Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Admiral Habib Olahi and some others finally escaped on foot across the mountains into Turkey .
2 * But such doubts rarely appeared in print .
3 Such thefts often arose from grants of benefices known as precariae ( from preces , the " prayer " or " request " which had to be offered by the recipient ) on church lands .
4 Acid hypersecretion found in a subgroup of alcoholic patients in these studies also occurred in dogs chronically given alcohol .
5 At first written in German and Hebrew , these publications soon turned to English .
6 However , these irritations perhaps paled into insignificance when compared to the British position .
7 All roads probably led to City Hall .
8 Poor irrigation , transport , education , and medicine multiplied the chances of disaster , together with the fact that even in good years many peasants hardly existed above subsistence level .
9 Many children also related to Kevin as the ‘ outsider ’ in his family .
10 I became intimately acquainted with some of those I met , and the lives and habits of many others naturally came under observation .
11 The total of all claims finally amounted to £380 million . )
12 Earth sciences , because they had been so recently assessed in the UGC Earth Science Review , were excluded from this rating table , but the ratings for the category ‘ Other Physical Sciences ’ , for those Universities also listed in Table 3 , are :
13 Both declarations also called for negotiations on the restoration of their republics ' independence , although the Latvian Supreme Soviet foresaw " a free and independent State of Latvia " being part of a reformed Soviet Union ( the formula favoured by President Gorbachev for restructuring the Soviet Union as a confederation of sovereign states — see pp. 36883 ; 37168 ) .
14 Both couples mysteriously spoke in English , with heavy accents .
15 Both boys immediately burst into peals of embarrassed laughter , and Tam ran shamefaced to his father 's side and whispered loudly in his ear in French : " Kim has brought Lan 's gibbon , Papa !
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