Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he remained as chairman of the Council of Ministers his influence waned compared to that of Brezhnev , who eventually became formal head of state in addition to party secretary . |
| 2 | Meanwhile police have issued a videofit picture of a youth who indecently assaulted five women in North Wiltshire … |
| 3 | He was accordingly arrested and taken to Vine Street Police Station where he duly provided two specimens of breath in the intoximeter . |
| 4 | Psychiatrists rarely visited younger patients at home unless a compulsory admission appeared necessary , but community psychiatric nurses were in close touch , often through their administration of regular depot injections . |
| 5 | He obviously expected some sort of reaction . |
| 6 | Despite such " official " backing and aspirations , the DTB 's Bund contract only averaged 2,500 contracts per day , about one-tenth of LIFFE 's turnover , in its first few weeks of trading . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm not sure whether I should be flattered or otherwise , ’ her host drawled , and she decided on the spot that she hated men with sophisticated wit — was he saying that he took it as a compliment , or not , that he only got one mention at lunchtime ? |
| 8 | But he impatiently dismissed this line of thought . |
| 9 | Glad to know you had a good visit to — but am amazed you only used ten units of electricity . |
| 10 | Add to this that she was a vain woman with a streak of snobbery , but one who had made a friend of Alice Fernie ( who herself was unlikely to pick her friends haphazardly ) ; that she was a man-hunting , high-life-loving girl who had shown no desire to keep up her connection with her old stamping-grounds ; and finally , that she apparently received obscene letters with equanimity , merely folding them up and putting them away like love-letters sentimentally preserved ; add all these things together and you had a woman who was as incomprehensible as women traditionally are . |
| 11 | In the final confrontation Jaq and Grey Knights had fought through savage ranks of cultists who all showed some mark of Chaos — a tentacle , a sting , tendrils instead of hair , suckers , claws ; through to the warlock of the coven ensconced deep within the caverns where young captives whimpered piteously in cages . |
| 12 | I very much enjoyed this change of life , especially the 15 a week , of which I was allowed to keep half-a-crown . |
| 13 | The firm of Wilkes , Son and Cassey ceased trading in 1926 , the business and premises were purchased by The Salisbury Co-operative Society Limited who then only stocked larger items of ironmongery and added a furniture department on the first floor . |
| 14 | The vast and highly mechanized modern industry of printing , which can be found in every town and city in the kingdom , has been dispersed during five hundred years from this one spot which ought to be holy ground to the industrialist as well as the Christian . |
| 15 | I was sure when I started my research that I would be able to say that governments were greedy and liked to sell lots of arms to countries who were very poor and who only needed basic things like food and shelter . |
| 16 | I only pinched one feller for bribery because he was a nasty feller . |
| 17 | Despite the fact that plants also apparently survived massive quantities of consumption , they counter-attacked well . |
| 18 | The Government of New South Wales apparently took this finding into consideration in deciding to abolish the immunity . |
| 19 | A new system was needed which would avoid these contradictions and which so unified existing rights in land as to ‘ enable shifts of value to operate within the same ownership ’ . |
| 20 | He greatly influenced modern methods of excavation : he deliberately studied Pitt-Rivers ' methods and modified them to his own ideas . |
| 21 | Arguably not , because until recently most political scientists saw the Diet as an institution which merely gave symbolic ratification to legislation handed down by the executive . |
| 22 | The church 's ideology not only gave powerful support to kingship : it sustained the very idea of the state as a permanent complex of institutions , because therein lay the best prospect of defending ecclesiastical interests . |
| 23 | This not only gave good grounds for peace and stability in Europe , but also opened up the prospect for bigger cuts in military spending . |
| 24 | So did each sheet of lavatory paper which the teacher gave them if they asked , and the box of wax tapers for lighting the gas mantle . |
| 25 | He refused to compromise in any way and , throughout his long association with the club , only mastered two words in English , both of which he frequently practised on referees . |
| 26 | ‘ One option would be for all schemes to be channelled through a single agency , so land managers only had one port of call for payments , ’ said the commission . |
| 27 | ‘ Actually , I 'm just happy to be where I am because after that early problem we only had 14 minutes of running , so it was a short session . ’ |
| 28 | Luckily we had bought them from friends who ran a nearby saddler 's shop ; unluckily they only had coarse blades in stock for our make of clippers . |
| 29 | By 1989 , the two Nottingham teams alone had 750 cases on file and 360 individuals and families were helped during the year . |
| 30 | This failure was attributed to defects of language or of home background rather than to an educational system that only valued one kind of language and actively discriminated against working-class culture . |