Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb past] [conj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Those got taken up with a lot of promotional work , and in my case I found that charities got in touch with me a lot to open fetes , attend jumble sales , etc .
2 In my hypothetical discussion of cheetahs and gazelles I said that cheetahs , unlike the weather , had a tendency as the generations go by to become ‘ better hunters ’ , to become more severe enemies , better equipped to kill gazelles .
3 In a previous follow up study we found that patients who had challenge proven cow 's milk allergy acquired clinical tolerance to cow 's milk when the antigen specific immune response had developed .
4 Becher ( 1978 ) denied that a general ideological consensus about educational ends is ‘ necessary in theory ’ ; in practice he believed that teachers can , and do , negotiate a working consensus , usually framed in terms of basic minima .
5 Miners he saw as men of the abyss , and the weaver as a different type of character altogether , dreamy , something of a somnambulist .
6 In the early postwar decades it seemed that governments had some clear options .
7 ‘ The very next job I did after Butterflies was a Greek tragedy at a theatre in Leatherhead ’ , says Andrew .
8 He suggests the millions of years we spent as reptiles are what have kept the myth of the dragon alive in the art and literature of the world , and this theory also has a physiological basis .
9 Postal clerks and refrigeration engineers became passable guerrillas , giving them the added confidence they needed when men from this camp faced Japanese attack .
10 Some were observed with every group they taught whilst others had very few visits to lessons .
11 For those with special needs it meant that drafts were not something to be ashamed of .
12 During the Cold War it seemed that aliens , like communists , were poised to invade the West .
13 In two other places he considered that screens were needed .
14 Towards the end of 1992 managers and employees met several times to discuss our organisation structure , the new skills we needed and ways of improving our communication .
15 Finally in this section , it is worth pointing out that in the first Unit of this course we learnt that organisations which were based on an open system ( where information flowed in and out through a ‘ permeable boundary ’ to its environment and publics and where adjustment was made in the light of feedback ) , were more able to adapt to change and continue to prosper .
16 On the basis of these expressed views we hypothesized that attitudes towards the use of the booklet , with the attendant possibility of consequent change , would generally be more favourable in the northern than in the southern schools .
17 But from the beginning I sensed that things were n't going to be easy , not for any of us .
18 At the beginning I suggested that changes in employment have resulted in ‘ youth ’ being socially and economically redefined .
19 There is also the problem that performance testing is highly susceptible to personal distractions and even though the tests and conditions of testing can be standardized , the motivation of those taking them cannot. for example , in some of our own experiments we found that subjects like to accompany each testing session with music .
20 During our ultrastructural examinations we noted that bacteria did not show a uniform morphological aspect .
21 The energy flows in the Hindu and Chinese descriptions were correct , and from hundreds and thousands of experiments they confirmed that changes in the physical vehicle correlated to actual changes in the electrical potential of the related Acupuncture points .
22 In a communiqué they said that difficulties still remained , over differing perceptions of the future state structure , but they undertook to adopt a treaty on its principles by the end of November .
23 Both Fawcett and Frances Power Cobbe argued that women 's virtue , tenderness and eye for detail — in short the special qualities they developed as wives and mothers — were necessary to complete man-made legislation and male-supervised charitable endeavours .
24 On saturday night on Manc of the day it said that leeds were still at 3–1 …
25 Among other things it suggested that teachers should be assessed on the clarity of their teaching objectives ; the quality of their notes , handouts , and visual aids ; qualitative assessments of their performance in lecturing , fieldwork , etc ; the volume and range of teaching they undertake ; the range of assessment techniques they use ; managerial responsibilities and innovative approaches that they take on ; and the number of invitations they receive as guest lecturers and speakers elsewhere .
26 In his first memorandum as Minister of Internal Affairs he argued that nobles were justified in saying that the emancipation threatened their economic interests .
27 But no doubt I am watching them too , he decided , for as an anthropologist he knew that men and women may observe each other as warily as wild animals hidden in long grass .
28 In 1856 the one sign he gave that peasants might be freed sooner rather than later was the suspension , in July , of the existing rules for recruitment into the army .
29 Last month I announced that applications had been invited from 14 units for NHS trust status in April 1993 .
30 So I I , I , I went in today I said , this morning , I said to John I said I said thanks for erm now you see Steven had arranged to video erm Laura 's birthday party today you see John this morning I said and thanks for lending the bikes John and that , he said that 's alright pal .
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