Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By then , however , such was the devastation of churches and church lands that although the York clergy granted a tenth , which was to be collected in two instalments during 1317 ( a delay eloquent of their difficulties ) , they successfully insisted on a revised valuation of their livings : instead of the tenth being levied on the 1291 valor , compiled before the Scottish war began , it was to be calculated according to the true current valuation of livings , a reduced level which endured for the rest of the Middle Ages . |
| 2 | So powerful did the Association feel itself to be that it declined to amalgamate into a nationally representative Shipping Federation which came into being in September 1890 , though it allowed its individual members to join if they wished and developed a working arrangement with it.Indeed the separatism of the Mersey shipowners lasted until 1967 when they eventually merged into a British Shipping Federation , though not under the title " Employers ' Labour Association " . |
| 3 | They sensibly asked for a new kettle but were told that they could not have one because cuts meant that no new equipment or furniture of any kind was available . |
| 4 | They thus called for a managerial policy to facilitate promotion earlier in life , linked to flexible retirement wherever possible . |
| 5 | They finally halted in a rough copse of thorn that had lopsided boulders scattered about it and was sheltered from the wind by the long shoulder of a hill . |
| 6 | The company 's 5,750 British workers had been braced for cuts all week but they still came as a devastating blow . |
| 7 | They also went to a running stream at midnight . |
| 8 | They also agreed to a near doubling of aid to the Third World , but failed to reach a common position on the period of time over which the increase would be phased in . |
| 9 | Foxes became much more wide-ranging in their search for food , since they also depended to a large extent upon rabbits . |
| 10 | They also depended for a large part of their work on clawing money out of the social security system and on getting alongside other centrally funded bodies such as housing associations . |
| 11 | They also contributed to a growing consciousness of the value of collectivism and of alliances among sections of the lesbian and gay trade movement . |
| 12 | ‘ They also broke into a similar car but appear to have lost interest in it when they realised it was a used model . |
| 13 | TV replays showed that Saunders went in with his foot raised and came down on Elliott 's leg as they both steamed into a full-blooded 50-50 clash . |
| 14 | The penalty seemed harsh as Jones went down in a collision with John Lukic as they both raced for a 50-50 ball . |
| 15 | Twenty million of them dispossessed , twenty million told they now lived in a foreign country and they could never be Germans again , for ever more . |
| 16 | Such was the organisers ' strong determination to live up to the movie image of English life , they even laid on a scatty vicar wearing a panama hat to serve tea and sandwiches at the finish . |
| 17 | The Air/Sea Rescue training school at RAF Mountbatten , Plymouth provided the type of training course relevant to our needs and they kindly consented to a selected few of our senior crew members attending the school for the necessary three months session . |
| 18 | They then went into a cold store and stole dozens of cartons of cream . |
| 19 | The first meeting place was above a cafe in Newgate Street in the City of London , but this did not prove satisfactory and they then met on a weekly basis at another cafe near Marble Arch . |
| 20 | If anything , they again pointed to a slight disincentive of higher taxes . |