Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the following day the Senate was compelled to " freeze " the legislation after opposition deputies successfully appealed to the Supreme Court to block Senate ratification of the law until a ruling had been made on the constitutional legality of the AP 's parliamentary conduct during the lower house vote . |
| 2 | Carew , writing at the beginning of the seventeenth century , had then thought four hours underground was as much as a tin miner could endure , but six- or eight-hour shifts overwhelmingly predominated by the eighteenth century . |
| 3 | The researchers eventually stumbled on a 1979 article in a little-known medical journal , Psychiatry Research , which described the plight and eventual suicide of a 23-year-old graduate student . |
| 4 | Eleanor 's lips suddenly relaxed into a secretive smile . |
| 5 | These different roles played by the designs normally existed at a subconscious level , and different societies have attached more weight to one or the other . |
| 6 | ‘ Aye , yesterday ! ’ she exclaimed accusingly , seizing on the distraction when his words finally got through the strange fog in her brain . |
| 7 | It was a full day later before Schmidt had been able to form a coherent sentence , though his words still came in a low , wracked whisper . |
| 8 | B. T. Some of the inspectors always appeared at the wrong time . |
| 9 | Whas probably belonged to the Benedictine abbey of Sherborne , for which the Missal was made , and Siferwas may have resided at Sherborne while decorating the manuscript . |
| 10 | Dissidents also protested against the continuing United States military presence in South Korea on the grounds that it hampered unification dialogue with the North . |
| 11 | ( Two other candidates also stood in the first round : Mahmud Othman and Othman Abd al-Aziz . ) |
| 12 | Drinkers also complained about the poor state of pub toilets and ‘ down at heel ’ gardens . |
| 13 | Forty or fifty years ago , Irish traders also came to the fair bringing crates of geese and pullets , and the locals would buy a goose from them to fatten up for Christmas . |
| 14 | Foreign Minister Francisco Ordóñez retained his post , and the Interior and Education ministries also remained under the same ministers who , like Ordóñez , were regarded as relatively independent of the PSOE . |
| 15 | ‘ Miss Abbott , ’ the Rector said , advancing into the room , his legs severely hampered by the clinging children , ‘ you will think me abominably lax not to have called upon you since your arrival . |
| 16 | Political considerations simultaneously led to the Soviet decision to abandon its rights , derived from the Yalta Agreements and specified in the Chinese-Soviet treaty of friendship of August 1945 , to exclusive use of the naval base in Port Arthur and shared use of the port of Dairen in the Chinese People 's Republic . |
| 17 | Ironically his own tour of New Zealand with Ireland 12 months ago came to an abrupt end when he sustained a broken jaw in the first of two internationals . |
| 18 | The idea that dinosaurs simply radiated into the ecological niches that had already been vacated , and that mammals I 30 million or so years later did the same thing after the dinosaurs had departed , has profound philosophical implications . |
| 19 | Candidates either wrote to the Colonial Office or to an influential relative , or , not infrequently , walked in off the street . |
| 20 | It would thus be only for those films with generally low levels of subjective risk or few moving objects that subjects actually looked at the fixed information even in the recognition phase and were thus able to be biased by it . |
| 21 | His eyes continually flickered towards the rear view mirror as he monitored the Mercedes ' progress with mounting apprehension . |
| 22 | Thiercelin 's misgivings soon resolved into the sick certainty of a failure which for all he knew could already have cost another life . |
| 23 | Racial theories fared best in policy areas already sensitized to the new conceptions of bodily health — motherhood , insanity and poverty , as well as birth-control and venereal disease . |
| 24 | However , space and time barriers also crumbled in the late nineteenth century through the electric telegraph and the early telephone and radio ; moreover the cinema film also featured easy transportability , while its scale economies quickly led to early single nation dominance ( by France ) . |
| 25 | Before they lost office the Conservatives also responded to the growing evidence on the extent of poverty , and the inadequacies of existing measures , by setting up a Royal Commission on the Poor Laws in 1905 . |
| 26 | Since ideals from these intellectual movements also filtered into the political movements for social democracy or evolutionary socialism it is not surprising that the functionalist style is closely associated with a socialist tendency . |
| 27 | At the same time , singers also sang of the new delights of detribalized urban life : |
| 28 | The companies also profited from a bizarre system whereby shipbuilders who exported were given import quotas for raw sugar , which could be sold at a hefty profit . |
| 29 | The gunmen and the survivors who came here , the photographers and correspondents and film crews simply walked onto the theatrical stage . |
| 30 | Yeremi almost clung to the former undercity dweller , whether out of strange fellow feeling or only for support he could not have said . |