Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet some form of coercion or compulsion still resulted from what he considered it right for him to do in certain circumstances . |
| 2 | There is cracked mud where water once rushed through the mill race on the Ver , near St Albans , Herts . |
| 3 | Men in regular employment found their real wages rising and many families moved out to the new housing estates , where evidence rapidly came to light of female depression arising primarily from physical isolation . |
| 4 | Chappell & Co. now appealed to the House of Lords . |
| 5 | The labour camps , temperatures of 50 degrees below zero , a lifetime condemned to stare out over thousands of miles of the bleak , barren permafrost , where blindness eventually came as a minor blessing . |
| 6 | In the countryside , matters were no better ; the smaller shops in the villages and towns often produced insufficient income to support a family , so that the wife or daughter often looked after it while the man pursued another occupation . |
| 7 | Another factor is whether or not the death of a plant or animal necessarily coincided with the point at which it ceased to exchange carbon with the environment . |
| 8 | At Steeple Claydon , on the other hand , where nine land assessments compare with only three actual freeholders , there were some fifty inhabitants all told , of whom only four drew income from land.l Either custom or convention hereabouts militated against subletting , or officials in the Buckingham hundreds ignored land that was not freehold , for far fewer owners were recorded there than in the remainder of the county . |
| 9 | Now that report usually had to be filed 48 hours after he went down . |
| 10 | During 1642 the quarrel between King Charles I and parliament rapidly deteriorated into the Civil War . |
| 11 | I do n't know if honey even existed in Russia and I somehow doubt it . |
| 12 | The child 's brother and sister also died in the blaze , which left an apartment block in ruins in the Hyde Park area of Boston , Massachusetts . |
| 13 | This is an important matter , particularly as it affects violence , and violence more perpetrated on the woman than on the man . |
| 14 | and mummy nearly went through the roof |
| 15 | Yet both realism and modernism largely functioned as ‘ affirmative ’ culture in Marcuse 's ( 1968 ) sense of the term . |
| 16 | It was the golden age for carvers and modellers , who enjoyed a freedom of expression and an architectural surface upon which to create and experiment never equalled before or since . |
| 17 | NASHWAN 'S owner and trainer yesterday decided against the only course of action that could have restored the reputation of their Derby winner as one of the outstanding racehorses of the post-war era by opting to by-pass the richest and usually most competitive race in Europe , the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe . |
| 18 | Simpson , booked for the challenge that sparked this flare-up , was the victim of a nasty challenge by Gareth Hall a minute later — and Hall also went into referee Keith Hackett 's book . |
| 19 | In trade-weighted terms the dollar and D-mark both fell by 0.6% during the week and the yen rose by 1.8% . |
| 20 | One line shows what has happened to personal wealth divided by personal income : if wealth merely rose in line with incomes ( which would be represented by a flat wealth line on the graph ) , the theory would suggest that it would not have any independent influence on savings . |
| 21 | A declaration in April by the governing coalition emphasized the environment , social progress and social justice as major planks in the coalition 's programme , and disagreement later arose with the federal government in Bonn concerning among other matters the SPD/AL coalition 's proposal to ease restrictions on asylum-seekers arriving in West Berlin . |
| 22 | His aunt and sister-in-law always lived in Cambridge . |
| 23 | Mainly middle-aged women with their daughters , they all wore hats and gloves ; everyone seemed to know everyone else and the chattering and laughter only subsided into an expectant hush after the chief vendeuse had discreetly clapped her hands twice . |
| 24 | More ominously its size and capacity also took into consideration future military needs . |
| 25 | Yet , while Foinavon was indisputably lucky , bravery and skill also came into the reckoning . |
| 26 | It is likely that small areas of birch-hazel scrub were once more widespread in sheltered areas in Lewis prior to 4000 B.P. , and that woodland of birch , oak , hazel , elm , and alder formerly occurred in S. Uist . |
| 27 | The successes of penicillin and streptomycin naturally led to a search for further antibiotics . |
| 28 | If Protestant zealots were only partially successful in their attempt to sweep away the supernatural aura which had surrounded late medieval religion , their efforts to give the common people some grounding in knowledge of the gospels ‘ and a basic understanding of the Reformed theology of grace and salvation also met with only limited success . |
| 29 | He argued that the bread and wine somehow coexisted with the body and blood , and more importantly that the miracle occurred because of the presence of the faithful and not as a result of the magical powers of the priest . |
| 30 | To that extent — until war eventually came in 1513 , and with it his death — James IV undoubtedly had the best of both worlds , the pleasure but not the pain and the expense . |