Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That occurred although it took up a large slice of their already-depleted income , and they also ran the risk of getting lung cancer and other smoking related diseases , and placed the health of their children in jeopardy . |
| 2 | That occurred although Lord Morison , the Court of Session judge who issued the new decree , made it absolutely clear after listening to all the evidence , that he did not consider any of the allegations made by Mr Vafa 's former wife , or her father , to have been well founded or substantiated . |
| 3 | The Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05 occurred because the partially concealed rivalry of a decade before was now overt . |
| 4 | For example , the intensity of the band observed when RJ2.2.5 was the source of the partially purified X-box binding activity was much higher than that found when Raji was used instead ( Fig. 4B ) . |
| 5 | Sarella half whispered when he was gone . |
| 6 | This arose because although the site was nearly ideal for our purposes , right in the middle there stood a small cottage in which lived a retired shepherd , Amos Chatfield . |
| 7 | Was n't this demonstrated when the scum did us in the semi 's a couple of years ago ? |
| 8 | All this surfaced when a second general election was called to provide a bridge to lead into that ‘ last stage ’ before Independence . |
| 9 | The universities of Bab Ezzouar ( Algiers ) , Annaba , Constantine and Batna were on June 2 reported as closed . |
| 10 | All this changed when recession threw debtors into receivership and many fast-growing banks into or near the red . |
| 11 | A similar problem was also found with sentence 13 , whereas sentence 12 crashed while printing the bracketed parses . |
| 12 | ‘ Come on , I want to get this analysed before our friendly neighbourhood houngan arrives . ’ |
| 13 | It was held that the company 's lien had become effective when the debts to it were incurred ( even though they were not then due for repayment ) and as this occurred before the company had notice of the charging order , the company 's lien had priority . |
| 14 | An example of this occurred where a daughter 's care for her dependent father was continually met with ingratitude and unkindness . |
| 15 | An unusual example of this occurred when I was myself collecting historical data about a small town during the course of a local social survey . |
| 16 | A notable example of this occurred when the Authority attempted to implement a process of ‘ accrediting ’ management centres and ‘ recognising ’ Health Authorities who met appropriate standards . |
| 17 | This occurred when they had their children baptised or mothers came into contact with other Christian young mums through the play group organised by the church . |
| 18 | An extreme example of this occurred when a hospital social worker was asked to see a family who refused to allow a newly bereaved husband to leave hospital to attend his wife 's funeral , as they felt angrily that he had contributed to her unexpected death with his demands . |
| 19 | This occurred when a broker attempted to undertake a single transaction involving 2,000m Hungarian Forints — $22m — in the government bonds market only to discover that the appropriate field in the application did n't have enough space for the zeros . |
| 20 | This occurred when two successive nominations by President Reagan failed in 1987 : the first was rejected by the Senate for his extremely conservative views , the second withdrew his nomination when he admitted to having smoked ‘ pot ’ years earlier . |
| 21 | A council spokesman said this occurred when the last civic reception was held for the club and caused great concern . |
| 22 | He suggested that this occurred because some of the early mammals took to the trees , and in that new environment smell became less important , while vision and neuromuscular control , and particularly the co-ordination of the two , became more important . |
| 23 | Talks dragged on so long that some doubted whether the project — an aircraft maintenance joint venture with Lockheed and CAAC , China 's national carrier — would ever materialise . |
| 24 | This seemed if anything as purposeful as the gathering of the clan on the previous night . |
| 25 | This came after the Croatian Peasant Party held a meeting to reconstitute itself . |
| 26 | The lower age limit on party membership was reduced to 16 ; this came after the party lost 700,000 members since reconstituting itself and coming a humiliating fourth place in the national elections in March and April [ see p. 37380 ] . |
| 27 | The most obvious manifestation of this came when he remained almost immobile in the centre of the ring while Biggs picked him off with jabs from long range . |
| 28 | This came when the satellite threw off the cover that had protected the sensitive detectors during the launch and afterwards , while the team at the operations centre at the Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory checked that the telescope was pointing correctly . |
| 29 | My first inkling of this came when I phoned Karen shortly after the funeral . |
| 30 | An illustration of this came when the Daily Mirror , for reasons of their own , carried a feature article about Oxford United and paid particular attention to Eric — one of the most regular of the chant leaders . |