Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [verb] [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This offence for which you have been found guilty |
| 2 | In December 1986 she had had a transient ischaemic attack for which she had been given enteric coated aspirin ( ecotrin 300 mg/day ) . |
| 3 | She allowed her steady gaze to flicker from the glass which she had been holding firm . |
| 4 | Marie made a conscious effort to close her mouth , which she knew was hanging open . |
| 5 | It could be said that her rights were born together with her ; and from birth with her guardian 's help she could bring the action and endeavour to show that the injury from which she suffered was caused prior to her birth through the fault of the defendant . |
| 6 | Halfway outbound in the hold the scheduled traffic for which we 'd been waiting landed , and we swooped down , just catching the ILS . |
| 7 | Analysis of samples collected from puddles on Hyde Heath by Friends of the Earth found high levels of ammonia , nitrogen and chloride , pollution which they claim is damaging boggy areas and endangering resident species . |
| 8 | Whaling communities in the Faroe Islands have approached Greenpeace for help over growing marine pollution , which they claim is making locally-killed pilot whales inedible . |
| 9 | The panel also ruled that in relation to the convictions for accepting an illegal gratuity and for aiding and abetting the obstruction of Congress , the evidence should be re-examined " witness by witness , line by line and item by item " , in order to determine whether any of it had been " tainted " by North 's televised testimony to congressional investigating committees in 1987 for which he had been granted limited immunity . |
| 10 | When he 'd first arrived he had lived in a succession of bedsitting rooms on the west side , for which he had been charged extortionate rents by landlords who he never met ; the third night after coming to The Bar for the first time he had slept with someone who knew of someone who had a spare room at a much more reasonable price , and Boy had moved in . |
| 11 | She had just come away from yet another meeting in which he had been waxing expansive about what he could do with her business . |
| 12 | The strikers had defied a decree issued by President Azcona on Oct. 8 to end the strike , which he said was causing irreparable damage to the economy . |
| 13 | UK Environment Minister David Trippier , speaking to UNEP 's governing council in Nairobi , criticized other European countries for failing to provide adequate support , which he claimed was jeopardizing key UNEP work on global warming and the ozone layer . |
| 14 | He is entitled to reject a nomination only if the nomination paper does not conform to requirements ( 1983 Act , sch.1 , paras.12,15 ) or if a candidate is disqualified by reason of having been ordered to be detained or imprisoned for more than one year in the British Islands or the Republic of Ireland in respect of an offence or offences of which he has been found guilty ( Representation of the People Act 1981 , s.1 ) . |
| 15 | The supermarket firm , Gateway , is taking legal action against a Northampton firm which it alleges is selling fire-damaged Gateway foods . |
| 16 | Described as " red patriots " the group had only eight deputies in the Supreme Soviet , but observers noted that the ideas which it promoted were gathering increasing support in Russia . |
| 17 | A client who hated her job told me she had been considering other options for two years , without taking any positive action . |
| 18 | Friends and colleagues , most of you I expect are experiencing heavy increases in house and car insurance . |
| 19 | He braked but could not avoid the pedestrian whom he thought was wearing dark clothing . |
| 20 | If they are lax they are realised as short vowels , if tense as diphthongs ( this category including what I have been calling long vowels ) . |
| 21 | So what they did was introduce statistical techniques whereby not every bullet was inspected , a sample was inspected and great conclusions were drawn from very careful examination of a small number of , of items . |
| 22 | But what he did was to go outside broadcasting for two out of his three senior editorial jobs , the first main appointments . |
| 23 | What it did was to produce complex mathematical calculations to show that the risk of their happening was so remote as to be discountable . |
| 24 | They called us in told us some information about there being no work , then left a pile of envelopes on a table telling us we had been made redundant . |