Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour fingers jabbed at the Liberal Democrats , while Tory order papers were waved in the air . |
| 2 | Mandeville sneered as his strong teeth tore at the coarse rye bread . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In 1981 a report to the European Parliament by P. de Keersmaeker of the European Commission expressed wholehearted support for the principle of a fixed link , and in the same year reports based on consultations with the Council of Europe 's Conference of Local and Regional Authorities came to a similar conclusion both about the fixed link and other gaps in the European network of trunk communications . |
| 5 | Such lack of interest in any active Turkish diplomatic relationship with the European states stemmed from a deap-seated view of the world . |
| 6 | ( 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 . ) |
| 7 | Provision was patchy , and professional attitudes ranged from a sensitive understanding of the issues to the blandly ignorant . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Behind the glass an official from the Political Branch scowled at a worried-looking black . |
| 10 | These proved too controversial and modified proposals appeared in the 1968 paper Children in Trouble , which formed the basis of the 1969 Act . |
| 11 | For many years the sound of the Precision , whether by accident or design , simulated that of a double bass , with a distinct bias towards the low frequencies emitted by the lower E and A strings , but a comparatively weak response from the other two . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The regional award went to the Northern region — for its good programme of events , good communications and for tackling difficult issues . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Consequently , once the northern campaign was resumed , on 20 April , the task of political reorganization came to a temporary halt . |
| 16 | Broad shoulders shrugged beneath the white T-shirt , as he moved away from her . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The opening of East European borders led to a massive influx of those seeking work and political asylum and to the introduction in March 1990 of visa requirements for Romanians , Bulgarians and Turks [ see also p. 37969 ] . |
| 19 | The publication of a book by a private citizen led to the breaking-off of diplomatic relations . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And this part of your mind that makes you feel guilty Freud regarded as an internalized representation of other people to some extent , and indeed he thought that it , the superego was constituted by internalization and identification with the parents at the culmination of the Oedipus complex . |
| 23 | Finally , specific short-term shortages arose in the early 1970s , the most important being the 1972 crop failures ( when grain output was down 3 per cent on the previous year , against a trend growth rate of 3 per cent a year ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The number of departments within each major foreign ministry grew with the growing complexity of the work to be done . |
| 26 | The fancy taste for ornaments and trinkets displayed by these peculiar birds appealed to the Victorian dilettante . |
| 27 | Another view of the need to rebuild British cities came from an old school : the garden city movement . |
| 28 | Of course , all theatrical activities came to an abrupt halt ; but Guthrie was not prepared to accept what seemed like being the total demise of Sadler 's Wells Opera , and proposed sending a small touring group of the company round the provinces and he offered me a small contract . |
| 29 | It is important here to draw attention to d'Indy 's political and religious beliefs - beliefs remarkably similar to those of the Action Française , an authoritarian , ultra-nationalistic and counter-revolutionary movement formed soon after the Franco-Prussian War.D'Indy came from an aristocratic family and , apart from an early flirtation with Bonapartism , he remained throughout his life an ardent Royalist . |
| 30 | Once confined to chapels and minsters , stained glass now makes its shimmering presence felt in the secular world . |