Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some cases I had to accept that information given to me to help me understand problems of academic publishing was to remain confidential , but once credibility had been established the publishers were very helpful . |
| 2 | At the rear of many French houses I had noticed several rabbit-hutches containing the largest rabbits I had ever seen , certainly larger than anything in Britain . |
| 3 | In a couple of minutes I had lost any chance of kinship with Sue by making one of the most basic mistakes . |
| 4 | To my eyes the new pair of partridges were indistinguishable from any of the other birds I had seen that day , but the rest of the audience clearly thought otherwise . |
| 5 | Well now , at the end of that six months I 'd had varied success , sometimes I had poor periods when I was n't detecting much , then I would have a little break , do better , but at the end of the six months nobody told me whether I was stopping there , but twenty years later I did go back to uniform as an inspector . |
| 6 | And er within eighteen months I 'd got three lorries running . |
| 7 | The South Devon of the period , in South Africa , was still able to provide milk and draught power as well as beef and proved a good match for the local Africanders , especially the lighter-coated animals which tended to develop dark muzzles ( disliked at the time by English breeders who preferred a dark red , woolly type with a light muzzle ) . |
| 8 | Twice they disturbed foxes which had found sunlit corners in which to blink away the daylight , and the smell of fox was almost constantly about them . |
| 9 | Shevardnadze was expected to set about forming a coalition among some of the 36 parties which had contested parliamentary seats . |
| 10 | On April 22 Rauf Denktash obtained 67.5 per cent of the vote to be re-elected President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ( TRNC , recognised only by Turkey ) , with relatively few voting for candidates of opposition parties which wanted to offer more concessions to the Greek Cypriots . |
| 11 | The government 's attitude , and its relation to feminists and purists , displayed all the hesitations and ambiguities which had characterized similar debates in the 1880s . |
| 12 | The first half of the 18th century had seemed kind enough : improved climatic conditions and better harvests had combined with the disappearance of bubonic plague to help curtail the mortality crises which had beset Northern Europe up until then . |
| 13 | Based on the 1984 Peace and Friendship Treaty , which created the framework for settling the border disputes which had brought both countries to the brink of war in 1978 [ see p. 32781 ] , the agreement covered 22 points of dispute . |
| 14 | However , Mr Harvey welcomed the ban on cars which had caused endless problems for shoppers in the past . |
| 15 | At the time of writing I am involved , as I mentioned , in some surveys of visitors to the British Museum and I am hoping that we shall be able to get some schools who had had organized visits to the museum , to obtain essays about the visit from the children involved . |
| 16 | A report on Israeli television on June 21 interviewed members of special undercover army units who had infiltrated Palestinian groups in the occupied territories . |
| 17 | In the late afternoon of the second of June a courier rode into Aber on a reeking horse , the last of a chain of messengers who had carried urgent news from Cydewain . |
| 18 | as if to prove that he is in earnest , God immediately afflicts the spies who had caused such panic among the people with the plague . |
| 19 | The securities scandal , which broke in June [ see p. 38292 ] , centred upon the discovery that the Nomura , Nikko , Daiwa and Yamaichi securities houses had made compensation payments to important clients who had suffered financial losses as a result of taking their investment advice . |
| 20 | After the winners were named the pair found it hard to convince some that their glamorous subjects were not professional models but clients who had had new images created for them in Mrs Simmons 's Skinnergate studio . |
| 21 | they were on about that they ship them abroad and th , they were interviewing a lad in London he said oh , he used to get up in the morning and er go down to the phone box and phone this contact they know and he 'd tell you what cars you wanted pinching this day and they pinch them to order ! |
| 22 | The remaining 69 seats were allocated according to votes cast for the national lists of the 27 parties who had collected enough signatures to be eligible . |
| 23 | The Express and the Mail saw the Empire Crusade as a means of uniting the Empire by encouraging free trade within it and both newspapers gave publicity and financial support to those by-election candidates who promised to uphold that line in Parliament . |
| 24 | 3 The subjects she shot included mountainous scenery , wildlife and Canadian Indians — who did n't take very kindly to her intrusions . |
| 25 | Pairs of syllables carefully synchronised were then presented dichotically to subjects who had to report both syllables on each trial . |
| 26 | The measure of previous knowledge here is the percentage of the 30 subjects who reported knowing that junction at least moderately well previously . |
| 27 | Up to the darkroom to begin at once the pictures she had taken this afternoon . |
| 28 | It is Protestant perceptions which explain their actions and those perceptions were amplifying the fundamental divisions between those unionists who remained committed to pragmatic reform , either because they believed in liberal unionism or because they believed that satisfying the Westminster government 's demands for reform was the only way to maintain Stormont , and the right-wingers who wanted to preserve traditional unionism . |
| 29 | the supporters who had exercised such decorum for so long at last gave vent to their true feelings . |
| 30 | American fishkeepers who had maintained this fish had a somewhat different view . |