Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , when he was invited to visit Bridgnorth ( Shropshire ) in early July , rival crowds made alternative bonfires , " where about one they drank Dr Sacheverell 's health and the other his confusion " , with the inevitable result that the two groups eventually fell to blows . |
| 2 | Northern Sakhalin was not evacuated until 1925 , when a series of sticky negotiations between Japan and various Soviet authorities eventually culminated in recognition of the USSR and the restoration of diplomatic relations . |
| 3 | February 24 , 1977 The solicitors successfully appealed to Kerr J. and the third party notice was restored . |
| 4 | American exports only rose by 38% between 1922 and 1929 , while the rate of manufacturing rose by 50% . |
| 5 | Ballet traces its origins to the great court spectacles of the Renaissance and horses participated in the ‘ horse ballets ’ — both horses and royal riders gorgeously caparisoned by artists such as Henri Gissey . |
| 6 | ( The General Next to God , Collins ) Many of his far-reaching proposals only came to fruition during the social reforms after the Second World War . |
| 7 | Through the Double Cross Committee , usually known as the XX Committee , these turned spies sent back to Germany a steady stream of fictitious information garnished with sufficient truth to give it credibility , which the Germans apparently accepted without question . |
| 8 | And given the extensive fear of denunciation for critical or defeatist comment , it is hardly surprising that negative remarks about the speeches rarely came to light . |
| 9 | * But such doubts rarely appeared in print . |
| 10 | From then on , South Metropolitan cars only ran to Penge on odd occasions , usually as football extras on Saturday afternoons , or for track maintenance . |
| 11 | The dimples she kept for emergencies suddenly appeared in Felicity 's cheeks . |
| 12 | The measures proposed in the first SCSE resolution seemed designed to gain popular support , and , according to a report in Le Monde of Aug. 22 , food unavailable for months suddenly appeared in Moscow 's shops during the coup . |
| 13 | Some dancing schools already existed in South Africa , and others soon opened to meet the demand . |
| 14 | What one British envoy called the ‘ crazy constitution ’ of the United Provinces thus appeared to contemporaries a poor advertisement for any form of government which attempted to escape from the conventional pattern of monarchy . |
| 15 | The branches above murmured in supplication and let through a sudden , spiralling shaft of light . |
| 16 | The sessions largely consisted of assurances from DEC of its continued commitment to the OSF/1 operating system on the MIPS line , in the face of surprisingly strong customer reaction to the news of DEC 's recent pronouncements that it would only offer OSF/1 for Alpha ( UX No 386 ) . |
| 17 | Salomon Brothers yesterday placed with City institutions the US chunk of British Airways ' £320m convertible bonds rights issue . |
| 18 | RIGHT Part of an ivory plaque dating to the 8th–9th centuries BC found at Nimrud in Iraq . |
| 19 | He thought that precisely because it was impossible for the human mind to construct an idea of God from its inherent mental resources , such an idea could only be given to it by revelation — in other words directly implanted by God Himself . |
| 20 | After this defeat the Bakufu 's supporters gradually retreated towards Edo following the shogun 's appeals not to offer resistance . |
| 21 | Observation and assessment confirmed that Gary was indeed showing all these behaviours , but also revealed that they were being heavily reinforced by attention from his parents and by the fact that the shouting and temper tantrums usually resulted in Gary 's getting his own way . |
| 22 | This was a territory which at least in the fourth and third centuries B.C. extended from Spain to the Black Sea , included northern Italy and large patches of the Banubian regions , and after 279 B.C. had reached the heart of Asia Minor — the new Galatia . |
| 23 | The curtains grew greyer , the window panes misty with grime , the doorstep and path were spattered with bird droppings , and the docks and nettles rioted in the borders once tended by Lucy 's brother and kept trim and shipshape with pinks , pansies and geums neatly confined within immaculate box hedges . |
| 24 | When I was a schoolboy , elderly textbook authors still wrote about protoplasm although , by then , they really should have known better . |
| 25 | In some areas technical and central schools also provided for children who stayed on beyond the leaving age of fourteen . |
| 26 | Castles also acted as bases for field armies which were used to extend and defend the frontier with Valois France . |
| 27 | Reports by other human rights organizations also spoke of government efforts to " Islamicize " the Nuba , and of widespread killings and " disappearances " by government-backed militias , in addition to looting by SPLA forces . |
| 28 | The provision of specialised consultants for accident units also came under criticism and the committee reported that it took seven years , until 1992 , for the number of A&E consultants in Scotland to increase from 11 to 23 , even though the most recent review concluded that 34 were needed . |
| 29 | Thousands of people pressing similar demands also demonstrated in Leningrad , Yaroslavl , Gorky , Saratov , Voronezh , Stavropol , Volgograd , Ufa , Sverdlovsk , Omsk , Barnaul and Novosibirsk ( many of these cities had recently witnessed protests resulting in the removal from office of unpopular local Communist Party leaders — see p. 37235 ) . |
| 30 | Further , part of the reduction in horizontal segregation has been a consequence of the entry of men into traditional areas of women 's employment , rather than of women into those higher-paying sectors traditionally monopolized by men . |