Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Towing forwards going down wind means that there is no possibility of being blown over , but the controls must be held or locked otherwise the control hinges may be damaged by the surfaces slamming across against the stops . |
| 2 | ‘ Because if morality has a status which can not be challenged or transcended then the search itself is under judgment . ’ |
| 3 | Or did just the pillows have the |
| 4 | In Parliament there was non-cooperation that became almost a guerrilla war between the parties . |
| 5 | And all the time the snow fell ; not once but many times , scooped up by the wind and hurled back in huge opaque whirlpools that obliterated even the pencil lines . |
| 6 | Each stetch was limited on its two sides by water-cuts or deep furrows that made easy the escape of surface water from the soil ; and in fact the main purpose of ploughing in stetches was — and still is , where stetches continue to be used — to ensure effective draining of the land . |
| 7 | The Basque was a careful farmer : forests , destroyed elsewhere in Spain without thought , were preserved by complicated methods of replanting that made good the losses to forges and shipyards . |
| 8 | She wondered how he would be , whether she 'd cope , what she would say , and had just decided to rehearse an opening line when , with a jolt deep in the pit of her stomach , she saw him , weaving through the clusters of people , coming towards her , looking , as always , more handsome than she remembered , dressed in dark , well-cut trousers and a crisp white shirt that revealed just a glimpse of his tanned chest , the strength of dark matted hair . |
| 9 | In one of his speeches , the right hon. Gentleman spoke of a council that met once a year to put out contracts , had a good lunch and then went home . |
| 10 | The Dents owned the very first car in Baldersdale and that created quite a stir I remember being at school when they first drove it round the place and the teacher brought us all out on to the road to have a closer look at this amazing thing . |
| 11 | The same government that reduced substantially the taxation rates for the very rich did very little , apart from reducing the basic rate of tax from 33 per cent to 30 per cent , for the low-income groups . |
| 12 | And that caused quite a bit of resentment , I can tell you — the Americans and the Japanese competing for our future . |
| 13 | The gentle old men who took up the presidency of Lebanon had about them a streak of cold savagery that stunned even the Palestinians . |
| 14 | ‘ The thing that ripped apart the Raistrick , ’ Defries started to say , turning from the window towards Ace , ‘ that was — oh shit . |
| 15 | Boy did not keep in this box the letters that arrived once a week at his flat , regularly , on a Tuesday morning , letters which also began ‘ Dear Boy ’ or ‘ My Dear Boy ’ , but which were all signed ‘ Father ’ . |
| 16 | And the tensions coincided with a downturn in sales that indicated both the ebbing of the 1968 wave , and the growth of other revolutionary papers which did have links to particular groups . |
| 17 | In the elections that followed about a year later in 1979 the Awlad Amira ( who had ousted the Mannaia from office in 1976 ) lost control of thirteen of the fifteen popular committees . |
| 18 | On the large sideboard that covered nearly the whole of one wall statues of the Virgin and Child , as well as the holy family , stood silently . |
| 19 | In particular , most of the early Verkehrsberuhigung work had involved schemes that covered only a street or two with low traffic flows , so little was known about the benefits or drawbacks to the wider urban area . |
| 20 | We could not accept a treaty that contained either a commitment at the beginning to a federal vocation or a review clause at the end — this is the question I have just answered — which implied or stated that the result of the review must be a movement towards federalism . |
| 21 | A particularly interesting finding was that of a benign tubulovillous polyp that contained both a mutant K-ras and a p53 allele . |
| 22 | And that meant quite a effect as far as the aborigines were concerned they had lost their territory ! |
| 23 | After the photo session we ate and sunbathed naked , taking advantage of the amazing heat and the warm breeze that kept away the mozzies . |
| 24 | There was a strength and hardness about their voices that took away the pride he had felt at disposing of the hooded crow so effectively . |
| 25 | Michael 's front garden was beautiful with stock , beds of sweet William and marigolds that took greedily the sun from the other flowers — pansies , roses and lilies . |
| 26 | In 1637 Laud attempted to impose his sacramental and ceremonial brand of English Protestantism on the rigidly Calvinist Scots , a move that precipitated both the Bishops ' War and a profound political crisis in England . |
| 27 | November 2nd 1981 had me arriving at the mere on a calm , mild , dull day that saw hardly a ripple on the surface . |
| 28 | The only reasonable conclusion appeared to be that because the two stallions lived in yards , and at that time were not being ridden , they consequently had a life that demanded virtually no decision making at all — their days were so dominated by habit that they had become completely unable to think . |
| 29 | Michelle McGreevy ( 17 ) , kept her nerve for a splendid win over Clandeboye 's best lady player , Nicola Gracey , in a game that earned both a plus mark . |
| 30 | A bizarre mix of literary tomfoolery and Victorian novel that won both the Whitbread novel of the year and the Guardian fiction prizes . |