Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adj] [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notorious articles ( 141 , 142 and 163 ) of the penal code dating from the 1930s which effectively outlawed communist or fundamentalist opinion were abolished by the new legislation . |
| 2 | Peter Anderson , 41 , told an Old Bailey jury the woman , 18 , suddenly became passionate and initiated intercourse . |
| 3 | Mr Gould did not intend to indulge in recriminations over Thursday 's defeat but he felt Mr Smith 's tax policy and its impact on middle income earners in the South ‘ perhaps showed less than total sensitivity to their interests . |
| 4 | ‘ I only had light and dark vision at that stage . |
| 5 | The feeling that the centre only wanted financial and technical control to check every detail of their action , rather than to stimulate responsible management decentralisation , inevitably increased . |
| 6 | Our boys made intense efforts to back them up with air support , but were much hampered by consistently bad weather , and it soon became obvious that long supply lines and determined German resistance were combining to bog everyone down . |
| 7 | Originally one of Mrs Thatcher 's closest confidants , he soon became disillusioned when increased competition in the defence and telecommunications industries threatened to weaken his beloved company . |
| 8 | Dot did n't tell her that at school they already had hot and cold water and she could wash her hands and face at any time . |
| 9 | Negative controls did not show any immunostaining and the positive controls always showed positive and appropriate immunoreactivity with all the enzymes . |
| 10 | Portugal also provided humanitarian and logistical support for the multinational force . |
| 11 | Calling a referendum on demands for immediate cultural autonomy , they also demanded political and territorial autonomy for Serbs in Croatia if the latter was to gain greater sovereignty in a redefined Yugoslav confederation . |
| 12 | It also meant centralized and rationalized administration ; hence efforts were made to extend to Hungary , so jealous of its autonomy , the administrative system of the hereditary provinces . |
| 13 | But my periods were very few and far between and I also had excessive and embarrassing hair growth . |
| 14 | Franco himself admitted in the mid-1940s that there were some 26,000 political prisoners in Spain — a figure he clearly considered normal and accep- table . |
| 15 | All this is of great significance for exploring Leonard 's characteristics , for what was natural to Leonard 's incipient viewpoint and versification now found stimulating and corroborative encouragement . |
| 16 | How far had popular or institutional racism been transformed during the ‘ Thatcher decade ’ , and by what ? |
| 17 | In discussing the externalization of id/ego conflicts we saw that this effectively meant social and psychological regression to the situation immediately preceding the internalization of the conflict — in that case , to the conflicts of the primal horde . |
| 18 | Breeds on well vegetated fresh or brackish water or marshes ; in winter on more open waters , even temporary pools in desert . |
| 19 | Intermediate between Common and Green Sandpipers , differing from both in voice and in legs projecting beyond tail in flight , from Common in its white rump and different flight pattern , and from Green in its much less strongly contrasted dark and light appearance , greyish underwing and barred tall . |
| 20 | In each country , politics complicated development , but German interests finally obtained an east-west canal to link Berlin with the Ruhr and by 1905 ships of 2,000 tons could go up the Rhine as far as Mannheim , a very important change since the Ruhr by then needed more than German ore . |
| 21 | Forget the amber gamblers , I 'm fast becoming a fully fledged red and green gambler , too . |
| 22 | Orcadians were used to building wherever they liked since they never equated physical and social isolation . |