Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [vb past] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the larger villages which could economically be connected already had electricity supplies on nationalisation , but rural pressure groups had been successful in gaining an opposition amendment to the 1947 Electricity Act safeguarding further development by enjoining the Boards to ‘ secure , so far as practicable , the development , extension to rural areas and cheapening of supplies of electricity ’ . |
| 2 | Clause 52 of the Bill as introduced eventually became section 61 of the Act of 1976 and imposed a charge to tax on benefits in kind for higher paid employees , i.e. , those paid more than £5,000 per annum . |
| 3 | Sarah 's demand that Hagar and Ishmael should be sent away ran counter to custom . |
| 4 | Most of the area in which the elections were being held still had air cover , in the form of daily overflights by US and UK aircraft based at Incirlik in southern Turkey , which provided cover north of the 36th parallel [ see pp. 38690 ; 38789 ; 38886 ] . |
| 5 | The book just mentioned also gave rise to a rumour that Richard Baxter was about to conform . |
| 6 | This obligatory military involvement , though a burden which some clergy would willingly have evaded , was for others doubtless a proud duty or welcome excitement ; not many of those assembled actually saw battle , but their association with this medieval ‘ home guard ’ must surely have blurred the distinction between clergy and laymen , with ambiguous and some unfortunate results : more popular they may have been , but equally more vulnerable when sentiment turned , as it did , against both war and the clergy . |