Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who delayed , deserted or refused to obey lawful commands were no better than traitors . |
| 2 | Since I was twenty years old and had had some success in college debating societies , this possibility did not strike me as remote . |
| 3 | John Foster Dulles , a leading Republican spokesman on foreign affairs , was a member of the American delegation to the UN , and the State Department intended that Dulles should speak in conciliatory vein in the hope that the Soviet Union would accept the establishment of a temporary commission ; the Truman administration was embarrassed but wished to advance non-communist prospects in Korea as far as was possible . |
| 4 | The kindness of Cinzia Miletti 's heart was a quality Zen had considerable difficulty in imagining where Ivy Cook was concerned , but he found it easy enough to believe that in her husband 's absence Cinzia had been feeling bored and had welcomed any excuse for going into Perugia . |
| 5 | She was menopausal and had begun hot flashes 18mths previously and took Dixarit . |
| 6 | In the UK , as compared with the state planning and support of enterprises carried out in , say , Japan and France , these state policies were half-hearted and failed to generate high rates of industrial growth by international standards . |
| 7 | The parents contended that the shortest route in the case of their 12-year-old daughter was not truly ‘ available ’ because it was isolated and unlit and involved crossing difficult terrain . |
| 8 | He patted a paunch that had swelled considerably since Gentle had last seen him , and was testing the seams of his shirt , which , like him , was florid and had seen better years . |
| 9 | A person is guilty of assault if he intentionally or recklessly — ( a ) applies force to or causes an impact on the body of another ; or ( b ) causes another to believe that any such force or impact is imminent , without the consent of the other or , where the act is likely or intended to cause personal harm , with or without consent . |
| 10 | Being too ill or debilitated to take any exercise . |
| 11 | He sounded coherent , but he was too ill and doped to have any idea what he was saying . |
| 12 | Telegrams calling for a substitute teacher at very short notice in some far flung place were not unusual and had to receive prompt attention . |
| 13 | She tried out the new offices , did not find them satisfactory and left claiming unfair dismissal . |
| 14 | It is possible , in response to these apparent counter-examples to a context-independent notion of linguistic competence , simply to retreat : the rules can be left unconstrained and allowed to generate unacceptable sentences , and a performance theory of pragmatics assigned the job of filtering out the acceptable sentences . |
| 15 | ‘ On reporting , ’ he recalled , ‘ I was given a piece of steel ( distorted ) , a hacksaw , a file and a square and told to make two sides square , which I quickly did . ’ |
| 16 | Progress is often slow and the child should not feel forced or confronted to eat large quantities . |
| 17 | She found the whole thing very embarrassing and had tried several times to back out of it , but Felipe would not hear of such a thing . |
| 18 | He looked around from force of habit , but the spooks from the Mukhabarat were too disorganized and demoralized to pay any attention to a couple of middle-aged men crouched over a whisky . |
| 19 | The Committee decided that the law required thorough overhauling because it was complex and failed to tackle several instances of dishonest dealing with property . |
| 20 | Donald Findlay , QC , defending , said that Sommerville bitterly regretted his folly at becoming involved and had expressed genuine sorrow , regret and shock at what had happened . |
| 21 | Boase explained that for twenty years he had made a collection of notes relating to English persons deceased since 1850 , and that in compiling his work he had kept in mind the dictum of James Anthony Froude [ q.v. ] , ‘ we want the biographies of common people ’ , so that many hundreds of the thousands of entries included in his compilation related to persons who had not been eminent but had led interesting lives , accounts of which could not be found in any other book . |
| 22 | Nevertheless it is an utterance of the Amis who has made himself known on other occasions , and it can be none the worse for being read by those who are able and disposed to pay intelligent attention to this range of information — which is not to imply that the information may not be disastrously misunderstood . |
| 23 | He was too wise and experienced a horseman to attempt to force them to go forward : instead he turned them short and proceeded to plough another stetch . |
| 24 | — Fixed path man-rider order-picking cranes — shelved or closed binning back-to-back equipment . |
| 25 | President , colleagues , I am so proud and honoured to receive this gold badge , more so because this is the award given to me by you President , I do want to thank a number of people I also want to thank the regional secretary , Steve , who thank you , Steven , for your support and guidance . |
| 26 | However , by this time I had outgrown my adolescent appetite for being shocked and had acquired some knowledge of parapsychology . |
| 27 | However , this process requires great care to get it right and not all printers are infallible — indeed , one printer I used was infallibly fallible and had to make three sets of cards when the first set were turned along the short axis and the second set were guillotined along the fold . |
| 28 | Lily had wanted to be kind and had arranged another grouping — herself dressed up again and as many of those originally present as possible . |
| 29 | Mr Dunn , who is based in Edinburgh and joined Ferranti in 1962 , confirmed last night that his departure was imminent but declined to offer any explanation . |
| 30 | Also called virgin or extra virgin , according to acidity Oils , olive , grapeseed , sesame etc p29/ Culinary oils with characteristic flavours for various culinary uses Olives p42/ The fruits of the olive tree , eaten when ripe or crushed to make olive oil Olives , Marinated Green p44 Organic Foods p85/ Foods produced without the use of chemical at any stage , either to fertilise the land or to treat the crops or the food Oriental Beef p54 Osso Bucco p58 |