Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In subsequent correspondence Technical Division were asked to confirm that the timing of the provision of the benefit to the non-resident or non-domiciled beneficiary was irrelevant , ie that it did not matter whether the income in question was paid to him in the year of assessment in which it arose or in a subsequent year , but Technical Division refused to confirm that this was the case on the grounds that the actual circumstances of particular cases tended to vary so widely that they felt unable to answer the question without more details . |
| 2 | In 1963 , when he was already Leader of the Labour Party , Harold Wilson promised that under a Labour government there would be ‘ Grammar School education for all ’ , and few in the Labour Party wanted to be seen as the enemy of the grammar schools . |
| 3 | He described that as a substantial real-terms increase and a generous package of support . |
| 4 | Essentially the Post charged that in a 1984 report , Mike Hoover , a freelance news cameraman with a reputation for providing theatrical footage , recreated scenes of Afghan rebels sabotaging electricity pylons — days after the real action had taken place . |
| 5 | Research carried out at Queen Mary and Westfield College , London found that in a major incident at a plant of the type proposed a radius of nine miles could be affected , that is from Bolton in the north to Hale in the south , and from Leigh in the west to the easternmost boundary of Greater Manchester . |
| 6 | Hewitt and Burton ( 1971 ) analysed the record for southwestern Ontario and found that in a 50-year period there would be 1 severe drought , 2 major windstorms , 5 severe snowstorms , 8 severe hurricanes , 10 severe glaze storms , 16 severe floods , 25 severe hailstorms and 39 tornadoes . |
| 7 | I have a slow heartbeat , about 67 or 68 , but we found that in a quiet passage of music before a climax the heartbeat could rise to 170 . |
| 8 | And although my initial work was with the individual child , I found that in a large number of cases , the parental interest was of a high order and , and the children 's willingness to involve parents in their behavioural difficulties was also of a high order , so I found myself working not just within the school , not just with the child , but in a parent-child situation . |
| 9 | The South West had 10 players from champions Bath and Barnes added : ‘ When we were 14 points adrift I regarded that as an Alpine peak to climb — not a Himalayan . |
| 10 | Hospitals reported that on a single day ( Oct. 24 ) four civilians had been killed and more than 100 injured . |
| 11 | Recently , however , Luck reported that in an unselected population detailed ultrasound scanning detected all of the cases of Down 's syndrome when a physical abnormality was present . |
| 12 | They squirmed , shrivelled and after a brief struggle , gave up the ghost . |
| 13 | He turned now and led her towards the door , but there he stopped and in a quiet voice said , ‘ Now , do what I tell you . |
| 14 | In the same patient haemoperitoneum and haemothorax occurred and in a further patient a large subcutaneous haematoma was seen . |
| 15 | Of the total loss , £398,000,000 occurred because of a continuing influx of pollution- and asbestos-related claims in the USA ; Coleridge said that " huge uncertainty continues to surround the outcome on pollution claims " . |
| 16 | The result of the tests was to illustrate that the failure of the right stabiliser on G-BEBP occurred because of an inherent inability of what was believed to be a fail-safe structure to carry the flight loads subsequent to the fracture of the rear spar top chord ( a primary load bearing structure ) ; this was a feature of the basic design and construction rather than some factor specific to G-BEBP . |
| 17 | The bomber crashed because of an internal explosion . |
| 18 | He realized that to a materialistic society losing a wife to a millionaire hardly counted as failure . |
| 19 | " We realized that for a well-known trade union to be sued by its creditors and compulsorily wound up would have a very damaging effect upon the movement . |
| 20 | He agreed that without a friendly settlement of the candidate question and a unified opposition campaign , the Janata Dal could not hope to win . |
| 21 | In 1985 a Financial Management Unit report ( Cabinet Office ( MPO ) / Treasury ( FMU ) 1985b , p. 1 ) admitted that as a policy-analysis tool the FMI left ‘ scope for very considerable further improvement ’ . |
| 22 | Laffer argued that with a high tax rate , say a move to a lower one , say , would raise actual income , recorded income and tax revenue . |
| 23 | Marxist theoreticians argued that without a confident class to support it liberalism failed to complete the bourgeois revolution against feudalism ; thus they sought tactical models in Tsarist Russia that represented a stage of development comparable to that of modern Spain . |
| 24 | Tiebout , however , argued that in a local community context individuals would reveal their preferences , by moving to the locality that best reflected their tastes and offered the preferred tax-benefit mix ( if mobility was relatively costless ) . |
| 25 | In the parliament of 1371 two Austin friars argued that in a national emergency the prince who has endowed the churches may resume their property for the good of the realm ; about this time Langland was enlarging in Piers Plowman upon Holy Poverty , as were so many friars in their sermons ; before the end of the reign Wyclif , spokesman for Gaunt , especially against his wealthy political enemy , Bishop Wykeham of Winchester , was denying the right of priests to hold any property . |
| 26 | So even if he believed that from an economic point of view the best decision would be to deny any recovery for emotional injury , he would still ask whether the role of law in encouraging reliance and coordination would be much damaged if he ignored the precedents , and , if it would , whether this loss would be made up in the gains he foresees from the change . |
| 27 | Miller was conscious of economy and recognised that from an aesthetic viewpoint the Duke must be gratified , but felt that good use could be made of cheaper material elsewhere . |
| 28 | As he gave his evidence for videotape , ‘ genial and twinkly , relaxed in the red eye of the TV camera ’ , as Newsweek described him , reporters noted that in an adjacent courtroom Stevie Wonder was appearing in a case about the authorship of a song , and that across the street another crew was filming an episode of Thirty Something . |
| 29 | She recalled that as a young girl she 'd often sucked slowly at a big lollipop to see how long she could make it last . |
| 30 | We estimated that on an average working day about 650,000 people saw their family doctor and another 300,000 went to the dentist . |