Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [vb past] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The method is similar to that used in chapter 6 , where we predicted the regional median unemployment rate for each local area within that region ; the difference is that the prediction from a linear equation will only be the same for two cases if they have identical mortality rates . |
| 2 | The Liberal radicals and " Progressives " were eventually brought together by Sir Richard Acland into the Commonwealth Party in 1942 , where they provided the only effective electoral opposition to the wartime government . |
| 3 | He was appointed paediatrician to Queen Charlotte 's Maternity Hospital ( 1933 ) , and physician to the Hospital for Sick Children , the Middlesex Hospital , and the British Postgraduate Hospital , Hammersmith ( 1934 ) , where he developed the renowned premature-baby unit in 1947 . |
| 4 | Of these the most conservative was Porta , who as late as 1578 could publish an old-fashioned cantus firmus Mass on the Josquin subject ‘ La sol fa re mi ’ and who corresponded with Carlo Borromeo ; on the other hand , his Magnificat for the Franciscan Chapter at Bologna was in 24 parts and we know that he frequently employed trombones , cornetts , violins , and portative organs as well as the large ones at San Antonio , Padua , where he spent the last six years of his life . |
| 5 | After a rural childhood in Schleswig-Holstein , teacher-training at Giessen and gymnastic teaching experience in Spain and Portugal , where he absorbed the rich rhythmic pattern of Iberian life , Hinrich Medau returned to Germany to study new ideas combining rhythm and physical education . |
| 6 | Perhaps in a way it was more justifiable in the special case of Grand Prix where it echoed the multiple TV-screen images of which the director , John Frankenheimer , is so fond — perhaps nostalgia for his early days as a director of live TV drama . |
| 7 | Although I recognized the same black fire in his eyes , the farm boy had become a gentleman . |
| 8 | ‘ The make of the watch was Optima , so I contacted the British Horological Institute for information . |
| 9 | Everyone else was busy , so I launched the small rubber dinghy and started rowing . |
| 10 | Miss Joyce could not afford to sue for libel , for which Legal Aid is not available , so she chose the ancient legal route of malicious falsehood which IS covered by legal aid but has never before been used in this way . |
| 11 | Once she knew the other two women had talked , it came out like a flood . |
| 12 | We struck out for Cambridge and although we made the odd wrong turn they were quickly rectified and with luck on our side we found the hotel . |
| 13 | I did n't know at that time what the content of the exhibition was because Sarah who organised it all had to write to lots of people and arrange the loans and you know it is fairly recently that we discovered for example the tate would lend , their pictures because its very rare that they do , erm , and , so we thought the next best thing , when I discovered the change of dates would be to have slides of the pictures that Sue was using , but erm oh dear then wonderful that Sue was using a another book and this term allocated and I was n't able to get the slides she picked , it was my fault that they 're not on slide due to the amount of time that we had to do this . |
| 14 | Our aircraft did n't have enough fuel to make Bangkok , so we called the Thai military base and Kamphaeng Saen and got permission to land . |
| 15 | I m I must confess I 'm one of these simple folk who thought that once we got the nineteen ninety one census figures through then it would it would all start into place . |
| 16 | Although they founded the major revolutionary parties of the twentieth century , they were soon outnumbered within them . |
| 17 | and within the last say twenty five years there 's been a dramatic change in the young people 's way of thinking , maybe more of them have gone to university than they did the previous twenty five years and that there is such a difference now than there was that I mean for instance if there was a war there would n't , there would be far more conscientious objectors than there ever was before far more than erm young man saying no I 'm going to fight for my country , be patriotic I do n't think you would find , for instance , the youth of this country so patriotic as they was in the last war , your country needs you . |
| 18 | In the 1989 general election , Congress ( I ) lost its majority , although it remained the largest single party in the Lok Sabha [ see pp. 37030-31 ] . |
| 19 | London-born Mike MacFarlane established himself as the top black British athlete by winning the 200 metres European title , though his form thereafter lapsed and , although he made the 1980 Olympic sprint team , he failed to make the finals . |
| 20 | Although he lacked the impeccable conservative credentials of Sununu , it was generally believed that Skinner would be acceptable to the right wing of the Republican Party . |
| 21 | He was a former underground activist in Solidarity , and had entered the Sejm in 1989 on the Solidarity list , although he headed the Gdansk-based Liberal Democratic Congress , a small political party composed of economic experts which had outlined a radical programme for the rapid privatization of state-owned enterprises . |
| 22 | He conceded the hole and although he won the 35th two fours at the last saw Rafferty home . |
| 23 | From 1851 to 1881 he was professor of ophthalmic medicine and surgery at University College London , and although he influenced the earliest microscopical investigations of Joseph ( later first Baron ) Lister [ q.v. ] , |
| 24 | A career in commerce proved uncongenial , so he entered the General Baptist/Unitarian ministry . |
| 25 | I knew that if I made the slightest false step he would leap at me . |
| 26 | I would far rather say , if I had the seven thousand pounds , say to both my daughters there you are dears , there 's the seven thousand pounds you decide how much of that you want for your wedding what is left over you keep , and it would be interesting to find out how much they then spent on their photographers , and on their cake , and the , the wedding cars etcetera . |
| 27 | After crossing several fields I turned down to the right to follow a metalled road for a while until I reached the first real treat of the day , the Roman road . |
| 28 | She had bought a pretty pine desk , and had scoured the antique shops until she found the perfect eighteenth-century light-mahogany chair to go with it . |
| 29 | ‘ Doreen still did if she used the old electric , ’ said Malcolm helpfully . |
| 30 | Eight , if you counted the famous eleventh-hour summit . |