Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill Koch became acutely embarrassed that money was being donated to this party in his name , yet he had little cash of his own . |
| 2 | Albert Ninham , 75 , admitted indecently assaulting two boys aged 12 and 11 in November last year . |
| 3 | Why has the Secretary of State failed effectively to tackle those problems and to take action against the excessive profits and unacceptable boardroom pay rises and perks ? |
| 4 | One group of subjects ( labelled ‘ Control ’ in the figure ) experienced only reinforced conditioning trials . |
| 5 | Government representatives , employers and workers now met together to discuss economic policies . |
| 6 | Wolfgang recovered sufficiently to give two concerts in Amsterdam where his new symphony ( No 5 in B flat , K.22 , written in The Hague ) was played . |
| 7 | After months of surgery and chemotherapy , she recovered enough to make two films . |
| 8 | And how two cultures failed entirely to understand each other . |
| 9 | A CAP designed only to promote efficient farming would abolish itself forthwith . |
| 10 | The family drew together to help each other , and most of them had additional sources of comfort . |
| 11 | Regarding the environment , there are impractical proposals emanating via Brussels , designed merely to placate noisy pressure groups . |
| 12 | The USA moved swiftly to placate Israeli hardliners following the Iraqi invasion , advising the government to adopt a low profile . |
| 13 | The structure of the degree in the Faculties last mentioned normally comprises two years of foundation courses followed either by finishing courses in the third year , for a general degree , or by two years of honours courses for an honours degree . |
| 14 | He then rose rapidly to become chief conductor at La Scala , Milan , and later became musical director of the London Symphony Orchestra and , for the past three years , of the Vienna State Opera . |
| 15 | Not surprisingly , Ashworth found more published personal accounts written by officers than by ordinary privates and some memoirs were written by poets and writers to express their horror of war . |
| 16 | Trembling with relief , she bent quickly to add another log to the fire , using the small task to break the heavy silence . |
| 17 | The paper tried yesterday to rebut such views in an editorial comment , adorned with Labour 's red rose insigne . |
| 18 | No further information seemed to be forthcoming and Rose still had tight hold of the ring . |
| 19 | FERRANTI moved yesterday to take full management control of its International Signal and Control subsidiary where a £215m fraud has been discovered . |
| 20 | Last year ACET provided urgently needed medical supplies to the worst affected areas . |
| 21 | VARDON , the expanding leisure group which runs the London Dungeon and last October bought nine Sea Life centres , including those at Oban and St Andrews , yesterday reported nearly trebled pre-tax profits of £2.43 million for 1992 . |
| 22 | So , getting down to specifics , the two species mentioned both make excellent aquarium subjects , the only cause for concern being whether they have been maintained in brackish water or already acclimatised to freshwater if you wish to maintain them in this environment . |
| 23 | Now , how did these people you mentioned before make this track at , it was a better made track , you said it was n't just a beaten |
| 24 | First , the areal units used often contain substantial towns within their borders , and second , the annual and monthly data collected by the Department of Employment only record ‘ employees in employment ’ . |
| 25 | Important as was the consciousness of self-government , the fueros would not have been defended with such obstinacy had they not conferred substantial economic advantages , designed originally to favour poor frontier provinces . |
| 26 | It ca n't have been the script , which tried unconvincingly to suggest multiple reconciliation under the spell of the Castello Brown ( the castle 's real-life name , believe me or not ) and then petered out , as if the adaptor had given up and left the cast to improvise . |
| 27 | The style which he created strongly influenced English art for the remainder of the twelfth century , and found echoes on the Continent . |
| 28 | The psychological theories of political leaders and the state reviewed here have strong echoes in New Right thinking . |
| 29 | Many tried simply to deny all memories of the Third Reich or else to question the notion of collective guilt ; others were concerned that the old authoritarian values did survive beneath the surface , that civil servants remained in office despite serving the Nazis and that the basis for a genuine new democracy was not therefore laid after the war . |
| 30 | This is consistent with the results we reported earlier showing good performance on the causal task ( see Table 3.1 ) . |