Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The basic negotiating position of the United States , presented to the IMF in November 1972 , was that countries should peg their currencies to the SDR , but that they would be obliged to devalue or revalue if their reserves fell below or rose above certain predefined warning levels . |
| 2 | The largest of these groups , those born in or descended from those born in the Indian subcontinent , is itself divisible into sub-groups with important differences between them — such as language and religion . |
| 3 | She had a wonderful memory and recalled much that happened in both world wars . |
| 4 | Mainly for reasons of security , firms can not afford to keep stock in warehouses so that confronted with sudden large requests , most can not compete with their better-connected rivals in the Russian capital . |
| 5 | Mr Havel , who has a genius for pinpointing the absurd , smiled gently and sipped at some mineral water . |
| 6 | I went in and looked with some surprise at a pan of sausages balanced on the coals . |
| 7 | Then jealousy and anxiety moved in and squatted like diseased vagrants . |
| 8 | I went in and spoke to one of the secretaries who said she would er she would do it and send us material . |
| 9 | I got on the buses at Trafalgar Square , it took me to the other end and brought me back again , and I got down and got on another one . |
| 10 | Then we e enhanced it and then eventually er Robin knocked this up you see from all the work we 'd done , but we never sat down and went through this . |
| 11 | She stopped part way down and crouched on one of the treads , from which vantage point she was able to peer through the rails of the bannister and see directly into the sitting room . |
| 12 | I broke down and cried for fifteen minutes . |
| 13 | The birds flew up noisily , circled , and then they came down and settled in another tree not far away . |
| 14 | They started their break at one o'clock and finished at two . |
| 15 | But there it is , and outside and foreign firms will put money in , especially if subsidized by temporary government measures , for as you know , public investment in private industry is judged to be ideologically correct , while public investment for public and community concerns is judged ideologically to be harmful , but the firms are interested in making money out of the region if I may so put it , not in sustaining world promotion and healthy living in the region . |
| 16 | At a time when rock fans expected country folk to be psychotic rednecks ready to gun down anyone with hair over their ears — pace Easy Rider — Cash came along and fought for Indian rights , recorded with Bob Dylan , and received death threats from the Ku Klux Klan . |
| 17 | Our teachers cycled to school and as soon as they were seen coming up the road , children walked along and behaved like little angels — if not , they would be in trouble as soon as they got into school . |
| 18 | Lynch made amends before long and equalised from close range , but that was all the reward Southwood were to see for their efforts . |
| 19 | The two girls sometimes exercised the horses together and seemed on amiable terms . |
| 20 | Blend all the ingredients together and beat until smooth . |
| 21 | The miner left the house gloomily but returned in half an hour with the fingers working . |
| 22 | Northumberland senior boys 110 metres hurdler Kevin Lumsden knocked four barriers down but won in 14.9 secs , a three-second improvement on the run which earned him the county title seven days earlier . |
| 23 | And he shook his head in wonder , his earlier agitation all but undercut by this new discovery . |
| 24 | There is no classical explanation for the slowing down ; however , the rate of energy loss is exactly that expected via gravitational radiation . |
| 25 | This kind of information , not that carried in formal reports , forms the heart of the manager 's information system . |
| 26 | Where any one or more of the earlier operations , however , also constituted transfers of value made by the same transferor , the value transferred by the earlier operations shall be treated as reducing the value transferred by all the operations taken together , except to the extent that the transfer constituted by the earlier operations ( but not that made by all the operations taken together ) is exempt under s18 of the Act ( see IRC v Brandenburg [ 1982 ] STC 555 at p468a , Fynn v IRC ( 1957 ) 37 TC 629 and Corbett 's Executors v IRC ( 1943 ) 25 TC 305 ) . |
| 27 | Thus the interaction between these stimuli is just what would be expected from considerations of generalization decrement and is not that predicted by conditioned attention theory . |
| 28 | Nolan J. 's reference to ‘ duress on the part of the revenue ’ is important because the duress with which the law is concerned is that exerted by the defendant and not that exerted by extraneous circumstances such as general commercial considerations . |
| 29 | THE Prince and Princess of Wales went to lunch together yesterday , but arrived separately and sat at different tables . |
| 30 | And then abruptly he looked away and said with neutral politeness , ‘ Would you like something else — some dessert perhaps ? |