Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | For this had revolutionary effects on agriculture , on food manufacture , on retailing , and on diet . |
2 | There will be no stay of execution and few mourners for this spoiled concrete child of the Sixties . |
3 | But it soon became apparent in Zambia and other new countries that inexperienced and possibly unstable governments feared the ability of the press to provide conflicting or alternative ‘ truths ’ , for this put enormous power into the hands of the press proprietors . |
4 | McNeill said : ‘ I have been waiting for two days for this supposed written offer . |
5 | The bit about is OK but should the Lukic figure read — 1.5 million , he has after all scored more goals for the opposition than for us . |
6 | Newport ..... 13 Barbarians .. 40 SO THE Welsh have not after all severed all links with South Africa . |
7 | Andy Roxburgh , the Scotland coach , said their consistency during the campaign made their return to the side essential after both missed last month 's defeat by Yugoslavia because of injury . |
8 | ERDAS GIS functions were used to overlay the ward boundaries on to the classified image and then count the number of pixels of each recognized land-cover type within each ward . |
9 | On top of each put little pieces of anchovy fillet ( or anchovy paste squeezed from a tube ) and/or halved , stoned black olives . |
10 | Will these include the ones of each held this year , last year that , that have n't been undertaken ? |
11 | Paris-based software and computer services company Generale de Service Informatique SA , or GSI , as it is better known , reported 1992 revenues up 8% to the equivalent of $460m , a rate of increase only half of that registered that year . |
12 | In 3 games , Town have lost 2 and drawn one and on top of that had two players sent-off on Saturday . |
13 | A faint smell , alien yet horribly familiar ; the sense of a recent presence ; the possible significance of that unlocked outer door ; the dark passageway . |
14 | Eighteen days later Lord Keith saw another opportunity to help Mr. Dundas , for a number of new appointments were made in consequence of the commissioning of another captured French vessel , the Carmine , and George Dundas found himself Flag Lieutenant in the Minotaur in place of John Stewart who had been appointed acting commander of another vessel , whose commander in turn had assumed command of the newly commissioned ship . |
15 | The words were rushing out and Emily realized with surprise that she was actually nervous of this composed young woman standing before her . |
16 | None of this brought much comfort to William Joyce . |
17 | The logic of this defied Irish women who were forced to deduce that the spectacle of women wielding pints must offend male sensibilities at a very deep level , especially those who equated pint-downing by women with lesbian leisure . |
18 | In June he put on a military demonstration for Yeltsin , and out of this grew friendly relations . |
19 | None of this made any sense — none of it . |
20 | Confimation of this came last week when the longest-ever Education Bill was set before Parliament . |
21 | None of this left much room for openly expressed admiration for other countries , particularly small and peripheral ones . |
22 | But none of this had much importance . |
23 | None of this had any effect on the two Williams drivers , and they made their customary start . |
24 | The mindlessness of this acquired behavioural numbness is illustrated by the contrary phenomenon of sensitisation : almost any irrelevant but novel stimulus can instantly destroy habitation 's insensitivity . |
25 | Since the logic of this eluded most people , it seemed reasonable to conclude that he was belatedly paying the price for arguing with an umpire . |
26 | None of this caused any problem at all as it was something Sylvia was well able to do in reality . |
27 | But although he could not be said to have reached any hard-and-fast conclusions to this question , so fearful were the prospects of this supposed evolutionary degeneration that Karl Pearson took refuge ( and a certain amount of comfort ) in the fact that its results were far away : ‘ Happily , what the distant future of the world may be is a matter that does not much concern us , and about which we may rejoice to know nothing . ’ |
28 | None of this dampened German feelings of superiority . |
29 | The results of this included some abandonment of cultivation in areas such as Dartmoor , where high contour settlements seem to have been effectively deserted by 1350 , and problems in farming on heavy soils which could suffer from waterlogging . |
30 | The creation of the Ministry of Health in 1919 registered a self-conscious application of this moralized medical ideology . |