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 | Begbroke seemed ideal but then the vicar started laying down the law . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She died childless when still a minor in 1651 and he never remarried . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |