Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1977–81 material is thought to be essentially complete , except for the exclusion of 12% who had a previous history of malignancy or had undergone gastric surgery or who were given the drug for another diagnosis than a peptic ulcer related disease . |
| 2 | None of the patients were pregnant at the time of the study or had taken any drug which could potentially interfere with gall bladder motility . |
| 3 | What was the fault that had deserved this punishment ? |
| 4 | Practice that had made these things second nature to the T'ang . |
| 5 | This position was not only the culmination of ideas that had been knocking around in Balcon 's mind for the past six years or so , it was also a declaration of a new confidence in the possibility of British cinema , and a final casting off of the inferiority complex that had impaired British filmmakers since 1918 . |
| 6 | A moment later the door creaked open and he appeared , or a fair facsimile , a very old man with grey hair down to his shoulders , a black dresscoat of velvet that had seen better days , a pair of very baggy corduroy trousers beneath of the type worn by peasants on the farm . |
| 7 | In 1844 he became a regional committee member of the newly formed British Archaeological Association and began to conduct larger excavations , communicating his discoveries through the Association 's Journal . |
| 8 | Where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger due to the faulty execution of any work of construction , maintenance or repair by an independent contractor employed by the occupier , the occupier is not to be treated without more as answerable for the danger if in all the circumstances he had acted reasonably in entrusting the work to an independent contractor and had taken such steps ( if any ) as he reasonably ought in order to satisfy himself that the contractor was competent and that the work had been properly done . |
| 9 | ( c ) Independent contractors Section 2(4) ( b ) states : Where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger due to the faulty execution of any work of construction , maintenance or repair by an independent contractor employed by the occupier , the occupier is not to be treated without more as answerable for the danger if in all the circumstances he had acted reasonably in entrusting the work to an independent contractor and had taken such steps ( if any ) as he reasonably ought in order to satisfy himself that the contractor was competent and that the work had been properly done . |
| 10 | The results of the survey were published in the spring of 1988 : the views expressed in it naturally reflected the fact that the Action Plan 's implementation had been done at almost breakneck speed and had required much effort on the part of FE lecturers . |
| 11 | The profits to be made out of wine in the first half of the century encouraged substantial farmers to let out their outlying fields , landowners and municipalities their hitherto unproductive wastes , on rabassa morta — a lease of land based on the life of the vine and intended to bring bad land into cultivation . |
| 12 | Ulster 's Lord Chief Justice Hutton said Christie had carefully planned the murder and had made sustained efforts to evade being caught , showing that her ‘ residual mental responsibility was very considerable . ’ . |
| 13 | So saying , he slotted a video into the telly and began to watch old films of air fights in the Great War . |
| 14 | Results of the first round indicated that the PLA had obtained over 60 per cent of the vote and had won 160 seats outright , even before the run-off elections . |
| 15 | Tony reversed his car and turned to take another look at the theatre — there was nothing there . |
| 16 | Her colleagues included a Roman Catholic principal of a teacher 's college , an Anglican and a man who was starting a united mission teacher 's college and had written several books on teacher training . |
| 17 | In fact , by then Reagan had served a valuable apprenticeship in the communications industry and had completed two terms as governor of the most populous state in the union with a GNP comparable to that of Canada and exceeded by only six national economies . |
| 18 | The ex-Croydon Corporation E/1s were still in sound condition and lived to see another day ; they were transferred to New Cross depôt . |
| 19 | US State Department official Margaret Tutwiler stated on March 5 that the US government had insisted for more than a month on a public inquiry into the current political violence and had offered technical assistance in its investigations . |
| 20 | The nurse was aware of her humiliation and kept throwing sympathetic glances . |
| 21 | Ideally , the hotel name should feature prominently on a large sign , either over the gateway opening or mounted above the wall each side of the entrance and angled to face incoming traffic . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , they allowed his notice to expire without further action and proceeded to recruit new employees . |
| 23 | This had an iron undershot wheel but ceased operating some time in the 1920s . |
| 24 | Mary Hammond-Heath had distinguished herself as junior to a QC in a fraud case that had made national headlines , and was inclined to regard the Bouveries ' life as an excellent test case for some of her theories . |
| 25 | A preliminary investigation is shown that uses a small scale statistical analyser to process text that had caused great problems for the rule-based system . |
| 26 | Ironically , it was change that had driven Tubby back to active service — change in civvy street and in the set ways of the pre-war world he had been used to . |
| 27 | However , there was one measure of early interaction that did predict social competence in three year olds . |
| 28 | We need a public commitment today from the Government that they will be prepared to give technical and financial assistance to any buyer that wished to develop thin slab technology at Ravenscraig . |
| 29 | It had a breathless untidiness , with an underlying stratum of solid good things : expensive carpets and curtains in dark plain colours , antique furniture ranging from valuable to junk , but having in common a charm or whimsicality that had made each piece claim her attention originally . |
| 30 | The justices either failed to make any determination or failed to make any findings ( or state any reasons for finding ) as to whether ( i ) there was any genuine alternative to the making of a secure accommodation order ; ( ii ) all other alternatives had been comprehensively considered and rejected . |