Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1865 several experimenters were on the brink of discovering the important principle of self-excitation , and early in 1866 he presented a paper to the Royal Society on ‘ A New and Powerful Generator of Dynamic Electricity ’ , but failed to realize that practical self-excitation was within his grasp . |
| 2 | Abandoned air-raid shelters became improvised and treacherous playgrounds for the children of the blitz . |
| 3 | We were treated as an accepted channel of communication with the mass of independent objectors and were often the only other organization apart from the local councils ' consortium whom Michael Barnes asked to comment when dramatic announcements were made . |
| 4 | The arguments in Beyond the Pleasure Principle which sought to establish that all organisms aim at death , a return to the state of inanimate matter , were admitted by Freud to be ones which could be overthrown by later biological research . |
| 5 | Three times in twenty-four hours MacDonald tried to resign and three times the King dissuaded him . |
| 6 | He was not reckless exactly , but he certainly never stopped to consider whether that loss was too great to hamper expansion . |
| 7 | Sheep automatically seem to connect people with food , so that they become bothersome and , in some cases I saw , dangerous as they tried butting until harassed walkers gave in and handed over some of their food . |
| 8 | It frequently approximated to brigandage when large areas were laid under irregular taxation . |
| 9 | 1820 Alter all the labour of " obtaining pint and choppin standard measure out of Stirling castle , which have been proven & marked by the Dean of Guild of Stirling as correct , some of members of this meeting ventured to say that these jugs are composed of tin , and easily dimpled , whereas they are composed of the strongest sheet copper tinned within to prevent corrosion . |
| 10 | Where our Investigation Department operations involved shipping and small craft we were the specialists to whom they could turn for practical assistance . |
| 11 | So , as they had done with the relations of production , Marx and Engels tried to show that this state of affairs was not inevitable , but the product of a specific historical development . |
| 12 | Durkheim saw the centrality of the prison as largely brought about by the operation of the first part of his first law : prison was a milder penalty than capital and corporal punishments and so became adopted as collective sentiments became more sympathetic to the criminal 's suffering . |
| 13 | He 'd heard that stainless steel was going inside that box at such a rate as to absorb the country 's entire annual output , and that the rip-offs were a scandal . |
| 14 | I 'd heard that American Music Club were something wonderful , but when I saw them at the Grand in Clapham recently , I was n't that impressed . |
| 15 | It was more aggressive than anything I 'd heard since early Who . |
| 16 | For a day and a night the feasting on the horse filled everyone in the enclave with a dreadful exultation , but gradually it died down as the garrison came to realize that one horse was hardly enough to stay their hunger for more than a few hours . |
| 17 | Ultimately , he came to realize that this persecution complex existed only in his own mind , and that his unpopularity in Barbados arose from his walking out on them . |
| 18 | She sat there looking much less pale and thanking God privately that He 'd stopped that horrid war in Finland and brought Charles back to her . |
| 19 | This seemed to indicate that those areas with full-time farmers were the most efficient but there were many other factors to be considered . |
| 20 | I went in there again and I told her that you 'd rung and some Angela from sales Andrea , we have n't got an Andrea she said . |
| 21 | With the exception of some Christian pacifists and a handful of far-left revolutionaries , no part of the peace movement , before 1939 , came to accept that another war was unavoidable . |
| 22 | Sitting there in the Cathedral Close in the weak spring sunlight , trying to grasp the enormity of the events we had lived through , we gradually came to accept that these things were now in the past , and the war was really over . |
| 23 | and I was thinking where on earth is there a shop in that sells , sells things like that or do you have to go to a garage and I 'd forgotten that that fruit |
| 24 | One in nine of the women surveyed reckoned that male drivers ‘ think they own the road ’ and nearly three-quarters of them said men were too impatient . |
| 25 | After this type of cathartic outburst , no one seemed to reflect that this offender had a determinate sentence and would be allowed out eventually . |
| 26 | Total federally collected revenue was projected at 101,201 million naira , of which the central government would retain 54,037 million naira , with the balance disbursed to state and local governments . |
| 27 | I mean if if I 'd done that this morning and I 'd written it all up before you came in and then said well what we 've done is this and then we did that and then we did that but as as it was generated as we discussed then then you were with me I hope at the way it went |
| 28 | Zen clearly remembered the occasion when he 'd felt that some detail in his office had altered . |
| 29 | In general terms , where any tax or duty was paid by a citizen pursuant to an unlawful demand , common justice seemed to require that that tax or duty ought to be repaid , unless special circumstances or some principle of policy required otherwise . |
| 30 | Indeed , the logic seemed to require that such punishment should take place in public . |