Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb past] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Northern Sakhalin was not evacuated until 1925 , when a series of sticky negotiations between Japan and various Soviet authorities eventually culminated in recognition of the USSR and the restoration of diplomatic relations . |
| 2 | If a mutant batch of tadpoles with cannibalistic tendencies suddenly arose in a spadefoot population , they would tend to survive much better on those occasions when the pond was quickly drying out . |
| 3 | When painting Cornish scenes Minton had been aware of the precedent set by Christopher Wood and The Times rightly saw in The Harbour an attempt to translate a Christopher Wood theme ‘ into the tragic idiom of modern painters ’ . |
| 4 | * But such doubts rarely appeared in print . |
| 5 | The dimples she kept for emergencies suddenly appeared in Felicity 's cheeks . |
| 6 | The measures proposed in the first SCSE resolution seemed designed to gain popular support , and , according to a report in Le Monde of Aug. 22 , food unavailable for months suddenly appeared in Moscow 's shops during the coup . |
| 7 | Some dancing schools already existed in South Africa , and others soon opened to meet the demand . |
| 8 | The branches above murmured in supplication and let through a sudden , spiralling shaft of light . |
| 9 | As was to be the case with far more important orders to the peasantry from the very highest level at the start of collectivization after NEP , bureaucratic delays and excessive central demands soon resulted in comparable excess of zeal at local levels . |
| 10 | It was a full day later before Schmidt had been able to form a coherent sentence , though his words still came in a low , wracked whisper . |
| 11 | Observation and assessment confirmed that Gary was indeed showing all these behaviours , but also revealed that they were being heavily reinforced by attention from his parents and by the fact that the shouting and temper tantrums usually resulted in Gary 's getting his own way . |
| 12 | Thousands of people pressing similar demands also demonstrated in Leningrad , Yaroslavl , Gorky , Saratov , Voronezh , Stavropol , Volgograd , Ufa , Sverdlovsk , Omsk , Barnaul and Novosibirsk ( many of these cities had recently witnessed protests resulting in the removal from office of unpopular local Communist Party leaders — see p. 37235 ) . |
| 13 | The results for British , Japanese , Finnish , Australian and Hong Kong index futures , which allowed for transactions costs , suggest that arbitrage opportunities also existed in these markets . |
| 14 | In the decentralizing of money management , ambiguities also arose in connection with buildings ( where were the dividing lines between repairs , maintenance and improvements ? ) and in personnel ( did governors have a different responsibility for teachers in contrast to non-teachers ? ) . |
| 15 | ( Two other candidates also stood in the first round : Mahmud Othman and Othman Abd al-Aziz . ) |
| 16 | Absolute losses also fell in Outer London , from 26,000 to only 3,000 per year over the same period . |
| 17 | If Aunt Emily had looked shocked before her eyes now dilated in horror . |
| 18 | Their application to such industries as spinning and weaving in seventeenth and eighteenth centuries often resulted in inventions suited to the circumstances of petty producers : The new machines required little capital and a family-sized labor force , and hence were well suited to the perpetuation of cottage industry . |
| 19 | The highly-charged atmosphere in the aftermath of the Sacheverell affair meant that the partisan use of public anniversaries often resulted in violent clashes between rival groups . |
| 20 | Even after many of the separate grants were amalgamated in 1958 into a single general grant , government continued to expand its financial support quite rapidly to make it possible for local councils to fulfil the pledges which national parties frequently gave in general elections — to replace slums or old schools , to reduce the size of classes , and much else . |
| 21 | Then , their chest cavities simply burst in a mass of bone and blood and repulsive , wriggling leeches explode forth , ten from each body . |
| 22 | She laughed , though her eyes never faltered in their steady gaze . |
| 23 | The orderly American " dating " we saw in films or heard about in pop songs never happened in my adolescence . |
| 24 | Lorton had known who they were as soon as he 'd seen them ; he had been expecting the police , though not quite as soon as this , and in any case salesmen rarely travelled in pairs . |
| 25 | Models nevertheless existed in some parts of Europe and variation has been explained by the use of forms of the lost-wax or -lead process ( Capelle and Vierck 1975 ; Vierck 1976 ; Arrhenius 1973 ; 1975 ; Dickinson 1982 , pp. 21–2 ) . |
| 26 | Dr Max Hooper and his 1916 co-authors of ‘ Hedges ’ have shown that 62% of modern hedgerows already existed in 1595 . |
| 27 | In Robert Roberts 's farming family this seems to have been the accepted practice on both sides : later on , as a young farm servant , he went to work for an uncle where his mother 's parents still lived in the farmhouse . |
| 28 | The more general view was less charitable , placing more emphasis on the belief that Sri Lankans habitually lied in court . |
| 29 | However , space and time barriers also crumbled in the late nineteenth century through the electric telegraph and the early telephone and radio ; moreover the cinema film also featured easy transportability , while its scale economies quickly led to early single nation dominance ( by France ) . |
| 30 | Long-standing tensions also emerged in Soviet Georgia during 1988 and 1989 , inspired in part by nationalist pressures for a greater degree of autonomy within ( if not total separation from ) the USSR , and in part by differences of a social and ethnic character within Georgia itself . |