Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [adj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gradually it dawned on Peter that Molland wanted more than confirmation of his decisions and to demonstrate his own honesty : he honestly believed that this numbingly tedious attention to detail was doing Peter a favour by distracting him from his grief . |
| 2 | The IDA responded to the charges by pointing out that it had brought Dr McDonald in to allay local fears after a residents ' spokesperson had said that an independent medical opinion could satisfy the residents and noted that this internationally renowned expert had pronounced the factory to be entirely safe . |
| 3 | To Peggy Say , Anderson 's sister , it seemed that some particularly keen sympathy compelled North never to turn down her requests to see him , when all she would do was sit at his desk upbraiding him and complaining and crying ; and when all he could do was repeat , cryptically , infuriatingly , that the government was doing everything it could possibly think of . |
| 4 | Staff estimated that this very stiff target was attained relatively rarely , so that , at most , one in five of the prisoners actually received pay on any one day . |
| 5 | With a geometrical approach using generalised surfaces called orbifolds and a recent theorem of French mathematician Pierre Berard , they showed that two differently shaped drum skins could produce the same sound . |
| 6 | Lyell saw that this more competitive model of relationships had implications for his historical model of biogeography . |
| 7 | Echoing Kant , he insisted that any properly objective enquiry could not impose on its material methods worked out in advance or in relation to some other topic ; only within the context of encounter with and experience of the object itself could it discover how to speak of it and enquire into it . |
| 8 | v. Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food the Court of Appeal , while regarding itself as bound by the view that Article 86 gave rise to a claim for damages , held that another directly applicable provision , Article 30 ( dealing with quantitative restrictions on imports ) attracted only the remedy of judicial review . |