Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] [vb pp] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compensation is payable on two grounds : first , for any expenditure or liabilities incurred after the permission has been granted ( for example , expenditure on the preparation of plans ) ; and second ( following the 1954 Act ) , for the loss in the development value of the land . |
| 2 | Curtains would be closed , arm bands worn , and hats removed as the hearse passed by . |
| 3 | Previously no distinction had been made between acquittals , cases which were dismissed because there was no evidence that the accused had committed the crime , and cases dismissed because no crime had been committed . |
| 4 | While in social terms this objective may be desirable , opening up the investment aids to reach an even wider range of farms could seriously exacerbate the agriculture/nature conservation conflict in the LFAs as more pastures and hay meadows are converted to grass leys , roughland improved agriculturally and wetlands drained although the reduction in drainage grants and the abolition of grants for land cultivation in December 1984 makes such an extension to smaller farms rather academic . |
| 5 | Sports Editors fretted and printers fumed as the match went on and on into the British night , with Milligan winning the 17th by chipping in , to go to all square . |
| 6 | And spectators cheered as the couple walked arm in arm from Winchester cathedral . |
| 7 | Thousands of Burmese students were rounded up , hundreds were killed and others fled after the military took power last September to crush a national uprising for democracy . |
| 8 | Companies will be still going under and jobs lost as the economy improves . |
| 9 | The peseta 's devaluation on May 13th looked as if it might help the right-of-centre opposition People 's Party , but the party 's leader , Jose Maria Aznar , failed to exploit the opportunity and polls taken after the devaluation showed the ruling Socialists nosing ahead . |