Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my days as a Justice 's Clerk I saw enough corpses to know that death can grossly disfigure even the comeliest of faces . ’ |
| 2 | Proposals I announced last month to create 12 new environmentally sensitive areas will more than treble the area covered . |
| 3 | During the late afternoon I received another call summoning a further Cabinet meeting at 7.30 p.m . |
| 4 | Every few minutes I found some reason to stop : to take off my sweater , to put on my robe , to change from boots to training-shoes and back again , to eat some oats , to take my temperature , to redistribute the load inside the lockers and , when I had no other excuse , simply to rest . |
| 5 | This reinforced my interest in the subject , but as I soon became involved in postgraduate studies in busy medical , surgical and then paediatric units I had little time to pursue it at that stage . |
| 6 | ‘ During 17 months I watched 180 people die of starvation and disease , ’ he added . |
| 7 | So after I finished Sleeping With The Enemy I walked Pennine Way to release all the pent-up aggression and that helped , ’ he says . |
| 8 | The suit also poisoned potential investors against Addamax which needed more money to exploit its technology , he said . |
| 9 | The suit also poisoned potential investors against Addamax which needed more money to exploit its technology , he said . |
| 10 | This was a challenging task even for an accomplished side which had little time to acclimatise or practise . |
| 11 | De Valera himself resisted right-wing pressures to enhance the role of the church in the Irish state and successfully opposed tendencies to fascism apparent in Irish paramilitary movements of the thirties ( Manning 1970 ) . |
| 12 | But the considerations which persuaded this House to hold that there was a discretion whether or not to require an undertaking in damages from the Crown in a law enforcement action are equally applicable to cases in which some other public authority is charged with the enforcement of the law : see e.g. Lord Reid , at p. 341g , Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest , at p. 352c , and Lord Cross of Chelsea , at p. 371b–g . |
| 13 | In the five days of violence which resulted official estimates suggested that at least 30 people died ( including one MP ) and several hundred were injured . |
| 14 | The facts involved the sale of a second-hand Mercedes car which developed unusual faults requiring repair for a Mercedes of that age and mileage . |
| 15 | The twenty-one defendants were accused of enormous wrongdoing before and during World War II in an indictment which took two days to read and 218 days to try before a tribunal composed of two judges from each of the four victorious countries . |
| 16 | The Report of the Data Protection Committee was published late in 1978 , a bad time for political initiatives : within a few months the new Conservative Government was in office and contenting itself with a fresh and laborious round of further consultations — there seemed little likelihood of anything being done until , in 1981 , the Council of Europe , as part of its concern with human rights , opened its ‘ Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Data Processing ’ for signature by States which had appropriate legislation enacted . |
| 17 | Thus the National Child Development Study which covered all children born during a week in 1958 found that at the age of 7 years there was a far higher proportion of children from the lower socio-economic groups who had not been immunised against smallpox , polio and diphtheria . |
| 18 | Farmers throughout the region have welcomed the end to the months of uncertainty which surrounded recent EC talks to reform the community 's farming policy . |
| 19 | On 19 September Ho embarked on a packet boat which took four weeks to reach Hanoi . |
| 20 | Looting had become a serious problem and there were no food shops which had any stocks left ; most were burnt out and vandalized . |
| 21 | The fiery and provocative pontificate of Pope Gregory VII may well have inspired the search which brought this manuscript to light . |
| 22 | The amnesty covered all crimes committed to date under the country 's security and military legislation , and was agreed under the terms of the accord which committed both sides to release all but common criminals . |
| 23 | Moreover , many of those laws on the statute books which empowered colonial administrators to control the printed media remained in force and were used by the new governments after independence . |
| 24 | If an ambiguous penal provision should , as a matter of principle , be narrowly construed in the interests of liberty and fairness , a criminal statute which lacked all precision authorising the punishment of whatever conduct officials deemed it expedient to punish — should , on the same principle , be denied any application at all . |
| 25 | The division of the national press into ‘ quality ’ and ‘ popular ’ papers was one of content as well as circulation , and it was itself largely a result of the higher advertising rates chargeable by the papers with readers who had more money to spend ( not necessarily their own ) . |
| 26 | Clearly contemporary readers who knew both books considered them connected . |
| 27 | 280 , the defendants , owners of a newspaper , carried an advertisement in each issue informing readers who wanted financial advice to write to a given address . |
| 28 | Freda Gray was a pioneer who spent 40 years teaching and working with mentally handicapped young people , many of whom had been abandoned by society . |
| 29 | Those clients who received regular reviews fared better than those who were left to bear the responsibility of contacting the relevant services when the situation , in their opinion , so required . |
| 30 | To many Romans at the time , the Goths were demons who used magical arts to gain victory . ’ |