Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a review of its operation in 1977 it became clear that only a minority of patients referred from the other hospitals were being successfully rehabilitated and that St Wulstan 's had become another long-stay hospital . |
| 2 | This autonomy is particularly apparent in older buildings , because they outlast generations of occupants : ‘ It always seems strange to me , ’ Fay Weldon remarks , ‘ how different families serve shifts in the same house ; as if the house owned them , sucked them dry , spat them out and tried again- and not the family that controlled the house at all . ’ |
| 3 | Begbroke seemed ideal but then the vicar started laying down the law . |
| 4 | Beuno came first and then the laughter . |
| 5 | Yet still the Prussians delayed introducing expropriation to Pomerania until May 1912 lest they provoke an uprising , and while they bought up only four estates totalling over 6,624 hectares of land , they paid more than double the market rate . |
| 6 | Aluminium had recently been prepared in bulk by the eminent Parisian Professor Henri Ste-Claire Deville , who became famous as both a teacher and researcher . |
| 7 | I felt more than just the centre of attention , although that feeling is always present . |
| 8 | While he realises that there will always be problems in trying to teach anyone a new subject , Reas admits that it was sad to see a keen student being teased by his less keen classmates , but felt hopeful that perhaps a seed had been planted that one day would grow . |
| 9 | She died childless when still a minor in 1651 and he never remarried . |
| 10 | Clearly more people liked more than ever the fare and welcoming fellowship of the Undercroft . |
| 11 | They had little and sometimes no money , and Mary 's mother was far too busy and uninterested to notice , spending her inherited fortune on her lovers . |
| 12 | The Tsar 's authority remained unlimited but almost every area of public life was affected , and in preparing the reforms the government slackened censorship and gave unprecedented opportunity for different sections of society to air their grievances . |
| 13 | A higher proportion of the population than today never married at all ; throughout the period at least 1:6 people remained unmarried and sometimes the proportion reached 1:4 . |
| 14 | But STV drama boss Nigel Pickard said he wanted more than just a lookalike . |
| 15 | The question of how far the report would be a public document remained unanswered and therefore the extent to which it was an accountability exercise was not made clear to staff . |