Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During a further feast , each cadet had to announce some details of the inner nature of his disguised nourishment . |
| 2 | It appears from these general observations , and from the detailed provisions of the Act of 1986 , that Parliament intended to promote two purposes relevant to receivers appointed by debenture holders . |
| 3 | Clearly Adalard 's influence was great ( Nithard was not alone in identifying Ermentrude as " Adalard 's niece " rather than as the daughter of Count Odo of Orléans , Adalard 's brother-in-law , though an obvious reason could have been that Odo had died eight years before , perhaps leaving Ermentrude in her uncle 's care ) . |
| 4 | The implication of the ad was that Labour had produced mass unemployment and the Tories would cure it . |
| 5 | On June 24 , with 98 per cent of the votes counted , Voice of Israel radio announced that Labour had won 45 Knesset seats , Likud 32 and Meretz 12 , and that Meretz leaders had decided to call on Rabin to create a coalition with their party . |
| 6 | This badge had crossed hypodermic syringes and a Latin motto which when translated , read : ‘ Bodies in the cells , names in the papers ’ . |
| 7 | Some employers tried to make potential participants swear allegiance to heterosexuality before they would pay their conference fee . |
| 8 | It may be difficult to explain why a few minutes spent reading fourteen lines of Shakespeare should be a higher pleasure than reading an equivalent length of a James Bond story , but the analyses of literary criticism elucidate how in the former case one is living those few minutes in intensified awareness with an extraordinarily extended span , from the texture of the words sounding in one 's inner ear to the remotest implications for the living of one 's whole life . |
| 9 | This picked up language used in earlier Hague Conventions ; given the establishment of the Central Authority system , this provision seemed to have little point , as the Rapporteur himself admitted . |
| 10 | Some authorities wanted to develop new forms of secondary education . |
| 11 | We suspect , however , that the reason for the low positivity in their experiment could be due to differences in sensitivity , and this study failed to include positive control tissue infected with tuberculosis to detect this . |
| 12 | Only two patients in this study failed to achieve long term functional success . |
| 13 | This study aimed to evaluate various aspects of gastrointestinal function in patients with diarrhoea caused by chronic radiation enteritis and the effects of treatment with the peripheral opiate agonist precursor loperamide-N-oxide . |
| 14 | Some schools hesitated to implement new ideas , others retreated into the safety which traditional methods appeared to provide . |
| 15 | In one way or another Bede helped to concentrate educated minds in the succeeding generations on the Old Testament . |
| 16 | Gloucester showed no desire to unleash a northern invasion of the south , although a few northerners did receive minor pickings there . |
| 17 | Gloucester showed no desire to unleash a northern invasion of the south , although a few northerners did receive minor pickings there . |
| 18 | The evaluation reported in this chapter attempted to quantify three aspects of Lexical Access 's performance : ( i ) success in identifying words , ( ii ) reasons for failure and ( iii ) contribution to the overall recognition process . |
| 19 | Despite a concomitant drop in household disposable incomes , some sectors did report significant increases in spending — during the third quarter of 1989 , new car registrations recorded 20-30 per cent rises above levels in previous years . |
| 20 | Radzinowicz and Hood ( 1986 ) have shown how this dilemma had confronted English socialists from the earliest times . |
| 21 | A spokesman for the ambulance service said 95pc of all emergency calls in rural areas were responded to within 19 minutes , the government guideline , and that this ambulance had taken 24 minutes to arrive . |
| 22 | Probably the greatest cause of discontent was the issue of Public Lending Right , only partially defused since some authors began to receive Public Lending Right payments in 1983 . |
| 23 | She pointed out that this committee had funded various projects engaging in theological reflection in the past , eg ICOREC and PRAXIS . |
| 24 | Earlier some engineers had derided this side of the business as mere ‘ ironmongery ’ , and there had also been political constraints on development . |
| 25 | This proposal had caused considerable concern in the region , particularly among Singapore 's ASEAN neighbours [ see pp. 37086-87 ] . |
| 26 | Some refugees managed to obtain extra ration cards , and at the Harshin and Hartishek camps food repeatedly ran out before everyone had received their ration . |
| 27 | Almost non-existent at the beginning of the 1980s , rail carryings of this commodity had assumed significant proportions by the end of the decade , showing Railfreight both eager and able to adapt to new opportunities . |
| 28 | His predecessors had farmed these revenues for less than £50 a year , and in some years failed to make any payment at all . |
| 29 | The last was set up in the seventies when apparently some defector had cast some doubt on Mills . |
| 30 | This person had got one son about twelve , and her husband was in the Forces as well . |