological ones — in fact there are many indications that such links are happening again including the way in which physical geographers who have been mainly concerned with processes and modelling are moving towards evolution . |
| 20 | Ann and Beth had married into farming families and had the same careworn faces and workworn hands as had his wife and mother . |
| 21 | In Fig. 11–11 the median voter is constrained to vote for an output combination along 18 of the budget line 12 because otherwise the local authority would set tax rates that left the poorest citizens with a minimum income level lower than that regarded as acceptable ; i.e. they would set a tax greater than 19 . |
| 22 | Those respondents who started out on free standing DipHE courses achieved very good academic results comparing very favourably with the linked DipHE/BA and DipHE/BSc students as did the mature students ( over 25 years old ) , and the under qualified students . |
| 23 | The Information Service companies that reported the highest pre-tax margins were Macro 4 at 46% ; Micro Focus and Sage Group level at 33% ; Barbour Index at 31% and Total Systems 27% . |
| 24 | He leaned the Mannlicher inside against the back boards and turned the small key in the door . |
| 25 | Kevin Garvey ( Warley Encon ) drew on one of the two warm water outfalls and won the 27 peg Square Open on the Lifford Canal with 6–4–12 . |
| 26 | They zigzagged around tree trunks and saw the dark shapes scurrying along out of the corner of their eyes . |
| 27 | She spent time with remote island communities and observed the simple but effective way they lived their lives . |
| 28 | Tupper immediately took all his products off the store shelves and created the direct selling system with parties , games and contests to promote sales . |
| 29 | This victory ignited a political fire , which in turn fuelled voter concerns and inflamed the key participants into action . |
| 30 | It was , after all , the absence of free trade unions that made the Soviet Union such an effective tyranny , for there was no protector of the individual against the system ; and it was Polish Solidarity that began the unravelling of the communist tyranny . |