Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realised defeat or even a draw would rest on my shoulders . ’ |
| 2 | Jacob Bright MP , dismissed Acton as probably the most illogical man who ever put a pen to paper . |
| 3 | Beyond can be seen a mixture of walkers , mounted and dismounted cyclists and even the occasional moped ( Figure 6.29 ) . |
| 4 | Some Social Democrats analysed Russia as partly an Asiatic mode of production , a position denounced by Lenin , who insisted on the fully capitalist character of the Russian economy and hence its ripeness for socialist agitation . |
| 5 | Even if an algorithm embodied knowledge that perhaps the training set should be transformed to polar coordinates , still the algorithm would have to search a 2-dimensional continuum of possible centres . |
| 6 | The woman entered details and nearby the nearer women listened . |
| 7 | Dos Passos described Madeira as both a Paradise and a prison . |
| 8 | We got bread , no we got bread and then the only time we got chips was in the middle of the week . |
| 9 | One man 's father told coastguards that normally the group only travelled a few miles along the coast on the speedboat trips . |
| 10 | A spokeswomen at the Museum told Pilot that not a single aeroplane had escaped destruction or serious damage , including Weeks ' Solution aerobatic biplane , in which he competed at the World Aerobatic Championships at Le Havre in July . |
| 11 | Guided by his new-found friend , Charles studied Jung and also the work of economist and philosopher E. F. Schumacher , who wrote a book entitled Small Is Beautiful ; over the years the Prince has found many of the answers he was searching for . |
| 12 | Otto-Hermann Gruneberg , a director of Siemens Nixdorf , told Computerwoche that both the MX and RM ranges run under Unix System V.4 and compete with Targon . |
| 13 | My mother threw insults and then the crockery , while my father ignored the insults , caught the crockery , and produced endless cups of tea when they eventually decided to make up . |
| 14 | wished to know why certain of the figures showed differences and why the audit fee was up by 50 per cent . |
| 15 | Abuse followed insult and eventually the police were called . |
| 16 | Perhaps the most significant paper , also geomorphological , was that in which Brown ( 1970 ) characterized man as both a geomorphological process in relation to his direct , purposeful modifications of landforms , and also as indirectly effective through the human influence upon geomorphological processes . |
| 17 | The Greeks discovered electricity and quite a lot of them were AC-DC as well . |
| 18 | Acquiring his first proper guitar at the age of ten , Ry first discovered bluegrass and then the country blues players : the Rev. Gary Davis ( who gave Ry lessons ) , Lightnin' Hopkins , Sonny Terry , Brownie McGhee and Son House , plus Howlin' Wolf , Muddy Waters and Sleepy John Estes . |
| 19 | The NHS needed reform but not the government changes . |
| 20 | Whitlock assumed ‘ here ’ meant Germany and not the restaurant . |
| 21 | But where he did recognise the private sector he merely saw conflict and not the contradictory unity . |
| 22 | However , the letter contained information that only the killer could have known , he said . |
| 23 | Developing its role in fostering relations with the former communist countries of central and eastern Europe , EFTA concluded free trade agreements on Dec. 10 with Poland and Romania ; signed a declaration on co-operation with Albania ; and took note that both the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic had declared that they would apply on an interim basis from Jan. 1 the EFTA-Czechoslovakia free trade agreement signed on March 20 [ see p. 38834 ] . |
| 24 | Numerous houses became schools , many more became hospitals and quite a number were acquired as reform schools . |
| 25 | Risley Employee communications clerk Pat Hunt , who helped organise BNFL 's response to the appeal , said she wanted to thank all employees who generously donated spectacles and also the site collectors for their help . |
| 26 | The Lee-Enfield had a magazine which held 10 rounds and rapid-action bolt which turned down ; this gave the rifleman a rate of fire of 15 aimed rounds or more a minute . |
| 27 | He plundered Grandmont and then the abbey of La Couronne near Angoulême . |
| 28 | As John has already said , when s er Microsoft first introduced Access and therefore the O D B C software , the only database which had the driver bundled in with the the box was SQL Server . |
| 29 | The bank undertook to arrange for the necessary documents to be drawn up and the manager gave instructions that both the husband and the wife were to be made aware of the nature and effect of the documents they would sign , and that the wife should be advised to take legal advice if she had any doubts about them . |
| 30 | I only did mornings but even the mornings were too much for me . ’ |