Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forgive 'N Forget started at 7–2 , with Combs Ditch 9–2 , Run And Skip 15–2 and Wayward lad 8–1 . |
| 2 | The alleged libel is contained in a letter written by the defendant to the editor of the ‘ Manchester Examiner and Times ’ , which charged , as alleged by the statement of claim , that bribery and corruption existed or had existed in three departments of the Manchester City Council , and that the plaintiffs were either parties thereto or culpably ignorant thereof , and that the said bribery and corruption prevailed to such an extent as to render necessary an inquiry by a parliamentary commission . |
| 3 | Helmholtz generalized what others had suggested , or had established in one context . |
| 4 | Membership is open to serving and ex-Service men and women of all ranks who serve or have served in one of Her Majesty 's Air Forces . |
| 5 | For the five-part piece that follows , for which the livret suggests that both strings and winds played , the score does not reveal whether the oboe band would have played as a four-part ensemble or have expanded to five parts in order to double all the strings . |
| 6 | A Bill , which would allow companies to charge interest on commercial debts that remain unsettled after 30 days , has received its second Reading . |
| 7 | Last year , there were 215 such properties ( 1.35 pc of total stock ) , but this year that has fallen to 119 ( 0.75 pc of total stock ) . |
| 8 | It is impossible exactly to define what is modern dance because the body is the same that has danced for hundreds of years . |
| 9 | The managers are part of a growing army of health service administrators that has expanded from 700 to 13,200 in the past five years . |
| 10 | In 1991 the company recorded a 35 per cent increase in the sales of diesels , all in a total market that has dipped by 20 per cent . |
| 11 | We calculate from regression that A/g of oats and mustard would have increased 14.1 to 16.4mmol CO 2 per mol H 2 O , respectively , with the increase from 275 to 350μmolmol -1 CO 2 that has occurred since 1800 . |
| 12 | Such conservation work is , however , being hindered by the huge growth in tourism that has occurred since 1970 , and although there is in theory a master plan which in the mid-1970s allowed for a maximum of 12 000 visitors per year , de Groot states that since 1979 this number has been increasingly exceeded . |
| 13 | This view is espoused by Myers ( 1986 ) , who believes that deforestation in the Himalaya has been responsible for flood disasters in the lower reaches of the Ganges and Brahmaputra and the higher incidence of flooding that has occurred since 1940 ; apparently flooding now affects some 10 6 ha of land as compared with 6 × 10 6 ha in the early 1950s . |
| 14 | ‘ If I may venture , ’ said Earl Robert deprecatingly , ‘ why should not the oracle that has spoken of two brothers be asked to send us a further sign ? |
| 15 | The drinking session that followed stretched until 4.00 am ; the players disproving the theory that time and tide wait for no man . |
| 16 | Earlier in this chapter , reference has already been made to the decline in WEA activity in Bedfordshire and by the end of the war there were fewer classes in the county than had existed in 1935 and most of these were concentrated in the urban areas such as Bedford , Dunstable , Leighton Buzzard and Luton . |
| 17 | The financial mismanagement that had reigned before 1911 was ended with the employment of professional accountants . |
| 18 | It took the 45 ton bulldozer just 8 minutes to flatten 4 homes that had stood for 52 years . |
| 19 | Yet after that crisis Edward 's political skills , together with the popularity of the war , enabled the king to maintain the flow of funds for the war without provoking opposition of the kind that had arisen in 1297 or 1339–41 . |
| 20 | Glastonbury was certainly upset , although that did n't stop him nodding off on several occasions ; Fagg was enraged — the term ‘ bloody fellow ’ came up frequently ; Fishbane was considered ; the Commander spluttered a lot and Chatterton said very little except to draw on his memory of some committee problem that had arisen in 1964 . |
| 21 | This patient also had a serum gastrin concentration that had increased from 710 to 1550 pmol/l . |
| 22 | I wonder if I could answer that in a in a different way because clearly rather there 's the option , rather than reduction the operational capability which was really the er initiative that had begun in nineteen ninety two , there is the option of course of er adjusting the total numbers and that would er have an overall bearing on the total programme cost but cert because certainly the judgement of the er the chiefs of staff was that er as far as the U K was concerned then we we should retain the operational capability as I explained earlier an n and not decrease it in any significant extent because if we did that then we could end up er with an inferior capability against a potential threat . |
| 23 | The crisis of 1965 was a continuation of the argument that had begun in 1961 with the Fouchet Plan and that had resurfaced over the application by Britain to join the EEC . |
| 24 | ‘ Therefore the problem that had emerged in 1985 has come as a considerable shock to us and I would say that the present directors of Mogul Ireland — ourselves — have acted promptly , decisively and responsibly since it came to our attention . |
| 25 | The immediate post-war period again provided the optimism that had existed in 1920 , and the farm worker appeared to be poised for the first time to achieve equality of pay and status with workers in other industries . |
| 26 | Both Lansdowne and Law opted to announce their resignation at a party meeting , which would revive the open warfare over tariffs that had existed before 1906 , and this would ensure the defeat of all the other party causes too . |
| 27 | All the nagging discontents that had accumulated after ten days together burst out in a series of rows that increased in intensity and duration as the evening wore on . |
| 28 | It was then , after a storm that had blown for seven days at speeds exceeding seventy knots , that the Ramapo encountered the biggest wave ever reported by a ship at sea . |
| 29 | Brockway was writing in the context of a prison population for England and Wales that had declined by two-thirds over the previous fifty years . |
| 30 | The Constantinople Protocol of 1913 was an attempt by Britain and Russia to overcome the problem that had developed in 1911 . |