Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rowntree 's stringent poverty line produced remarkably similar results to those of Booth . |
| 2 | At the Home Office , he impressed opponents and civil servants alike by the way he piloted intensely complex Bills through Parliament . |
| 3 | It was interesting that at the controversial Chequers seminar on Germany six British and American experts voiced overwhelmingly favourable opinions about Germany and the Germans ( ‘ If Chancellor Kohl had sat in , he would have agreed with or accepted as fair comments 90 per cent of what was said ’ , commented one of them ) . |
| 4 | Despite cutting back the undergrowth to keep routes open , footpads and other outlaws haunted most lonely stretches of road . |
| 5 | Hindu priests in the fourth and fifth centuries AD made remarkably detailed studies of their sacred texts — the Vedas . |
| 6 | Following their attack on the American naval units in Pearl Harbour , the Japanese forces made remarkably swift advances in the Far East , managing to capture Singapore from the British forces , on 15th . |
| 7 | For whatever reason , his concert appearances from then on revealed only occasional glimpses of his mettle , and of the recordings which followed , only the Rachmaninov Third Concerto with Abbado added lustre to the legend — it would have done so a sight more effectively had it been decently recorded by CBS ( 10/88 ) . |
| 8 | Twice in the last five years — in December 1990 and December 1992 — scientists from the University of Chicago registered abnormally high levels of uv-B radiation ( the most harmful ) in the city . |
| 9 | Only then the nymphs were retreating at speed , in a flurry of droplets and giggles , so I got only fleeting views of slender backs and rounded behinds . |
| 10 | George made long driving whips from the tall canes , tying lengths of string to the knotted ends , running over the grass driving imaginary teams of dogs or horses . |
| 11 | 2 patients were colonised transiently and produced only single cultures of P cepacia strains that were phenotypically and genotypically distinct from the epidemic strain ( figure 1A , patients E1 and E5 ) . |
| 12 | These political costs , moreover , produced only marginal gains in terms of local government expenditure control . |
| 13 | Living , as I did then , in the country seldom coming into London , I made only rare visits to the crammed and cramped little shop , and sought , as always , something that was out of print , lost , or printed the year before , . |
| 14 | After the Beatles lost interest in him , the Maharishi made only occasional appearances in the headlines , most of them connected with the large sums of money his organisation was spending . |
| 15 | On Aug. 20 , 1990 , the government coalition and SPD agreed not to send Bundeswehr troops to the Gulf region and instead Germany made only monetary contributions to the war effort [ see pp. 37640 ; 37694 ; 37697 ; 37718 ; 38109 ] . |
| 16 | The Romans made only tentative essays into building such designs but in the eastern Mediterranean and even further east — in Persia , Iran , Armenia , Syria — Christianity had taken root earlier than in Rome and churches were built of this type from the second century A.D. onwards . |
| 17 | 1.23 In our first Report we made only brief comments on equal opportunities . |
| 18 | The anecdotes and examples chosen to add colour to strictly academic material revealed highly sexist ideas about history , the pupils ' homes or their own knowledge or interests . |
| 19 | During October 1991 , the bond market was subdued and the Bank of England sold only modest amounts of previously issued tap stocks but also received payments in respect of a stock sold earlier by auction but with payment by instalments . |
| 20 | A further group of medium-sized districts sought less extensive changes in the allocation of responsibilities ( Alexander 1982a:44 ) . |
| 21 | After Morocco announced greatly increased fines for illegal fishing in its waters , fishermen making up about half the Spanish fishing fleet in March 1990 blockaded the ports of Algeciras , Almería , Huelva and Málaga , and organized a 24-hour general strike in the Algeciras area on March 13 . |
| 22 | Accordingly successful candidates became highly qualified forerunners of later generations of social workers . |
| 23 | The newspaper readership tables produced for the advertising industry ( Tables 6.2 and 6.3 , for example ) used rather generous definitions of ‘ read ’ , along the lines ‘ Did you see a copy of this paper yesterday ? ’ |
| 24 | I have shown how the new and relatively autonomous movement for the installation of English as a central mechanism for general education became strengthened within civil society ; and furthermore how it built sufficiently strong links with the official state for its leaders to offer the service of the movement for the joint promotion of English as a cultural instrument of the nation-state . |
| 25 | Economists and historians of ideas have concentrated on the systematic elements in his thought and created somewhat abstract models of Keynesian theory and belief . |
| 26 | The consensus on full employment lasted as long as measures to achieve full employment involved only marginal changes to society . |
| 27 | Many organizations have gone the whole way and created entirely different systems for each of these needs . |
| 28 | RioFinex examined the Ordovician volcanic rocks of County Tyrone for base metals but found only minor intersections of low-grade copper mineralisation . |
| 29 | They say it would n't be necessary at all if farmers used less chemical fertilisers on their land . |
| 30 | Thai officers stationed along the Cambodian border reported only scattered incidents in northern and north-western Cambodia , with no fighting along the border . |