Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] the [adv] [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If in any particular case because of a failure of the court to follow the rules or the well established practice there is a likelihood that injustice may have been done … a case should be relisted for hearing . ’
2 During the First World War a number of Ministries set up regional offices and the newly created Ministry of Health set up nine regions — an experiment to be rudely terminated in 1921 as an economy measure .
3 The break-up of Pangaea ( Fig. 2.16 ) generated a considerable length of passive continental margins and analysis of the palaeomagnetic record of the continents and the subsequently created ocean floor has given us a fairly good idea of the timing of most of these rifting episodes .
4 With , depending on your tyre sizes , Range Rover 3.54:1 diffs and the already fitted overdrive .
5 They are attempting to chart a career path through the foggy waters of appraisal , Special Responsibilities and the radically changed scenario of personal and school-based staff development .
6 But the Japanese soon realised the commercial potential of whaling and , adopting steamships and the newly invented harpoon gun , their fleets grew .
7 The decision of the Conference , by a margin of nearly three to one , to stay in the Government , fed MacDonald 's fears that the newly adopted War Aims would become a mere ‘ plaything of Governments … .
8 There were two side aisles and the centrally arranged seating consisted of wooden benches aisles and the centrally arranged seating consisted of wooden benches with cast-iron frames .
9 There were two side aisles and the centrally arranged seating consisted of wooden benches aisles and the centrally arranged seating consisted of wooden benches with cast-iron frames .
10 It is expected that the process will make it possible for rare and fragile mummies and other bodies such as the European bog bodies and the recently discovered Ice Man to be accessible to the public without putting the originals at risk .
11 The house next door , Number 3 , was let out as three flats , as can be seen from the three bell-pulls and the much worn doorstep .
12 In anticipation of an army coup , Croatia and Slovenia had placed on alert the security forces under their control — the police and the newly formed gendarmerie , the so-called specijalci .
13 For all his wayward impulses and the much documented erraticism of his '80s career , this contradictory figure has — through cunning , imagination and sheer force of will — constantly reassessed and reasserted himself as the most focused member of the old guard .
14 From Berwickshire and Bathgate he found rare specimens of at least four fossil land amphibians including the earliest known ancestor of frogs and salamanders ; millipedes and the earliest known harvestman spider .
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