Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [art] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | The passage of the Riot Act of 1715 , which made assembling for political ( as well as other ) purposes potentially a capital offence , reveals how far the Whigs had come from the early days when they had actively promoted political demonstrations and deliberately sought an alliance with " the crowd " . |
| 2 | He was what we have learned to call a WASP , and his lifetime coincided with the process , not yet quite completed , by which that caste — white Anglo-Saxon protestants of the northeast — was supplanted from the position of privilege that they had enjoyed from the first days of the Republic . |
| 3 | Endowments dated from the earliest days of England 's Christian history and compulsory Church Rates were no longer being levied throughout the Kingdom . |
| 4 | The quick redemption of bonds seems to have been envisaged from the early days for this kind of comment recurs. that the repayment took over 75 years to accomplish is remarkable , but that it is so is attributable to three things , compounded by other factors such as two World Wars . |
| 5 | She had also caught the very faint remnant of warmth , gaiety , that he thought no-one but himself had recognized from the old days . |
| 6 | The tone had been set from the earliest days of the BBC . |
| 7 | The principal vehicles for this analysis are the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods , because of its major importance in private commercial law ; the Unidroit Conventions on International factoring and International financial Leasing , with which the writer has been involved from the early days of their conception ; and the rules and trade terms promulgated by the International Chamber of Commerce , which demonstrate how much can be achieved by the contractual approach to the harmonization of commercial law and practice , and which will be given particular attention later . |
| 8 | Here are four synthetic sequences generated from the foggy/clear days transition probability matrix given above : |
| 9 | At the end of the year , Britain seemed much revived from the black days of the IMF crisis twelve months earlier . |
| 10 | A Board of Trade requirement that the engine would always operate chimney first was disobeyed from the early days . |
| 11 | Daddy gone , Sambo gone , Mrs Dibdin gone — and the few relics we had left from the olden days all sold , and the house up for sale … ’ |