Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Egypt made strong protests both before and after the conclusion of the Memorandum . |
| 2 | We can compare this with a similar attempt made eight years later by Stubbs ( 1983 ) , who distinguishes four main areas of language which teachers should know about if they are to be able to make informed decisions about language problems at school : |
| 3 | The Chief of Staff of the Air Force , Vice-Marshal Momtazuddin Ahmed , confirmed publicly for the first time on May 10 the claim made eight days earlier by the head of the opposition Awami League Sheikh Hasina Wajed that there had been extensive damage to the country 's small fleet of aircraft . |
| 4 | Wishful thinking made political partisans more optimistic about their own party 's prospects and more inclined to forecast their opponents ' defeat . |
| 5 | When I made that bed yesterday it was sitting in there . |
| 6 | Very difficult indeed er hearing the Maxwell people talking earlier I think er again and made that point very clear . |
| 7 | I did make the point that Mr Maxwell 's company wants co-operation on the eastern edge of the City , vis-á-vis their football stadium , and we ought to have some co-operation on the western edge of the City where all these houses are boarded up and empty , bought at double the market value , and I made that point publicly . |
| 8 | But they should know that anyway , or I made that point yesterday , so er th the point they quoted was that erm erm rang up the team and got told no you 've got ta put it on a fax , find it hard to believe that that was if that was the manager on the phone but it 's just important that the people on the team know who the senior managers are . |
| 9 | And then er that 's one of t the the boss made that cabinet there er it 's got the feet er but and these are what they call astricles These panes of glass are all in er individually you know , they 're all put in and to polish these wee astricles oh you you had to be very deli cos they 're very thin you know , and you had to flay them and polish and they lay them in the thing and then they they were fitted in and then the glass was The doors were sent to the glaziers Certain amount of polish on them and then the doors were sent to the glazers and then they were finished after that you know . |
| 10 | I said er uncle Cecil made that cabinet there did n't he Margaret ? |
| 11 | And it was on that basis that we made that statement there . |
| 12 | The Court ruled that legislation already passed by the Assembly remained valid , but that no new legislation could be approved after June 2 . |
| 13 | ‘ I feel as if we failed that man somewhere , ’ she said a little later as together with David and Martin Foulds she watched the ambulance leave the factory . |
| 14 | Everett and Horsley consulted each other quickly , then agreed . |
| 15 | The true theory of the Nicol prism was not clearly understood even by its inventor , but in a neglected paper by Edward Sang the mathematical theory is given completely for the first time ; this also contains a suggestion , made forty-seven years later by M. E. Bertrand in the Comptes Rendus , that a polarizer might be constructed of two glass prisms separated by a suitably placed thin layer of Iceland spar . |
| 16 | In these days of concern for the environment I am unwilling to use peat ( though I did try it some years ago and found my plants made little headway anyway ) . |
| 17 | Vietnam polarised political opinion instead of recreating social cohesion . |
| 18 | All the same , it was obviously better if they avoided each other completely . |
| 19 | When James did succeed to the throne in 1685 , the pro-Catholic and pro-French orientation of foreign policy was naturally maintained , and the new king made strenuous efforts both to return England to the papal fold and to realign her fully with the international Catholic axis . |
| 20 | The invention of printing , a key technical stage in the technology of distribution , had remarkable early effects in that it made technical distribution much easier but in conditions of relatively unaltered social distribution . |
| 21 | I said to Old Fishy do you have kids and he said yes they 're the apple of my eye and we just hugged each other right there in front of everyone and ever since I 've been wondering what it means . |
| 22 | ‘ Such a long time ! ’ she gasped in his ear as they hugged each other tightly , the dogs retiring a respectful distance to sit and watch the homecoming with tails swishing excitedly over the gravel . |
| 23 | Britain 's Department of Trade and Industry notified European developers nearly 18 months ago of the problems that their system might cause for people who wear hearing aids . |
| 24 | Colonels Valentine Vivian and Claude Dansey , theoretically the right and left hand men of C , fought each other bitterly , and their colleague Felix Cowgill , head of Section Five , with even greater vigour . |
| 25 | In 1911 the inaugural conference of the National Council of Public Morals ( NCPM ) announced that prevention rather than punishment was to be the keynote in the regeneration of the nation 's moral life . |
| 26 | Like that hoity-toity voiced little madam earlier in the evening . |
| 27 | In its 44-year history , the company has withdrawn from only one market : it stopped selling in Saudi Arabia when the royal family feared burgeoning sales made Saudi women too starry-eyed . |
| 28 | If all councillors became full-time politicians then this would restrict the range of people coming forward for election and could alter the balance of the relationship between them and the officers of the council . |
| 29 | I mean if the government is er taxing and pr channelled that money properly then it should be able to do the job of private investors |
| 30 | Landowners and farmers implicitly recognized this division , but they also realized that life both on the farm and in the village would ultimately run more smoothly if the socially divisive effects of potential class conflict could be dissipated or overcome . |