Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Significantly , the package features a novel ‘ tutorial ’ : when it is completed , the user should have computerised the financial side of the business , and hopefully , learned to deal with all ‘ financial ’ events that happen in business from opening balances , through stopped or bounced cheques to journals . |
| 2 | He was the source of the villagers ' security and their insecurity : he loaned or granted money in times of crisis but in return benefited from their respect and obedience . |
| 3 | Whichever side of the transaction you represent , as soon as you 've dispatched or received replies to requisitions ( you ca n't do so before , because you wo n't know what the other side wants or is able to give on completion ) , complete the three agendas " before completion " , " completion " and " after completion " . |
| 4 | He emphasized the constant danger represented by fake or rigged competition between politicians who agree on almost all key aspects of public policy . |
| 5 | The problem was obvious : how to control the fast moving vehicle , to limit the damage it caused both to person and amenity , and to provide new or widened roads in areas of congestion . |
| 6 | Many of the cases , such as Seager v Copydex ( 1967 ) 1 WLR 923 , concerned actual or threatened breaches by ex-employees in relation to information given to them by their former employers , and where they wanted to exploit it to their own benefit . |
| 7 | Many others were involved in civil suits or attended court as spectators . |
| 8 | They threw themselves down on the street or took shelter behind cars and in doorways . |
| 9 | This , of course , is subject to the question of whether the producer should have recalled the furniture if the risk was great , or issued warnings to retailers to pass on to consumers . |
| 10 | People did broadcasts , and if they wrote books , or gave talks on books , these books were all to be found in the BBC Library , along with a fine technical collection and an unrivalled political section , dating back to the days when Guy Burgess ran their first Parliamentary programmes . |
| 11 | We used to be mortified to think that a recognisable vest or discarded pair of pants , now grey , torn and shapeless , should be thought by a neighbour to be worn by one of us . |
| 12 | As far as I can tell , Alec never went with a woman again , or had dealings with women . |
| 13 | Weiner ( 1974 ) , for example , added or subtracted counters from rows as two- and three-year-olds watched , and then had the children choose the row with more or with less . |
| 14 | Sometimes I caught a bird , and cooked it , or picked leaves of plants to eat with my bread . |
| 15 | Considering the nature of this attitude factor , with its stress on effectiveness it is perhaps surprising that reported changes in schools are not differentially associated with it . |
| 16 | One study that identified 25% of women had a bone mineral density more than 2 standard deviations below normals . |
| 17 | Mrs Maginnis criticised the Government for being ‘ deliberately naive or mischievous in its claim that devolved management of schools can be achieved at no cost . ’ |
| 18 | Boss Terry Cooper is furious at the Steve Bull tackle that injured Gosney in Blues ' 4-0 loss to Wolves on Sunday . |
| 19 | Never , never again in his life would he say he loved anybody , for love was a destroyer , love was a madness that turned people into fiends and devils . |
| 20 | She wanted to check , but Sharpe pushed her through a gap in a straggling hedgerow and spurred her across an undulating pasture which , years before , had been under the plough and the old furrows still formed corrugations that faced Sharpe like waves of pale grass . |
| 21 | Embark on a journey through time , reliving the dangers and excitement that faced smugglers in times past . |
| 22 | The economic situation worsened dramatically in the months that followed October as soldiers flocked home and military orders to industry abruptly halted . |
| 23 | ‘ Things that shoved dirt in heaps and everything . |
| 24 | Even if your reaction is mild , it 's worth remembering that repeated exposure to foods that cause allergic reactions may result in the symptoms getting gradually worse . |
| 25 | However , as we have seen , Beccaria avoided the main confrontation with retribution by making the totally unwarranted assumption that the most effective deterrents would be those that equated punishments with offences . |
| 26 | Industrious Buddhist monks laid out gardens everywhere full of abstract patterns that preceded Picasso by centuries . |
| 27 | Lenin was involved in motivating revolutionary action by , in part , a critique of bureaucracy but later assumed responsibility for the economic development of a backward country that needed experts in positions of authority . |
| 28 | Predictably , the Koons exhibit dominated attention at a festival that included work from scores of internationally renowned , but less flashy artists , and even proved so provocative that one fanatic ended up slashing each painting with a knife , some four months after the show opened . |
| 29 | Or a defector , she thought , a word that contained echoes of betrayals , a brother left behind . |
| 30 | The four-day management courses at present run by the ATB had already highlighted the usefulness of the informal discussion that took place between sessions . |