Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rebate-only plans apparently offered a free pension , as all the money came from the Government . |
| 2 | If they were relatively inactive and presented their demands through what the councillors defined as the " proper " ( private ) channels then their demands rarely secured a favourable response . |
| 3 | Magnus was a great orator whose rousing speeches soon created a massive following among the common folk of the Empire . |
| 4 | Her face went blank , but this time Guy saw the effort it cost her to regain that air of remote calm , and her eyes still held a mute appeal that stabbed him to the heart . |
| 5 | Little by little , however , the force of this long glen beneath the austere greyness of the Five Sisters touched Johnson , and he moved his position from that of first considering the political role of such remoteness , and the opportunities it gave for military strategies and subsequent escapes — Glenshiel had been the scene of a battle fifty-four years earlier in which local Highlanders unsuccessfully reinforced a Spanish invasion force — to being lulled by the sight of so many waters , brooks , burns , and silver rivulets , ‘ which commonly ran with a clear shallow stream over a hard pebbly bottom ’ . |
| 6 | While these authors also noted a slight decrease in the proliferative activity of the distal colon , they found that this difference remained constant regardless of the risk status of the subject ( normal controls , small or large adenomas , colon cancer ) . |
| 7 | The poor girl had gone off to her camp before she had formulated any hypotheses ; she had no idea as to what theory or concepts her work was to throw new light on , and so , to be on the safe side , she had recorded everything she could think of over a period of about six weeks and her notebooks practically filled a medium-sized suitcase . |
| 8 | But pale eyes often held a far-away look which he tended to associate with insanity . |
| 9 | It had further taught them that bomb casualties in Protestant districts frequently included a substantial proportion of Roman Catholics . |
| 10 | Many quite fluent Dyirbal speakers simply represented a dead end in that their intuitions could not be accessed . |
| 11 | In England in 1226 it had been made clear to the king that he could not tax the clergy diocese by diocese ; such an attempt in that year had been frustrated by the request of the Salisbury cathedral chapter for consultation with the clergy of other sees ; the proctors of the cathedral and collegiate clergy subsequently attended a provincial council armed with instructions from their ‘ constituents ’ . |
| 12 | In both cases coalition governments were established in which communists swiftly assumed a dominant position . |
| 13 | Police Court trials usually included a miscellaneous collection of well-known ne'er-do-wells picked up over the weekend and arraigned on Monday morning to face drunk and disorderly charges . |
| 14 | West Indian plantations also provided a growing demand for fish , grain and timber which was met by North America . |
| 15 | Some patients who used potent corticosteroids also used a mild compound for the face , in which case only the potent steroid was monitored . |
| 16 | The two companies also signed a joint marketing agreement , under which IBM promotes OLAS . |
| 17 | At Easter , visitors even included a senior executive of Euro Disney with his wife and kids in tow . |
| 18 | HUNGARIAN reformers narrowly averted a fatal split last night just two days after the birth of their new Socialist Party when they elected a compromise leadership . |
| 19 | But the remaining rural areas actually experienced a net loss of 2 per cent , while one rural district — Norham and Islandshires — had a 12.5 per cent loss . |
| 20 | When challenged on this point , employers always produced a unanimous chorus to the effect that this was what women wanted , because they would not stay long in the trade before they married . |
| 21 | The ambiguously worded agreement effectively permitted the involuntary repatriation of Vietnamese " boat people " who had been screened out as " economic migrants " , by providing for the repatriation of those who " while not volunteering to return , are nevertheless not opposed to going back " and according to some officials thereby created a fresh category of " acquiescent non-volunteers " . |
| 22 | Impressive statistics , yes , but a chilling reminder that the detections only represented a mere trickle in the rising tide of illegally imported drugs which could be pouring through our controls . |
| 23 | In reality , no concatenation of highly talented individuals ever made a great film . |
| 24 | book , commandos would be — I believe — the first to accept that those who received awards usually owed a good deal to the support of their fellows , in spirit if not by arms . |
| 25 | Many individuals also displayed a strong attachment to the Prayer-Book ceremonies associated with rites of passage : baptism , churching , marriage , and the burial of the dead . |
| 26 | Her homage to frankness in her letter to Jim Prior more than five years later caused a great deal of ironic laughter in Whitehall . |
| 27 | Some silver sauce-boats originally fulfilled a different purpose . |
| 28 | Brünnhildes often held a persistent attachment to their fathers or mothers and their aggressiveness towards men was a means of protecting this tie . |
| 29 | The attempts of the Serbs to form a Christian coalition against the advancing Turks were as ineffective as those of the great Albanian leader , Skanderbeg , who , like Djuradj Branković , found that the would-be allies often exacted a heavy price for their help and were quite capable of deserting the cause when it suited them . |
| 30 | But most of the Yorkist establishment had remained loyal to Edward IV and the rebels ultimately achieved a precarious viability only by looking outside the realm for support : to Louis XI of France and the exiled Lancastrians whom he harboured . |