Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was felt by many politicians and officials that local government , in its recent form , was slow and inept so that the departments dealing with local authorities either developed a mass of controls to enable them to watch over local authorities or actually withdrew services from the local authorities . |
| 2 | What had begun as a jeu d'esprit of a mere 30,000 words or so made Lewis a household name . |
| 3 | Anyone else would be going on about softly wooded fissures and sweetly mounded hills . |
| 4 | Shortly before seven in the evening Joe opened his eyes and immediately recognised Michael . |
| 5 | She shut her eyes and boldly said hen and hen . |
| 6 | Even from the kerb in the gloom the guard 's shrugs and humorously uplifted eyes are visible as he declines to telephone the duty officer , ring a British Committee office empty at this time of night , break the sacred sleep of anyone else on the telephone list . |
| 7 | The party arrived at Gatwick in a grey transit van instead of chauffeur-driven cars and quietly skipped customs regulations . |
| 8 | Ford placed enormous faith in its tiny Zig and Zag concept cars and so did GM with its Impact electric two-seater . |
| 9 | Anarchy on a smaller scale is provided by photographer Kurt Buchwald who set up a ‘ Photography Forbidden ’ sign in front of innocuous subjects and then took photographs to see what happened . |
| 10 | Nicknamed Cold Turkey , it was used to ferry supplies and personnel from the mainland to the New Guinea battlefields and also took part in the Nadzab landing which , at the time , was the world 's largest airborne troop assault . |
| 11 | far back in my life so I can recall my first piece of actual writing , I have a scrapbook at home and I look at it regularly , it had my first pieces of work in it , I usually drew pictures and then wrote things , my first piece was on A four and I have drawn a table , my mum and myself , I was holding a , I wrote one sentence and it was surprisingly literate this is what I wrote , it is my party and I wait for my friends to come , I did many pieces of work |
| 12 | A Chinese official questioned by a reporter shrugged his shoulders and merely said China did not approve of the meetings . |
| 13 | By now it was the rush hour and he was squeezed into the corner of a carriage by a family of Swedish tourists who talked loudly and without vowels and continuously trafficked maps and guidebooks across him , so there was no chance of getting a look at the diaries or the few folded sheets of paper that were wedged between them . |
| 14 | Few homes as yet had freezers , but shops did . |
| 15 | None of the characters he meets comes alive ( designer Wayne Cherry is the nearest ) , and the dramatic feel for the politicking , pressures and personal fears and obsessions that so enlivened Kidder 's book is lacking . |
| 16 | Most of York 's old central pubs have fallen victim to drastic recent remodelling with yawning spaces , often indistinguishable from one pub to another , replacing the old rooms and idiosyncratic nooks and corners that previously gave individuality and preserved genuine historic character . |
| 17 | The interesting finding of the study , which you did not mention , was that there were differences in pre-buyout performance between companies that successfully underwent LBOs and those that failed . |
| 18 | On a turgid turner that had thwarted the seamers ' efforts until the 199th over of the match , Essex required a further 29 to avoid the follow-on on the final morning with four wickets intact , only to be denied by a spell of 3 for 1 in 14 deliveries that ultimately allowed Nick Cook to give the hosts ( and Britannic Assurance Championship leaders ) a right old grilling in the second dig ; but for Ambrose he might never have had the chance . |
| 19 | These missiles have so far not been used because the Phnom Penh airforce has not yet deployed its Soviet helicopters and recently acquired MIG 21 jets in combat . |
| 20 | As a general rule , large items , such as serving dishes , saucepans , baking trays , dinner plates and heavily soiled items , go at the bottom where they will be in contact with the powerful water pressure from the lower spray arm . |
| 21 | Cups , glasses , small plates and lightly soiled items should be placed on the top rack . |
| 22 | That area was dark and gloomy even in the daytime , with doors leading to permanently locked rooms , padlocked cupboards and deep curtained alcoves . |
| 23 | Dorahy , 38 , played with Leigh and Hull Kingston Rovers and also led Halifax to the Regal Trophy final as player-coach before returning to Australia as number two at Newcastle Knights . |
| 24 | Plate movements may not have altered South-East Asia 's global position , yet they have pushed up mountains and even caused Indosinia to tilt . |
| 25 | Dilip Vengsarkar came in looking for his fourth hundred in as many Lord 's appearances and immediately joined Shastri in exploiting the unpatrolled third-man boundary . |
| 26 | He emphasised the importance of a tightly organised centralised party on Leninist lines but also injected Mao Tse-tung 's views with stress on working with the masses . |
| 27 | She ran like the wind back to the apartment and tumbled her few clothes into bags , then raced back through the back alleys to avoid the crowds and finally met Lucenzo pacing up and down by the column . |
| 28 | Interesting William Thompson , nQue 's founder and an old Unix soldier , developed the key technologies in Lachman Associates ' Stream-based NFS and TCP/IP while at Convergent Technologies and later joined Lachman . |
| 29 | I thought their finest moment was when , having lost the semi-final to England in a match controversially shortened by rain , they sportingly accepted what they regarded as a ludicrous interpretation of a ludicrous set of rules and publicly shook hands with the England team before starting on a lap of farewell of the stadium . |
| 30 | Almost inevitably , however , day-to-day irritants and culturally blinkered judgements by both sides aggravated the tensions between the two countries even before policy decisions became the source of more substantive disputes . |