Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fulsomely congratulatory message to me from Reuters later in the day made me aware that no representative of my rival overseas agencies had been present at the Jeanes conference . |
| 2 | I found it intriguing that the image on the screen was almost indecipherable , especially when blown up to five and a half metres square . |
| 3 | She found it strange and a trifle exciting to sit at the cafe tables , and watch Wehrmacht , Luftwaffe and Nazi naval personnel walking in the leafy boulevards . |
| 4 | He found it odd that the church should block a nursery . |
| 5 | Sabine still found it astonishing that the family were n't making more use of the legend to promote their wine . |
| 6 | Still , overall we thought ourselves lucky because a lot of other houses in the street had rats as well as mice , which was much worse because at least mice do n't bite or nibble at human feet … |
| 7 | Some critics thought him sonorous but the word was not uncomplimentary . |
| 8 | Inexperienced as I was in counselling , I nevertheless felt it essential that the school should offer itself as a support agency through which parents could find their way into the numerous services provided by the state , by the local authority and by voluntary organisations . |
| 9 | The Prince was in his cups , yet I thought it strange because the porter from Godstowe Priory did not arrive until the early hours of the morning . ’ |
| 10 | A concern with theological questions has sometimes prompted new lines of scientific inquiry , as when Richard Bentley ( 1662–1742 ) , wishing to use the latest science to defend his Christian theism , asked Newton whether he thought it possible that the frame of the world could have been produced , from a uniform distribution of matter , by mechanical principles alone . |
| 11 | He thought it likely that the client had ‘ misunderstood ’ the discussion . |
| 12 | Their Parthenon-building ancestors began that culture , and their Byzantine ancestors kept it alive when the rest of Europe had fallen into the dark ages . |
| 13 | Apart from encroachments on Western-held territories , the trend in Japanese strategic thinking made it inevitable that the crisis in East Asia , resulting from the China War , would become closely tied up with the course of events in Europe . |
| 14 | The plan for the evacuation to be in groups of three had to be abandoned , as it would have taken 40 hours to get all of the men out and the gas collecting near them made it imperative that the exercise be completed in much less time . |
| 15 | Well I think he made it clear that no jury could forget what everybody knew er which is of course er the the facts that emerged at the time er that the Birmingham Six were acquitted . |
| 16 | ‘ If an assassin were to dare to enter my kitchen , ’ Auguste announced in tones that made it clear that no villain would have the temerity , ‘ do you not think that poison would be his chosen means , rather than an arsenal of rifles hidden in a kitchen range ? ’ |
| 17 | Mr. Simon Hughes As the Minister 's first answer made it clear that a price differential has been a major cause of the substantial increase in sales of unleaded petrol , and as the Secretary of State is on record as saying that the market has a role to play in cutting the use of petrol across the market in the United Kingdom , by what figures does the Department currently estimate that petrol prices will increase over the next few years ? |
| 18 | The significance of Rookes v. Barnard was that it made it clear that a threat of a breach of contract was unlawful for this purpose but the criticism has been made ( and this indeed was the opinion of the Court of Appeal ) that if intimidation is extended to threats to break contracts ‘ it would overturn or outflank some elementary principles of contract law , ’ notably the doctrine of privity of contract , which holds that one who is not a party to a contract can not found a claim upon it or sue for breach of it . |
| 19 | Reynolds held talks with leading politicians on Feb. 19 , in an attempt to find cross-party agreement on the case , but made it clear that a referendum to dilute the constitutional clause on abortion would be avoided if possible . |
| 20 | However , the Un Secretary-General , Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , made it clear that a conference would take place only if sufficient progress towards an outline agreement had previously been made . |
| 21 | Evidence in favour of this interpretation of the phrase ‘ the physical environment ’ is found in DoE Circular 55/77 ( now withdrawn ) which made it clear that a statement of pollution policy could appropriately form part of a structure plan , albeit necessarily of a general nature since they are policies stated by an authority ( county council ) responsible neither for air pollution control nor for most development control . |
| 22 | The Court of Appeal made it clear that an employer could not use a restrictive covenant in an employment contract to protect confidential information unless that information could be classified as a trade secret or equivalent . |
| 23 | George Frank ( Textiles ) Ltd ( [ 1976 ] AC 443 ) the House of Lords made it clear that the Court of Appeal is bound by decisions of the House of Lords whatever its views as to the correctness of those decisions . |
| 24 | The Court of Appeal made it clear that the Chief Constable had authority to intervene , but it declined to compel him to do so . |
| 25 | At the time of delivery the plaintiff 's employee tendered a delivery note for signature which made it clear that the contract was to be on the plaintiff 's conditions . |
| 26 | However Mr Olsen made it clear that the company had no intention of allowing its stake to fall below 50 per cent . |
| 27 | This document made it clear that the responsibility for determining coordinators ' roles rested with the heads , who were encouraged to choose from the 1985 specification provided by the Authority . |
| 28 | And then she read , in a copy of The Stage that happened to be turned in her direction , a paragraph about him which made it clear that the wife whom he was talking about in this present tense had died a year ago , and that he had had a row of flops in London . |
| 29 | The results , announced a few days later , made it clear that the proposition had been carried by a very large majority . |
| 30 | The Bournemouth decision made it clear that the Unity Campaign 's success had been more apparent than real . |