Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | This lent money to banks , insurance companies , agricultural credit institutions and railroads . |
2 | This drew protests from residents of the Awlad Amira oases , which were indeed more populous but which were within easier reach of the hospital in Zawiya . |
3 | Group 2 comprised biopsies from patients previously diagnosed as having coeliac disease . |
4 | Some resembled filaments of algae ; others , while they were unmistakably organic , had no parallels with living organisms ; and some looked to be identical with the simplest form of life existing today , bacteria . |
5 | This predicted 91% of fetuses who became distressed in the first stage of labour , and combination with ultrasonographic estimation of the volume of amniotic fluid improved prediction to 100% with only a slight fall in specificity . |
6 | All of Wurlitzer 's fiction to date has dealt with this felt absence of forms on their breakdown . |
7 | This took place amid rumours of a split within the NEC over support for a common age of consent , and was widely seen as a response to tabloid hysteria on such matters . |
8 | President Rafsanjani on July 2 sent messages of thanks to about 100 governments and organizations , excluding , however , the United States , the UK , Iraq and Saudi Arabia . |
9 | One manufacturer declined absolutely to supply other than his own complete clocks and another quoted £3000.00 plus extras and VAT , which was about twice the budget for the entire project ! |
10 | FREE CONDUCTED WALK with guides from Burton 's St. Leonards Society . |
11 | Christine Anderson , the Church Secretary , received over 100 telephoned offers of books and other gifts . |
12 | The several occultations by Mercury of the radio signals from Mariner 10 yielded radii of cross-sections inclined at about 2° and 68° with respect to the equatorial plane , and the radii are the same to within about 0.5 km . |
13 | These took place in canteens , offices and showrooms throughout all factories in the group , carefully timed to enable the attendance of those on shiftwork . |
14 | It is likely that the earliest gas generation from the Westphalian took place in areas where a considerable overburden of continuous Permian to Jurassic strata accumulated . |
15 | The precise criteria and procedures whereby schools were included in the project are discussed at length elsewhere in this report , but we may note that a set of guidelines for school participation was drawn up and developed by the Project Coordinating Team ( see Appendix 3 ) and that these gave direction to schools as they established library committees and developed their plans . |
16 | The early strains used were not highly active against some major lepidopterous pests , but the discovery of the HD1 strain in 1969 gave rise to products with a broad activity spectrum against many pest species and , until very recently , this has been the basis of all commercial products for caterpillar control . |
17 | Held , allowing the application , that since section 7(5) of the Act of 1976 made provision for persons arrested for breaking bail conditions , or on the likelihood of their so doing , to be brought before a single justice , it was an enactment falling within the exception contemplated by section 121 of the Act of 1980 which , in any event , was limited to summary trials of informations and the hearing of complaints under the civil jurisdiction ; that Parliament had intended by section 7(4) to create a simple and expeditious procedure whereby a justice was required , before forming an opinion under section 7(5) , to conduct no more than an informal inquiry , hearing the arresting officer 's grounds for belief that the person had broken or might break his bail conditions and allowing that person to respond , but without the giving of evidence on oath or cross-examination ; and that , since the provisions of the Act of 1980 relating to the adjournment of proceedings before magistrates ' courts did not apply , there was no power in the justice to adjourn proceedings under section 7(5) ( post , pp. 24A , G — 25B , C–G , 26B , E–F , H — 27A , G–H ) . |
18 | Again , for most of the awards , centres feel that the balance of mandatory and optional modules in each award specification is appropriate , though many made suggestions for additions to optional groupings . |
19 | There is an obvious difficulty in explaining all learnt behaviour in terms of conditioned reflexes . |
20 | Iraq replied with a denunciation of the allied bombing of civilian targets , and the declaration that , as the allies were not providing information on the true level of their air losses , it was impossible to treat all captured airmen as prisoners-of-war . |
21 | This is n't a case of writers bleating because their own books wo n't be available ; we all spent hours in libraries learning our trade , the only way to learn to write is to how it 's done by other people be it well or badly |
22 | A Palestinian forum held in East Jerusalem on June 11 heard calls from moderates for a complete reassessment of the intifada . |
23 | Oracle notes that its $1,200m turnover for fiscal 1992 included $240m in tools sales , making it the leading independent vendor of application development tools , and Oracle claims that Co-operative Development Environment coupled with the Oracle7 Co-operative Server Database enables its installed base to upgrade existing applications to a graphical client-server environment . |
24 | The latter included exhortations to consumers to switch off appliances , reductions in supply voltages by 5 per cent ( which was considered the maximum tolerable limit ) , and encouragement to industrialists voluntarily to stagger their factory hours away from peak times . |
25 | People , woodpeckers , nuthatches , tree-creepers and flycatchers , foxes and badgers , hedgehogs and other creatures all took sanctuary in orchards which were like symbols of harmony between human beings and nature . |
26 | The research it funded all took place in laboratories inside hospitals and there was nothing tangible to show for it . |
27 | Fear and panic gripped people in the nearby countryside and small towns , too , and many took flight into fields and woods at the air-raid warning . |
28 | Following Moldava 's declaration of independence of Aug. 27 , 1991 [ see p. 38373 ] , the Moldavan President , Mircea Snegur , on Sept. 4 took control of customs posts and border troops , since " with the independence declaration of Moldava and Ukraine , we no longer have any borders with the Soviet Union " . |
29 | Despite Edward 's concern to obtain a wide measure of support for the war and consent for the financial exactions it necessitated , the measures the government took to raise money and supplies in 1338 and 1339 gave rise to grievances which resemble those which underlay the conflicts of Edward I 's last years . |
30 | Unit writers were almost all seconded lecturers from colleges . |