Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [conj] [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even with my limited knowledge of the cost of advertising in a posh Sunday colour magazine , I realised that such an exercise would mop up at least twice Supersight 's annual spend on promotion . |
| 2 | I pressed that such an undertaking would be meaningless if they were free to take the Conservative whip in common with faulknerite unionists . |
| 3 | However , middle class observers were sensitive to the possibility that the working class husband might not provide ; after all , the bourgeois family model was favoured because of the work incentive it provided for working class men , which presupposed that such an incentive was necessary . |
| 4 | Sloane himself reckoned that such an opportunity to travel and at the same time pursue the practice of physic was too good an opportunity to miss . |
| 5 | The government 's subsequent decision to acquire the disputed site to build two shrines was attacked by Moslem organizations which claimed that such a decision pre-empted the status of the site , and by Hindu groups which threatened to block plans to reconstruct a mosque . |
| 6 | Innocent 's imposition of an interdict was parried by the archbishop of Toledo who argued that such a sentence would only encourage heresy and the Muslims , but Innocent did not stop trying to break the marriage . |
| 7 | She had a violent impulse to summon Murphy and go at once to Trelorne and find Michael Swinton , and so strong was this inclination and the need to explain to him that she was personally so very Lyddy before she realized that such an action was only a perfect sequel in childish impetuosity to her former one of agreeing to be painted in the first place . |
| 8 | She added that such a design would cut costs considerably . |
| 9 | Whilst the peerage was validly conferred , however , the House of Lords itself decided that such a peer had no right to sit , and the object of the exercise was thus frustrated . |
| 10 | The paranoia which is evinced in the diaries of her last years at Clarence Gate Gardens is then partly justified , if she knew that such a course was being taken against her . |
| 11 | She stressed that such an investigation would not hinder progress or hold up commerical companies , but would further public acceptance of the technology and so foster developments . |
| 12 | Arguments that there was no human author and , consequently , the lists of numbers drawn by the computer were not protected by copyright were rejected by Whitford J. who said that such a claim was as silly as saying that a pen could be the author of a literary work . |
| 13 | Having some information on helplines in other areas and countries , they realized that such a service in London would both take the pressure off them and be an asset to the community . |
| 14 | They pointed out that local personnel in these fields had no experience in long term caring for such children , and they added that such a conference should be convened without delay , as leaving it until the children were returned home would be too late . |
| 15 | But they counted as necessary a pair of iron-pointed walking sticks , a clasp-knife , stout hunting-whips to beat off the legions of dogs they were prepared to encounter , and a policeman 's small lantern , since they had been warned that Turkish paper lanterns were useless in a hurricane . |
| 16 | The Conservatives seemed rather more favourable to the prospect of scrutiny by backbench committees , perhaps because they felt that such a challenge would help to restrain public expenditure . |
| 17 | It was also contended , as being clear from the Regulations as a whole , that they contemplated that such an actual relationship would exist . |
| 18 | He argued that such a philosophical position could not cope with the phenomena of dreams and especially hypnosis . |
| 19 | As we have seen in a previous chapter , he argued that such an illusory growth could in fact mask a real decline in values and use-values . |
| 20 | He made such thorough notes that it was then no great labour to produce a similar Biographical Register for Cambridge ( 1963 ) — in 1958 he estimated that such a work could be completed within eighteen months — and a more summary Survey of Dominicans in England , based on the Ordination Lists in Episcopal Registers ( 1268–1538 ) ( Rome , 1967 ) . |
| 21 | He estimated that half an average family 's budget was affected by the price of imported goods , and predicted that food , clothing , televisions and other appliances would become cheaper . |
| 22 | ‘ It came as such a shock , but since I got over it , life 's been brilliant . |
| 23 | He believed that such an event would lead to a loss of belief in the will of the USA to maintain her commitments throughout the area . |
| 24 | He acknowledged that such a discount could not have been entered by error . |
| 25 | He claimed that such a treaty would " change the history of North America " and would be an " example to all nations " . |
| 26 | THE United States said yesterday that it was studying the possibility of parachuting relief supplies to civilians in Bosnia , but it emphasised that such an operation might not be successful in the rugged country . |
| 27 | Meanwhile the United States said it was studying the possibility of parachuting relief supplies to civilians in Bosnia , though it emphasised that such an operation might not be successful in the rugged country . |
| 28 | But , even as he did so , he knew that such a small sign would almost certainly be missed . |
| 29 | He had never felt like that himself towards any woman , but he knew that such a feeling must be love . |
| 30 | He felt that such a call , coming from a church body , would be difficult for press and public to ignore . |