Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of Primo Nebiolo , the mere fact of being in Gateshead suddenly seemed to give the president of the International Amateur Athletic Federation a fluency in the English language he had not erstwhile possessed . |
| 2 | This raucous noise only seemed to emphasize the ominous silence of the island and reminded me of a story I had heard from a traveller who claimed to have sailed the Western Ocean and come across islands inhabited by ghosts of dead sailors . |
| 3 | Indeed Saudi Arabia openly opposed Brezhnev 's proposals ; the Saudis apparently wished to retain the option of an American presence in the Gulf The UAE were also critical of the Soviet plan , while a Foreign Ministry spokesman for Oman rejected it outright . |
| 4 | He noted that the Clinton administration apparently wanted to make the drops in the dark , from high altitudes and without ground support , ‘ so the likelihood is that a lot of the supplies will end up outside the targeted area . ’ |
| 5 | Violence suddenly seemed to colour the air between them , a red mist igniting . |
| 6 | An emergency government spending package on Tuesday only seemed to encourage the sell-off . |
| 7 | Whereas Robert Rauschenberg already had produced an erasure of a De Kooning drawing in the early 1950s , Kienholz assembled his Odious to Rauschenberg in 1960 . |
| 8 | The Habsburgs thus tried to isolate the various movements of national autonomy from their peasant base , and the Russian tsar did the same in Poland . |
| 9 | So to enter 11-Sep ( into a cell already formatted to display a date in this way which A7 in our example is ) you have to type in : @DATE(92,9,11) |
| 10 | Later cases witnessed the ‘ competitive invocation ’ of the two tests , the authority whose decision was to be impugned claiming that the applicant still had to satisfy the higher hurdle of real likelihood of bias . |
| 11 | Secondly , Ghatak always wanted to combine the global with the local . |
| 12 | Bremner once tried to rile an opponent by drawing attention to his pock-marked face by shouting ‘ Go and get it filled in with polyfilla ’ , but the crunch came when he was sent off in 1967 for fouling the Nottingham Forest keeper Grummitt . |
| 13 | The curriculum in secondary schools also began to take a predictable shape , mathematics , English , RE and PE for all plus a ‘ choice ’ from six option columns . |
| 14 | Over a hundred other organizations also came to oppose the plan , including trade unions , environmental groups and parish councils . |
| 15 | The infant welfare movement , like the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children , whose inspectors also began to enter the working class home during the 1890s , too often interpreted lack of cleanliness as neglect . |
| 16 | Dressmakers also had to meet the cost of hiring a sewing machine at 1/6d to 2/6d a week . |
| 17 | Working-class political parties also came to serve a useful integrative function for monopoly capital . |
| 18 | In fact , ’ Corbett now tried to clear the doubts in his own mind , ‘ why did n't the Queen send out a search-party for her husband ? |
| 19 | Denied the comfortable illusion that the League could restrain aggression without killing people , pacifists now had to face a harsh choice . |
| 20 | The first of up to 200 EC and CSCE ceasefire monitors arrived in Zagreb on Sept. 5 , and the Dutch Foreign Minister 's special envoy Henri Wijnaendts immediately began visiting the war zones . |
| 21 | Mr Taylor 's selection as candidate 15 months ago threatened to split the local party , when some said he was wrong for the town . |
| 22 | A well-informed horseman simply had to grasp the horse 's head firmly and give it a sharp turn and back him out of the area that had been contaminated by the jading substance . |
| 23 | As one correspondent put it , British umpire , Jeremy Shales and Belgian official Walter Leeman frequently had to warn the 20,000 crowd to moderate their enthusiasm . |
| 24 | Growers here had expected a bumper season . |
| 25 | Returning , he set the two large pieces of the broken bowl to one side then began to sweep the tiny slivers of porcelain into a pile . |
| 26 | He peeled it off and threw it to one side then sat facing the three Americans . |
| 27 | When the plaintiff 's employee then chose to accept the delivery note and deliver the goods his conduct constituted an unconditional acceptance of the last counter-offer and the defendan t's terms were held to apply . |
| 28 | Their concerns now became far more parochial and ethnic , and party considerations undoubtedly began to play a greater part . |
| 29 | All subjects then learned to push a handle ( R1 ) in response to A and to pull it ( R2 ) in response to B. The test phase showed that stimulus C tended to evoke R2 , that is , to evoke the response acquired to the training stimulus that had received equivalent pre-training . |
| 30 | Childebert 's tax inspectors then tried to institute the same reforms in Tours , but Gregory claimed that the city was exempt , and related the history of exemption since the time of Chlothar I. However , if reorganization had not threatened Tours , it is doubtful whether we would have heard of the perfectly sensible arrangements at Poitiers , which suggest not only that taxation was normal in the Merovingian kingdom , but also that it could be organized efficiently , and so far as one can see , fairly . |