Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These reflected the extraordinary complexity of the political situation which had developed in Yugoslavia during the years of the German occupation , when different ethnic , religious and political groups had formed shifting alliances , according to whether their main enemy at any time had seemed to be the occupying Germans or Tito 's partisans working to establish a Socialist state in post-war Yugoslavia . |
| 2 | In Manchester , Liverpool , the Greater London Council , and some London boroughs left-wing Labour authorities sought to implement local socialism and use the town hall to challenge Thatcherite Whitehall . |
| 3 | The cost-improvement programmes had produced annual savings of between 1.1 and 1.5 per cent per year in real terms since they were introduced in 1984 – 85 . |
| 4 | On Feb. 5 the Interior Ministry renewed a security warning stating that it would " strike most severely " against anyone committing acts of " anarchy , sabotage or aggression " , and on Feb. 13 Algerian radio reported that the Saudi authorities had arrested 12 persons for " terrorism " since the beginning of the Gulf war . |
| 5 | that was n't terribly elegant but anyway his blue labels had got , these little sticky labels had got blue stripes on them |
| 6 | Re-constituted in 1979 , with a clerk provided by NACRO and administrative expenses funded by a grant from a charitable trust , MPs and peers from all the main political parties met to discuss current issues of criminal justice policy and practice . |
| 7 | The political parties began to consider future manifesto proposals . |
| 8 | Abolitionists had to face the fact that for many of their fellow countrymen during the next thirty years open public meetings continued to have this resonance . |
| 9 | Nor is there any mention of the problems which would arise if ( as seems likely ) different franchisees decided to offer different levels of discount on their ‘ discount rate ’ tickets . |
| 10 | He argued that as old institutions failed to meet new expectations , so legitimacy in government would falter and trust in its equity and effectiveness would decline . |
| 11 | Higher social groups appeared to make more use of health services in relation to need however ( Brotherston 1976 ; Forster 1976 ) and research published shortly after the Black Report argued that they also obtained a disproportionate share of NHS resources when ill ( Le Grand 1982 ) . |
| 12 | In Russia English merchants had gone some way south of Moscow , and trade was also being carried on in the Eastern Mediterranean or Levant . |
| 13 | I 'd always suspected big-wave riders had to have more cojones than the average human being , and there was at least one of that species who seemed to bear out my hypothesis . |
| 14 | Faced by an enemy triumphant on their own territory , the French parties tried to make common cause . |
| 15 | It emerged that Michael Heseltine , Kenneth Clarke , Malcolm Rifkind and Tristan Garel-Jones from the Trade , Home , Defence and Foreign Ministries had signed public interest immunity certificates to keep the Whitehall memos out of court . |
| 16 | I had no idea of doing anything else but study there for the first three years after school , for which my hardworking and frugal parents had saved enough money . |
| 17 | But there was an element of luck in yesterday 's performances because the British crews decided to defy political reality by going hard left on the first beat and were pleasantly rewarded by a massive windshift in their favour . |
| 18 | The pioneer of bee research Karl von Frisch recalls ( and we have observed ) instances in which the trained foragers began to anticipate subsequent moves and to wait for the feeder at the presumptive new location . |
| 19 | The inside was completely hollow , and broken limbs had left several holes that mink could enter through . |
| 20 | Reports on Dec. 17 suggested that Algerian proposals for the simultaneous withdrawal of US and Iraqi troops had encountered Saudi reluctance and growing Iraqi inflexibility . |
| 21 | The determination with which , against the odds , British Governments attempted to restore economic liberalism in the 1920s partly reflected the influence wielded by the City of London . |
| 22 | Rance quickly decided that the Executive Council he had inherited from Dorman-Smith was useless while most of the senior British officials seemed to lack any ideas . |
| 23 | He concluded by saying that , as far as he was aware , none of the council 's social workers had attended any courses of instruction organised by the Reachout Trust . |
| 24 | His detailed observations helped to dispel popular misconceptions about the habits and behaviour of the cuckoo . |
| 25 | During 1918 the Right , the Mensheviks , the SRs , various minority national groups , and foreign powers sought to reverse different aspects of the revolution and in June 1918 large-scale civil war broke out . |
| 26 | The Commission 's proposal for a Community Charter of Fundamental Social Rights failed to achieve unanimous support at the Strasbourg summit in December 1989 . |
| 27 | Two years ago , barely two-thirds of top businesses questioned had such policies . |
| 28 | Until the Japanese arrived in the 1980s , American and British suppliers had to meet lower standards than the Japanese demand . |
| 29 | ‘ Look , Piper , if those German bastards had overrun this position , you would be a dead bloody duck by now ! ’ |
| 30 | Polish-Jewish relations continued to suffer major strains in late 1989 as a result of the Auschwitz convent controversy [ see . |