Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it had been common for surgeons to expect suppuration of the wound as an inevitable concomitant of amputation , Alanson demonstrated that by these methods it was possible for these wounds to heal ‘ by the first intention ’ , that is , without significant infection . |
| 2 | There was undoubtedly a big market , as many car firms found that without small robots they could not complete the automation of their paint spraying lines . |
| 3 | We found that on two occasions it was unable to copy a large file across 5 floppy discs . |
| 4 | When , however , in one district , private hospitals attempted to provide data they found that in most cases they could not identify patients ' districts of residence ( S Israel , personal communication ) . |
| 5 | In April 1983 , teachers reported that in some areas they had not been paid for four months and 828 schools had been closed down . |
| 6 | The Cabinet agreed that in these circumstances it was inevitable that the decision on this issue should be left to a free vote . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , he realised that for political reasons it would be very difficult to do less than had been proposed in the Bill introduced in 1938 . |
| 8 | The following month , after an appeal by Iranian opposition leader Rajavi , Iraq announced that for seven days it would halt attacks on towns . |
| 9 | I argued that in most cases it was quite clear that the projects officers had not paid any serious attention to gender issues . |
| 10 | However , the Middle East Economic Digest of Oct. 26 noted that in some quarters it was being interpreted as " a gambit to force parliament to commute the sentences , thereby improving Turkey 's international image " . |
| 11 | He acknowledged that in some cases it could be hundreds of pounds extra but argued that people would still be allowed to go to law . |
| 12 | These were not people with chronic or serious illnesses and yet they claimed that on most days they had some sort of ache or pain or just a feeling of being ‘ run down ’ or ‘ drained ’ . |
| 13 | However , the Oxford Study showed that in many cases it was not a factor , since very little use was made of this procedure , despite its obvious advantages to the defendant . |
| 14 | Magistrates heard that on both occasions she was travelling at more than ninety miles an hour . |
| 15 | In my judgment , on the facts as found by the judge , he was entitled to reach the conclusion that consideration existed and in those circumstances I would not disturb that finding . |
| 16 | Though it stated its hope that planning authorities would allocate sufficient land , it warned that in some cases it might have to take the initiative and , if local authorities refused planning permission , go to appeal . |
| 17 | This meant that on special occasions I had to wear a black pleated skirt , white blouse and black beret , with white socks and black shoes and , when the weather was cold , a black cloak . |
| 18 | This meant that on some occasions they would be conducted by Busacher , on others by Anton , the old répétiteur , and in emergencies by their own lead violinist . |
| 19 | This meant that for long periods they were uncomfortably silent because they could think of nothing to say . |
| 20 | This meant that for six weeks he was on a special bed that could be turned so that he spent some hours on his back and some on his front , never getting off the bed at all . |
| 21 | Some studies stated quite explicitly that they had chosen to study young men only because they felt that as male ethnographers they could only portray the male point of view . |
| 22 | She knew that to outside eyes they were behaving like two civilised adults , even though that was the last thing she felt . |
| 23 | She nodded assent and as I turned to lead the way I thought that at close quarters she was probably younger than I 'd assumed , or else that she was older but immature : an odd impression , fleeting and gone . |
| 24 | The court thought that on these facts it was potentially misleading to give the full Ghosh direction . |
| 25 | The Employment Appeal Tribunal thought that in most circumstances it would be reasonable to imply a term along the lines that an employer will not treat his employees ‘ arbitrarily , capriciously or inequitably ’ in matters of remuneration . |
| 26 | He said how on three occasions he won but on three occasions he lost . |
| 27 | I started it basically on my own initiative and I said that for six months I would use it on people that I was going to sentence just to maintain a one judge control over the project and see how it was going . |
| 28 | One fundholder said that within five years he expected to see practices controlling every aspect of health care . |
| 29 | The KNU president Gen. Bo Mya , in a letter to Saw Maung dated Nov. 30 , 1989 , said that after 40 years it had been " proven beyond doubt that the civil war , which is basically a political problem , can not be settled by military means " , and that " the most correct and suitable means of achieving [ the KNU 's ] political goals is the settlement of the civil war politically , in a just and rational manner " . |
| 30 | He said that in 10 years he hoped to have boosted the Mongolian economy to South Korea 's present level , with the help of the developed countries and of international economic organizations . |