Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is not what unions , under the present dispensation , are about ; and that is why , after three years of wage restraint under the compulsion of economic crisis , there was in 1979 what the Financial Times properly called a return to normality , with all its faults . |
| 2 | He believed that his views alone provided a safeguard against Antinomianism . |
| 3 | The logic of such views naturally contained a number of contradictions . |
| 4 | The Secretary of State was able to influence the drafting of the terms of reference and the composition of the working parties ; yet the working parties necessarily contained a majority of professionals and in due course reported in ways which again the Secretary of State could only partially modify . |
| 5 | Maybe the parties foolishly signed a pact which then found its way into the hands of the DTI . |
| 6 | When the going got rough the brothers usually sent a deputy to face the unpleasant hostility to which they would be exposed . |
| 7 | She was surprised how bare the gardens had become , except for the lopsided apple tree in the lower orchard whose branches still carried a crop of apples shimmering like tiny brassy moons . |
| 8 | This suggests that subjects always identified a word first and then decided whether or not it rhymed ; and that the rhyme decision took about 140 milliseconds to make after the word had been identified . |
| 9 | One of the authors once taught a class who applauded at the end of classes they enjoyed . |
| 10 | Illustrating the point , a colleague of one of the present authors once administered a battery of overinclusion ( thought disorder ) tests to a group of local artists . |
| 11 | Soviet and American tests with animals also found a decline in the production of red blood cells that seemed to worsen the longer the animals were in orbit . |
| 12 | Subjects correctly recalled a mean of 4.9 junctions each ( min 2 , max 8 ) . |
| 13 | Two would-be polytechnics unwittingly supplied a gauge — syllabi softer than butter , one in business studies and one technological . |
| 14 | Checking or correcting is another procedure not usually engaged in unless directed to , but discussion of methods often produced a correction to the original wrong answer . |
| 15 | Her face was chubby , her complexion still perfect for all her fifty-eight years , and her green eyes never missed a thing . |
| 16 | Gurus of gossip The Hollywood Kids recently circulated a story about a hunky heart-throb labelled Pig Pen on the set of his latest film , whilst Movie Line magazine carried an item about an actress who had such a problem that her action hero leading man vowed never to work with her again |
| 17 | Two of the Kamalians only needed a couple of metres of the wire to render him helpless and under continual self-torture . |
| 18 | On Oct. 5-8 in Moscow , and again in Washington in late October , US and Soviet arms control negotiators apparently discussed a defence system which would protect the Soviet Union from ballistic missile attacks . |
| 19 | Two of the blocks together preserved a handful or words from the poem ( promptly recognised by Professor Ihor Sevcenko of Harvard University ) and all of them elaborately carved . |
| 20 | On Monday 15 May , however , Raybestos ' second attempt was successful when 25 gardai brutally forced a way through a human barrier of women and children to allow Raybestos 's waste onto the site . |
| 21 | And er the reason we took the biggest jug we could find it was n't so much to feed two children in the house you 're parents also wanted a bowl because believe me in those times we were we were hungry , we were dear , very very hungry . |
| 22 | The Yugoslav advance into both these areas immediately created a situation of potential crisis between Tito and the Allies . |
| 23 | They had to work fast but with care since poor incisions invariably brought a beating from the cai or the French . |
| 24 | Jesus ' talk about moving mountains maybe provided a note of humour . |
| 25 | It was recognized more clearly than before that most large companies actually held a portfolio of businesses , and that long-term growth , or indeed survival , might depend more on managing that portfolio rather than assuming continued growth on all fronts . |
| 26 | ‘ Two wrongs never made a right . ’ |
| 27 | Had the designer of the nine and eleven penny range of Marks & Spencer 's petticoats ever eaten a peach , ever seen a peach growing , ever noticed the variation in tone and felt the softness and warmth of a fruit ripening against a wall ? |
| 28 | Similar outspoken attacks on Tory rebels over charges for eye and dental checks once boosted a revolt — and made him more enemies . |
| 29 | No firm action was taken on methyl bromide , a pesticide used as a fumigant , which has also been found to destroy ozone , and officials merely recommended a freeze on production and consumption at 1992 levels by 1995 , with a 25 per cent cut by the year 2000 . |
| 30 | Potentially democratic ideas thus provided a justification for rule by a propertied oligarchy . |