Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Customs officers were shot dead in open conflict or ambush , an armed gang openly terrorised Rye in August 1747 and informers were beaten up or kidnapped . |
| 2 | According to the Survey of Current Business , American private investment abroad totalled $17 billion in 1930 and had reached only $19 billion in 1950 , but then began to climb rapidly to $50 billion in 1930 and $87 billion in 1966 … . |
| 3 | The Iranian opposition immediately blamed Tehran , but the Iranian official news agency said the killing was probably the result of factional disputes among dissidents . |
| 4 | But a new crisis then broke out in NATO which made further talks with Russia impossible : after four years of discussion about West German rearmament , on 30 August the French parliament finally rejected EDC . |
| 5 | Three weeks later the high command again said hands off , with a reminder that it could still mount a coup . |
| 6 | The Confederation of British Industry yesterday said MPs ' pay must also be pegged . |
| 7 | A GERMAN museum yesterday took possession of 101 priceless sketches , water colours and prints , part of a collection stolen by Red Army troops at the end of the Second World War . |
| 8 | This seven-member committee eventually included Husseini , Ashrawi and members of the Palestinian diaspora . |
| 9 | ( An interesting confluence also took place between the development of classical music , which by now had moved away from tonality by vastly enlarging its range , and the coloured musicians ' microtonality . ) |
| 10 | By the 1870s the leading school of the Junggrammatiker ( Young Grammarians ) believed itself capable of actually reconstructing the original Indo-European from which so many languages between Sanskrit in the east and Celtic in the west were descended , and the redoubtable Schleicher actually wrote texts in this reconstructed language . |
| 11 | A moment at a gramophone concert when the badly-tuned loudspeaker suddenly blared Beethoven 's Ninth Symphony into the theatre like a roundabout organ on Hampstead Heath . |
| 12 | In the end it had been simply : ‘ a high fever unfortunately kept Sir Robert 's daughter from attending the wedding ceremony , which was blessed with unwontedly blue skies , as if Someone above were more than glad to know that The Towers is to have a mistress again . |
| 13 | In 1982 the Honduran government effectively took control of COLPROSUMAH by giving official recognition to a small splinter group . |
| 14 | On Sept. 22 the Lebanese army peacefully took control of the main training base in the Bekaa valley for Kurdistan Workers ' Party ( PKK ) guerrillas who were fighting for autonomy from Turkey . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , within six months a Cornish army again invaded England . |
| 16 | On the right only the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph wholeheartedly backed Churchill . |
| 17 | The British government now sought assurances from the Americans that British Airways , and other UK airlines , would be safe from anti-trust action if the new fare proposals were accepted . |
| 18 | But at the level of implementation such as totalizing conception of social disciplining often lacked precision when it came to dealing with specific problems . |
| 19 | The French League yesterday began court proceedings over bribery charges involving Marseille . |
| 20 | The Syrian official daily Tishreen also accused Jordan , on Jan. 21 , of " encouraging Saddam Hussein 's expansionist dreams " . |
| 21 | A senior British official later said Britain had formally offered to assist in police training . |
| 22 | The 13-year-old pupil at Alsop High School then grabbed hold of Jade and pulled her to the side of the boat even though he is not a strong swimmer himself . |
| 23 | Hans-Dietrich Genscher 's resignation as Foreign Minister formally took effect on May 18 [ not May 17 as given on p. 38872 ] as anticipated . |
| 24 | Sheriff officers appointed by the Scottish Office yesterday handed Alistair Diplexcito and his wife , June , eviction papers which will be executed tomorrow morning . |
| 25 | Some would read significance into an incident in which the best educated director of one licensed dealer suddenly became history . |
| 26 | Half gave age limits of 35 or under and in the private sector most gave age preferences . |
| 27 | ‘ In the overall programme , the Regional Council alone had responsibility for around 40 separate events including concerts , conferences , exhibitions , seminars , lectures and sport . |
| 28 | Traditional epics taken from Frankish oral poetry also commanded Charles ' interest , and he had several of these copied out into formal texts . |
| 29 | Intriguingly foreshadowing our contemporary women 's liberation movement , some of these stalwart Victorians envisaged that the evolutionary struggle then involved domination by the female since , they argued , women first rebelled against these loose promiscuous relations to queen it over men . |
| 30 | The actual crossing probably took place somewhere between Qantara ( 30 miles south of Port Said ) and just north of Suez — over the papyrus marshes . |