Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [noun pl] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet others were situated in , or later moved to , places which eventually became towns with a full range of central place functions . |
| 2 | Bourgeois musical experience was largely privatized and domesticated ; working-class musical experience — formerly centred around collectively shared localities ( streets , pubs ) — shifted to framed public spaces which eventually became constituents of a national and international musical commodity market . |
| 3 | This may be simply defined as the ability to discriminate highly contrasted figures from a distance . |
| 4 | I returned to Britain and just shook hands with a very nervous Clifford Mamba . |
| 5 | Then it just shot bullets at a tin can . |
| 6 | Yes I think that over the course of our married life we had a number of moves for various reasons , generally to improve the accommodation , erm as standard of life increased so the desire to have a better house to live in or rather in those days a house was out of the question , we generally had rooms in a house , erm , they , the flat for instance that we were bombed out from was a basement flat , erm according to the estate agents it was a garden flat , erm and it meant that you had access to the front garden and the back garden , but as for being a garden flat it was below the level of the garden in the front and at the back it was on the level with the erm green grass at the back of the house , it was also along side of the trolley bus depot , so there it was considerably noisy , nevertheless it was a self contained flat , the first one we 'd had , no the second one we 'd had and we were perfectly happy there although of course it did have minor difficulties , the fact that you used the front door with people who had flats on the other remaining three floors , but nevertheless it did involve you in a certain amount of community living , you were aware of your neighbours , you had to be very conscious of them and they were very conscious of you . |
| 7 | When he set up his shop he already had plans for a town of books . |
| 8 | Sun Microsystems Inc duly unveiled plans for a European software centre located on the outskirts of Dublin in the Republic of Ireland last week ( CI No 2,1180 . |
| 9 | Queen Margaret College yesterday announced plans for a major expansion on to a new campus , costing up to £10 million and aimed at carrying the former domestic science school to the size required for university status . |
| 10 | By virtue of her fluent Hebrew she once led prayers at a Passover feast of wealthy Moroccan Jews — the only one present who could read them in the absence of a rabbi . |
| 11 | THE shipping minister , Lord Caithness , yesterday dismissed calls for a sheriff 's inquiry into the Braer oilspill in spite of a petition signed by more than a third of Shetland 's adults being handed over in London . |
| 12 | Teesdale district councillors yesterday rejected plans for a house and double garage within the grounds of Etherley Lodge , near Bishop Auckland , because it was felt they would have an adverse effect on appearance and character of the the Lodge . |
| 13 | THE Prime Minister yesterday rejected demands for a full public inquiry into the Beverley Allitt child killer case , with powers to compel witnesses to attend . |
| 14 | He must have been about fifty summers old , his copper-coloured face was lined , his swept back hair silver-grey , but the moustache and the neatly clipped beard still showed traces of a golden youth . |
| 15 | From June onward warming through the ice set up circulation currents which gradually raised temperatures to a uniform 4°C throughout the water column ( Rigler , 1974 ) . |
| 16 | She always gave orders with a smile , but the more she smiled the more quickly you acted . ’ |
| 17 | LABOUR candidate Alan Milburn yesterday presented residents in a Darlington street with a cheque for £7,619.44 which he claims they will save if his party is elected . |
| 18 | Darlington Operatic Society yesterday staged auditions for a handsome blade to play Young Walsingham in its new production of Half A Sixpence . |
| 19 | He also provided lyrics for a musical ( Whitaker was an accomplished pianist ) and even wrote comedy links for several variety shows . |
| 20 | In time she also found allies in a handful of civil servants like Charles Powell and Sir Bernard Cradock and an occasional diplomat like Sir Anthony Duff and Sir Crispin Tickell . |
| 21 | ( I got very adept at ‘ Swiss darning ’ and picking up dropped stitches with a latch tool when the garment was off the machine . ) |
| 22 | The Senate also ignored threats of a veto by voting on June 19 to extend benefits for the long-term unemployed . |
| 23 | The decision also followed appeals for a postponement from many within the 12-party Unity Assembly , Haiti 's opposition coalition , who were concerned that neither the safety of voters nor the fairness of the poll could be guaranteed because of the prevailing climate of violence and lawlessness within the country . |
| 24 | It also covered objectives on a wide range of physical and quality of service indicators , such as volume of traffic , physical productivity , and commercial speeds . |
| 25 | Later she mastered Braille , learned to type and later took lessons from a teacher for the deaf so that she could go to school , then college and later spent her life lecturing all over the world . |
| 26 | They also grew pears as a source of medicine . |
| 27 | It added : ‘ They also saw students from a college being ordered out in front of the building , made to stand against the wall , and shot dead . |
| 28 | However , Mrs Singh clearly saw Cedars as a temporary phase . |
| 29 | The July 1979 package of reforms cleared several obstacles to ‘ direct relations ’ amongst enterprises ; it also gave teeth to a 1974 decree making delivery contracts binding . |
| 30 | In this film Leonard recorded eight poems from his recent book ( ‘ For Wilf And His House ’ , ‘ Beside The Shepherd ’ , ‘ Poem ’ , ‘ Lovers ’ , ‘ The Sparrows ’ , ‘ Warning ’ , ‘ Les Vieux ’ and ‘ Elegy ’ ) ; the sleeve was careful to emphasise that he also wrote songs for a local group called The Stormy Clovers , by no means his first such work . |