Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Premier Export Award , for the company or individual prize winner whose performance in the opinion of the judges was the most outstanding went to F G Wilson ( Engineering ) Limited . |
| 2 | How much this resulted from Cruickshank 's own approach to maintaining contact and diplomacy with individual people and concerns — he 's more generally credited with being a man for the ‘ big picture ’ — or from the excessive demands put on anyone trying to run and change such a vast and politically sensitive organisation , is open to debate . |
| 3 | Before the volcanic cloud was dispersed and SO 2 converted to sulphate aerosols , O 3 perturbations caused by large concentrations of SO 2 in the volcanic cloud may have occurred . |
| 4 | Of the 22 Kurdish deputies , formerly members of the People 's Labour Party ( HEP ) , who had been elected on the SHP ticket in October 1991 , only six remained on government benches . |
| 5 | And while 7,476 voted for Di only 2,885 plumped for Charles . |
| 6 | These have been postponed by successive governments and only three occurred in England and Wales between the end of the Second World War and the abolition of domestic rates in 1990 . |
| 7 | Between 1968 and 1988 280,000 Jews emigrated , but only 165,000 came to Israel . |
| 8 | She supposed that she wrongly still thought of pub meals in terms of bread and cheese or pasties . |
| 9 | From these later inspections , the proportion of children with problems appears to have been low : for example , of four schools in Shepherds Bush , London , sending 670 children to Pontypridd in June 1940 , there were ‘ only one or two with a few nits ’ ; of 300 children being evacuated from Northwold Road Public Elementary School , in the East End , in June 1940 , only twenty-five were marked as needing special attention ( or 8% ) , comprising one with scabies , five with nits , eight with eneurisis ( bed-wetting ) and eleven with ‘ other conditions ’ ; of 1,211 children going from Stretford ( Manchester ) schools in the same month , only eighty suffered from vermin or nits , and only fourteen from eneurisis . |
| 10 | There were only 50 left in Java , and that was supposed to be it . |
| 11 | Only 217 took in washing . |
| 12 | These never existed in large numbers and are now virtually extinct : by 1988 , only one remained in England ( DES , 1988 , Table A1 ) . |
| 13 | Ten people were killed and perhaps 60 wounded on Jan. 31 , at Umgababa , in Natal . |
| 14 | Of 20 states in which results were forecast early today only four went to Bush . |
| 15 | Out of a thousand cases reported in United States waters over a five-year period , only two resulted in death . |
| 16 | This latter number had been much larger ; it included , until the recent amnesty , more than 2,000 former National Guardsmen and others convicted by the 1979–81 special courts ; of these only 39 remained in prison in October 1989 . |
| 17 | As can be seen , approximately two-thirds went into hospital ( though , particularly in Ipswich , some of them were later transferred to an old people 's home ) . |
| 18 | Meanwhile 1985 ended with unrest among students from the Uighur ethnic minority . |
| 19 | It just all got on top of her . |
| 20 | Only Lamb , coming in at number eight and hitting fours off one leg , averted total disgrace , 138 all out leaving just 65 needed for victory . |
| 21 | They include : a late nineteenth-century Italian Travertine marble fountain with sea horses , putti and masks estimated at £150,000–250,000 ( $260–435,000 ) ; a stone jetty with landing stage ; a terrace decorated with bronze dolphin masks , limestone urns and bronze landing rings estimated at £50,000–100,000 ( $87–174,000 ) ; four Italian white marble seats circa 1870 estimated at £20–40,000 ( $34–70,000 ) ; two pairs of Italian white marble herm figures of Pan and a Bacchante circa 1870 , estimate £15–20,000 ( $26–34,000 ) . |
| 22 | Older children are more likely to be living with step-parents ; 5% of under fives lived with step-parents in 1985 , compared with 12% of those aged 10–15 . |
| 23 | For every soldier whose mind dwelt on exalted thoughts , possibly three agreed with Sergeant Marc Boasson , a Jewish convert to Catholicism , killed in 1918 , who noted that at Verdun ‘ the atrocious environment corrupts the spirits , obsesses it , dissolves it . ’ |
| 24 | On Sundays she would invite a group of Magdalene undergraduates to lunch and they would stay till tea ; then another group still larger came to tea . |
| 25 | Last year the Bouches-du-Rh∘one departement , which includes the Mediterranean port , counted 340 dead and just under 20,000 injured in road accidents . |
| 26 | If he was to become the Asian Superman of Nietzsche 's teachings , he must cast aside all thought of pleasure and sensual gratification and concentrate only on the task before him ! |
| 27 | BLACK IS BLACK Tony Iommi 's John Diggins Custom This black SG-style guitar is one of possibly five made for Tony Iommi in the early '80s by ex-John Birch luthier John Diggins . |
| 28 | The conference had been told on Dec. 5 that some 780 million people in the world 's developing countries had insufficient food for their daily needs , that 190 million children aged under five suffered from malnutrition [ see this page for UNICEF report ] , and that up to 2,000 million people were suffering less serious dietary shortages . |
| 29 | How many children under 16 lived in families with an economically inactive lone mother ? |
| 30 | These usually first appeared about Easter and then were baked throughout the year at other holiday times . |