Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite cutting back the undergrowth to keep routes open , footpads and other outlaws haunted most lonely stretches of road . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He said the study found surprisingly high levels of discontent with body weight and shape in pre-adolescent girls and boys . |
| 4 | 1975a ; 1975b ) found markedly differing rates of behaviour problems and reading difficulties between one primary school and another . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | These pressures notwithstanding , the neighbouring republics of Estonia and Latvia adopted more cautiously-worded declarations of independence on 30 March and 4 May respectively . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 : — |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Hague Rules ‘ boundaries ’ of liability encouraged less costly schemes of risk assumption . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Surveys of dolphin tissues for mercury carried out in 1978 by Japanese scientists showed very high levels of mercury in local dolphins . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | The strategy turned out to be successful , and the resultant recombinant viruses produced reasonably large amounts of HbsAg in infected cells . |
| 19 | The normal subject displayed only short bursts of reflux with a maximum duration of four minutes . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Thames blamed unacceptably high levels of pesticide use by farmers , local authorities and British Rail for its poor showing . |
| 22 | Yet since these can not have presented much of an obstacle , they were of little or no use against large and determined forces of men , against whom only walled towns and castles constituted reasonably sure places of safety . |
| 23 | Gradually , what began as isolated pockets of thought , became a vibrant movement . |
| 24 | What began as differing expectations of life soured into a barrage of slanging matches and petty petulances . |
| 25 | The intensity of the IS900-PCR signals indicated very low numbers of M paratuberculosis organisms and bore no relation to visible spheroplastic or bacillary mycobacterial growth . |
| 26 | Warning that ‘ the balance of our population , our human stock is threatened ’ , Keith Joseph sensed truly momentous possibilities of decline . |
| 27 | He and his agents collected very large sums of money to supply the urgent needs of the Crown — mainly Forest amercements , fines paid for privileges in the forest , the proceeds of sales of wood and of the leasing of assarts . |
| 28 | Two types of feature were surveyed and they required somewhat different accuracies of determination : nick points and terraces . |
| 29 | The type of instruction in the science units , excluding engineering , tended to be more extensive and covered more in-depth areas of literature use compared with social sciences and humanities units . |
| 30 | Where I needed more obvious hints of colour , values such as 221 , light pink , were overlaid with 821 , pale grey . |