Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the rules laid down by this syndicat in 1904 were later taken as the basic framework around which the AOC regulations for Champagne were formulated in 1927 . |
| 2 | At the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village eight cops moved in for another raid on a gay bar . |
| 3 | By 1985 only 5% did so , as the final test , order consolidation and shipping operations moved back to American manufacturing plants . |
| 4 | Reading involves the recognition of printed or written symbols which serve as stimuli for recall of meanings built up through past experience , and the construction of new meanings through manipulation of concepts already possessed by the reader . |
| 5 | I understand that other roads built up on one side only have been granted 30 mph speed limits . |
| 6 | His eyes crinkled up in real amusement once more . |
| 7 | A flight of three steps led up into another gallery , this one depicting great artists . |
| 8 | At night when I lay awake in bed , vast processions passed along in mournful pomp ; friezes of never-ending stories … ’ |
| 9 | The enormous edifice of presumed relationships built up from careful study of homologous structures , ( the supreme example is the study of bones in the skulls of reptiles ) may have to be re-examined , and if necessary dismantled and rebuilt from the ground up . |
| 10 | A whole thicket of broom bushes came down in that slip , as you saw . |
| 11 | Fallen branches littered the rides and new growths of whippy little sapling twigs poked down at head-and-shoulder height to a horseman . |
| 12 | But the words came out in pearly prose and the answers washed musically into tape-recorders and microphones and notebooks . |
| 13 | Subjects came up with well-organized fantasy sequences after being roused from some periods with high levels of EEG alpha and saccadic eye movements consistent with relaxed wakefulness . |
| 14 | So while his real eyes glanced round at another vault of blank green rock , his A eyes saw the first of the ghosts sliding out of the stone to say hi . |
| 15 | Stiffly , arm in arm , the Brothers walked off towards that place of deprivation which was in a dark gondola jutting below the fortress-monastery into the lonely void . |
| 16 | As the kids lounged back against luxuriant leather , sipping iced coke from the built-in fridge and switching channels on the in-motor TV , I heard Jack mumbling . |
| 17 | Indeed , following Lucas ( 1973 ) , it could be argued that the more volatile are demand management policies , the more adept does the private sector become at unscrambling the ever changing signals sent out by monetary policy and the less volatile output will be in the face of repeated changes in the direction of monetary policy . |
| 18 | The catchy Just Say No slogan of the anti-drug movement invented for Nancy to head were words conjured up by smart PR people . |
| 19 | The time was in fact ripe , not only for a secession from religion ( which , after all , had never given parents anything very tangible ) , but for a transfer of allegiance from the other traditional reference groups of parents : away from the methods prescribed by folklore , custom and the baby 's grandmother , and towards the new blessings held out by scientific mothercraft . |
| 20 | His white teeth and brown oval eyes stood out in stark contrast against his dark tanned skin . |
| 21 | Girls with white faces and heavily kohled eyes hurried out towards Praed Street , as if hastening to appointments with abortionists in seedy consulting-rooms behind the Edgeware Road . |
| 22 | They had held back at Milfield on the Till , biding their time , until their scouts came in with exact information of the movement of the Scots army . |
| 23 | Later , from a nearby height Wolverine Squad spied many other corpses of Karkazon natives laid out in sinister rune patterns along one dismal lacquered boulevard — spoor of the Boars , now being exorcised with burning incense and sprinkled acid by some raving Sagramoso cultist guarded by skaters . |
| 24 | The job description shall be consistent with the contractual duties laid down in this agreement . |
| 25 | One such system is based entirely on descriptions made up from planar half spaces . |
| 26 | It could be gathered by inshore divers down to ten metres and where necessary dredged from greater depths by nets weighed down by heavy timber frames . |
| 27 | The intensified aerial bombardment and resulting civilian casualties came in for strong criticism , with all the opposition groups in parliament ( hitherto supportive of military action against the LTTE ) subscribing to a statement which described it as an inhuman action against the people . |
| 28 | For this is not an isolated incidence of confusion , though rarely are such errors played out in public view with such global excitement ; similar things have happened before and some of the signs were already known but went unrecognised . |
| 29 | All the temples were totally demolished during the Roman period , probably by Christian iconoclasts , and the sites turned over to industrial use . |
| 30 | Several French bankers stormed out of one meeting , grumbling that Britain 's legal standards had sunk to the level of Venezuela 's . |