Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The effectiveness of the new law allowing confiscation of drugs profits was amply demonstrated over the years that followed and soon the extent of the huge profits being made by the big drug smuggling rings was revealed .
2 The morning I woke up and realised that perhaps the reason I resented young Tulloch s much was because I too was an observer of human beings and that this most likely derived from an equal failure to establish satisfactory human relationships , was not a happy one .
3 The Committee drew attention to the fact that during the experiment fewer Members had been formally penalised for bad behaviour than in several recent sessions , and reported that neither the Speaker nor the Community had any evidence that rowdiness had significantly increased ; on the possible long-term effect , early evidence was ‘ mildly encouraging ’ .
4 They estimated the total population at 3000–4000 animals and discovered that almost a quarter lived around Banks Peninsula , near the South Island 's largest city , Christchurch .
5 It was less crowded at the rear of the room and he thought of pausing there , where he could watch la Principessa and still draw a breath of air that was not perfumed half to death , but then he patted the slender cigar in the breast pocket of the dinner-jacket that had been hand-tailored to fit his sinew-hardened body and decided that only a whiff of tobacco would fully cleanse his nostrils of the mix of scents that hung in the over-heated room .
6 Nor did I desist until the patients were worn out , and said that now the devil had fled .
7 Starting with research on small towns in the mid-1930s and moving on to larger cities in the next decade , successive community studies analysed political processes as one aspect of the social life of the locality , and concluded that only a handful of people were influential in setting major decisions ( the Lynds , 1937 ; Warner , 1943 ) .
8 It was argued before the Court that this was contrary to the fundamental principle that products must freely move throughout the Community , The European Court of Justice agreed and held that once a product had been lawfully produced and marketed in a member state , other member states must recognise that fact and allow it to be imported and sold in its own territory .
9 McKeever , Suberi and Van Deventer ( 1972 ) replicated Hines 's experiment but found that neither the magnitude nor direction of visual field asymmetry was affected by the presence of a central fixation digit .
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