Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We would go down to the Seine and speak of water , boats and fish ; or we would go to the public park , where a few birds languished in an ancient aviary and the old mynah bird entertained us with a lavish range of endearments . |
| 2 | Contrary to the usual practice elsewhere , ‘ less than £1 ’ means a few shillings leavened by a sporadic nil assessment , rather than the opposite , for only one man in nine was actually given as nil , the majority ranging from 3s. 4d. to 18s . |
| 3 | As Ramaphosa was beginning discussions with members of the National Peace Secretariat ( who had offered to act as intermediaries in talks with the Ciskei authorities ) , some marchers broke through the razor-wire border fencing and started moving towards Bisho . |
| 4 | Some jews went in the opposite direction by expropriating a territory in Palestine ( on the grounds of an historical occupation ) to substantiate their claim to being a nation . |
| 5 | But for Frances the impact of those few words felt like a cold and heartless rejection . |
| 6 | I am well aware of the atrocities that some Croatians perpetrated during the second world war , and of the tensions between Serb and Croat that go back long before that , which left a legacy of hatred and fear . |
| 7 | For the most part the scribes who copied the Pentateuch were very careful , and it would seem that very few errors crept into the Hebrew text . |
| 8 | From Mongolia , at last they entered China , and after a few days came to the Great Wall , another of the earth 's wonders . |
| 9 | Some organisations knew about the different types of viral hepatitis and that there is a long incubation period . |
| 10 | Very few families survived on a single wage . |
| 11 | In the early days a few Members complained about the new lighting , but some adjustments were made and the Committee reported no further objections on these grounds ( although a survey of MPs attitudes following the introduction of television , which was conducted by the IBA , showed that 59% of the respondents found the lighting in the Chamber too bright , compared with 31% before the experiment began ) . |
| 12 | Few differences emerged between the relevant groups : 88 per cent of male and 84 per cent of female GP referrals plus 86 per cent of other female referrals were considered definite . |
| 13 | When letters were stolen from the Princess Royal in April , Miss Joyce was questioned by police and some newspapers jumped to the wrong conclusion that she was responsible . |
| 14 | I tell the truth , honest I do ! " one was shouting , and it and a few others tugged at the lower edges of the few furs he still had on and pulling on his under-breeches where they appeared out of the top of his boots . |
| 15 | While a few policemen tried to the bitter end to avoid conversation with the field-worker , sufficient rapport was established over time for the majority to talk quite openly to her about what are highly sensitive and controversial topics in a Northern Ireland context . |
| 16 | Such activities revolved around the agricultural calendar , village feasts , markets and hiring fairs , or , in the case of manufacturing workers , traditional holidays including " Saint Monday " . |
| 17 | The application of such skills led to the greater control of an army and , as a consequence , to its more effective use as a military arm . |
| 18 | Such considerations led to the general use of the term Down 's Syndrome to describe this association of physical features and mental characteristics . |
| 19 | Such phrases came in a constant stream of encouragement . |
| 20 | When , for example , the suspension of British motor cars collapsed under continental road conditions or when spare parts were not available for machine tools , initially only the reputation of British goods was damaged ; but the frequency of such occurrences amounted to a large accumulation of market ill-will by the early 1950s [ Pagnamenta and Overy , 1984 ] . |
| 21 | Table 4 , below , shows the frequency with which particular foreign languages or groupings of such languages occurred among the non-English items read . |
| 22 | It is in Ravenna that the most accurate impression can be gained of how such interiors looked in the Byzantine era . |
| 23 | Delgado ( 1977 ) noted that details such as bioclasts and voids visible in hand specimens or peels of such rocks vanished under the petrological microscope . |
| 24 | None of these cities stood in a direct relationship to the Capetians , and the people of the southern lands were sharply differentiated from those of northern France by language , law and custom . |
| 25 | These forms persisted into the post-war years in such industries as cotton , iron and steel , shipbuilding and shipping . |
| 26 | Fewer flyers took after the cold killer , von Richthofen , than after Boelcke and Navarre , who both hated killing and aimed whenever possible for the engine instead of the pilot . |
| 27 | A decisive break from the narrowness of these rules came in the fourteenth century , with Dafydd ap Gwilym , in a period marked both by increasing interaction with a more general European culture , after the loss of political independence , and yet , creatively , by a new ‘ national ’ poetry , itself governed by more flexible but still clear internal rules ( the cywydd metre ) . |
| 28 | Though ( except for the definition of the bodily Assumption of Mary in November 1950 ) none of these declarations fell into the formal category of infallible as defined at Vatican I , none the less Catholics came to expect authoritative guidance from Rome on all manner of issues — a strong tendency within the Church down to the present day . |
| 29 | Since each of these parties leant on the other for reassurance , relations between them will be soured as a result . |
| 30 | Such arms were generally apsidal in one or three apses and these designs led to the later development of the chevet , particularly seen in France ; also , in order to retain their privacy , the monks re-established the nave altars east of the crossing , so confirming the eastern altar position . |