Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb past] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under these the craftsmen skilfully handled their special steels . |
| 2 | Athelstan was about to snarl a further retort when the coroner 's words suddenly quickened his own memories . |
| 3 | His heavy-handed tactics usually had their desired effect in reducing men to quivering wrecks . |
| 4 | She was too shaken with sobs to risk driving so she sat there for two hours weeping her heart out while neighbours and passers-by studiously ignored her obvious distress . |
| 5 | News organizations also issued their own guidelines to their reporters . |
| 6 | OWN FINANCES A spokesman for Cleveland education department said it was difficult to assess accurately the total cost of vandalism across the whole county because many schools now controlled their own finances . |
| 7 | Despite the demonstration , for instance , by conservative researchers like Douglas ( 1967 ) that after 1944 girls in primary schools consistently demonstrated their academic superiority over boys , there is little evidence that this superiority followed girls into their secondary school . |
| 8 | But his subjects evidently doubted his good faith , for in June the tax collectors in Staffordshire and Shropshire were resisted on the ground that the king had not carried out his promises regarding the forest . |
| 9 | The position of the pomeshchiks certainly had its own weaknesses . |
| 10 | They tormented her enough on the grounds of her pale skin , her thin body and her grandmother 's pretensions to gentility and the shoes only gave them another cause to tease . |
| 11 | Devout parents thus lost their greatest consolation , that of being eventually reunited with their dead child . |
| 12 | EVEN after GrandMet brought its two breweries together in 1973 as Watney Mann and Truman Holdings , the Brick Lane brewery 's pubs still kept their own identity and beers . |
| 13 | The cottagers also lost their economic independence in areas unaffected by enclosure , such as the Lake District . |
| 14 | The procedural structure of trusts also lent them great advantages in setting up dispositions in favour of third parties , and enhanced the chances of those dispositions being observed and enforced . |
| 15 | The other two Zimbalan bodyguards immediately drew their snub-nosed Smith & Wesson.38s and sprinted after the fleeing gunman . |
| 16 | According to Mr Ginman , his firm pointed out the rules to the directors of those BES companies which it audited , and the directors then reached their own conclusions . |
| 17 | He is the most amiable of men , and perhaps among the most idealistic , qualities that were severely tested in the last week of the by-election when the Conservatives allegedly used his ethnic origins as a campaign issue . |
| 18 | The restored Stuarts also encouraged companies by giving them charters , and two or three trading companies did a lot to expand English interests , although settlement of land by commercial companies never regained its initial importance . |
| 19 | Such mistranslations occasionally had their amusing side , as when ‘ State Ball ’ was translated so as to give listeners the delightful picture of the president playing football with a visiting group of dignitaries at State House . |
| 20 | THE best Yorkshire crowds always gave you some stick when you deserved it . |
| 21 | League clubs yesterday gave their general approval to reverting back to a two-division competition . |
| 22 | Most superior buildings also sustained their Palladian principles , but they became less formal : for example , the central salon , the grand reception room of the Palladian house ( Fig. 14 ) , lost some of its ceremonial identity and might even be occupied by a billiard table ; women were no longer debarred from the library , as they had been for much of the previous century . |
| 23 | In practice governments typically split their major computer purchases between IBM and one other computer company . |
| 24 | The city centre , the ‘ zone of transition ’ , was where the new immigrants often started their moral careers . |
| 25 | A BUSINESS which began in a New York loft 35 years ago opened its European headquarters yesterday on the day Clwyd 's Euro-Week began . |
| 26 | After a long gallop to Radstock our two heroes then made their weary way back to Crediton where they made their final assault . |
| 27 | Waterstones again produced its own catalogue , this time in conjunction with Publishing News . |
| 28 | The Great Powers thus pressed their territorial control outwards to encompass for the first time virtually the whole surface of the globe , to centralize the world on a few centres of power . |
| 29 | The Japanese reaction to these ambushes often showed their high standard in the martial arts . |
| 30 | Three major TV networks immediately cancelled his anti-smoking commercials . |