Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They looked at each other and laughed as they went for the top A and each found that no noise came out at all . |
| 2 | Another whispered that the policeman was wary , unsure of what to reveal and what to hide . |
| 3 | Some admitted that the creation of a " buffer group " of temporary workers actually enhanced the employment security of their " core " members ; indeed , some " temporary worker agreements " were also " no redundancy agreements " for the bulk for the workforce [ see Chapter 7 ] . |
| 4 | In the spring of 1932 the British announced that a flotilla of three destroyers was to grace the city with a visit . |
| 5 | In Mainz an ordinance of 1788 announced that the elector would give general audiences every Monday at precisely 4 o'clock in the afternoon : at these every inhabitant of the electorate was entitled to attend and present in person any grievance he might have . |
| 6 | This revealed that the University Grants Committee , the UFC 's predecessor , had breached Treasury rules in allowing 20 universities to re-employ the lecturers and professors who had benefited from a £130 million early retirement programme . |
| 7 | This revealed that the management were ‘ concerned ’ that the post-60/65 group comprised 18 per cent of the industry compared with a national average of 3.5 per cent , and had offered ‘ solutions ’ . |
| 8 | Some argued that the shock made industry return in the end to competitiveness , but other economists argued that subsequent growth owed more to spending North Sea oil profits on a consumer boom . |
| 9 | Some argued that the case had been brought to an early end as there was little chance of the prosecution being successful , others suggesting that the case had in all but final verdict already been won . |
| 10 | Some argued that the situation demanded a stronger UN presence than the proposed 500-strong unarmed force . |
| 11 | Some argued that the Party should threaten to withdraw from the coalition unless the Tories accepted demands to extend war controls to the nationalization of major industries . |
| 12 | In return for this co-operation the French asked that the child queen should be affianced not to Edward VI but to the Dauphin of France , and that she should be brought up there . |
| 13 | On April 25 this reported that the security forces were to blame for provoking violence from what had been previously a peaceful crowd by making baton charges . |
| 14 | Was n't this demonstrated when the scum did us in the semi 's a couple of years ago ? |
| 15 | The Middle East Economic Digest of Nov. 2 reported that the government had recently banned the shipment of all goods , including food and medicines , to Iraq and Kuwait . |
| 16 | The Guardian of Aug. 2 reported that the government was to provide a further Fl650 million for energy conservation in addition to the Fl1,000 million already allocated annually for the programme . |
| 17 | It was held that the company 's lien had become effective when the debts to it were incurred ( even though they were not then due for repayment ) and as this occurred before the company had notice of the charging order , the company 's lien had priority . |
| 18 | An example of this occurred where a daughter 's care for her dependent father was continually met with ingratitude and unkindness . |
| 19 | This occurred when a broker attempted to undertake a single transaction involving 2,000m Hungarian Forints — $22m — in the government bonds market only to discover that the appropriate field in the application did n't have enough space for the zeros . |
| 20 | An extreme example of this occurred when a hospital social worker was asked to see a family who refused to allow a newly bereaved husband to leave hospital to attend his wife 's funeral , as they felt angrily that he had contributed to her unexpected death with his demands . |
| 21 | A notable example of this occurred when the Authority attempted to implement a process of ‘ accrediting ’ management centres and ‘ recognising ’ Health Authorities who met appropriate standards . |
| 22 | Talks dragged on so long that some doubted whether the project — an aircraft maintenance joint venture with Lockheed and CAAC , China 's national carrier — would ever materialise . |
| 23 | Some believed that the politics of class would bring little advantage to themselves . |
| 24 | This directed that a number of Czechs and dissident Yugoslavs , who had infiltrated an area in Austria east of that covered by the Allied V Corps , should be treated as disarmed enemy troops and evacuated to British concentration camps in Italy . |
| 25 | Some noticed that the cereal packets were wider or longer than soap packets . |
| 26 | A UN report published on May 2 estimated that the process of reconstruction would take at least 10 years [ see pp. 37987 ; 38118 ; 38166 ] , and that the Iraqi occupation had cost Kuwait US$8,500 million . |
| 27 | The lower age limit on party membership was reduced to 16 ; this came after the party lost 700,000 members since reconstituting itself and coming a humiliating fourth place in the national elections in March and April [ see p. 37380 ] . |
| 28 | This came when the satellite threw off the cover that had protected the sensitive detectors during the launch and afterwards , while the team at the operations centre at the Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory checked that the telescope was pointing correctly . |
| 29 | The original legislation passed in 1985 stipulated that the deficit must be reduced to $36bn in the 1990 fiscal year which began on 1 October . |
| 30 | Although the case for an annulment was weak in terms of canon law , it was politically expedient for the pope to concede and few believed that the request would be denied . |