Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Liberal Party , no longer a serious political challenger by the late 1920s , meandered through the inter-war years in a state of deep division and shock . |
| 2 | We stopped for a few hours in Aberdeen , long enough to allow Father to take us to see the house we had lived in until 1939 : Stranathro , at Muchalls , perched high on the cliffs by the road to Stonehaven . |
| 3 | The white woman knelt with the black women in a circle in the moonlight . |
| 4 | Mr Enoch Powell asked himself only weeks before the riots erupted in the British cities in 1981 . |
| 5 | The riots that occurred in the British cities in 1981 and in Brixton and Tottenham subsequently , were an expression of the double — class and racist — nature of ethnic disadvantage in Britain . |
| 6 | Larry covers ‘ working-class sport for the working classes ’ , one of his classics being the time he reported on the local-government elections in Westminster . |
| 7 | The nimble pack horses , with a capacity to carry twenty stone , moved on the narrow trails in a train of twenty horses , connected one to another by plaited tail to following halter . |
| 8 | A bitter smile crossed his face as his eyes ranged over the top men in the giant corporation . |
| 9 | Pearson J. referred to the various items in dispute , allowed some and disallowed others . |
| 10 | Churkin referred to the forthcoming elections in Estonia [ see this page ] for which the non-Estonian population was disenfranchised . |
| 11 | They also referred to the different factions in control in different parts of the country and said : ‘ The general situation in Somalia continues to be insecure and confused . ’ |
| 12 | Now he concentrated on the mysterious murders in the forest . |
| 13 | Carefully observing the model , George concentrated on the tiny creases in the ears , on arms and legs . |
| 14 | When the clouds came we visited Beaulieu , travelled their monorail , rode a vintage bus and drooled over the super cars in the National Motor Museum . |
| 15 | While the Society of Women Market Vendors exposed the corruption of the PDC and objected to the high tariffs in the new markets , it was not sufficiently organized to form a counter-proposal or take action upon it . |
| 16 | He peered at the tangled convulsions in the Daemon card . |
| 17 | Additionally it has been recognized that the largest concentrations of first-class villas often clustered around the small towns in preference to major towns or cities . |
| 18 | The dissolution of CENTO left ASEAN as the primary multilateral body of states in Asia predominantly oriented towards the Western powers in its security outlook and ties . |
| 19 | She drove for a few minutes in silence , then she said , ‘ You know what I 'm going back to ? ’ |
| 20 | He sees the month in New Zealand , where he played against the All Blacks in 1985 , not as a final proving ground but as a searching test of known ability and attitudes . |
| 21 | IAN WOOSNAM , so out of form coming into the Masters , nevertheless began to put up an heroic defence at Augusta National yesterday and was within a stroke of the lead as he came into the finishing holes in his second round . |
| 22 | The skis and sledges came from the best shops in Norway , but Bjaaland was n't happy with them . |
| 23 | On July 11 , bombs exploded outside the Spanish consulates in the German cities of Munich and Dusseldorf , causing extensive damage but no serious injuries . |
| 24 | When it came to the major events in the life of that other world outside Baldersdale , such as Christmas , the celebrations were muted , to say the least . |
| 25 | Dr Fisher has clearly demonstrated that the export of manufactures to Portugal was closely bound to their subsequent re-export from Lisbon to Brazil : " The business that English merchants drove to the English colonies in this period was in fact complemented by substantial indirect trades to the Iberian empires in America . " |
| 26 | The Russians came among the Siberian peoples in the late sixteenth century from two directions , which subsequently became established as the main regular routes . |
| 27 | At this time she met the young ( Sir ) Edwin Lutyens [ q.v. ] , also a native of West Surrey , and together they drove around the narrow lanes in her dogcart , sketching and photographing details that appealed to them : a buttressed wall , a patterned chimney , the angle of a building which , although the result of chance , was pleasing in design . |
| 28 | The object sought to be achieved in construing any commercial contract is to ascertain what the mutual intentions of the parties were as to the legal obligations each assumed by the contractual words in which they chose to express them ( Pioneer Shipping Ltd v BTP Tioxide Ltd [ 1981 ] 2 All ER 1030 ) . |
| 29 | Wind rattled and swayed the trees and filled my ears with the old songs of the land , and the sun shone through the moving boughs in shimmering ever-changing patterns . |
| 30 | In the 1930s accommodation consisted of a thousand beds in twelve hotels . |