Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Folk Media and Development Communication : Myths and Realities records and interprets , in a narrative form , how groups of people in three countries tried to bring about social change through traditional or ‘ people 's ’ communication . |
| 2 | Even her accent would n't give her away ; all kinds of nationalities came to take up casual work in the restaurants and hotels . |
| 3 | Environmentalists trying to defend Rainham Marshes failed to win over local opinion in the face of a sophisticated public relations campaign by the developers . |
| 4 | As the engineers within the BEA began to take over direct responsibility for the power station sites during 1948 , the prospect of strengthening the organisation improved . |
| 5 | When Frankenberg went to carry out anthropological research in a village on the Welsh borders in the early 1950s he found that the village football team provided ‘ a symbol of village unity and cohesion against the outside world ’ and had ‘ a central place in village social activity ’ . |
| 6 | It was riddled , in his opinion , with old and stupid men , most of whom had been recruited by word of mouth or by membership of a certain club or school society , but to give Menzies his due , he did bring in new blood of a different order . |
| 7 | The early development of the Partnership concept appeared to hold out little encouragement for the non-statutory sector . |
| 8 | Mr Alistair MacDuff told a High Court jury that Princesses Faria and Simiya Al Sabah had meted out dreadful treatment to her on a 1983 visit to their Bayswater home in London . |
| 9 | Dalgliesh remembered a surgeon once telling him that Miles Kynaston had shown promise of becoming a brilliant diagnostician , but had given up general medicine for pathology at registrar level because he could no longer bear to watch human suffering . |
| 10 | Time and again it appeared that people had given up secure employment to farm full-time . |
| 11 | McQuaid had either struck true by pure chance or had picked up reliable gossip at the Mohill Fair . |
| 12 | At the subsequent AGM of the Alliance , Charles Ward argued that following the electoral truce of the war years conscientiously observed by the Alliance but not its opponents , the organisation had made up lost ground through steady educative work , and was now able ‘ to get in closer touch with the people ’ ( SE 12 February 21 ) . |
| 13 | Although by early 1945 Japan 's power was weakening considerably , her forces continued to put up still resistance to the American advances in the Pacific . |
| 14 | The killings had set off widespread rioting in the occupied territories and in Jordan . |
| 15 | By early July the Wordsworths had taken up temporary residence at Cottle 's house in Wine Street , Bristol , where Dorothy found the noise of the Bristol streets almost intolerable . |
| 16 | I had tried out Indonesian cooking with the chef , makeup , hairdressing and all sorts of things and it was good fun . |
| 17 | For the 23-year-old Liverpool woman had to beat off strong competition for the post from dozens of other candidates from around the world . |
| 18 | Technically , Harvard dealers should not have been selling stock to clients who had not dealt three times with the company , unless they had sent out written information about the stock . |
| 19 | This studied the texts by the techniques of literary and historical analysis , attempted to separate out historical material from legend or poetry , and even began to raise sensitive problems of authorship — as , for instance , whether all the first five books of the Old Testament were in fact written by Moses . |