Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first panspermic hypothesis can be traced back to 1743 and Benôit de Maillet , who suggested that the germs of life came to Earth from space ; they fell into the oceans and in due course grew into fish and , later , amphibians , reptiles and mammals . |
| 2 | In the later 1950s they encouraged education services to flourish ; and some local authorities began to innovate in this policy area in ways that in due course came to be regarded as radical and politically contentious . |
| 3 | On 12 December 1985 the building society commenced in the High Court the action that in due course came before Knox J. It sued only Mr. Steed as defendant and claimed possession of the property . |
| 4 | There he was in due course tried on indictment , convicted and sentenced for the offences . |
| 5 | Both the army and the navy had rudimentary organizations : naval supplies were provided by a clerk acting under the spasmodic supervision of the Lord Admiral while specific operations continued to be mounted by ad hoc commissions . |
| 6 | An unprecedented sporting contact between the two Korean states occurred on Oct. 11 when the first round of the North-South Korean Unification Soccer Matches was played in Pyongyang before a crowd of 150,000 . |
| 7 | Annie and her assistant Jim acted as language arbitrators . |
| 8 | A lower level devoted to educational facilities ( library , auditorium , conference rooms ) leads visitors to an attractive cafeteria , decorated with colourful oriental carpets , and to a large sun terrace . |
| 9 | When , on 25 March 1859 , the tsar announced the principles on which Russian local government was to be based in the future , he acknowledged that provision had to be made for involving the public . |
| 10 | I have since learned of the curious way in which that provision came to be inserted . |
| 11 | Strings of bloody vomit drooled from his mouth , a legacy of prolonged foam inhalation . |
| 12 | A FRAIL pensioner died of shock after he was mugged as he fed the pigeons near his home . |
| 13 | The Chinese government in May 1990 rescinded the martial law order in Lhasa ( imposed in March 1989 following outbreaks of secessionist unrest ) , although a heavy armed presence remained in the city [ see p. 37454 ] . |
| 14 | The unfinished building stood for several years as a mute witness to their sad state . |
| 15 | Subtle lamps gleamed on pink-clothed tables , each with its own vase of flowers . |
| 16 | For Bernadette Quli , that worry turned into a nightmare when the woman she had taken on to look after her six-month-old daughter , Farrah , fled to Ireland with the baby . |
| 17 | Two years ago , the Texas supreme court declared that money had to be spread equally between rich districts and poor , and that rich schools should send some of their revenues to the state to be shared out . |
| 18 | Not that money seemed to be a problem . |
| 19 | It was only when this war was settled , and England embarked on a period of forty years of almost unbroken peace , that settlement began in North America and in the West Indies , and that trade with India became regular and organized enough for the English to set up trading posts there . |
| 20 | Johannitsa threatened the pope with accepting coronation from the patriarch of Constantinople : in 1203 Johannitsa submitted to the Holy See , the legate bestowed the pallium on the archbishop of Trnovo as primate and in November 1204 crowned Johannitsa king of the Bulgars and Wallachians . |
| 21 | Labour fingers jabbed at the Liberal Democrats , while Tory order papers were waved in the air . |
| 22 | Particular attention is given to the provision of financial services for industrial development and agrarian improvement ; the extent of movement into and out of Edinburgh ; the social structure and occupational zoning within Edinburgh ; demographic change ; the role of the law and of secular and ecclesiastical institutions in helping or hindering change ; the nature of social relationships within the town and the extent to which new and more progressive values existed in the city . |
| 23 | Changes in political institutions culminated in cabinet government from 1885 , the promulgation of a constitution in February 1889 and the opening of an elected assembly in 1890 . |
| 24 | Mandeville sneered as his strong teeth tore at the coarse rye bread . |
| 25 | In response to appeals by AI members last year , the Israeli authorities replied in April 1991 saying that ‘ Abd al-Ra'uf Ghabin had been arrested due to his activities relating to his alleged involvement in the PFLP — printing and distributing PFLP leaflets . |
| 26 | Olsen has therefore concentrated on four periods when the paintings connect most directly with historic events : from 1797 to 1814 when Napoleon 's Empire imposed a kind of unity on the country ; from the restoration of the monarchy until mid century when historic Romanticism came into conflict with Realism and gradually waned as a moving force in Italian art ; the triumph of Realism in parallel with the rapid progress towards unification from 1849 to 1870 ; and the final period from 1870 until the end of the century when Realism evolved under wider European influences into Symbolism and Divisionism . |
| 27 | Daphne studied the menu a new one , a friendly dinosaur snaked down the side holding the printed menu between its paws . |
| 28 | Regional income fell by almost a fifth , while the region 's foreign debt doubled . |
| 29 | The clean loud latch clicked behind him . |
| 30 | Difficulties of a more acute kind began with the arrival of Charles Lloyd on 22 February . |