Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In essence I proposed that rather than having public investment we should substitute private investment without any Government guarantee . |
| 2 | In opposition to David Ricardo [ q.v. ] , he maintained that only when circulating capital increased did employment rise : any increase in fixed capital was unlikely to stimulate , and might significantly diminish , the demand for labour . |
| 3 | The ANC , by its definition , maintained that more than 3,000 activists remained imprisoned for politically motivated acts . |
| 4 | When he was in Vienna he had contact with the followers of Freud and Adler , and he found that even when a fact appeared to contradict their theories , they were always able to turn the fact around so that it could be taken as another example to prove their theory . |
| 5 | Altman found that even though all the animals fell below ‘ optimum diet ’ , given the food resources available , those that came closest did best in the end . |
| 6 | I found that out when I 'd pressed the bell and no one came . |
| 7 | Gary , who speaks Spanish , found that out when he played for Barcelona . |
| 8 | In a study undertaken over a two-week period , Tom Tadecki , research director of the International Coalition Against Violent Entertainment , found that more than 33 per cent of its programmes involved some form of aggression , with violent acts occurring at a rate of 10 per hour . |
| 9 | The survey , sponsored by General Accident Insurance , found that more than 60 per cent of female respondents complained of male aggressiveness on the road . |
| 10 | It found that more than £300million a year is spent on employing staff to type for 600,000 civil servants and 22 cabinet ministers . |
| 11 | That said , any which are operating subsidiaries in the US might care to note that , for all the strictness of securities laws over there , a survey in 1990 found that more than 60 per cent of claims come from sources other than shareholders . |
| 12 | Moed & Vriens found that more than 9% of the 4500 papers in their study had at least one discrepancy in their citations . |
| 13 | They found that more than six out of 10 children with emotional and behavioural problems were regular smokers . |
| 14 | Labov ( 1966 ) reported that less than 2% of everyday speech were ungrammatical in this sense . |
| 15 | On Feb. 24 IRNA , quoting the chief of the Iraqi Red Crescent , Ibrahim al-Nouri , reported that more than 5,000 women , children and elderly people had died in various hospitals throughout the country since Jan. 17 due to shortages of medicines and medical facilities . |
| 16 | The Independent of Feb. 7 reported that more than 26,000 people had been arrested in Tamil Nadu during a Feb. 6 general strike in protest against president 's rule . |
| 17 | The Financial Times of May 7 reported that more than 520,000 sq km were inundated , while the Guardian of May 9 said that more than US$500,000,000 worth of crops and livestock had been destroyed . |
| 18 | The Middle East Economic Digest of July 12 reported that more than 17,000 people suffering from infectious diseases had been hospitalized in April and May . |
| 19 | Africa No. 1 radio reported that more than 200,000 people gathered in Nouakchott , the capital , on March 3 . |
| 20 | The Washington Post of Dec. 12 reported that more than 1,150 people had already been killed with the daily death toll at around 200 . |
| 21 | A recent survey by the US Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association reported that more than 90 medicines were being developed to combat AIDS and AIDS-related conditions . |
| 22 | This referred to the demise of both SureStyle and Stormseal , which crashed and then provided most of the assets and some personnel for the setting-up of Surestyle . |
| 23 | He moved as soon as he saw the first bead of sweat break on her pallid face , and then he was almost too late . |
| 24 | Seven civilians perished as well as the crew . |
| 25 | She stopped as soon as she saw me . |
| 26 | Grant stopped as soon as the house came in sight and , signalling for Larsen to follow , he moved quickly into the darkness of the trees to their left . |
| 27 | She stopped as soon as she saw the effect of her words . |
| 28 | The island pool was built inside an old distillery warehouse , gifted by Morrison Bowmore Distillers , which now houses a sauna , launderette and sunbed as well as the standard-sized pool . |
| 29 | His only real chance of coming to grief was that of being struck by a stray round-shot , an unlikely mishap , for they sank as soon as they landed . |
| 30 | A Glasgow chief constable once remarked : ‘ Life would be nice and tranquil in this city if all our citizens behaved as well as the Jewish people . ‘ |