Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We managed to salvage the Spotlight feature but my bloody notes had already been printed . |
| 2 | Junior creditors got just over half , and preference shareholders the rest — all at the expense of senior creditors . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She yelled out loud , then shouted again as strong fingers closed round her arms . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They found that the vast majority of bed-wetting cases cleared up very quickly , especially if treated sympathetically . |
| 9 | The Israeli authorities did not demand from him an expression of regret . |
| 10 | Even then abolition was not completed until the early 1890s when the number of landless and dispossessed peasants and rural labourers increased dramatically . |
| 11 | These technical , professional discussions had already shaped the direction of change before the Act was drafted , in and out of war . |
| 12 | However , the Tertiary coals contained weakly fluorescent desmocollinite , ( non-fluorescent in the Palaeozoic coals ) , suggesting a slightly greater hydrogen richness . |
| 13 | But by around 1020 , the quality of Norman coins declined markedly as a concomitant to the rapid increase in quantity . |
| 14 | None of these eternal operators faired very well when they had a posting to a training unit . |
| 15 | The Soviet Union and its East European satellites opted out because of communism . |
| 16 | There were also some comments about homosexual authors and a few feeble attempts to refute allegations about Labour authorities — not that Labour authorities had not promoted homosexuality , but that only a few had and they had not spent millions of pounds doing it . |
| 17 | Overall , within the culture of antislavery economic boycott and free-produce activities worked much less significantly as a way of drawing in support than as a mark which some abolitionists chose to display of their antislavery identity . |
| 18 | Moreover , notwithstanding the different degrees to which individual teachers appeared to have taken on board the implications for progressive pedagogies , we believe that a substantial improvement in teachers ' awareness of the potential of the library as a central resource , and of the development of information-handling skills entailed therein , was a real consequence of the project in this school . |
| 19 | Young people were normally allowed many opportunities to meet members of the opposite sex , and though examples can be quoted of disinheritance because parental wishes had not been met , the prime consideration in choosing a wedding partner was undoubtedly mutual love . |
| 20 | Her racially prejudiced views did n't help the matter , but it was what she was thinking rather than what she said which added flame to the fire of her anger . |
| 21 | In contrast , the DIA 's covert activities had never been compromised and it had never become embroiled in public controversy . |
| 22 | By the late 1950s European states had not only recovered from the war , but had achieved remarkable economic growth . |
| 23 | Proper evaluation of the scheme requires more than the anecdotal accounts published so far if the true effects are to be monitored and the policy lessons learnt . |
| 24 | Mr MacIver states that a study of local authority economic activities carried out last year showed the role of councils was very significant . |
| 25 | Firstly , for the Tayloristic reasons discussed earlier in our exposition of Braverman , management is likely to fragment and de-skill tasks , splitting off conception from execution . |
| 26 | Although the Liberals improved their position in the 1929 General Election , winning 59 seats compared to the 40 in 1924 , their new-found unity and imaginative economic policies had not worked . |
| 27 | Precisely how the Minoan merchants carried on their trade is uncertain . |
| 28 | Attempts to survey political opinions came rather later , though they did have not dissimilar aspirations to those of the market surveyors ; however , they were rather less well conducted . |
| 29 | Boris Chicherin 's ( very different ) political opinions found equally clear expression in his inaugural of October 1861 . |
| 30 | None the less those who engaged in frequent political discussions became particularly aware of the Conservative Party 's stress on defence . |