Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as she had predicted , Matthew had become a fine young man , tall and strong , and markedly handsome , with his wayward mop of brown hair and those dark violet eyes that still held a world of bitterness whenever they looked on her . |
| 2 | With great reluctance , as he maintained , Ledeen carried the message from Israel 's prime minister , Shimon Peres , to McFarlane in the summer of 1985 , asking him to approve the first shipment of arms from Israel to Iran ; McFarlane replied ‘ Okay , just that one shipment and nothing else ’ , words that soon acquired a hollow , awful sound . |
| 3 | Five little words that only raised a whole pile of other questions . |
| 4 | On reaching Worsley the canal tunnelled into the sandstone cliff to reach the coal workings some three-quarters of a mile inside the hill , where it divided into channels that eventually reached a length of several miles . |
| 5 | Tristan immediately threw out a band in a dramatic gesture and declaimed : " Speak on , sweet lips that never told a lie ! " |
| 6 | Within a week of the sad news , they had organised whip-rounds and even staged a charity rock concert at a local club . |
| 7 | Voters had limited information about the policy positions of the parties and often supported a party in spite of its policies instead of because of them . |
| 8 | Most likely in the previous set of experiments we used conditions which were not able to resolve these two complexes and therefore reached a mistaken conclusion . |
| 9 | The use of English was thus significantly more restricted in the first generation than in the second generation , who had generally attended British schools and often had a native-like command of British English . |
| 10 | ‘ Nevertheless the fact remains that disciplinary action against officials who may have exceeded their duties or wilfully abused the position of responsibility with which they have been entrusted is a purely internal matter which will be carried out , should the situation warrant it , by the appropriate authorities at the appropriate time . |
| 11 | A common thread to the sites throughout Britain , however , comes from plants originating in gardens that formerly occupied the sites . |
| 12 | There was a book called The Young Visitors that once made a lot of money . ’ |
| 13 | In his Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina ( 1615 ) , Galileo argued that the language of the Bible had been accommodated to the minds of the uneducated , with the consequence that texts that superficially implied a stationary earth and a moving sun were not to be treated as literal scientific descriptions . |
| 14 | It blessed the religious communities and thereby committed the Anglican Communion to an official acceptance of monks and nuns in a way which was so far unique to the Churches which came out of the Reformation . |
| 15 | The drivers roared round tight corners and skilfully navigated a twisty , bendy and muddy course . |
| 16 | Note that by issuing ‘ receipts ’ in excess of gold holdings , the goldsmiths were acting as bankers and so laid the foundations of the modern ‘ fractional reserve ’ banking system . |
| 17 | In nineteenth-century Queensland it was claimed that Devons produced as much beef per acre as Herefords or Shorthorns and also produced a good proportion of lean meat to fat when crossed with the Shorthorn . |
| 18 | Experimenters who expected their subjects to be brighter behaved differently towards the rats and thus affected the rats ' learning abilities . |
| 19 | Slavery meant that whites maintained their domination over blacks and so kept a rigidly structured inequality . |
| 20 | They had turned to longer films to attract better audiences and the device of the fiction film not only served to head off the challenge of reformers but also guaranteed an exclusive hold on mass audiences . |
| 21 | They were very concerned to encourage religious observance among their employees , for example , and not only provided the churches and chapels but also influenced the selection of the clergy : they ‘ insisted that they [ the clergy ] were solely concerned with the spiritual guidance of the miners , [ but ] their concern with religion fits in with their policy of making every aspect of life in the colliery villages a matter for their scrutiny ’ ( Waller , 1983 , p. 91 ) . |
| 22 | The FMS carried out a number of cultural , educational and political activities and also produced a monthly magazine called Fraternity . |
| 23 | LDCs ' governments also insisted on domestically-generated funds being used to finance economic development programmes and thus sought a greater degree of control over the operations of British banks . |
| 24 | They ploughed cash into marketing attempts and even won a prize from the local council . |
| 25 | This transformation was repeated several times and always produced a wild type phenotype . |
| 26 | It is probably not accidental that the most famous and widely discussed paranoiac of modern psychiatric literature , Schreber , had a father who seems to have approximated rather closely to the divine monarchs of earlier times and certainly practised a regime of child-rearing which was notable not only for its authoritarianism but also for its central concern for the welfare of the child , who was to be protected from harmful influences , bad habits and incorrect posture by rigidly enforced and total parental control , which even included applying iron and leather braces and restraints to the child 's body . |
| 27 | I said about to see him and I says no , he says I should of kept the houses and just done the lot . |
| 28 | Many like them have raised money for local charities or simply made a genuine and lasting contribution to their communities . |
| 29 | A year or so later the guitars that really killed the Levin came in — the first flat-top Yamaha acoustics . |
| 30 | This means that when I was out of work for six weeks and most needed the publication , I could not receive it . |