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 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 .
4 The consensus on full employment lasted as long as measures to achieve full employment involved only marginal changes to society .
5 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 .
6 The French built surprisingly modest stations in North Africa .
7 He said the study found surprisingly high levels of discontent with body weight and shape in pre-adolescent girls and boys .
8 1975a ; 1975b ) found markedly differing rates of behaviour problems and reading difficulties between one primary school and another .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 These pressures notwithstanding , the neighbouring republics of Estonia and Latvia adopted more cautiously-worded declarations of independence on 30 March and 4 May respectively .
13 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 .
14 Doctors and other health workers , who went to work in the zones controlled by the FMLN during the civil war , learnt very effective forms of treatment from the peasants they worked with .
15 The general response from those who did attend courses was , however , overwhelmingly positive and , as well as comments relating to the subject matter itself , a significant number of participants made more general comments of support , such as : —
16 Audience sizes were fairly steady from day to day ; people tended to avoid demanding programmes ; they did not worry about missing episodes of a serial or series ; they often showed rather moderate levels of attention and appreciation .
17 : Mmd The detective work done by the Harwell scientists showed hitherto unsuspected dangers from radon .
18 Two of the judgment tasks were then selected which showed only small correlations with risk ratings or accident estimates for the 24 stimuli used .
19 The Hague Rules ‘ boundaries ’ of liability encouraged less costly schemes of risk assumption .
20 Broadleaf and conifer trees showed roughly equal amounts of damage ; the most affected broadleaf species were cork oaks and other oaks , and the most affected conifers were fir and spruce species .
21 True , each sub-period was historically specific : while the years 1978–81 showed equally bad rates of manufacturing job loss in all the major areas of the North of Britain ( Table 5.4 ) , the aftermath in 1981–84 revealed the worst continuing rates in northern England ( the Northern Region , Yorkshire & Humberside and the North West ) .
22 Research by the Water Research Centre in 1981 showed that long runs of copper piping with lead solder could produce high levels of lead in tapwater .
23 Surveys of dolphin tissues for mercury carried out in 1978 by Japanese scientists showed very high levels of mercury in local dolphins .
24 In France , the National Front ( FN ) leader Jean-Marie Le Pen made openly racist proposals on immigration [ see p. 38591 ] which in some cases had been echoed by politicians of other political parties [ see pp. 38445-46 ] , manoeuvring in advance of regional elections in March 1992 .
25 In 1982 the programme area was extended to cover an adjoining neighbourhood , California Kirkbride , which registered similarly high rates of deprivation to the original six neighbourhoods ( Allegheny West , Central North Side , East Allegheny , Fineview , Manchester and Perry South ) .
26 The strategy turned out to be successful , and the resultant recombinant viruses produced reasonably large amounts of HbsAg in infected cells .
27 The normal subject displayed only short bursts of reflux with a maximum duration of four minutes .
28 To nobody 's surprise , they discovered extremely high levels of anaemia , diabetes , bronchial disorder and child deaths — which might have been the result of poor diet , pollution and the general mess of the Soviet economy .
29 Thames blamed unacceptably high levels of pesticide use by farmers , local authorities and British Rail for its poor showing .
30 They reiterated the old CEB faith in the imperatives of central technical control , and brushed aside potential gains from decentralisation , but themselves maintained a very weak financial control over the divisions .
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