Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( The General Next to God , Collins ) Many of his far-reaching proposals only came to fruition during the social reforms after the Second World War . |
| 2 | In areas settled by Germanic peoples and governed by their kings new forms of government and new political institutions often coexisted with older political traditions of Roman origin . |
| 3 | When the chairman of the inquiry into the King 's Cross Underground fire made his report he was strongly critical of London Underground 's management ( the two top men quit hours before the report was published ) : ‘ An inward looking approach fostered by the organisation 's narrow horizons undoubtedly led to a dangerous , blinkered self-sufficiency which included a general unwillingness to take advice or accept criticism from outside bodies . ’ |
| 4 | The marital fertility of agricultural labourers actually rose during the late nineteenth century relative to other social groups , and this , together with their low levels of infant mortality , resulted in a large average family size . |
| 5 | But since Russia 's agriculture is a peasant agriculture … our economic policies objectively conflicted with the development of agriculture as a whole . |
| 6 | It is reported that on 22 March Nijazi Beqa and five other political prisoners there went on a hungers-strike against their conditions . |
| 7 | If only she could be with her , give her a hug , the affection and understanding she needed , at the same time trying to make her see that issuing ultimatums inevitably led to war — whether it was between countries or lovers ! |
| 8 | Car theft became so common that private cars virtually disappeared from the area . |
| 9 | Political considerations simultaneously led to the Soviet decision to abandon its rights , derived from the Yalta Agreements and specified in the Chinese-Soviet treaty of friendship of August 1945 , to exclusive use of the naval base in Port Arthur and shared use of the port of Dairen in the Chinese People 's Republic . |
| 10 | LABOUR backbenchers yesterday called for two Cabinet ministers to explain how they allegedly spent £6,000 of taxpayers ' money on three urgent flights home from France , or repay the money . |
| 11 | As the eight finalists finally got to their marks , the anticipation was high in the stadium , the tension heavy . |
| 12 | If a mutant batch of tadpoles with cannibalistic tendencies suddenly arose in a spadefoot population , they would tend to survive much better on those occasions when the pond was quickly drying out . |
| 13 | French knights also tourneyed in England . |
| 14 | Italy has received comparatively little attention , although many of its foremost artists also turned to book illustration at least once in their working lives . |
| 15 | French prisoners also protested in July 1990 at overcrowding and specifically at Mitterrand 's decision on July 27 , 1990 , to release Anis Naccache ( as well as four others connected with his case ) , who had in 1982 been sentenced to life imprisonment for the attempted murder in 1980 of the former Iranian Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar ] [ see pp. 30631-32 ; for links with Lebanese hostage issue see p. 36632 ; for August 1991 murder of Bachtiar see p. 38409 ] . |
| 16 | But the group 's charge for bad and doubtful debts also doubled to £1.185 billion . |
| 17 | His body was twisted and his hind-parts and back legs still lay along the ground . |
| 18 | The highly-charged atmosphere in the aftermath of the Sacheverell affair meant that the partisan use of public anniversaries often resulted in violent clashes between rival groups . |
| 19 | Ironically his own tour of New Zealand with Ireland 12 months ago came to an abrupt end when he sustained a broken jaw in the first of two internationals . |
| 20 | Even those who saw the need for theoretical models sometimes exulted in a pluralism that had the effect of giving priority to none . |
| 21 | Between them , they have solved the problem of finding a role for an institution which a few decades ago looked to be under siege . |
| 22 | Licensed dealers also specialised in penny shares . |
| 23 | The longer-acting drug azathioprine was more satisfactory than 6-MP , and the adrenal cortical steroids also contributed to the prevention of graft rejection and to establishing organ transplantation as a regular therapeutic practice . |
| 24 | But for refugee children these social conventions seldom came into play . |
| 25 | At the time of the First World War the Shorthorn was described as the most widely distributed of all the breeds of cattle , both at home and abroad , and it far exceeded other purebreds in Britain while the great majority of commercial crossbreds also relied on Shorthorn blood . |
| 26 | A few petals still clung about his sleeves , caught in the rough weave . |
| 27 | The compelling analysis of this anecdote is then shown to have important implications for the reading of some familiar literary text , revealing that it too shares in the cultural presumptions critically uncovered in the anecdote . |
| 28 | 24 asthmatic outpatients also tested for severity of asthma and for anxiety . |
| 29 | Mac 's back GOLF : Peter McEvoy , who 12 years ago tied with Ronan Rafferty for the English strokeplay title , tries to get both hands on the Brabazon Trophy at the Hollinwell club today . |
| 30 | No one knew better than John Coffin what a network of alleys , underground passages , and dark basements nestling in old buildings still lay near the river . |