Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That opportunity arose sooner than expected in the Autumn of 1927 , when twelve cars were obtained in good condition from Croydon Corporation . |
| 2 | When Cook made his first exploratory voyages to the South Seas between 1768 and 1771 , that figure had more than doubled to 450,000 tons . |
| 3 | This decision started rather than ended the controversy about united action . |
| 4 | ‘ did unlawfully , wilfully and ’ This point means intentionally as opposed to accidentally and unlawfully as opposed to lawfully such as an artists ' model . |
| 5 | However dramatically their powers and responsibilities may have been extended by the 1986 and 1988 Acts , their legal duties in this matter remain exactly as stated in section 2(5) of the 1981 Act . |
| 6 | ( The value of such trade had more than doubled between 1988 and 1990 , to a record US$705,000,000 , as US firms sought to capitalize on Cuba 's need for new financial partners . ) |
| 7 | When using HP paper as much pastel falls away as sticks to the sheet . |
| 8 | Certainly , the majority of today 's cars need far less skill to drive quickly than did their predecessors of the sixties and early seventies . |
| 9 | Within two decades the number of cases reported each year has more than doubled to at least 3,000 . |
| 10 | The Third Republic 's record of creativity indicates , Fumaroli argues , that culture flourishes best when subsidised least . |
| 11 | He had had little idea of the dire straits prevailing at Berwick nor that time had all but run out . |