Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Bits of the well-organised election looked like a utopian dream of the new world order : Indians and Canadians , Ghanaians and Australians , travelling the countryside with helicopter-borne polling stations , bringing democracy to grateful if puzzled peasants in distant Cambodian villages . |
| 2 | ( Had this kind of European provision existed in the 1920s and 1930s it might and probably would have made it much more difficult for the Fascist and other extreme forms of government to take hold . ) |
| 3 | He was wise enough in his broadcasts to refrain from one tactic , the inspiration of that chill fear which some of his political ranting achieved in the 193()s . |
| 4 | Behind the glass an official from the Political Branch scowled at a worried-looking black . |
| 5 | For a few years a lean-to building stood against the remaining old wall which sheltered the homeless and I have spoken to one old inhabitant of Halling who remembers coming to the village as a young child and whose parents , being unable to afford other accommodation , sheltered there . |
| 6 | The regional award went to the Northern region — for its good programme of events , good communications and for tackling difficult issues . |
| 7 | Recruited from the lower-middle or working class , the representative benefactor lived in a small house in a town or city , had no children or had children who were grown up , spoke not a word of German , knew nothing of Germany beyond the front-page news of the Express or Mirror , and did not begin to understand the trauma of being a young refugee . |
| 8 | Consequently , once the northern campaign was resumed , on 20 April , the task of political reorganization came to a temporary halt . |
| 9 | In the end the European side went into the 12 singles matches with a two point lead ( 9-7 ) but only after two Yorkshiremen had produced a rearguard action at the end of the day which even General Custer would have been proud of . |
| 10 | The publication of a book by a private citizen led to the breaking-off of diplomatic relations . |
| 11 | The failure of either the June or the November 1989 general elections to resolve Greece 's political impasse led to a rapid deterioration in the country 's economic position during 1989 . |
| 12 | This mighty High Mage bound the fearsome dragons to his will , using harnesses of enchanted truesteel smelted in the fiery heart of Vaul 's Anvil . |
| 13 | A hasty glance took in the gorgeous antique furniture crammed in as if it had been recently off-loaded by a dealer , the small , pristine cooker and the sink pushed against the soft ochre-washed wall as if it was an after-thought . |
| 14 | The number of departments within each major foreign ministry grew with the growing complexity of the work to be done . |
| 15 | Once confined to chapels and minsters , stained glass now makes its shimmering presence felt in the secular world . |
| 16 | Although as a group they had been officially emancipated in 1871 , burakumin became the sporadic scapegoats of popular resentment , and social discrimination persisted on a wide scale in spheres such as education , employment and marriage . |
| 17 | The most important social division ran between a dominant class based on the legal ownership of industrial and commercial capital ( and sometimes having little to do with either management or labour ) and a population most of which worked for wages . |
| 18 | Her olive skin glowed in the artificial light , the curves of her naked breasts softened into a newly voluptuous sensuality that reflected and heightened her resolution . |
| 19 | The largest sectoral rise came from the independent fund managers where funds rose 30 per cent to £31.7 billion by the end of 1992 . |
| 20 | The damp hair lay like a dark shroud about Theda 's head , flowing down behind the chair where she sat with Hector at her feet , her back to the sun , on the terrace outside the ballroom . |
| 21 | Beneath their discursiveness , these books exhibit a coherent social theory : the way to social progress lay in the rational wills of individuals , and true philanthropy consisted in supporting and strengthening that rational will rather than in the mechanical relief of poverty . |
| 22 | The hon. Gentleman , who has a special interest in this matter , must be aware that the first information on the Iraqi contract came through a leaked letter and not directly from UKAEA . |
| 23 | Despite similar appeals by government officials , public discontent remained at a high level , and most workers continued their strike . |
| 24 | By probing companies ' PAYE and Schedule E tax compliance , the Inland Revenue raked in an extra £230 million last year . |
| 25 | That he has not done so tends to confirm that the firing was a spontaneous action triggered by the unexpected escalation of Mr Buchanan 's attack on the NEA . |
| 26 | The ‘ enhanced Programme resulted from the 1978 Inner Urban Areas Act , based on a White Paper , published the previous year , on Policy for the Inner Cities ( DoE , 1977 ) , the first comprehensive policy statement on the subject to acknowledge it as a definable and cohesive problem . |
| 27 | They found that allowing for the tax timing option ( as well as stochastic interest rates and different income and capital gains tax rates ) in the no-arbitrage condition resulted in the no-arbitrage prices of the S&P500 moving much closer to the actual prices for the period June 1982 to September 1982 than if no such adjustments were made to the no-arbitrage condition . |
| 28 | The remnant strands of long white hair lay clumped and matted about the skull , and a stalk-like neck vanished into the white folds of her nightgown . |
| 29 | Here , at close quarters , the fitful , elusive silver congealed into the turgid brown flood she had seen upriver , a silent surge of water looking almost solid in its power , sweeping along leaves and branches and roots and swathes of weed in its eddies , gnawing away loose red layers of the soil along this near bank , and eating at the muddy rim of the path . |
| 30 | The Uderzo-Goscinny partnership came to an abrupt end with Goscinny 's death in 1977 . |