Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pair became used to the waves and hoots from passing motorists , trucks and even train drivers as they journeyed to the Mediterranean coast . |
| 2 | The Community began by taking the line that federations were clearly a more advanced form of government than nation states : it refused to countenance any challenge to ‘ the integrity of Yugoslavia ’ and , under the presidency of Luxembourg , made clear to the Slovenes that small countries were not viable in the new Europe . |
| 3 | It became clear to the teachers that many of the objectives of the research model identified above could be achieved by building up skills of co-observation and self-evaluation within and between teachers . |
| 4 | Secondly , and this became clear in the negotiations that followed , machines were the real key to the whole question . |
| 5 | I was in lane 1 , which I found strange considering the positions and times I had achieved in the semi-final . |
| 6 | Although , as will shortly be evident , he became extravagantly pious , he retained some of the values and attitudes of a pagan past . |
| 7 | Moreover , it reported some of the speeches and activities of Nyerere , who led the nationalist party ( TANU ) from its formation in 1954 . |
| 8 | Dr J. Winter ( AEA Technology , Harwell Laboratory ) described some of the problems that may be encountered when implementing a formal QA scheme in a multi-disciplinary organisation and Dr S. Parry ( Imperial College ) illustrated many of the problems faced in an academic environment . |
| 9 | Another described some of the difficulties that can emerge in an arts course , and suggested that a core-plus-extension model might work best : |
| 10 | Last month I went back over the past 40 years of owning knitting machines and described some of the ways that I made sufficient money for the machines to pay for themselves . |
| 11 | Those wonderful mornings in summer when the larks rose high over the mountains and you woke to the sound of cowbells and the sun streaming in through the window ? |
| 12 | Do you remember that when we were talking to Gamal and his friends they mentioned some of the men that Leila had gone around with ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ When I got it , I actually went round the flat and stopped some of the radiators and turned them off , ’ she said . |
| 14 | The batch screens retained all of the controls that would normally be associated with traditional batch entry , namely batch headers and batch control totals . |
| 15 | They even attacked art — especially ‘ modern art ’ — but while they made fun of the pre-War Cubists , Expressionists and futurists , they borrowed and transformed many of the principles and techniques of these earlier movements . ’ |
| 16 | These were looked after by the Board of Works — the lineal descendant of the Office of the King 's Works , which built many of the castles and palaces which its successor bodies , including Historic Scotland , now care for . |
| 17 | Charles did not make extensive changes in the Lombard government , and retained many of the governors and administrators who had originally served under Desiderius . |
| 18 | The top management of the division rated one of the departments as creative and innovative and one as very problematic from that aspect . |
| 19 | With an eye on the corridor outside , I tried one of the latches and was n't surprised to find it locked . |
| 20 | A local charity worker visited one of the hostels and found four old men sleeping in a basement " using a large baked bean tin as a chamber pot " . |
| 21 | ‘ Does yer mother know yer out ? ’ shouted one of the lads and then all at once they charged at him and manhandled him to the ground . |
| 22 | I found one of the drummers and let him have a tape and he loved it . |
| 23 | It snatched one of the sticks that Philip was holding and dragged it to the far side of the feeding-place , barking . |
| 24 | He stopped worrying about the curtains and the tissues and the drips . |
| 25 | One of them got lost in the corridors and another dropped some important equipment into the sea . |
| 26 | She became bored with the paths and sat on a bench with a book , but Magnus came and sat underneath , waiting for her to move on . |
| 27 | He then proceeded to identify a periglacial cycle which went beyond a relationship between climate and process and attracted some of the criticisms that had previously been levelled at the Davisian ‘ normal ’ cycle . |
| 28 | Boz told some of the others that he knows who attacked Anna . ’ |
| 29 | We also interviewed some of the advisers and a pupil who was ‘ shadowed ’ during the inspection . |
| 30 | The compound seemed deserted without the women and children . |