Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very painstaking stratigraphical work put it beyond doubt that men had been contemporary with animals now extinct , and that human history must therefore go back long before the 4004 BC computed from Genesis . |
| 2 | The Japanese also launched in March a fresh initiative which called , among other things , for the creation of a special commission to monitor Khmer Rouge activities . |
| 3 | Which one of the following never stood for Parliament as a Liberal : Ludovic Kennedy , Robin Day , Richard Dimbleby , John Arlott ? |
| 4 | The training school in the Sardinian foreign ministry which was seriously considered at the end of the 1840s never came into existence . |
| 5 | For a short while ( three months ) the family party remained within the crumbling Electric Circus walls but the talented and the lucky soon matured into pop stars and ambitious writers . |
| 6 | Such misunderstandings between the colonizers and the colonized naturally led to problems . |
| 7 | Total spending on the poor certainly rose from $13.4 billion in 1964 to $23.9 billion in 1969 . |
| 8 | The arrival of skiffle in the UK during the mid-'50s also added to blues awareness , Lonnie Donegan even nicking his stage name from New Orleans ' blues giant Lonnie Johnson . |
| 9 | Our hinterland of the imaginary actually consisted of grass tussocks , brambles , a grove of willows , some hawthorns , a beech tree or two , drainage ditches , a slow and deep brook with steep banks , a weir , twin tunnels which took the stream beneath the main Derby to Nottingham road and , upstream , a wooden footbridge and wobbly stepping stones . |
| 10 | The five then went into Meehan 's flat to inspect the damage . |
| 11 | Although originally based on the Greek ideal of Philosopher Kings , the mixture of academics , priests and the military actually led to decision making designed only to protect sectional interests . |
| 12 | I guess a few more came to light . |
| 13 | Initially , just two of the canoeists capsized but a third also got into difficulties after he and two colleagues attempted to rescue their friends . |
| 14 | Initially just two of the canoeists capsized but a third also got into difficulties after he and two colleagues attempted a rescue . |