Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each book ran to 64 pages and from these gems I learnt a great deal about Soccer , Cricket , Rugby Union , Rugby League and other sports . |
| 2 | Within a few hours I noticed a large number of fry appearing at the water surface . |
| 3 | Several times I saw a big bull , sometimes even two together . |
| 4 | And with my own eyes I saw the stalled clock at Treblinka … |
| 5 | I could only lie there staring , burning more pages to hold back the dark , because every time I closed my eyes I saw the same thing : the dark shadow of a manlike creature with shoulders curving up in two great arcs on either side of its head … |
| 6 | With fresh eyes I surveyed the familiar landscape . |
| 7 | From these fragments I reconstructed the brooding melancholy of a land subject to disaster after disaster , a family forced out through poverty , and I wove from insubstantial vapour the misty quilt in which I sensed his childhood to have been enveloped . |
| 8 | Within a few months I took a small office space oh dear I ca n't remember . |
| 9 | Through its low branches I had a latticed view of the buildings that made up my home . |
| 10 | The consequence of this is that human beings have increasingly come to resemble in their adult form the immature — or even foetal — forms of their early ancestors by means of a tendency to delay their individual development and to retain into maturity characteristics which typified the immature stages of their predecessors . |
| 11 | Nigel , who in any case really delighted in sows ' ears which had the faintest possibility of turning into even cotton purses , beavered away with them for an hour or more before unceremoniously dumping them in the dustbin and banging down the lid . |
| 12 | Most verbs had three consonants , and it was these scribes who superimposed a system of vowels which became the standard text . |
| 13 | The collapse of the communist regimes of eastern Europe prompted the formation of new regional groupings and alliances as well as giving a new lease of life to existing organizations which straddled the former east-west divide . |
| 14 | A possible explanation for this apparently delayed effect of the Black Death is that the first onset , despite its virulence , did not harm the economy as a whole as much as might have been expected , and that it was the continuing effect of later outbreaks which did the greater damage . |
| 15 | There were too many internal contradictions which prevented the different constituencies from working effectively together . |
| 16 | This definition was used by Cohen to explain the response to youth in the 1950s and 1960s but it can be similarly applied to moral crises in the more distant past — one may refer by way of example , to the nexus of fears generated by the French Revolution , which significantly shaped the contours of ‘ Victorian ’ sexuality , or the anxieties which produced the legislative restructuring of the 1880s and 1900s , or the fears generated by the cold war in the 1950s . |
| 17 | The opposition objected to the law , saying , among other things , that it did not provide for " equitable participation " of both sides on the electoral bodies , and that the FSLN would receive most of the money from a government campaigning fund to be distributed to the parties which won the most votes in the 1984 elections ( which the opposition had boycotted ) . |
| 18 | O'Rourke appeared in court on Sept. 17 and pleaded guilty to misdemeanour charges of embezzlement and misuse of public funds which carried a possible prison sentence of up to one year ; under the terms of a plea bargain arrangement , the federal prosecutors agreed to drop the third and more serious felony charge . |
| 19 | In contrast to the managerial goals which underpinned the attempted introduction of quality circles , Ford regards the creation of such formal structures as secondary to gradual infusion of employee involvement in routine collective bargaining . |
| 20 | Such aspects of Fascist economics were almost an anticipation of Labour government policy in the crises which followed the Second World War . |
| 21 | He said that was what you called cars which had the wrong parts . |
| 22 | In August the DHAC announced a public meeting at the Diamond with a list of invited speakers which included the Catholic Bishop of Derry , the mayor , three Nationalist councillors , a curate from St Eugene 's Catholic Cathedral , the city 's medical officer of health and John Hume . |
| 23 | With the help of the United Nations Institute for Namibia ( UNIN ) and other agencies , SWAPO developed a network of schools which served the large refugee population in camps in Angola and Zambia . |
| 24 | As the project progressed , it was also harder to find schools which fitted the original criteria for Minors , e.g. one library division had been fortunate in finding Majors , but began to find it difficult to identify , for Minor recommendation , " schools which have had a degree of interest and success for some years " . |
| 25 | In Edinburgh at the time , there were various schools which might come under this heading , including the Merchant Company schools which provided a good education originally for children of humble backgrounds , but increasingly for middle-class children . |
| 26 | Some words which had a fixed meaning under the old law were retained , e.g. " receive " in handling , and " menaces " in blackmail . |
| 27 | Section i concluded that the interest shown in trust wordings was a reflection of the demand that , although formless , a trust should be phrased in words which demonstrated an unequivocal intention on the part of the deceased to bind a trustee to do something for a beneficiary . |
| 28 | Even though there was a serious risk that its reaction with the hot burning metal would cause a hydrogen explosion , thousands of gallons of water at the highest pressure possible were pumped through the channels which held the burning fuel . |
| 29 | In this case , a sale of tins of condensed milk bearing labels which infringed a registered trade mark , was held to be in breach of the implied condition of merchantibility ( per Bankes LJ at p395 ) : Quality includes the state or condition of the goods . |
| 30 | The process is simply to find the combination of variables which gave the best fit in the past and then to extrapolate the equation to make predictions . |