Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | London-based Information Dimensions ( UK ) Ltd has announced DocXform , which takes either scanned or word-processed documents and converts them to the Standard Generalised Mark-up Language standard , ready for loading into Information Dimensions ' BasisPlus database . |
| 2 | Darwin succeeded where earlier evolutionists had failed because he had the right solution to the problem of explaining how populations actually change in response to environmental pressure . |
| 3 | In use , we liked the larger , rubber-padded vice pegs of the 750 , compared to the 536 , and the larger variety of possible positions , which made it easy to grip straight-sided , tapered or oddly-shaped items on the surface of the bench . |
| 4 | It does seem however , from the evidence of the Australian National University concerning the Gogo lungfish , that a complicated scenario arose where other techniques of air-breathing occurred accidentally , and that air-sac creatures invaded freshwater habitats while the diaphragm-breathers became the first land inhabitants . |
| 5 | So at least the first two cells are still picking up the right two numbers , because we used the range names , we 've inserted a row on the other file , but er , we 're still about range names found where those cells are . |
| 6 | On the question of unresolved property claims ( numbering 1,200,000 , of which 10,000 were for businesses ) the Cabinet agreed on March 12 that until the end of 1992 investors who created or sustained jobs should be given priority over previous owners [ for agreement on property rights and ownership regulations in unification treaty see pp. 37536 ; 37661 ] . |
| 7 | He may even suggest , as many football fans do , that there is an ‘ unwritten law ’ which either impelled or restricted actions — certain things were either ‘ done ’ or ‘ not done ’ , and everybody in the group knew it . |
| 8 | In Western cooking such a mixture can add zing to almost anything from scrambled eggs to vegetables , soups , stews and sauces and poached or baked fruits , with the grateful advantage that the result will not taste as though you have succumbed to panic and thrown in a spoonful of curry powder . |
| 9 | This proposed that mid-oceanic ridges represent regions where new oceanic crust is being generated by the upwelling of hot mantle material . |
| 10 | The US negotiating team , led by Max Kampelman until his retirement in December , had on Oct. 30 proposed that anti-missile tests in space be permitted but that a limit be placed on their scope , with a specific assurance that the USA would limit to 15 the number of satellites deployed in a Strategic Defence Initiative ( SDI , or " Star Wars'-see p. 36760 ) test . |
| 11 | The rift was now growing between Parliament , which favoured the establishment of Presbyterianism , and the army , which proposed that all forms of Christian worship except Roman Catholicism should be tolerated . |
| 12 | Tycho Brahé opted out of the Copernican research programme and initiated another when he proposed that all planets other than the earth orbit the sun , while the sun itself orbits a stationary earth . |
| 13 | With limited exceptions , it proposed that all functions of local government be undertaken by a single authority in each area . |
| 14 | In his textbook , Politics among Nations , first published in 1948 , Morgenthau proposed that international relations be studied by means of a Realist scientific approach . |
| 15 | Because of the vague character of ‘ disorderly conduct , ’ the White Paper proposed that actual feelings of harassment or alarm must be experienced by the bystander , and the best evidence of that would be direct testimony from the victim . |
| 16 | Singh proposed that industrial licences be abolished except in certain strategic sectors such as the arms industry , atomic energy and strategic minerals . |
| 17 | Like the Napier Commission , the latest Royal Commission to meet on the subject ( the Taylor Commission , which reported in 1954 ) proposed that existing crofts should be amalgamated into economically viable units . |
| 18 | To reflect this , the Consultative Paper proposed that such centres could be offered the opportunity to accept devolved responsibility for quality elements normally administered by SCOTVEC , provided that the internal quality systems in place were appropriate to each element for which devolved responsibility was being sought . |
| 19 | Atchley ( 1976 ) proposed that retired individuals have a ‘ hierarchy of goals ’ which give rise to their expectations , their behaviour and their sense of well-being . |
| 20 | Defant and Drummond proposed that these suites form where young ( 25Myr ) , hot oceanic lithosphere is subducted and melts , thus locally simulating the conditions that led to widespread crustal growth in the Archaean . |
| 21 | They proposed that these anomalies , which seemed to be arranged symmetrically on either side of , and roughly parallel with , the ridge crest , were not a result of variations in the intensity of magnetization , as earlier suggested , but rather a consequence of the direction of magnetization . |
| 22 | In 1954 , Armitage and Doll proposed that common cancers arise as a result of the accumulation of as many as seven events . |
| 23 | In summary the report proposed that nursing services should be organized around a target population of 10,000 — 25,000 within a geographically defined area . |
| 24 | On Oct. 27 the central committee proposed that multi-candidate elections with secret ballots be obligatory . |
| 25 | Although the draft reaffirmed the role of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) , it proposed that foreign affairs , security and home affairs would come within the ambit of EC institutions , unlike the earlier Luxembourg draft , which had proposed that such areas be subject to intergovernmental co-operation . |
| 26 | Last month British Telecom promised that such transmitters would be available of Unisat . |
| 27 | The central bank said it would stop supporting the rouble and promised that cheap credits to moribund industries will be phased out . |
| 28 | If the hon. Gentleman reads the speech by the Secretary of State 's predecessor , he will find that he promised that five places would be set aside to be decided by the local authorities . |
| 29 | On Dec. 23 , Germany recognized the independence of Slovenia and Croatia and promised that diplomatic relations would be established on Jan. 15 . |
| 30 | Raoul Cedras , called for calm and promised that new elections would be held , without specifying a date . |