Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nothing in the response of the Al Fayeds ' advisers , for all its bluster and menace , rebutted my basic case or added one jot of information to explain the origins of the brothers ' wealth . |
| 2 | As I have said before , the intellectual aristocracy of B.P. , who lived near the Park or had private transport , were able to take part in many home-made activities , such as the pleasure of organising and playing in small domestic chamber concerts , or chess , bridge , tennis , dancing , and amateur dramatics . |
| 3 | ( Slowly from each tube-squeezed & mixed white hollow ) |
| 4 | Blissfully unaware that the full panoply of America 's military might was about to deliver him up to the majesty of American justice , President Reagan 's token terrorist was welcomed aboard Skunk Kilo by an undercover FBI team that was so wrought up by the occasion that in placing Younis under arrest they managed to break both his wrists , though he offered no resistance or showed any enthusiasm for the 12-mile swim back to Limassol . |
| 5 | Do not take too much notice of the reasons put forward for the auction or put much store by claims of " no reserves on any of the items " . |
| 6 | ‘ Some had not seen daylight or sniffed fresh air for four months , ’ he says . |
| 7 | Throughout the book he referred to it as the monster or used another word which expressed his hatred for it . |
| 8 | They have reflected the wishful thinking that informed liberal development politics in the post-War period . |
| 9 | From his small office , the solicitor explains that deals similar to that offered to the Salvation Army — where they invested $10 million in a deal that promised high interest returns — are kept secret among high-ranking individuals in the world of finance . |
| 10 | After 113 minutes of attacking football that had Second Division Swindon reeling from the start , Third Division Bolton finally took the lead through Brown . |
| 11 | Until well into the 1970s , the almost universal conventional wisdom — except perhaps in the United States — was that the government should stand ready to act as a deus ex machina , stepping in to save the capitalist system from its inherent defects of inequality in the distribution of the wealth it created , of unbalanced investment that created private affluence and public squalor , and or vulnerability to cyclical downturn , slump and unemployment ( for example , Shonfield , 1965 ; Galbraith , 1956 ) . |
| 12 | The movie that provoked most debate around rape and its representation before The Accused , was Lamont Johnson 's 1976 film Lipstick , which at least did make some attempt to make connections between the rape and the wider social implications of how society constructs images of women . |
| 13 | But even these clubs are influenced by major companies ; for example , Grumpas Eight , the club that invited English striker Gary Lineker , was once the soccer club of Toyota , whose rugby club has Japanese centre , Eiji Kutsuki . |
| 14 | A second way in which Lakatos 's methodology could conceivably be supported is as follows : The methodology might serve to identify a programme that received strong support from the scientific community but which does not conform to the methodology of research programmes , and this identification might subsequently lead to the novel discovery of some external cause , such as the intervention of some government or industrial monopoly . |
| 15 | The mixtures were gently rocked for two minutes and the lowest final concentration that gave macroscopic agglutination when read against a dark background was recorded . |
| 16 | Cimetine reversed the histamine stimulated proliferation of the first two cell lines , however , at a concentration of 10 - 5 M , which corresponded to the cimetidine concentration that induced complete inhibition of histamine on cAMP accumulation in guinea pig fundus and antrum |
| 17 | Those Israelis whom this behaviour most appals have long been likening it to the earlier stages of Nazism , an analogy that found startling vindication with the recent disclosure that some units in the occupied territories draw on Nazi precedents for their own self-image , one calling itself the ‘ Mengele detachment ’ and another ‘ the Auschwitz company ’ . |
| 18 | That it is proceeding at all , despite the intense financial and media scepticism that followed last summer 's initial announcement , is a tribute to Sir Denys Henderson and his team . |
| 19 | Moreover , even in eschatology and its presentation in terms of history , the idea of the future that dominated Hebrew thought involved a return to the primeval state that the Jews believed they had lost . |
| 20 | Of course , after all the hard work and extensive consultations carried out by the Mandate Review Committee , it was matters of the mandate that aroused most interest . |
| 21 | According to one study that utilized multivariate analysis , its effect is large and significant even after many other factors have been taken into account . |
| 22 | One study that investigated this idea found that there was little difference between first babies and later ones . |
| 23 | Of particular interest was the Indonesian community study that used fortified monosodium glutamate , rather than capsule supplementation , in five programme villages , with five other villages used as controls . |
| 24 | The best-looking Ferrari of that era was the 250LM , the competition car that dominated long distance sports car racing until the arrival of the Ford GT40 . |
| 25 | My Lords , I have long thought that the time had come to change the self-imposed judicial rule that forbade any reference to the legislative history of an enactment as an aid to its interpretation . |
| 26 | Law 's campaign against Home Rule also brought the Liberal government face to face with power politics and showed up the hollowness of the reasoned optimism that underlay Edwardian Liberalism . |
| 27 | Manchester was the other neighbourhood that experienced high house price rises while maintaining low owner occupancy rates ( 29 per cent compared with a city average of 64 per cent ) . |
| 28 | The same argument could be used to suppress the reporting of all crime that involved human behaviour ( as was frequently the case in the old Soviet empire ) . |
| 29 | In fading winter light that seemed wise advice and we retraced our steps to the gentler landscape of Teesdale itself . |
| 30 | And another : ‘ it was not easy to make out Little Dorrit 's face , she was so retiring , a delicately bent head , a tiny form , a quick little pair of busy hands , what affection in her words , what compassion in her repressed tears , what a great soul of fidelity within her , how true the light that shed false brightness round her ’ . |