Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is the position where , the patient being incapable , the parent or guardian refused to sanction further treatment ? |
| 2 | The author or authors wanted to resolve apparent contradictions in order to make the law more usable and accessible . |
| 3 | Finally we asked teachers if their school or department had undertaken any kind of SSE exercise without using the Solihull booklet . |
| 4 | They returned to their seats , where Carlos had bought iced colas for them all . |
| 5 | The journey , arranged and paid for by Baron Grimm , was by the slowest means necessitating lengthy stops , where Mozart had to pay living expenses . |
| 6 | Authorities such as Rochdale ( Grt Manchester ) and Tyne & Wear had used existing legislation to declare informal IIAs before 1977 . |
| 7 | Melrose was granted permission to return to play the amateur code by the New South Wales Rugby Union after an eight-month dispute where Melrose threatened to take legal action . |
| 8 | In reply , the plaintiffs argued that either Pan Am or Aviv had waived that protection by knowingly leaking the report to the media , and Chief Judge Platt referred the issue to Magistrate Judge Allyne Ross for a ruling . |
| 9 | The rapid expansion of combined or multi-modal transport in the 1960's , and the fact that no convention or treaty existed covering such transport led the ICC to publish a set of Uniform Rules for a Combined Transport Document ( ’ CTD ’ ) in 1973 , and to revise these rules in 1975 ( ’ CTD Rules ’ ) . |
| 10 | This does not mean that conventional men of intelligence and ability thought that either science or society had solved all problems , though in some respects , such as those which concerned the basic pattern of an economy and the basic pattern of the physical universe , some very able ones felt that all substantial ones had been solved . |
| 11 | It was rather as though Attlee or Macmillan had spent post-war autumn holidays at Saratoga Springs while eschewing any contact with the United Nations in New York . |
| 12 | Where fundholders had encouraged local hospitals to improve the services for their own patients , other patients attending the hospital also benefited . |
| 13 | And , avoiding the area , now shiny with disinfectant , where Carter had fallen most prisoners finished their lunch . |
| 14 | Not just in the alleys of St Jude 's , where John-William had taken good care never to be devoured himself , but everywhere . |
| 15 | If you rate the difficulty or effort needed to achieve those objectives , it will help you to avoid choosing all the most difficult ones in the first week . |
| 16 | It was further expressed in the outlawing of certain categories of weapon , ‘ poison or poisoned weapons ’ and ‘ arms , projectiles or material calculated to cause unnecessary suffering ’ . |
| 17 | In addition , Article 23 says that it is especially forbidden ( a ) ‘ to employ poison or poisoned weapons ’ ; ( d ) ‘ to declare that no quarter will be given ’ ; and ( e ) ‘ to employ arms , projectiles or material calculated to cause unnecessary suffering ’ . |
| 18 | Cocoa production had largely shifted from the coastal area , where disease had destroyed many cocoa trees , into Ashanti . |
| 19 | But he believed that MacDonald had made some soundings in a coalition direction , and in a speech at Hull on 19 July he went out of his way to reject ‘ the idea that a national government such as existed during the war should be set up in the present difficulties ’ . |
| 20 | Plainly , a court which was considering whether to impose a community service order while an earlier order was still current should bear in mind that Parliament had prescribed 240 hours as the maximum that could be ordered on a single occasion . |
| 21 | Nationality as such played little part in most respondents ' educational life-chances or expectations ; and educational attainment in turn was far more important than nationality as a determinant of occupational position , although Russians did enjoy some advantages in applying for minor bureaucratic positions because of their better knowledge of the language in which most state business was conducted . |
| 22 | Although there appears no evidence that Roe did do any work under this option , they were certainly deepening their workings in the Coniston Mine , on the Bonsor Vein . |
| 23 | Bush 's statement followed reports that he was " upset , angry and perplexed " by Sununu 's apparent efforts to circumvent travel restrictions imposed by Bush on May 9 , after an inquiry had revealed that Sununu had made widespread use of military aircraft for personal and Republican Party business . |
| 24 | Both suggestions caused right-wing critics of the US administration to claim that Baker had made unnecessary concessions ; Richard Perle , former Assistant Defence Secretary under President Reagan , commented that " we are strong , and just at the moment when we are strong , we are making concessions " , and he warned : " Any American official making concessions to the Soviets today has to explain himself . " |
| 25 | At the time of the interviews , there was a growing feeling in some LEAs that projects had developed unintended procedures which would be difficult to dismantle . |
| 26 | Atmospheric pollution in Athens reached such a high level on October 3 that authorities had to ban all traffic from the centre of the Greek capital . |
| 27 | Her mother had tried to force feed her in the past as her doctor had said that Maria had to gain some weight but Maria had only cried and refused to swallow the solid food . |
| 28 | Once Shamir had rejected this invitation , Peres entered into intensive negotiations in an attempt to achieve a majority . |
| 29 | The court heard that Lawrie had found another job with a bus company , but had lost it when police told her employer about the pending court case . |
| 30 | The Jerusalem that Richard tried to capture 700 years ago is proof of that . |