Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under Irish law , abortion is a criminal offence and recently the courts ruled that even the provision of information on abortion is now illegal . |
| 2 | They were both slightly embarrassed at how they had clung to each other when the thunder crashed and how the daughter had nestled in , practically under , her mother 's nightgown when the sheeting rain slashed down around them , beating on the windows , just as when she was a little girl . |
| 3 | Times are so hard at the Manor Ground that even the manager has had to return his club car . |
| 4 | The results of this experiment showed that both the animacy of the actor and acted-upon , and whether actor or acted-upon was thematic , affected subjects ' use of passives . |
| 5 | Saturday arrived but still no luggage . |
| 6 | ‘ We shall bury him , ’ said the Oak , and Moy saw that already the Tree Spirits were scrabbling at the earth , their roots scraping and shovelling , so that , quite soon , a deep trench was opened . |
| 7 | Isaiah wrote that whenever the Bible , as the Word of God , was proclaimed it would ‘ never return void ’ . |
| 8 | But the letter to Ritschl ( if we take it at face value , as we presumably should ) shows that Nietzsche had as yet no thought of basing a book on these subjects , although something pertinent to " Greek music drama " or " Socrates and tragedy " would , no doubt have been among the various matters envisaged for the miscellany in the " literary history or the " new ideas and views " . |
| 9 | Cameron wanted to give him a computer , but Alexia prevailed and soon the house was full of twangs and scales again . |
| 10 | Her voice with its note of aggrieved disapproval suggested that both the place and the praying were equally reprehensible . |
| 11 | Run-on transcription assays in isolated nuclei showed that both the plasmid and the ble gene were transcribed in an alpha-amanitin sensitive manner , in both procyclic and bloodstream stage transformants ( Fig. 5 ; compare lanes c and a in P-P and B-P ) . |
| 12 | Patterson found that only the problem child was permitted to be out of control in interaction with the parents , while all of the children were permitted to be out of control when interacting with each other . |
| 13 | They had to retrace their steps to pick it up again , while a second team discovered that neither a policeman nor the Council knew where the Local Authority parcels office was . |
| 14 | At the other end of the scale , none of the small libraries indicated that over a quarter of any individual 's time was devoted to training , although there was an overlap between small and medium sized libraries in other categories . |
| 15 | Her husband averred that doubtless the orchestra and the pipers would arrange things to their own satisfaction , and further opined that the Duchess should leave the ball 's arrangements to those who were paid to worry about the details , but the Duchess was insistent on voicing her concerns this afternoon . |
| 16 | A few large splashes fell and then a lot . |
| 17 | As the site of Montagu House was within the area of the block plan design , the article asserted that neither the Duke nor Burn would be disinterested assessors . |
| 18 | IT WAS like reading the last page of a well-written romance story to see John McCarthy and Jill Morrell relaxed and together a year after the end of his ordeal with Arab terrorists . |
| 19 | LORD JUSTICE RALPH GIBSON said that neither the plaintiff nor the defendant applied to the court at any time before judgment for an order under Order 5 , rule 5(2) appointing the defendant to represent all or any of the members of the management committee . |
| 20 | However , a statement by the Auditor General suggested that both the President and the Finance Minister would have had to sign the final audit report of the government fund for " secret services " which was budgeted at R380,000,000 for the current year . |
| 21 | Recent UN studies showed that both the government and rebel factions were involved in logging [ see ED 59/60 ] . |
| 22 | Among ADAS 's five regions , the NAO discovered that only the south-west had a strategy for delivering public good advice on pollution , diversification and conservation . |
| 23 | Owen thought that rather a pity as she had seemed very competent , quite capable of sorting out both Yussuf and his wife . |
| 24 | A telephone failure at Eyemouth as a result of severe conditions meant that neither the coxswain nor second coxswain could be alerted , so the un-named 44ft Waveney class lifeboat 44–001 on relief duty at the station set out with the assistant mechanic , James Dougal , at the helm . |
| 25 | Gordon left after just a year . |
| 26 | So , in a case where the seller was to build a yacht for the buyer and they agreed that on payment of the first instalment the vessel and all materials used in its construction should become the absolute property of the buyer , the court held that nevertheless no property passed on payment of the first instalment because at that time the boat 's construction had not commenced and the materials to be used had not yet been identified , McDougall v. Aeromarine of Emsworth Ltd. ( 1958 Q.B. ) . |
| 27 | Legend held that once a year an angel came to dance on the highest peak . |
| 28 | The nun realised that now the child had no one to protect her , some of the other children were making up for lost time . |
| 29 | Imaz found that about a quarter of the Argentine industrial elite , at a time when industrialisation was getting well under way , were self-made men from neither middle- nor upper-class backgrounds ( Imaz 1964 ) . |
| 30 | It has had a changing intake and many staff believed that recently the ability range of pupils had fallen somewhat . |