Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Home Office , he impressed opponents and civil servants alike by the way he piloted intensely complex Bills through Parliament . |
| 2 | Despite cutting back the undergrowth to keep routes open , footpads and other outlaws haunted most lonely stretches of road . |
| 3 | ‘ That was a reverse of the journey we made so many times to council planning meetings , ’ said Steve Clarke , chairman of the Supporters ' Club and standing for election to the board . |
| 4 | And you got so many slices of bread , so many pots of soup . |
| 5 | This year , government-held countryside produced only 150,000 tonnes of wheat , or 10 per cent of Afghanistan 's total consumption , due to a bad harvest and the war . |
| 6 | The anecdotes and examples chosen to add colour to strictly academic material revealed highly sexist ideas about history , the pupils ' homes or their own knowledge or interests . |
| 7 | He owned so many feddans of land . |
| 8 | The consensus on full employment lasted as long as measures to achieve full employment involved only marginal changes to society . |
| 9 | Although there are now trains which can travel in excess of 200 mph , supersonic planes which take passengers across the Atlantic in three hours , and spacecraft which can carry passengers at fifteen times the speed of sound , our ancestors used more stylish forms of transport . |
| 10 | Floods destroyed 148 houses and swamped nearly 3,000 acres of crop land in the Bacau region . |
| 11 | Each weighed about 54 grains of gold . |
| 12 | The French built surprisingly modest stations in North Africa . |
| 13 | He said the study found surprisingly high levels of discontent with body weight and shape in pre-adolescent girls and boys . |
| 14 | The blaze , at Esh Hall Farm , Esh Village involved around 200 tons of straw . |
| 15 | 1975a ; 1975b ) found markedly differing rates of behaviour problems and reading difficulties between one primary school and another . |
| 16 | Jackson took his Land Rover off the track and juddered over fifteen yards of moorland grass . |
| 17 | Huber et al showed more plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 in malignant ascites than in alcoholic ascites and Casslen and Astedt found significantly higher concentrations of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 in malignant ascites than in benign ascites . |
| 18 | Chapman et al used a similar technique to the one described here , and found significantly lower rates of butyrate metabolism , and non-significant reductions in glutamine and glucose metabolism in UC . |
| 19 | Glaxo rightly points out that Astra used very high levels of ranitidine , several hundred times the normal human intake and far greater than the doses of omeprazole Astra fed to rats . |
| 20 | In a joint statement , Councillor Gregory Campbell and Bill Irwin of the DUP said : ‘ The Child Poverty Action Group in Londonderry recently completed a survey of a number of estates , on of which was the Caw area , where they found very high incidences of deprivation . |
| 21 | Not only were the surroundings very different from Rustenburg , but the climate , too , in spite of being not many miles removed ; its elevation caused bitterly cold winters in contrast to the hot summers . |
| 22 | After moving to a staffed house the person received much higher levels of assistance from staff as well as higher levels of other contact . |
| 23 | In 1979 , BLDSC were acquiring 10,000 new theses each year ( including non-British theses ) , and received approximately 50 requests per week for theses ( Urquhart , C. ) . |
| 24 | These pressures notwithstanding , the neighbouring republics of Estonia and Latvia adopted more cautiously-worded declarations of independence on 30 March and 4 May respectively . |
| 25 | Two fuselage plugs added nearly seven feet of fuselage to the hybrid AT–6/BT–13 combination . |
| 26 | Black [ 1988 ] compared experimentally three techniques for sense discrimination : a domain general method and two domain specific methods . |
| 27 | In the same period from 1984 to 1987 we received far fewer applications for asylum from refugees than our European neighbours . |
| 28 | Admittedly the heavy industry which was so characteristic of our period was much larger , and tended to develop concentrations of capital which controlled entire cities and even regions , and mobilised unusually vast armies of labour under its command . |
| 29 | In the years between 1971 and 1980 , an annual average of 207,217 acres ( 83,858 hectares ) was estimated to have been drained , of which ‘ new ’ drainage of wetlands comprised around 20,000 acres per year . |
| 30 | Often disdaining to wear a left-hand glove , he tore into the bowling to such effect that he scored around 62 runs per hour , a rate beaten by no ‘ proper ’ batsman in cricket history except Jessop . |