Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soviet efforts to minimize the impact of his resignation internationally included a Congress resolution passed overwhelmingly at the end of the debate affirming the continuity of foreign policy . |
| 2 | On the following day he condemned it as " illegitimate and invalid " and rejected opening formal negotiations , this position being reiterated in a resolution passed overwhelmingly by the Congress on March 15 . |
| 3 | From a pocket he drew a small cylindrical probe , and he stalked slowly around the room with it , pointing it at every piece of furniture and ornamentation with a sensitive ear tuned to the probe 's faint hum . |
| 4 | So then I went to the bank and asked politely in the name of the Mamur Zapt if I could check Andrus 's account . |
| 5 | Some guy took his er bonuses after two years recently and I think he got somewhere in the region of six thousand pound . |
| 6 | Perhaps for this reason Britain experienced little in the way of a fascist movement in the 1920s ; only a few small and insignificant fascist groups , hostile to the Bolsheviks or the Jews , emerged at that time . |
| 7 | In my opinion these financial statements give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Welsh Development Agency and the Group at 31 March 1990 and of the results and the source and application of funds of the Group for the year then ended and have been properly prepared in accordance with the Welsh Development Agency Act 1975 and determinations made thereunder by the Secretary of State with the approval of the Treasury . |
| 8 | We consulted widely with the Membership before submitting our evidence to John Warne . |
| 9 | Unlike the Victoria Press , the Caledonian produced little in the way of books . |
| 10 | We signed another form , paid another , smaller deposit , and checked right into a motel in Santa Barbara for a long rest . |
| 11 | They checked right at the start of the inquiry . |
| 12 | In this he argued powerfully for a revival of social citizenship and the ‘ developmental state ’ . |
| 13 | They cared little for the landscape in which they worked . |
| 14 | The Gazette reported their arrival in Fleetwood 's main street : ‘ The car with its brilliantly illuminated electrical devices , was a sight which overwhelmed the people in the street with astonishment , broken later by applause as the car passed slowly through the town to the terminus ’ . |
| 15 | Finally reaching the bottom , she peered theatrically round the end of the banisters , then crept stealthily along the hall towards the kitchen . |
| 16 | It was a masterpiece of international cinema which brought Korda all the financial backing he could need and a dream deal with United Artists that led eventually to a partnership in the American company . |
| 17 | During the 1960s and 1970s interest in the language of Caribbeans in British schools led eventually to the publication of specialised teaching materials and the implementation of policies in the light of two Commissions of Inquiry ( Bullock 1975 ; Rampton 1981 ) . |
| 18 | ‘ They hit the bar and we were a bit lucky there but we deserved a break because we fought right to the death on a very heavy pitch . ’ |
| 19 | Malcolm got right on the phone with him and sorted it out . |
| 20 | Then she started going on about her new red tap-shoes , and how the music nun wanted to teach her violin because she had such good pitch , and we all joined up in a long line , each with a hand stretched out on to the should of the one in front , and we began to march round her , chanting very softly , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … " and then louder and louder as we danced away from her still in our long Indian file , till we got right to the top of our street where we played another game altogether , totally ignoring the yells of fury from the lamp-post , and when our mums called us in to tea we all ran in and forgot about her . |
| 21 | On the upper deck outside the half-dozen first-class cabins , green-and-white-striped awnings fluttered gently in the breeze of the ship 's movement , and in their shade Senator Nathaniel Sherman sprawled at ease in a canvas deck chair , his long legs splayed comfortably in front of him . |
| 22 | Above the nearest serving counter a huge banner portrait of the ch'a god , Lu Yu , fluttered gently in the breeze of the overhead fans . |
| 23 | Fighting ceased only with the advent of darkness — but the respite was to be brief . |
| 24 | And if you came from a chapel and puritanical background of dark and moral mills where the only promised warmth was hell-fire , then — given the opportunity — you skidded all over the field like a jackpot rabbit . |
| 25 | Some of the statutes are essentially 19th century in orientation , the most notable being the Factors Act 1889 ( FA ) and the Sale of Goods Act 1979 ( SGA ) which consolidates the original Act of 1893 with the subsequent amendments made especially in the Supply of Goods ( Implied Terms ) Act 1973 ( SOGIT ) . |
| 26 | I felt that this was what Leslie would have wanted me to do , for he always cared greatly about the welfare of his men . |
| 27 | According to Merleau-Ponty , Western academic Marxism , starting with Lukács , amounted only to the production of ‘ ideas without historical equivalents ’ ( 204 ) . |
| 28 | It has long been established that a defendant may be required to discover documents under his control but situated abroad ; in the early cases , the fact that relevant documents were in Calcutta or in Tobago led merely to an extension in the time allowed for their production . |
| 29 | For example , in feudal society products were not ‘ of themselves ’ the property of the ruling class , but became so in the light of various political practices . |
| 30 | As the railways penetrated deeper into the heart of the great cities , many large terminals were superseded . |