Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when the portents continued to gather that autumn , and ruling the kingdom grew further and further from the planned exercise it had been and more like taking a fleet out in freakish , untoward weather , there was a change in Thorfinn as well : the extra swiftness , the finer edge , the sharper zest created by danger . |
| 2 | In the last three years , the Ombudsman had judged 13 complaints in which decisions to allow development were ‘ perverse , arbitrary or inconsistent . ’ |
| 3 | Although an official inquiry had found in October 1988 that there were no grounds to conclude that the DTI 's handling of the affair had caused the investors ' losses , in his report the Ombudsman had identified five areas in which there had been significant maladministration by the DTI of the Barlow Clowes affair . |
| 4 | Richard Rampton QC , who is defending Lord Aldington 's libel action against historian Count Nikolai Tolstoy and property developer Nigel Watts , suggested that the peer had given false evidence because it was ‘ essential ’ to his case that he was not in Austria on 23 , 24 and 25 May . |
| 5 | Bickering began on the US side yesterday , with State Department officials angrily protesting to the White House that the Pentagon failed to provide any security for the US embassy in Panama . |
| 6 | In actuality , the expertise needed to evaluate complex ideas is housed within different sectors of large , highly bureaucratic , and mature organizations : in research and development , marketing , manufacturing , administration , finance , etc . |
| 7 | The CGT promised to respect any agreements reached . |
| 8 | The writer had used 4 oz in 80 oz of 32 index fluid and , although I would have carried out a similar treatment as that ten years ago using saline , I consider this type of case nowadays has to be treated in a different manner , with up-to-date fluids and up-to-date knowledge — there are many first class fluids on the market today . |
| 9 | The clubs had experienced this violence since the early sixties . |
| 10 | The Board sought to have these claims struck out as frivolous , vexatious and an abuse of the process of the court . |
| 11 | The three E 32 issues on which the Board agreed to make substantive changes relate to inventories , research and development costs , and borrowing costs . |
| 12 | In addition , and as a result of the work undertaken by its resident tutors in Bedfordshire , Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire , the Board had developed systematic provision of all types of classes and courses on a scale beyond that imaginable if the District had been the sole provider . |
| 13 | The board had introduced new charges which it would be unfair for Mr Foecke to contest . |
| 14 | Later , when the Board wanted to supply Upper Bolney Farm by crossing the course , water was conveyed to the greens as part of the wayleave deal at the rate of 10s. 0d. a green or £9 inclusive . |
| 15 | The Scouts had hellfired crowded transport sledges that slid at speed down glossy oiled vitrodur channels , diving from transit stations , canting along branch-lines , corkscrewing , swooping up to come to rest at other destinations … |
| 16 | The Scouts had skragged many gaiety pods . |
| 17 | The LA had to consider any effect which the use of an operating centre had on the local environment . |
| 18 | During the Falklands war , the RAF had to buy anti-radar missiles from the US . |
| 19 | On the following day , however , both Soviet and Japanese diplomatic sources denied that the discussions had included any degree of Soviet acceptance of Japan 's claim on the territory . |
| 20 | And because the sentence had to reflect public concern . |
| 21 | His research suggested that while the " Explanation approach " had little impact on infants , the technique did yield measurable benefits with 7 to 9 year olds . |
| 22 | As a result of the considerable experience with percutaneous cholecystolithotomy , it was thought that these problems could be rapidly solved and the technique established to replace percutaneous cholecystolithotomy as it could be performed under local anaesthaesia by the transhepatic route and a postprocedural drain could be avoided . |
| 23 | This gave a measure of protection since the Pharaohs wanted to preserve some animals to hunt . |
| 24 | By 08.00 , fighting with great bravery , the Canadians had taken both villages for the loss of 2,238 men . |
| 25 | The deregulation effort eventually petered out , but the Reaganites continued to use administrative discretion in their efforts to lighten the burden of regulation on industry and business . |
| 26 | The defenders decided to place several artillery places on the river-banks to overlook the road down which the enemy would have to attack in order to get across the liver to lay siege to their objective . |
| 27 | Two men escaped with his case but a security device activated and it was later abandoned , as was the same Allegro car after the case began emitting red dye . |
| 28 | Following Barr 's ruling , Judge Marvin H. Shoob , who had presided over a criminal case arising from the BNL affair , criticized the Attorney General on the grounds that plea bargaining within the case had denied any opportunity to probe the affair fully and had left unanswered numerous crucial questions concerning the government 's role . |
| 29 | The case had received massive publicity and became symbolic of the institutionalized racism and brutality alleged by many to exist within the LAPD [ see pp. 38091 ; 38139 ] , and led to an independent commission of inquiry [ see pp. 38329-30 ] . |
| 30 | The case had taken two weeks at the Old Bailey , the first devoted to legal argument before the jury was sworn . |