Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bachelard 's work on the formation of scientific disciplines led him to argue that the proper form of historical analysis should focus not upon an empirical history but upon the cognitive or epistemological status of concepts that distinguish a new science from an old one . |
| 2 | The hostile reception of Alford 's views led him to reflect that he was being denied the parliamentary right of free speech . |
| 3 | Investigations revealed he was driving without insurance or a licence . |
| 4 | One of the other Germans emptied it and I recognized among the papers the interrogation form which the naval officer on the island had filled in . |
| 5 | This was not well received , and in fact Blackett 's sympathy with the Russians made it impossible for him to get a visa to visit the US during the McCarthy years . |
| 6 | When the Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) first screened the videotape of the Dec. 14 demonstration on state television in June [ see p. 37544 ] , Mladenov denounced it as a " slanderous montage " , but experts ruled it authentic on July 4 , whereupon Mladenov in a nationwide broadcast declared that his remark had been taken out of context , and that he should be judged by deeds not words . |
| 7 | I loved it when a whole pile of notes met me in the morning and I did not surface till lunchtime . |
| 8 | The predicted expansion never came and it may be argued that Kielder , and the flooding of the valley , was a disastrous example of the worst kind of crystal-ball gazing so frequently employed to force unwelcome developments on an unwilling population ; and once again , the experts got it wrong . |
| 9 | Only when it became clear that the rules made it impossible for them to shake the landowners ' grip on the zemstvos did interest decline so that the last pre-war zemstvo elections were marked by peasant apathy . |
| 10 | The large numbers of the English gentry and aristocracy who enjoyed the profits from impropriated tithes were further alarmed when the Laudian ecclesiastical authorities made it clear they would spare no pains in an attempt to recover as much as they could of the church 's former wealth and power . |
| 11 | Soon afterwards we were able to use real rifles , for the authorities made us members of the ‘ Universal Training ’ organization , our criminal past being deliberately overlooked . |
| 12 | The Russians agreed they were legally at fault . |
| 13 | The IMF 's satisfaction with Jordan 's continued implementation of economic restructuring programmes led it to approve on July 14 , 1989 , a financial package of 76,600,000 special drawing rights ( approximately US$96,000,000 ) . |
| 14 | Data could pop up in boxes around the screen , and in due course graphics , mice and icons led us into the wimps era ( window , icon , menu , pointer ) . |
| 15 | The starships passed us by . |
| 16 | On the handling of the union 's finances , Wilson 's enemies attacked him with equal vituperation . |
| 17 | Straightaway , he made a niche for himself as our left-back , and his fearless diving headers made him a tremendous favourite with the Palace fans , who dubbed him ‘ Chopper ’ in recognition of his decisive interceptions with his unruly fair hair . |
| 18 | THE Algarve is a mixture of the most expensive and exclusive holiday homes in Europe and monstrous concrete high-rise blocks built before the authorities realised they were killing the golden goose of tourism . |
| 19 | Contemporaries distrusted them in the belief that they brought an unsavoury speculative element to the market in stocks . |
| 20 | At the end of the Gulf War , British Army authorities announced they would have to destroy all dogs which had been picked up and kept by British units in the war zone , but Dave and his colleagues decided they were n't going to let this cruel fate befall Des . |
| 21 | Gentlemen did n't clout their womenfolk about , beat them , bruise them , tie them up and whip them … or whatever jolly games Johnny 's preferences led him to pursue . |
| 22 | Mr replied that is what Mr was asking the other to do , that is to hold their hand and to enter into negotiations , now I fully appreciate that erm doctor feels strongly that the defendants have not been negotiating in good faith and have been simply dragging matters out for his benefit , now when I say that I 'm simply saying what I understand to be doctor view , I 'm certainly not suggesting that I 'm finding as a fact , but that was the decision , indeed I could n't cos I 've not heard all the evidence on this matter not as Mr to address me on that one , it seems to me with all respect to doctor missions on this matter that if there has been any dragging of feet or other improper conduct of either the defendants in connection with er they remain on in the premises and not paying what doctor would consider to be a full and proper rent or if there has been problem about their not disclosing documents when they should have done , the position is that doctor has er by making an appropriate application to the court , for maybe the appropriate relief arising out of the facts which he can establish , but that is not in general a matter which erm the court should go into on the question of taxation , it 's not , th this particular taxation of costs is a taxation as I understand it that are formally to the debt of the order of Mr Justice and there is thus no question of the court having to consider the question when the those tax those costs have been swollen or increased in any way by reason of spinning out negotiations whether to run up costs or otherwise , that simply does n't arising it seems to me in this case that maybe a matter which may arise possibly at some future date , though I would hope it would not do so , but er so far as the costs down to the end of the trial of the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one are concerned , it seems to me the fact that the parties maybe negotiating subsequently to deter to rece to resolve the outstanding issue , it 's not a matter which really goes to the question of erm what is the proper amount to allow for taxation of costs which have already been incurred , before these negotiations erm we do n't the figure of the costs appears to have been effectively agreed between the solicitors at forty two thousand pounds , the plaintiff solicitors made it quite clear that they were seeking interest , this was clear in apparently of nineteen ninety two , but this held their hand , er it seems to me the reason they held their hand rather than indicate it was because the defendant through his solicitor was asking them to do so and it seems to me that Mr was acting very sensibly in the defendants interest , because if in fact they had gone ahead and taxed their costs there and then the position would simply be that there would of been an award for taxation , in order , there would be a taxation resulting in an order for payment of of some cost probably in the region of forty two thousand pounds and er that order would itself carry interest under the judgements act , it does n't seem to me it can be sensibly said that erm any interest has to be in any way increased by reason of this delay and it seems to me that erm if one looks at order sixty two and twenty eight er certainly under paragraph B two erm there 's a reference there to any additional interest payable under section seventeen because of the failure on the May , erm , it does n't seem to me that the effect of what has in fact incurred , in this case has been , caused any additional interest to be paid and er it seems to me the only best that I can see in the evidence before me to , which would enable the court to erm , conclude that there should be a disallowance of interest would be as I say because the plaintiffs appear not to have perfected the order for the payment of perfectively two years , just over two years , erm it seems to me however that , that on balance probably it simply a matter of oversight and even if it had been perfected it would n't of made as I guess the least bit of difference to the way the negotiations er proceeded and accordingly I take the view that erm there are no grounds for disallowing interest from either the plaintiffs bill of costs or the defendants bill of costs , accordingly erm to allow the defendants appeal in preparation to the disallowance of costs er interest and to dismiss the defendants appeal for application in relation to an additional period , P sixty of course disallowed , I also propose to dismiss the sum of , the appeal by the plaintiffs from the refusal of taxing master to disallow the interest on the defendants bill of costs . |
| 23 | I told him about our own lack of any real bomber force until the Germans made us build one . |
| 24 | When eventually its report , Lead and Health , was published in 1980 , various environmental groups damned it for being too meek . |
| 25 | Her lower lip stung and burned where her teeth pierced it . |
| 26 | As the riders passed they called out : high-pitched cries which startled the birds that nested in the tree-tops . |
| 27 | These attitudes led them to adopt an interventionist style in the management of local authorities that differred in many ways from the more orthodox approaches discussed in Chapter 5 . |
| 28 | The Mirror titles made him a Fleet Street figure to match his other interests . |
| 29 | ‘ Cropnose bas made you one of her ladies ? |
| 30 | His political inclinations got him into trouble again in 1940 , however . |