Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody who read the Bible could legitimately doubt that miracles had once occurred ; the question whether they still did so became for doubters a test of their faith . |
| 2 | One of the problems Brown and Iles discovered in their study of community constables ( what , in the RUC , would be called neighbourhood constables ) , which was based on 300 officers in five police forces in England , was the relatively small proportion of working time devoted to activities the primary purpose of which was improvement in relations between the police and the public through direct involvement of constables in the community ( Brown and Iles 1985 : 29 ) . |
| 3 | But when the war came you see they came as evacuees a lot of them and then they never went back . |
| 4 | The performance was well received , but when it came to questions the students did n't forget the Union 's traditions of controversy . |
| 5 | Faraday seemed to contemporaries an experimental genius , thinking with his fingers ; he was thus a splendid example of Baconian philosophy in action . |
| 6 | Here again I was able to prove myself useful and to gain a little kudos : I could compose with what seemed to others an astonishing facility an ode or sonnet on behalf of some lovesick junior and addressed to some beefy , lacrosse-playing heroine in whom I myself had no emotional interest whatsoever . |
| 7 | " Nowhere has the longing for Greece been revealed in purer tones " , proclaimed Nietzsche , and a feu lines earlier , in equally heartfelt terms , he spoke of Hölderlin 's " bitter truths to his countrymen on the subject of their cultural inadequacies : " In Hyperion he hurls sharp and cutting words at German " barbarism " " and , above all ; " he hated in Germans the mere specialist , the philistine " . |
| 8 | Then , while the vapour condensed into oceans the high percentage of CO 2 would have caused a runaway greenhouse effect . |
| 9 | Training for a new season began with sessions every Wednesday night , held at the Johnstone Burgh ground . |
| 10 | To address this issue , we expressed in bacteria a GST fusion protein consisting of Jun residues 1-193 attached to the DNA binding domain of yeast GAL4 . |
| 11 | To address this question , we expressed in bacteria the biologically important regions of the human c-Jun protein for use in in vitro kinase reactions . |
| 12 | That to get back to part of your original question , the company existed on folders the the estate agent folders , for fifteen years . |
| 13 | Placing all religions on an equal legal footing , it guaranteed to individuals the freedom to decide whether or not to profess and practice a religion , and guaranteed to religious organizations the freedom to perform religious rites and to open new places of worship . |
| 14 | The sixth child was taken captive but returned to friends a few years later . |
| 15 | In North America , where the enslavement of Africans and their descendants continued until the last quarter of the nineteenth century , this exploitation was ‘ justified ’ by beliefs about racial inferiority , and reinforced by a form of Christian preaching which emphasised to slaves the virtues of humility and submission . |
| 16 | Within the assembly council I personally valued your contributions the very courteous and thoughtful way in which you presented these and the courage with which you expressed at times the stand that you had to take for the interest of the Board . |
| 17 | Use of idiom was almost totally lacking in the samples of signing collected , partly because these were fixed tasks of description of pictures rather than conversational ( though even in conversations which we recorded with interpreters the signing was dominated by English ) , and partly because there is a feeling that BSL in its deaf form is somehow inappropriate for the formality of a test situation . |
| 18 | Er we included to members the information on traffic flows , we also included the information which you have a copy of in my statement |
| 19 | On Sunday all was quiet , but on Monday about 1,500 assembled in Sunderland , broke a great number of windows , destroyed the lights and inner works of the assembly room and broke to pieces the two figures over the gateway of the entrance thereof representing a mendicant sailor and charity . |
| 20 | He may have heard the cow moaning as she gave birth , his ears sensitized to noises the rest of us would not have heard , as we sat talking and laughing around the fire . |
| 21 | It 's funny , I thought about sweeteners the other day , I think it 's just as bad as sugar , I think . |
| 22 | Atkinson demanded for universities a ‘ self-renewing library of limited growth ’ ( or ‘ steady state library ’ ) , which meant that beyond a certain point in size a library 's acquisitions would be largely offset by the discarding of obsolete material . |
| 23 | He gave , and demanded of others the highest standards of performance . |
| 24 | It contained amongst others a set of ‘ Flags of all Nations ’ , each one about two inches square and printed on white silk . |
| 25 | His Adam 's apple went into convulsions every time he swallowed and his lips were unusually full . |
| 26 | His hopes of a memorable 100th Test appearance lay in ruins a few days later . |
| 27 | The central commission approved seventy schemata , of which seven went to bishops the July before the Council : on the sources of revelation , moral order , the deposit of faith , family and chastity , liturgy , media and unity . |
| 28 | Prizes also went to runners-up The Avenue comprehensive , Newton Aycliffe , and Hummersknott comprehensive , Darlington . |
| 29 | Since it went on PROFs the response rate is up to 98% . |
| 30 | For several years they upheld the Pankhurst strategy of concentration on one single issue , though for Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence the suffragette campaign increasingly meant more than acquisition of the vote : ‘ It meant to women the discovery of their own identity , the sources within of purpose , power , and will . ’ |