Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The high proportion of royalists looks embarrassing not only for Merton 's thesis but for variants of it which have claimed that it was the political radicalism ( not the puritanism ) of the parliamentary radicals that made them receptive to revolutionary science . |
| 2 | Whether , for instance , concepts such as ‘ ethnicity ’ , ‘ class ’ , ‘ politics ’ are ‘ culture-free ’ , that is whether academics have succeeded in freeing them from their narrow everyday cultural uses and made them available for cross-cultural use , is a question of judgement and , ultimately , of ontology . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd prefer a proper fire , of course , but we made them illegal in this part of London some years ago . ’ |
| 4 | He was of the opinion that the Masai possessed ‘ a faculty for reasoned intelligence , a pride and a susceptibility to leadership and ideas which made them amenable to sympathetic handling ’ . |
| 5 | eighty pound if it 's not one thing you know it 's fortnight ago from Co-Op it 's forty one P a packet , went last week it was forty six P a packet , so Richard and Angela went the other day for nan and they got me some at same time , she leant me the money , yeah , cos I was absolutely broke , gone back down again to forty one |
| 6 | Magistrates found them guilty of criminal damage , but the protesters maintain that their actions in trying to stop a war machine were justified . |
| 7 | THE former Malian president , Moussa Traore , and three senior army officers were sentenced to death yesterday after a court found them guilty of mass murder in 1991 . |
| 8 | Alain Lemarchand turned and regarded them both with ironic amusement . |
| 9 | Rejected by the priesthood , he found himself unfitted in some way for normal life . |
| 10 | A French jury found him guilty of involuntary manslaughter after a three-day trial in Paris . |
| 11 | These workers have designed primers to the organism , and found it present in extraintestinal tissue from unrelated cases of Whipple 's disease . |
| 12 | I found it unbelievable at that time that boys would genuinely want to ask me out and found me attractive . |
| 13 | ‘ I knew all about calories , but I really enjoyed food and found it difficult to lost weight ! |
| 14 | For obvious reasons , many of the Dutch settlers in Cape Town found it expedient under English rule to become anglicized , although those who had moved inland maintained their national identity . |
| 15 | In his tract justifying the activities of the Commons in the Parliament of 1701 , when the Tories had made a number of attacks on the policies of the Court Whigs , culminating in the attempted impeachment of some of the Junto Lords , the High Anglican Tory , James Drake , found it plausible in one place to quote Algernon Sidney in support of his argument about the rights of the lower House ; the tract as a whole , however , makes it clear that Drake can in no way be considered a convert to Sidney 's particular brand of radical Whiggery . |
| 16 | Over a million people found themselves dependent on supplementary benefit to eke out an inadequate existence as regards food and drink , with inflation taking its toll of what was provided . |
| 17 | Those of us near enough to have observed this were by now climbing onto chairs and beds and squealing , ‘ It 's a mouse ! ’ , but Rosie continued her progression into bed , pulled the clothes up to her nose and regarded us all with mild astonishment . |
| 18 | In the process , according to Belgrade press reports , Arkan made himself rich on looted gold , cars and electronics equipment . |
| 19 | I am quite pleased that Auckland fly-half Grant Fox has changed his mind and made himself available for international action . |
| 20 | as if , in part , to fight back at their crushing fate , the Welsh families in those industrial valleys bred and grew and savoured their own with biblical fruitfulness and devotion . |
| 21 | The words were insignificant , but there was something in his tone that made her happy for some reason . |
| 22 | It was breathed against her lips , as they came up for air , and the erotic fire scorching through her made her dizzy with illicit longing . |
| 23 | And sewed on the sewing machine and then painted them all with raw linseed oil but raw linseed oil took a long while to dry but they soft . |
| 24 | It really did still hurt that he believed her capable of such evil . |
| 25 | I think I even told you that at one point . |
| 26 | Last summer on a routine check of his district , he noticed something wrong with one dust sampler . |
| 27 | No one believed him guilty of financial dishonesty but the governor , John Elphinstone ( thirteenth Baron Elphinstone , q.v. ) , demanded restitution of the money . |
| 28 | The three judges each scored it 100–86 for Panamanian Duran who was stopped in the sixth round by Pat Lawler in his last fight in March , 1991 . |
| 29 | SUPERMAN Derek Kaye leapt into action when a trailer loaded with a car ran over his godson — and lifted it clear with ONE hand . |
| 30 | François de Surienne certainly showed himself capable of independent activity before throwing in his lot for some years with Henry VI , whom he served before being elected a Knight of the Garter . |