Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The uncertainty of such stop-go policies arguably reduced business confidence and discouraged investment . |
| 2 | Her teeth badly needed treatment . |
| 3 | The way in which authorities apparently withheld information about the explosion and fire at the Zaporizha plant in central Ukraine will also generate fresh opposition to the industry seven years after the Chernobyl disaster . |
| 4 | For example , if mutations reduce adult survival 16 times more than they reduce juvenile survival ( that is , v= 16 ) , a net mutation rate reduces juvenile and adult survival from their optimal values ( 0.945 , 0.505 ) to ( 0.866 , 0.155 ) ; if the mutations only affected adult survival , a mutation rate U 0.067 would reduce adult survival to zero . |
| 5 | When Powell and the five survivors eventually reached safety , ragged , half-starved and exhausted , their expedition was hailed as one of the most courageous feats of exploration of the time . |
| 6 | The administration of vague rules and guidelines effectively removed control of pollution policy from the politicians who had framed the laws , and put a stop to any parliamentary scrutiny . |
| 7 | Words only represented reality . |
| 8 | The tents and rucksacks all passed muster |
| 9 | Earlier Frankish successions from the sixth century onwards had divided the heartlands , the patrimony , between royal brothers as well as assigning whatever acquired regna were available : the 806 and 817 projects , by contrast , gave the first-born son the patrimony entire , leaving the younger brothers only acquired regna . |
| 10 | And though she cherished the times when Friend soared in companionship beside her through forever , always — reluctantly , it seemed sometimes , but always — he would pluck new motes of light and weave them into new shapes for her to read , but the shapes only made sense in their beauty , not in the real world where the coarseness of eating and cleaning and going to the toilet squashed the meanings out of the corners of her eyes . |
| 11 | A tall man with an exoskeleton frightened her by demanding a retina-scan but the contacts in her eyes apparently passed muster because he let her through . |
| 12 | In Kepler 's defense of Copernicus , mathematical , physical , and theological considerations all carried weight . |
| 13 | Until around nineteen eighty the methods generally involved impalement of cells with glass micro electrodes . |
| 14 | Synthetics soon replaced cotton , an ostensibly practical move that saved players from being bogged down in a waterlogged kit that ripped easily . |
| 15 | Other manufacturers soon followed suit , notably Ferrari and Alfa Romeo . |
| 16 | The successful candidates largely represented business interests and called for closer ties with China . |
| 17 | It was chaotic , true , but Corman 's pictures always made money and that was the way everyone was judged . |
| 18 | Restoration England 's improved agriculture made famine a thing of the past , though temporary shortages still caused suffering . |
| 19 | Support for the BSP , led by former BCP ideology chief Alexander Lilov , was strongest in the countryside , where communists in local party or mayoral offices still dominated politics . |
| 20 | The tramway remained in operation for forty years , during which time the Haytor quarries also supplied granite for the British Museum and many other famous buildings . |
| 21 | The most striking results were in Moscow , where candidates belonging to an umbrella organization of reformist groups and political clubs calling itself Democratic Russia won 55 of the capital 's 65 Supreme Soviet seats , and in Leningrad , where a comparable organization calling itself Democratic Elections " 90 won 28 of the city 's 34 Supreme Soviet seats ; both organizations also won control of their respective city soviets . |
| 22 | A similar occurrence came when NHS ambulance drivers also stopped work . |
| 23 | The outlawed Ulster Freedom Fighters later claimed responsibility for the shooting . |
| 24 | But when at last they halted in front of me , their eyes also held disappointment . |
| 25 | Inspectors also found listeria contamination in pre-packed ham bought from Sainsbury 's in Cowley . |
| 26 | Opposition parties also expressed concern over the Council 's plans , as announced on July 17 , at a time of rising costs for national reconstruction , to endorse a cash payment of KD20,000 ( US$65,000 ) to each Kuwaiti family as compensation for damage during the occupation . |
| 27 | The parties also agreed continuation of a multi-million-dollar joint development programme between Cypress and Ross focused on the development of a complex logic-oriented product . |
| 28 | The parties also agreed continuation of a multi-million-dollar joint development programme between Cypress and Ross focused on the development of a complex logic-oriented product . |
| 29 | These authors also found evidence for hot gas and dark matter extending beyond the visible galaxies , and their work was itself the subject of a News and Views article . |
| 30 | Voting in Borno State was disrupted by violence when agents for one of the candidates openly distributed cash . |