Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb past] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although exporters fairly complained that this made their goods less competitive in price , it helped to lower the cost of imports and thus the prices of foreign goods sold in Britain . |
| 2 | In the thin atmosphere , faces became puffy , eyes almost disappeared and some people 's sight was affected . |
| 3 | Commercial insurance companies also grew and some doctors in poor areas ran their own sick clubs , to which the poor contributed on a regular basis to obtain free treatment when they were sick . |
| 4 | The Chicago Eight , anarchists unfairly tried and convicted had been sentenced to hang . |
| 5 | Interior ministry officials yesterday admitted that all main roads into Sarajevo were blocked after rebels had cut off the main northern route . |
| 6 | The first Christians also knew that divine resources were more than a match for the dark powers . |
| 7 | Social workers later discovered that one of the children 's grandmothers had offered to look after them , but was told other arrangements had been made . |
| 8 | The terrorists also said that all government work should be done in Punjabi , not English . |
| 9 | Independence three years later meant that this arrangement had to be altered . |
| 10 | Sri Lankans did not believe that it was morally wrong to convict a known cattle thief on false evidence , and officials often complained that true cases were spoilt by complainants who added additional false evidence . |
| 11 | I was at one point some years ago told that more money 's invested in pigeon racing than in horse racing . |
| 12 | Scientific studies carried out a few years ago revealed that regular sunbed users ( those using a bed more than once a week over a period of a few years ) now have a condition called skin fragility syndrome . |
| 13 | Economists and politicians are already celebrating the disappearance of these huge external imbalances — even those who only a few years ago claimed that current-account deficits did not matter . |
| 14 | A survey conducted nearly twenty years ago found that less than half of the electorate even knew his name . |
| 15 | Though officials sometimes mentioned that poor peasants owned cattle , ownership was often concentrated and cattle usually had to be hired . |
| 16 | The new rules also said that official permission should be sought for travel outside the capital . |
| 17 | ‘ A few minutes after I had told him I was n't going on , a gang of his thugs suddenly appeared and pointed machine-guns at us and ordered us to get up on stage . |
| 18 | Unruh and other Unisys executives also said that one of the top 10 US banks was installing a new Unisys retail banking system , but refused to identify the bank . |
| 19 | Unisys Corp chief executive James Unruh says he is comfortable with Wall Street forecasts that the company will earn $1.15 to $1.40 a share this year , and told Reuter that the rise in the value of the US dollar and the slow economic growth in Europe and Japan were making any revenue growth in 1993 unlikely : Unruh and other Unisys executives also said that one of the top 10 US banks was installing a new Unisys retail banking system , but refused to identify the bank . |
| 20 | Official sources later confirmed that these aircraft had immediately joined the air offensive against Iraq . |
| 21 | BP Oil senior managers now recognised that those involved in implementing the strategy had to be involved in creating it . |
| 22 | Unofficial figures put the number of dead at 39 , with 75 wounded and Sendero sources abroad claimed that 80 guerrillas had been killed and that over 60 were missing . |
| 23 | The so-called ‘ fifth modernisation ’ , democratisation , appeared to be on the agenda , but groups of student activists soon discovered that this was fraught with difficulty and contradiction . |
| 24 | Out oil the compound , away from the news bulletins , those who lived and worked with the Africans often forgot that some were black and others white . |
| 25 | However , if many academics now felt that overt humanism had been discredited , there was little evidence of any major displacement of the " classics of English literature " from the centre of disciplinary practice . |
| 26 | Doctors soon discovered that these men did indeed have an underlying deficiency of their immune system , but they had no idea what was causing it . |
| 27 | Recordings of sleep patterns again showed that this was achieved at the expense of REM and Stage 2 sleep , leaving Stage 4 sleep levels unaffected . |
| 28 | Only crypts longitudinally sectioned and visible in their entire length were analysed . |
| 29 | Even placed amongst its own kind in the very best environment , the tips of the leaves soon browned and both the shininess and perkiness that had enticed me to buy the plant were wilting with each day . |
| 30 | The Lamarckians also insisted that some of the trends had no adaptive purpose . |