Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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31 | Goyigama Buddhists normally organized thefts in both areas , but Muslim or Sinhalese Roman Catholic traders usually took control of the animals for the last stages before the slaughterhouse . |
32 | A bumper issue for composer recordings also contained Walton 's Argo recording of his Façade , with the London Sinfonietta and speakers Peggy Ashcroft and Paul Schofield . |
33 | The legs also gave scope for embellishment ; they were turned into columns or bent into distinctive arch shapes with ball feet . |
34 | Several speakers also repeated Craig 's claims about links between NICRA and both republicanism and Communism . |
35 | Other more ambitious walks also took place that winter . |
36 | Randall and Sayers both became professors and Randall was knighted . |
37 | He looked worried , almost weary , and his eyes instantly found Maggie . |
38 | Three of eight subjects also had HAPCs during fasting . |
39 | Not only , therefore , did sleep mechanisms rebel against the regime by more and more attempts to initiate REM sleep during the period of deprivation , and " make up " for the amount lost to some extent when allowed to , but the subjects also showed signs of psychological distress when it was prevented . |
40 | The inspectors also said teaching of religion in non-church primary schools was generally poor , and ‘ usually lacked rigour , clear purpose and explicit religious content . ’ |
41 | Montenegro trebled its area at Turkey 's expense by the Treaty of San Stefano in 1878 , but the treaty was never ratified , and the Congress of Berlin a few months later forced Montenegro to surrender some of its gains . |
42 | Ultrasonography four months later showed improvement , with resolution of hydronephrosis on the left and minimal hydronephrosis on the right . |
43 | The German offensive on Russia only two months later shocked Japan , and many Japanese argued for the breaking of the non-aggression pact . |
44 | Wrides also had examples of turning swords into ploughshares for bayonets had been hinged into notched steel bases for sale as very effective firewood splitters . |
45 | Several of the mare impacts have been dated from the radiometric ages of the welding of the surrounding brecchias to which these impacts probably gave rise . |
46 | Another leading Forum activist said that last night 's talks , in which the Communists were lead by the politburo member , Mr Vasil Mohorita , and in which the small political parties also took part , could produce a quick agreement . |
47 | Although , apart from lapis lazuli , supplies of all these were available in Egypt and Sinai , Egyptian craftsmen often had recourse to coloured glass to infill cloisonné cells . |
48 | Clients often discovered disasters affecting share prices of stocks too late . |
49 | Since the gentry had tended to buy and sell land without reference to the administrative cohesion of the parcels they exchanged , two or more communes often existed side by side in a single centre of rural population . |
50 | Eight months ago coloured Erica Adams blamed de Klerk when she broke off her engagement to his son Willem . |
51 | LORD Hanson , the crafty deal-maker who three months ago clinched Britain 's biggest takeover bid by paying £3.3billion for Consolidated Gold Fields , yesterday confounded the City with the £420million sale of a US offshoot . |
52 | Like the horse , she was shivering with reaction and her legs simply gave way beneath her . |
53 | Indeed , some pacifists even drew comfort from the idea that modern weapons had become so destructive that no one was likely to contemplate actually using them ; others were reassured by the apparent improvement in Anglo-German relations after the upheavals of the Balkan Wars of 1912 . |
54 | Nor was it clear that Balfour 's departure was universally desired : at the National Union Conference a few days later , Leo Maxse was booed off the platform , and constituency parties everywhere passed resolutions regretting Balfour 's decision . |
55 | The cars then travelled south on the A1 before turning off for Ripon . |
56 | At the sound of his enraged voice Jenna 's legs almost gave way beneath her . |
57 | It also explains erm his view why the Jews then murdered Moses rebelled against them , he was n't one of them anyway . |
58 | She listened carefully to the details of the Palestinian woman 's story , of how Jewish gangs had murdered a truckload of Arab villagers shortly before Um Al-Farajh was surrounded and of how the Jews then destroyed Mrs Zamzam 's home , the village and even the little Muslim cemetery beside it . |
59 | Nevertheless , a radical editorial reorganization called the Bradshaw shift , involving the moving of fragment VII as one large block back to the end of fragment II , with these fragments then relabelled groups B2 and B1 respectively , has been eagerly accepted by some editors and critics since the nineteenth century , wishing to solve thereby certain anomalies in the ordering of named places that the pilgrims would pass on their road to Canterbury . |
60 | But in circumstances where rulers failed to provide the peace thought essential to a Christian society , ecclesiastics sometimes took matters into their own hands . |