Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb base] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In local government elections , to which much importance was attached , the Labour Party made little advance after the victories of 1934 , actually losing seats in 1936 . |
| 2 | But otherwise the City found little cheer in the results . |
| 3 | García went underground and issued calls for national resistance , but this found little echo on the streets , and subsequent opinion polls suggested that Fujimori retained the overwhelming confidence of the public . |
| 4 | His direct ways won enough support among the voters for the Liberal Democrats to enjoy a bigger-than-expected victory in last month 's election for the lower house of parliament . |
| 5 | As no vocal chords as we know them are to be found in the larynx , the sounds emitted probably come from the lips of the larynx . |
| 6 | Unhappily their revelations ran sharply counter to the teachings of the organised churches which contended that the human being was the designed product of an extraterrestrial being bearing the name of ‘ god ’ . |
| 7 | The transmutation of elements has an important place in modern nuclear physics ( as it did in mediaeval alchemy ) but ran completely counter to the aims of Dalton 's atomistic programme . |