Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Howden was renowned for centuries as the site of an important horse fair which lasted six days , beginning on 26th September . |
| 2 | In Chapter 14 we saw that information is a very special economic commodity which frequently causes indigestion in freely competitive markets . |
| 3 | Central government intervention in local government tendering began with the Local Government , Planning and Land Act 1980 which applied competitive tendering to local authority direct labour organisations ( DLO ) . |
| 4 | The mass picket helped justify such subsequent developments as more mobile squads of police , greater mutual aid between forces and the introduction of the Employment Act 1980 which outlawed secondary picketing and allowed the police to determine the maximum size of the picket . |
| 5 | Third , there is a small but important category of provision deriving authority from Section 137 in the Local Government Act 1972 which allowed local authorities to spend the product of a rate of 2p in the pound on anything ‘ which in their opinion is in the interests of their area or any part of it or all or some of its inhabitants ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Small , intimate and European ’ is how owner Stephen Flannery describes the ambience of Bar 10 which opened last month . |
| 7 | Even within the United Kingdom , an Act of Parliament ( the Northern Ireland Parliament , set up under the Government of Ireland Act 1920 which withheld certain powers from it ) has been held to be limited in respect of the range of authority which it conferred ( Belfast Corporation v O.D. Cars Ltd [ 1960 ] AC 490 ) . |
| 8 | From Hut 5 he had thirty yards of snow space to cross . |
| 9 | This has been enacted in the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1958 which required those tribunals listed in the Act to give a statement , written or oral , of the reasons for a decision , if requested by the individual . |
| 10 | In putting through Parliament the Law Commissions Act 1965 he created separate Law Commissions for England and Wales , and for Scotland , each with a seconded High Court judge as chairman , and a staff of qualified lawyers and others with the obligation to investigate particular questions referred to it , or on its own initiative to conduct a regular programme of inquiry into the general state of the law or any particular question , civil or criminal , which they chose to select . |
| 11 | The ambiguity in Soviet interpretations of the 1931 treaty partly derived from Article 6 which permitted both parties full freedom of action to establish any relations and alliances with third parties provided that such links do not contradict the other provisions of the treaty . |
| 12 | Here , as well as an engine house and other works , is Mandale Sough , a drainage channel one mile long which took twenty-three years to dig . |
| 13 | In which case those who perpetrated this outrage on British culture are in good company , whether they were flying the flag of ‘ racism and sexism ’ or not . |
| 14 | At age 29 she underwent successful parathyroidectomy for primary hyperparathyroidism with nodular hyperplasia . |
| 15 | When it was realised that the possible use of videos was assuming considerable significance those who answered this question positively were asked for examples as to where it would be helpful . |
| 16 | It is a real moral aberration that leaves at liberty those who violated human dignity and those who rose up against the constitutional order . ’ |
| 17 | In one year alone he took 334 days off . |
| 18 | but they can come and go , I mean the year four they lost two teachers in the last two weeks cos their husbands got other jobs and the contracts were just terminated and , so it 's quite a , a moveable circle of people , er , but just , they have actually sacked one of the lads that came out with us , they wo n't be renewing his contract next year , he only had a two year contract |