Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Business as usual The election led to a few significant changes in Northern Ireland , but mostly it 's more of the same , says Robin Wilson |
| 2 | In spite of an inauspicious beginning , Laura and Bernard succeeded within a few years in developing an absorbing private life in their adopted country . |
| 3 | Rain said , exasperated , that each route led to the same point and that meant back to the Tunisian . |
| 4 | Hewlett and Mrs Lowndes moved in the same influential circles . |
| 5 | It was also carried on in some few villages : fulling mills operated at East Hendred , near Wantage , Brimpton and Colthorp , as well as one at Bagnor owned by no less than Jack of Newbury himself . |
| 6 | But he and Eleanor moved in the same set socially . |
| 7 | Although the figure rose in the latter half of the year as the Gulf crisis drove up oil prices , the growing recession in November and a fall in the volume of oil imports saw the deficit fall to $9,700 million , and to $6,300 million in December . |
| 8 | In other words , the real cost of employing labour rose at the same rate as productivity — over 3 per cent a year ( figure 8.3 ) . |
| 9 | A disappointing result for United who totally dominated the first half and really after seeing that first forty five minutes , it was so difficult to see how they could not win three points , and this encounter against the Charlton side drew on the same number of points as them in the second division table . |
| 10 | The reply came in a few minutes ago listing ten different countries with which he does business . ’ |
| 11 | It is interesting to note how even euphemisms , symbolizing but not presenting marked terms , can be the more amusing for the conspiracy between scriptwriter , actors and audience in recognizing the term signified at the same time as superficially recognizing that its use is a taboo not to be broken . |
| 12 | Gregory came from the same aristocratic milieu as Sidonius and his followers . |
| 13 | As the two fish trades came under the same livery company , they may be considered as one ; grocers , bakers and haberdashers came next with a median of £26.13s. 4d. , closely followed by the dyers on £25 . |
| 14 | The security situation within Kashmir deteriorated during the latter half of 1989 as militant groups pursued their aims in the face of a state government unable to give any effective response . |
| 15 | The effect began within a few minutes but took an hour or more to reach a maximum . |
| 16 | In fact , the fusion experimental programme was sporadic until 1988 : the main experimental fusion programme began in the latter part of that year . |
| 17 | The previous day members of Raughley SAC ( Sligo ) led by Ian Parke fished with the same skipper and recorded large numbers of coalfish to 8lbs , pollack to 10lbs and ling to 12lbs . |
| 18 | Mrs Rumney rang within a few days . |
| 19 | " A fresh action started on the same grounds as one struck out for failure to obey an " " unless " " order may be struck out as an abuse of the process of the court " ( see Bailey v Bailey [ 1983 ] 1 WLR 1129 at 1133 ) . |
| 20 | Georgina chatted for a few minutes about the qualities she considered desirable in a secretary ; she even asked Celia 's opinion . |
| 21 | Jean worked in the same department as a Spotter and Darner since she joined the company in 1969 . |
| 22 | In a letter confirming their arrangement which Scott sent on the same day , his main concern was to ensure the approval of Stanley and the India Council . |
| 23 | In a series of consecutive sections the hybridization signals observed with the human CFTR and hisD probes colocalized to the same airways and airspaces ( Fig.2 a-f ) . |
| 24 | David answered in the same language and then reverted to English . |
| 25 | But the small screen , he insists , has not compromised his intention — to ‘ show once and for all that Shakespeare wrote a domestic tragedy as coherent and layered as anything Chekhov wrote under the same banner ’ . |
| 26 | The monastic continuator of the Croyland Chronicle wrote of the same events in hysterical terms ; the northern army moved south like a swarm of locusts , ravaging all that lay in its path . |
| 27 | The fighting continued for a few seconds before they realised that it was no longer dark . |
| 28 | Corbett sat on the same bench he had occupied the previous Sunday watching the nuns file in . |
| 29 | I had n't noticed this picture much while she was alive , but now she was dead it seemed as if her eyes sparkled with the same vitality that they had appeared to possess when I had seen her lying cold on her straw mattress a few days earlier . |
| 30 | The industry remained in the same place even though the conditions had changed . |