Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [coord] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | Begbroke seemed ideal but then the vicar started laying down the law . |
| 3 | Beuno came first and then the laughter . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |