Example sentences of "[subord] [noun pl] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For more than twenty years , Rockwell 's work has been shown in the Norman Rockwell Museum , a small white clapboard house on the main street of picturesque Stockbridge , Massachusetts , where visitors grew from 5,000 people in 1969 to 160,000 today . |
| 2 | Bonsall was an important centre of framework knitting in Derbyshire , and one of the early workshops , where knitters worked in primitive factories instead of in their own homes , can still be seen . |
| 3 | Where monks sat in quiet contemplation , guests now seek sanctuary from the city 's bustle amid lush palms and ivy . |
| 4 | Where patients presented with multiple ulcers , however , details of only the four most significant were requested , so information on only 470 ulcers was obtained . |
| 5 | Some of it was undoubtedly derived from associations with British India , where graveyards abounded in miniature pagodas and obelisks . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , their souls met at the weekend in Rick 's Cafe Americain , where men dressed in crisp linen suits drank bourbon beneath whispering ceiling fans under the watchful eye of a Moroccan inspector of police . |
| 7 | The crucifer Braya humilis was originally described as aperiodic in northeast Greenland ( Sørensen , 1941 ) , where flowers produced in late autumn were retained frozen but viable in snow until the following spring ; the same species was found to be periodic , with a late summer growth check , in the harsher snow-free conditions of Hazen , north Ellesmere Island ( Savile , 1972 ) . |
| 8 | where senators barked from curtained litters , |
| 9 | As well as making various suggestions for changes to the VAT regime , problems were perceived where shares received from unapproved share option schemes have become valueless . |
| 10 | The Greens may have acted as catalysts in the green revolution , and their success in the Euro-election undoubtedly awoke the mainstream parties to the extent of the stirrings in the electoral loam , but they no more held a patent on green ideas than feminists did on equal rights for women . |
| 11 | It was the first time that the USA had officially sponsored negotiations between the two sides , although talks mediated by former US President Jimmy Carter had been held in September and November 1989 [ see pp. 36886-87 ; 37034-35 . ] . |
| 12 | If companies reacted to early signs of slowdown with large cuts in production and investment , their demand for credit will have fallen sharply , perhaps faster than the supply of credit . |
| 13 | While he is speaking about child deaths , will he confirm that if vehicles travelled at 20 mph , only one child in 20 would be killed ? |
| 14 | It was not , therefore , a purpose designed polymer and yet it did not have any serious competitor until hydrogels emerged as potential contact lens materials some years later . |
| 15 | Humanism considered the most powerful or most noble within society to be the best readers and directed writing at them not exclusively because writers looked to this class for generous rewards or for some snobbish appeal . |
| 16 | While officers struggled with each other to improve their own positions they often united to block any attempts at reform by the Crown . |
| 17 | The Pharmaceutical division saw profits fall by 20 per cent to £120.8m , on sales of £484.1m ( £478.5m ) , while profits rose in Scientific Equipment division from £67.2m to £68.4m , and in Horticulture division from £10.4m to £11.5m . |
| 18 | But Hendry was unwittingly being protected behind a wall of silence , Doyle deciding that it was pointless to unduly alarm him with so many big tournaments coming up and while police collaborated with British Telecom to try and trace the woman . |
| 19 | Hodgson et al ( 1984 ) also found that some schools required qualifications whereas others looked for personal qualities such as flexibility and good interpersonal skills . |
| 20 | To satisfy political aspirations some LDCs ' governments nationalised ( took into state ownership ) foreign banking operations , whilst others insisted on local incorporation into a subsidiary company in which the government or its nationals had a shareholding . |
| 21 | Approximately 100 US soldiers , in Aden since mid-December under a bilateral agreement to provide facilities in support of " Operation Restore Hope " in Somalia [ see p. 39225 ] , were withdrawn on Dec. 31 after bombs exploded at two Aden hotels on Dec. 29 . |
| 22 | The UN closed Sarajevo airport , a vital aid lifeline for the Bosnian capital 's 380,000 population , after shells exploded at either end of the runway during fighting yesterday . |
| 23 | But already it has been dubbed ‘ The Movie From Hell ’ after stars moaned about constant script changes and cameramen threatened to walk out . |
| 24 | The discussions got stuck on the question whether agreements reached at these meetings should remain purely informal or should be translated into Euro-directives . |
| 25 | Featureless blocks as big as warehouses jutted at crazy angles from a bald hemisphere . |
| 26 | The reasons for doing so were various , but prominent among them was that quality chess seemed to demand the ability to devise a plan and stick to it when circumstances changed in unpredictable ways . |
| 27 | Explore the underground installations , browse in the museum , stand by the guns and look out over the Channel as gunners did in two wars . |
| 28 | An odd move , to be sure , at a time when prices were falling — and in a rather smart street , too , where such a venture would not be guaranteed to make him instantly popular with the neighbours , as customers came in one door and noisome smells came out of another . |
| 29 | Usually it was safe to wander round the village in the daytime : the dogs knew their own people and , as long as neighbours stayed on neutral ground , they let them be . |
| 30 | For uses started before that date and continued without permission ever since , it is possible to obtain an Established Use Certificate , i.e. a certificate of immunity from enforcement action . |