Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Customs officers were shot dead in open conflict or ambush , an armed gang openly terrorised Rye in August 1747 and informers were beaten up or kidnapped . |
| 2 | According to the Survey of Current Business , American private investment abroad totalled $17 billion in 1930 and had reached only $19 billion in 1950 , but then began to climb rapidly to $50 billion in 1930 and $87 billion in 1966 … . |
| 3 | The Iranian opposition immediately blamed Tehran , but the Iranian official news agency said the killing was probably the result of factional disputes among dissidents . |
| 4 | This vista painfully reminded Ruth of the lakeside restaurants at the Seville Expo … |
| 5 | But a new crisis then broke out in NATO which made further talks with Russia impossible : after four years of discussion about West German rearmament , on 30 August the French parliament finally rejected EDC . |
| 6 | Although a large proportion of Karavas were poor , some members of this caste successfully took advantage of entrepreneurial opportunities within the expanding market economy . |
| 7 | Lou Macari signed a three year contract with Celtic this afternoon then told Scotland Today he would walk away if he could n't bring success to the club in that time . |
| 8 | This part closely resembled Brodrick 's best-known building , Leeds Town Hall , which was the result of a competition that he had won in 1853 and was being built at the time of the Government Offices competition . |
| 9 | Three weeks later the high command again said hands off , with a reminder that it could still mount a coup . |
| 10 | The Confederation of British Industry yesterday said MPs ' pay must also be pegged . |
| 11 | This fluency once led Mikhail Botvinnik to class Reshevsky as a mere ‘ spieler ’ , meaning a coffee-house player . |
| 12 | A GERMAN museum yesterday took possession of 101 priceless sketches , water colours and prints , part of a collection stolen by Red Army troops at the end of the Second World War . |
| 13 | This seven-member committee eventually included Husseini , Ashrawi and members of the Palestinian diaspora . |
| 14 | This passage forcibly expressed Bukharin 's concern that , given the conditions then prevailing , the ‘ plan ’ should not be regarded as being actually able to control all the elements that had to be taken into account . |
| 15 | This marriage probably took place in 1290 or 1291 . |
| 16 | While the central problem here was the unrestrained inner-city office and commercial development , the concern about this issue also had implications for owner-occupied housing . |
| 17 | The article also said that as this test only measured Phosphate levels from 1mg/1 upwards , it makes testing for Phosphate very difficult as problems can occur at lower levels . |
| 18 | This trait sometimes created difficulties when he served on university bodies . |
| 19 | ( An interesting confluence also took place between the development of classical music , which by now had moved away from tonality by vastly enlarging its range , and the coloured musicians ' microtonality . ) |
| 20 | It is well known that this canal always had water shortages , even before modern water extraction diverted part of its natural supply at Greywell , and thousands of thirsty trees grew up on its banks on what had been open country in 1790 . |
| 21 | By the 1870s the leading school of the Junggrammatiker ( Young Grammarians ) believed itself capable of actually reconstructing the original Indo-European from which so many languages between Sanskrit in the east and Celtic in the west were descended , and the redoubtable Schleicher actually wrote texts in this reconstructed language . |
| 22 | This period also saw expansion of motor-car ownership which led to both the provision of more and better roads and other traffic-related expenditure . |
| 23 | A moment at a gramophone concert when the badly-tuned loudspeaker suddenly blared Beethoven 's Ninth Symphony into the theatre like a roundabout organ on Hampstead Heath . |
| 24 | Classical composers at this point often took repetition so much for granted that they merely indicated an exact repetition with repeat marks ( as in the Mozart above ) . |
| 25 | This head once formed part of a small figurine carved from mammoth ivory . |
| 26 | This newspaper also criticized Dzerzhinsky for neglecting water transport and port facilities , though no doubt his great energies were stretched in Siberia where he stayed until March . |
| 27 | In the end it had been simply : ‘ a high fever unfortunately kept Sir Robert 's daughter from attending the wedding ceremony , which was blessed with unwontedly blue skies , as if Someone above were more than glad to know that The Towers is to have a mistress again . |
| 28 | She looked round and saw this woman also had stretch marks on her stomach . |
| 29 | This woman apparently saw Americans as wandering children , unable to break with a bloodstained , hopeless parent . |
| 30 | This chain successfully bound Fenrir until Ragnarok , the Day of Judgement , when he broke loose and ran amok in the heavens , swallowing ODIN whole . |