Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] [noun pl] " 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 | There they eventually led to coalition governments . |
| 3 | However , he said they only asked about staffing contracts between Ling and the health authority , which were all above board . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Nilsson , firmly entrenched in her seventies , leaves her native Sweden only rarely nowadays and she never much cared for recording studios . |
| 6 | In order to overcome the problems of a mechanism becoming inadvertently disassembled by component changes , the development of an automated associative procedure was considered . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | These I personally selected at training schools , generally those with " Distinguished " passes . |
| 12 | He not only saw off no-confidence motions , but won the Congress round to supporting direct elections for an executive presidency . |
| 13 | Nadir pressure was referenced to the prevailing midoesophageal body pressure in that second and so took into account changes of basal oesophagela body pressure produced by common cavity episodes . |
| 14 | She wondered why they constantly complained of stomach pains until she caught the woman redhanded . |
| 15 | His exceptional progress soon led to exhibition matches and tours of western Europe , and on to America , where his family settled in 1920 . |
| 16 | For a short while ( three months ) the family party remained within the crumbling Electric Circus walls but the talented and the lucky soon matured into pop stars and ambitious writers . |
| 17 | Alexia Lindsay says that most of the ephemera money just came from guide books and maps ; illustrated theatre and concert programmes ; and leaflets , all ephemeral things , apparently of no intrinsic value , but ‘ printed collectibles ’ as they are now called – and spelt ! |
| 18 | Clearly , given the large amount of data already impounded in share prices , and that few well-informed investors will be induced to trade index futures who did not already trade shares , the increase in information reflected in share prices is likely to be small . |
| 19 | Investment no longer flowed into manufacturing companies , which in turn cut back production . |
| 20 | But then they came back and said it was changed to ‘ Everything We Do Is Driven By You ’ and my initial thought was ‘ Yuk , I do n't think I can do anything with that either , ’ because it just sounded like motor cars and I 'm not interested in singing songs about motor cars . |
| 21 | Faldo just stayed in touch thanks to putts of 15 and 30 feet at the 14th and 16th for a round of 69 , while Ballesteros felt he had been robbed when he came in with a 68 . |
| 22 | French engineers , facing similar difficulties of a wartime investment backlog ( but , significantly , steel prices which reflected real shortages ) , based more of their immediate postwar programme on sets of 100MW and above , and soon standardised on 125MW sets ( the first of which , with re-heat , was commissioned in 1955 , three years before the BEA 's first 120MW re-heat set ) . |
| 23 | They mostly consisted of Camberwell students . |
| 24 | Guided by the Emperor 's own harsh wisdom and foresight , they had experimented on the very stuff of Chaos and upon slaves permanently immobilized in nutrient vats , and upon prisoners . |
| 25 | Two Darlington teenagers appeared before the town 's juvenile court yesterday charged with assault offences . |
| 26 | ARGYLL group , which runs the Safeway supermarkets , yesterday headed off market fears of another big cash call by launching a £150 million fixed-rate Eurobond issue , replacing expensive short-term debt with a cheaper long term loan . |
| 27 | He usually came on Wednesday afternoons because Alan is almost always here then . ’ |
| 28 | Alpha Saracouu , Sierra Leone 's High Commissioner in the UK , and team manager Major Kargbo made the trip to Ashton Gate to inquire about Rosenior , who once played for England schoolboys . |
| 29 | Ten per cent of its finances still came from government sources in the early sixties . |
| 30 | The Falklands veteran vessel , HMS Plymouth , permanently berthed at Wallasey docks , is to be turned into a floating studio theatre especially for the production . |