Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Transport nevertheless remained a major problem , and as Commandos ' equipment for raiding roles did not include those infantryman 's delights of defensive wire and mines — not , that is , in the normal course — they always had problems in battles of attrition .
2 During the Waldheim visit to Munich , Streibl demonstratively invited the Austrian President to sign the golden book of the Bavarian State in the Prinz-Carl palace , where Mussolini liked to stay .
3 Morgan remembers him as a ‘ breath of fresh air ’ as a manager who single handedly rejuvenated the Scottish team with his incredible ability to motivate players .
4 Cimetidine also inhibited the basal proliferation of MKN45 xenografts .
5 Shell also said the foreign exchange loss would be more than offset by a tax credit of £149 million from its Japanese subsidiary .
6 formed in the wake of the 1972 Stockholm conference , UNEP soon spawned the Global Environment Monitoring System ( GEMS ) as well as an international register of potentially toxic chemicals and a global network of sources to locate and provide technical , scientific and management information on the environment .
7 Paige scarcely registered the momentary pain of his possession before spiralling waves of indescribable pleasure took her .
8 Fry deliberately wrote the next part of his essay in a railway refreshment room ( ‘ One must remember that public places of this kind merely reflect the average citizen 's soul , as expressed in his home ’ ) .
9 The May 6 issue proudly boasted a new circulation of 300,000 plus .
10 In Henry , Arnulf finally found the potential monarch for whom he had been searching .
11 Boothroyd thus became the first woman Speaker .
12 Brook then asked the same volunteer to read again , but to stop after each name .
13 Papez therefore located the emotional behaviour mechanisms in the brainstem , especially in the mammillary bodies which , he believed , received sensory information via subcortical relay routes , and cognitive information from the cerebral cortex via the hippocampus and its subcortical projection system , the fornix .
14 Richmann never noticed the sudden widening of Benny 's eyes , or if he did he must have assumed it was fear at her imminent death .
15 SAVE therefore decided the only way forward was to establish a new independent trust to take on the task of urgent major repairs .
16 As part of the Agency 's advisory work , Purdew greatly improved the detailed planning of many building schemes , both high and low rise .
17 The sigh of the waves sounding up that chute only emphasised the genial security of the chamber .
18 Ships laden with nutmeg or cinnamon , cloves or coriander once battled the Seven Seas to bring home their precious cargo .
19 The bathroom , she noted with relief , had a very noisy extractor fan , it damn near vibrated the outer wall off .
20 Waddle then scored an unstoppable free-kick .
21 Squid and yellowtail then became the main species fished , but throughout the 1960s and 1970s the pattern was repeated as the yellowtail fishery began to show the familiar signs of overfishing , with catches decreasing despite increasing fishing efforts .
22 Crowe then had the vulgar audacity to offer me a pitiful ten quid if I revealed the manager 's name .
23 I ve just had a quick look at text and it says that Durie has had a shock recall Sheringham and Dozzel are definatly out and that Kerslake is doubtful .
24 Ambramovitz aptly termed the residual factors as ‘ a measure of our ignorance ’ .
25 Haslam also played a busy role in public life .
26 The appointment , held until 1670 , associated him with an energetic department and Duncombe here acquired a modest reputation for administrative skills .
27 Ermentrude faithfully performed the crucial function of a royal wife in producing a total of eleven children , and as late as 866 , she was still ready to produce more .
28 Like thousands of students before him , Gedge merely adopted the clichéd student maxims of leftist rhetoric , irrational idealism and an Oxfam season ticket .
29 But Lothar then extracted a further concession , " since he would not have , he said , in the share [ of the regnum ] they were offering him the wherewithal to make good to his own supporters that which they had lost .
30 Mark always experienced the same feelings of contentment when entering the home straight .
  Next page