Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 However , the committee , which eventually divided on party lines , defined its terms of reference at the outset so narrowly that it effectively ruled out any possibility of discovering the truth or otherwise of the allegations of malpractice that had been made against the police .
2 He described it as the ‘ best news since 1948 ’ when the National Party came to power on the policy of apartheid , which eventually led to South Africa 's ban from the international rugby arena until this year .
3 There they eventually led to coalition governments .
4 On 12 June , after a feint in the direction of Tours , Richard and Philip suddenly swooped on Le Mans itself .
5 However , he said they only asked about staffing contracts between Ling and the health authority , which were all above board .
6 Alfie , Ted Halsall , Bobby ( Jacky ) Lee and myself all lived in Suffolk Road , within a wedge of each other .
7 John Combes was obviously friends with a fine stonemason who would have done work at Wilton House and perhaps lived in Broad Chalke .
8 Here is a key to the post-war Establishment so distrusted by Henry Fairlie and the others .
9 The rise in the price of oil had little immediate impact , but the collapse of world stock markets , the fall in demand , especially in the USA , for Hong Kong exports and the fear that Japanese banks would cut back on investment all led to growth predictions being revised downwards , in some instance to negative growth .
10 We only realised on Monday Sunderland were likely to bring 6,000 fans with them .
11 As a control for non specific binding of proteins the eluates were obtained from beads alone incubated with brain extract ( lane 1 1M , lane 2 500mM and lane 3 250mM ) and from the heterologous oligonucleotide 168 linked to beads incubated with brain extract ( lane 7 , 500mM and lane 8 , 1M ) .
12 Nilsson , firmly entrenched in her seventies , leaves her native Sweden only rarely nowadays and she never much cared for recording studios .
13 Shadshit 's voice suddenly rose to rehearsal pitch and he walked out of the toilet and into the dressing room .
14 A hot food trader in the market square , who only moved to North Ormesby two days ago , said : ‘ People told me not to move here .
15 In order to overcome the problems of a mechanism becoming inadvertently disassembled by component changes , the development of an automated associative procedure was considered .
16 We have become so habituated to market relations that it can seem merely banal to observe that types of work which make a loss will , within market production , be reduced or discontinued , while types which make a profit will be expanded .
17 After scenes of tension memorably recounted by Edward Hyde , first Earl of Clarendon [ q.v . ] ,
18 It operated at 4,800bps and only came with DOS software , including a huge TSR program , over 200Kb in size .
19 So letters were unearthly and invaluable , even if they only came from Barclays Bank .
20 But the greatest praise perhaps came from William Wordsworth , who wrote the epitaph for Green 's gravestone .
21 The boat 's wrap-around windscreens were made of black polarised glass which only added to Dream Baby 's ugly air of menace .
22 Why did he always feel so intimidated by Viola Machin ?
23 Managers long cushioned by state intervention become driven by production targets , not by the test of the market .
24 In producing national network programmes ( the network basically consisted of telegraph wires stretching some 5,000 miles from Vancouver , on the Pacific to Halifax , Nova Scotia on the Atlantic coast ) we soon became familiar with the five time-zones across the country .
25 There are sixty-five resident members , who all arrived on Thursday evening .
26 Window replacement is big business these days : we 're all constantly bombarded with television advertisements and leaflets pushed through our letter boxes , offering a wide range of different products , and it can be a bit bewildering knowing where to start .
27 It was only noticed yesterday , although the explosion apparently happened on Saturday afternoon .
28 This obviously belonged to Brian Summers , the chairman of World Wide Insurance .
29 Mr Sowerberry , the undertaker in Charles Dickens 's Oliver Twist , was in the middle of the funeral hierarchy , but towards the bottom end as he only catered for parish funerals — that is to say those from the workhouse or those receiving outdoor relief .
30 These I personally selected at training schools , generally those with " Distinguished " passes .
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