Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each agreed to provide practical assistance to the other in times of difficulty . |
| 2 | This involved rushing several buckets of water into his improvised shelter . |
| 3 | What enraged the liberals was that this involved placing political appointees at much lower levels of the hierarchies than had been usual , to increase the positive responsiveness of the bureaucracy to his policies . |
| 4 | This involved adding further fields of information relating to these staff to the " persons " data base , including job titles , pay and allowances and the date the person took up his/her present post . |
| 5 | In 1936 the British began to plan colonial broadcasting for indigenous people , but these plans were shelved when world war broke out a second time . |
| 6 | Some began to negotiate better terms for their own patients which led to accusations of a two-tier service . |
| 7 | When eventually a modus vivendi was reached on 14 September this purported to bring provisional solutions to the most important questions of immediate interest arising between France and Vietnam' . |
| 8 | Although this included controlling overall levels of local government spending , the role of local government was not in question . |
| 9 | This meant providing informed answers to a number of questions . |
| 10 | This meant swapping old loans for new , with foreign public funds backing the new debt . |
| 11 | The roads were usually wide enough for two vehicles to pass without slowing down , but in dry weather this meant enveloping each other in a cloud of choking lava dust . |
| 12 | This meant unclasping one hand from the other , and the mite took instant advantage , working its way up into his wrist . |
| 13 | After disaster at Dongkhe , and the horrors of the Cocxa gorge , the French fortresses at Caobang , Langson and Laokay were abandoned but , in their retreat , the French had lost 6,000 men in what has been called their greatest colonial defeat since Montcalm had died at Quebec . |
| 14 | Japan 's Constitution , drawn up under United States auspices after the Second World War , had limited the country 's military activities to self-defence , in recognition of the Japanese aggression in the region during the 1930s and 1940s , and the possibility of changing this had caused considerable consternation among various South and East Asian countries . |
| 15 | This had aroused international interest from such countries as Argentina , Zimbabwe and Australia . |
| 16 | This had asserted American interest in the Middle East and had given pledges of support to those states which felt threatened by communism . |
| 17 | For some reason quite beyond Harry 's comprehension , somebody had been thrown from a window in Prague in the year of grace 1618 and this had provoked thirty years of bloody conflict all over Europe . |
| 18 | This had provoked Democratic infighting in the Senate . |
| 19 | This had allowed one end of the pin to disengage from the buckle backplate , thus allowing the clamping lever to displace , effectively unfastening the belt . |
| 20 | This had started this morning before erm Rosie and Jim . |
| 21 | Supposing all this had happened three months from now . " |
| 22 | of USA stated that he was licensed in embalming in Ohio , and this had required two years in an academic college and one year 's mortuary service . |
| 23 | Oh ye er this had got educational video on the thing |
| 24 | This had forced general managers of the second wave into the reactive mould characteristic of their predecessors in the first wave . |
| 25 | The talks at Akkerman had apparently cleared up disagreements with the Turks , but the Shah , and particularly his son , believed that the Russian domestic crisis of December 1825 had created enough uncertainty in St Petersburg to justify a challenge to the Russo-Persian treaty of 1813 . |
| 26 | Moreover , the British had lost 6,097 sailors to Germany 's 2,545 . |
| 27 | Of these forty-five had received some sort of special training for a diplomatic career , and a good many had studied outside Russia . |
| 28 | All Girls under twenty-one had to get written permission from their parents and although fathers still tended to be against the idea , no one appeared to have committed forgery . |
| 29 | Dr Devious had finished twelve lengths behind St Jovite in the Irish Derby and they were separated by less than a nostril yesterday . |
| 30 | Some of them were some had got old cars in where the tyres , if it was a puncture it was these great big wheels with beaded edge tyres which you can , you put on in quite a different way from the modern car tyres . |