Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Prior to the conference various groups met to produce short contributions to the debate . |
| 2 | PRESSURE on the Government to reconsider its strong opposition to full membership of the European Monetary System mounted yesterday after the authorities failed to arrest another slide in the pound . |
| 3 | On June 11 the Supreme Court struck down a federal law prohibiting the desecration of the flag ; a proposed constitutional amendment — supported by Bush — to prohibit such activities failed to generate sufficient support in Congress , although it obtained a simple majority in each chamber [ see pp. 37241 ; 37525 ] . |
| 4 | He said the US authorities planned to allocate 50,000 places to refugees from the Soviet Union in the next 12 months . |
| 5 | These actions do not support the allegations that Dista Products failed to take appropriate action on this issue . |
| 6 | Verbal abuse was traditionally a crime among the Sinhalese , but the courts stopped trying this offence in the 1820s in the Low Country and a decade later in Kandyan districts . |
| 7 | The GCE and CSE examinations were conducted by a variety of Boards and , although subject experts tried to judge some standard of achievement , it was basically a normative assessment i.e. the same percentage pass the examination each year . |
| 8 | When the guardians proposed moving some families to Henfield , a few miles away , a fight broke out which could only be stopped by troops from Brighton . |
| 9 | Jews empowered to have friendly relations with Aryans . |
| 10 | Re-constituted in 1979 , with a clerk provided by NACRO and administrative expenses funded by a grant from a charitable trust , MPs and peers from all the main political parties met to discuss current issues of criminal justice policy and practice . |
| 11 | Editor , — Don Nutbeam and colleagues report that smoking education projects based in schools failed to show significant effects on smoking behaviour , knowledge , beliefs , or values . |
| 12 | Iraq 's half-dozen Kurdish parties stopped fighting each other in 1987 to form the Kurdistan Democratic Front , committed to democracy for Iraq and autonomy for Kurdistan . |
| 13 | Three of the schools visited made regular use of a video recording of The Machine Gunners as a basis for a further topic work . |
| 14 | In other words , children who were poor readers seemed to have greater insight into likely difficulties for other readers . |
| 15 | English Electric Class 37s in particular were subjected to near-total rebuilds , involving replacement of the main generator with an alternator , regeared CP7 bogies , and in some cases Ruston or Mirrlees power unit , electric-heat generator , or ballast weights added to provide extra adhesion for particular freight work . |
| 16 | One or two of his supporters turned to direct malicious glances at Dr McNab , who was still leaning calmly against the ledge and listening attentively to what his prosecutor had to say . |
| 17 | Apple Computer Inc yesterday took the new PowerCD CD-ROM product , announced at Hannover last week , to the US market , saying that it expects to sell 1.5m of the things by the end of this year ; it also said it has shipped more than 1m copies of its QuickTime multimedia software since its launch in January 1992 , and has formed a new unit , New Media to increase market access to multimedia technologies , expand multimedia content and develop new markets for Mac technology ; the PowerCD comes with AppleDesign Powered Speakers claimed to deliver high-quality sound at half the price of similar stereo speakers . |
| 18 | The speed at which these pulses returned told environmental experts at the town hall about the build up of dangerous exhaust fumes on High Row . |
| 19 | Results showed that the amount of time subjects spent reading each group of three words varied as a function of clause and sentence boundaries . |
| 20 | Even if antibody concentrations began to decline 4–6 weeks after vaccination with IPV , the high titres achieved initially would be likely to persist throughout much of the period of maximum risk of paralytic poliomyelitis , which in most developing countries occurs between 6 and 18 months of age . |
| 21 | The G7 nations began pressing last year for international laws aimed at protecting the world 's forests , but North and South have remained divided over should foot the bill . |
| 22 | These schools appeared to have several things in common : first , each could be characterized as an ‘ innovative ’ school in some sense . |
| 23 | The Boards ' lines of defence against this — replacement costs were hypothetical and difficult to estimate , tax complications might follow — read like a weary defence of the status quo , but the Ministry did in the end accept that their creation of special ad hoc depreciation reserves did go some way to meeting the point . |
| 24 | Despite a concomitant drop in household disposable incomes , some sectors did report significant increases in spending — during the third quarter of 1989 , new car registrations recorded 20-30 per cent rises above levels in previous years . |
| 25 | Resentment at press-gang methods had caused sporadic revolts in rural Java , though the full extent of this horror was not yet known . |
| 26 | A few weeks before , her brothers had deposited some things in her kitchen for safe-keeping , and while they were there Barbs had called and had asked , in her friendly and inquisitive fashion , what the cardboard boxes contained . |
| 27 | Our solitary eyes had arranged this meeting at the restaurant of Hostal Rosario , La Paz . |
| 28 | I dared not move until my eyes had made more sense of the place . |
| 29 | The black eyes had recovered some spark of life , a question in them , as the old woman lay looking at her . |
| 30 | Where previous designs had riveted aluminium-alloy plates for the structure and gas turbine engines , the AP1-88 employs marine construction methods and diesel power . |