Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would reveal not only the acceptance of cruelty , suffering , destruction , fighting , massacring , torturing and other terrible acts that humanity as a whole instinctively condemns , but also the corruption , superstition , misrepresentation of the truth and love of pomp and elaborate ritual that has been allowed to flourish within the powerful hierarchies built up to control the various churches within the religions . |
| 2 | Her eyes flickered sideways to read the digital cost display ’ … . m afraid your budget … an no longer . |
| 3 | Excluding the para-military National Guard , they number only 4,400 , whereas the normal US garrison of about 10,000 men had already been augmented to 13,000 before airborne units parachuted in to secure the international airport and clear the way for further reinforcements . |
| 4 | In effect , the two new superpowers came together to crush the great powers of yesteryear ; and the growing voice of Afro-Asia in world affairs was heeded for the first time . |
| 5 | The Finns needed pilots badly and volunteers from many nations flooded in to join the Finnish Air Force , Asa among them . |
| 6 | From whatever inaccessible pit of bitterness the words reached out to touch an empty place in her own life . |
| 7 | Subjects took longer to answer a subsequent question like Did the boy that the man saw wave ? than one like Did the boy the man saw wave ? |
| 8 | Other cars screamed in to fill the sudden vacuum of our wake . |
| 9 | Her soft words did not get a soft reply . |
| 10 | For example , 127 out of 196 schools did not have a single English textbook in grade one and 80 per cent had no maths books . |
| 11 | While many schools did not have a full complement of teachers , the Ministry was unable to create new posts for lack of funds . |
| 12 | The great industrial changes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries did not alter the traditional family structure of previous generations , but they did provide economic opportunities for earlier marriages and thus for more children . |
| 13 | Gittens said : ‘ The fans did not see the best of me . |
| 14 | However , the absence of a genus does not of itself preclude the operation of the rule : it is an indication that the parties did not intend the general words to be restricted ( Chandris v Isbrandtsen-Moller [ 1951 ] 1 KB 240 ; Skillion v Keltec Industrial Research [ 1992 ] 1 EGLR 123 ) . |
| 15 | Searches of the Genbank , EMBL , and PIR data bases with the AD1 nucleotide and protein sequences did not find an identical match . |
| 16 | Mr Wilson-Brown , who opened the first computerised perchery barn with piped radio three months ago , said yesterday : ‘ We were concerned when production fell and realised that this was because the hens did not like the endless election news , comment and argument . |
| 17 | And in between Terry 's forays into various shops did indeed view the bizarre remains in St Peter 's Church . |
| 18 | Multiple regression analysis suggests that readers did not find the highbrow press significantly more useful than the lowbrow press for any purpose : reading a highbrow paper had no influence in the multiple regressions for newspaper ‘ usefulness ’ ( Table 6.10 ) . |
| 19 | As such , the brothers did n't fit the usual political prisoner image , and the French were always wary of the association . |
| 20 | In Asia native peoples had also seen the European powers defeated , in 1941–2 , by an Asian power , Japan . |
| 21 | A consortium of eight nuclear organizations had also formed the Nuclear Electricity Information Group , a propagandist organization which began a hard sell for nuclear power . |
| 22 | The Greens/Alliance 90 won representation in every Land except Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania where the two parties had not presented a joint list . |
| 23 | In the period February 21st-26th , the French losses amounted to 25,000 men , and , although during that time the ratio of French and German casualties was reliably estimated at three to one , by the 29th German losses had already passed the 25,000 mark . |
| 24 | The regenerative cars had not shown the expected economies and indeed they were responsible for excessive current consumption . |
| 25 | Although nobody outside the club gave us a prayer of winning , the lads had already done the difficult part of the job by turning the tide at Anfield . |
| 26 | Although she had said she wanted to read the letter , the harsh , poisonous words had still sent a huge jolt of shock right through her . |
| 27 | Two of its tentacles shot out to grasp the little boat . |
| 28 | It failed for the simple reason that no coherent principles or policies came forward to replace the old ones . |
| 29 | For example , Peter Winch comes at least close to maintaining not only that there can be no action outside some governing public rules but also that a full account of the rules obeyed also yields a full account of the action done . |
| 30 | Separatists tried unsuccessfully to disrupt a military parade in Lithuania . |