Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it was probably inevitable that whatever the political flavour of the government of the day some form of national pattern of cash limits would have had to applied to expenditure on public sector higher education , 4 the practical effects of this political decision turned out to be both complex and capricious , and had two important consequences . |
| 2 | The Youngest Son would stay with us in Al Ain , catching up on his studies in order to graduate with his class from secondary school , but it would be a week before the Sheikh and his elder sons drew up in their big Mercedes and brought that filling of the house that always comes when men are at home , the heavy laughter , the smell of pipe smoke , screeches of excitement from the children as they are tossed high in the air . |
| 3 | Not only one but both his elder sons did so , and thereby became the first Jewish officers to be commissioned . |
| 4 | We managed to salvage the Spotlight feature but my bloody notes had already been printed . |
| 5 | A BUS manager who was forced to give up a rural route said yesterday she was fed up with the whole business . |
| 6 | Junior creditors got just over half , and preference shareholders the rest — all at the expense of senior creditors . |
| 7 | She almost wept with relief as his strong fingers closed round her hand and guided her to the safety of a broad platform of stone , where at last it was possible to stand upright . |
| 8 | She yelled out loud , then shouted again as strong fingers closed round her arms . |
| 9 | Strong fingers clamped brutally around her wrist , staying her action , and she was swung roughly about to meet the hard , questioning glare of one of Matilda 's Angevin guards . |
| 10 | Her dark-brown skin picked up the deadening light inside the train and reflected it strangely so that her face looked almost silver . |
| 11 | Doubtless at the time of the wool barons the church had a full congregation , but the economic tide had long ago receded from this part of the world . |
| 12 | Its President , Igor Smirnov [ see p. 38657 for his election ] , said in an interview on March 30 that reunification had effectively already begun , and that the Dnestr Republic favoured a federative structure with Moldova , not complete separatism . |
| 13 | At the appointed time Venturous ' was in position near Nieuport just outside the three mile territorial limit and in due course picked up a small craft leaving the Belgian port . |
| 14 | Although the two Korean states remained technically in a state of war ( the hostilities having been ended in 1953 by an armistice but not a peace treaty ) , many commentators felt that the December agreements laid a realistic foundation for the negotiation of a full peace treaty . |
| 15 | That Germany had also provided a comprehensive state insurance for sickness , accident , disability and unemployment for its people from an early date was thought by some to be implicated in that country 's economic success . |
| 16 | This whole area had blossomed as a great region for settlement , in which the Spanish language was steadily being forced upon the survivors of the original population and to which Spanish emigrants went out as regular reinforcements to maintain the conquests of Cones and Pizzano . |
| 17 | That purchase added around 3 percentage points to its share of the liquid milk market , taking it to 16 per cent , where it is now snapping at the heels of the second-largest operator , Dairy Crest , the marketing subsidiary of the MMB , which claims a market share of around 17 per cent . |
| 18 | A terrific whoosh rushed up that surprised even those waiting for it . |
| 19 | Trained in watercolours by his father , the precocious Bonington had already exhibited at the Liverpool Academy before his family left England . |
| 20 | To her right the blind yellowstone wall of another tall building rose majestically — a perfect backdrop for the dozen or so pink-clothed tables , laid for morning coffee , their pristine china no whiter than the latticed chairs which surrounded them . |
| 21 | At the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village eight cops moved in for another raid on a gay bar . |
| 22 | Well the reality is of course that Clare has already told us that internment did n't work the last time , it was badly done the last time . |
| 23 | My research post had been extended by my working part time , but in 1986 funding ran out . |
| 24 | In Sumatra , MacKinnon found that the orang-utans of an area moved into the near-by hills when the largest calling male did so . |
| 25 | Would my hon. Friend care to hazard a guess about how many fewer jobs there would be in that industry if that money had not been given ? |
| 26 | Every penny of that money went directly to various charities within our own region . |
| 27 | and I said to Andrea , I says Andrea those two are two of the tills I 'd checked yesterday in the middle of the day and they were spot on I said that money went yesterday evening ! |
| 28 | ‘ There is no doubt as to the general rule stated in Leake on Contracts to which I have already referred , that money paid voluntarily — that is to say , without compulsion or extortion or undue influence , and , of course , I may add without any fraud on the part of the person to whom it is paid , and with knowledge of all the facts , though paid without any consideration , or in discharge of a claim not due , or a claim which might have been successfully resisted , can not be recovered back . |
| 29 | A further advantage of these unions is that money saved locally is spent locally , rather than being switched to other areas , as often occurs with normal banking arrangements . |
| 30 | She joked that she would only make money fifty years after she was dead , and he told her that money did not matter . |