Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This indemnity shall not be prejudiced or waived by any exercise of our rights under Condition 3.3 . |
| 2 | This applies particularly to stones designed for young people but because they are still growing and changing themselves , the moral and psychological lessons must not be rigid or overstrained for these young readers . |
| 3 | In the last fifty years there have been problems for the fishermen and most have become unemployed or moved to other jobs . |
| 4 | She spoke and understood more English than had at first appeared but it seemed to be English she had got from the Kettering children , so she was easily understood by Jacqueline who would run to her , climb on to her lap , whenever the maid sat down for a moment and stay there silent and apparently overawed . |
| 5 | She had long given up the tussle with French and lapsed into straight English ( which Therese , damn it , was supposed to understand ) . |
| 6 | the complexity of company records , which are not only subject to mysterious , ( but relief-bringing ) disappearances down the corporation vortex , but when occasionally discovered are often so specialized and riddled with technical jargon that the average jurist finds them unintelligible — naturally corporate lawyers render them intelligible in ways which favour their clients ; |
| 7 | She was jumpy and had at one point been startled by her own shadow . |
| 8 | It was the flotsam and jetsam of every seaside gift shop , the debris of 10 million suburban mantelpieces , but blown up to epic proportions , made mythic and crafted by European artisans to Koons 's instructions . |
| 9 | A combination of the country 's high external debt and recently introduced liberal economic policies has severely increased the numbers of unemployed and led to mass migration from rural to urban areas . |
| 10 | This move of resources into the community was entirely unplanned and arose from local initiatives . |
| 11 | We 've had four three-legged dogs over the years : Bless-her , who was born with a hind leg missing ; Belle whose front leg was amputated at seven weeks because of a ligament problem ; Tulley , a road accident victim who came to us at nine months old and fought for 18 months to keep his damaged front leg . |
| 12 | Footballers grew old and fell on hard times , so perhaps it was the same for horses . |
| 13 | Children employed by such as William Douglas at his cotton mill in Salford were often taken from the workhouse at six or seven years old and worked for long hours , and were sometimes so ill-treated that they committed suicide . |
| 14 | It was a modern cocktail , apricot-coloured and served in tall narrow glasses with ice , a glacé cherry and a slice of lemon . |
| 15 | The rooms , painted green , were dark and damp and smelled of alien growths . |
| 16 | Rachmaninov 's Second Symphony appears to have fully emerged from the shameful obscurity it once endured to become one of the most popular and recorded of all Romantic symphonies . |
| 17 | He thought of the man , bereft and incarcerated in that cluttered cottage behind the great dyke of shingle , listening night after night to the never-ceasing moaning of the tide , and brooding on the wrongs , real or imaginary , which could inspire that hate-filled portrait . |
| 18 | I felt stimulated and refreshed by these imaginary events . |
| 19 | And they became very much afraid and said to one another who then is this , that even the wind and the sea obey him ? |
| 20 | Although well above the best wages of a skilled man , it was neither market-determined nor received by all registered professionals . |
| 21 | Even during the good periods , quoting the annual rate was misleading : the proportion of all bonds outstanding that defaulted in any given year was kept low by the huge proportion of new issues in 1986–90 . |
| 22 | His thought had been moving towards an idea of nature , not unlike that found in some Stoic philosophers , as a complex of processes subject to their own natural law . |
| 23 | As governor , Carter had to deal with a one-party , part-time legislature quite unlike that found in larger , more populous states , to say nothing of the United States Congress . |
| 24 | It was her single-mindedness in keeping the show perfect that resulted in some very blunt speaking which some found hard to take . |
| 25 | This is the eighth Newbury Rally that Leisure Promotions have organised and both this and last year 's events were well-attended and enjoyed by all . |
| 26 | Archers and men-at-arms , knocked off balance , thrust and twisted and swore in both ships . |
| 27 | Double layer space grids comprise two single layer grids , superimposed and interconnected by bracing members . |
| 28 | In short , it is not that classical neuroses no longer exist , or that psychopathology has fundamentally changed — how could it ? — but that such neuroses are perhaps increasingly acted-out and externalized as interpersonal conflicts rather than intrapsychic ones . |
| 29 | And this is what happens to the podvig tic which obsesses the notebooks and the ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ chapter : it becomes deflected and surrealized into eruptive impenetrable little freaks . |
| 30 | Finally : the Prescription Act 1832 , still in force , provides that easements other than rights to light become absolute if enjoyed for 20 years . |