Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the old popular court , the suitors declared the law and gave judgement , or else passed judgement over to God by making one of the parties submit to an ordeal : to being thrown into a pool , for instance , or made to grasp a red-hot iron ; if he sank , or was soon healed , he was innocent ; otherwise , he was guilty . |
| 2 | We assume that contractions were totally absent or failed to occlude the intestinal lumen . |
| 3 | They may be concentrated naturally as in animal tissues like bone , blood , hoof and horn , or processed to contain a high proportion of one or more nutrients , or they may be bulky and contain very little as in plant tissues like peat , compost and leaf mould . |
| 4 | The restaurant changed , as did the maître d' , but he still watched like a hawk and swooped with a pained query if you did n't savour every mouthful or tried to hide a tough end of meat under your lettuce . |
| 5 | It is important for national courts to use all proper aids to the interpretation of Community legal texts ( such as the preamble ) even if they are not accustomed or allowed to do the same in relation to their own national texts . |
| 6 | Many no doubt sincere Christians continued to celebrate the first day of January in defiance of their clergy 's disapproval , or liked to greet the rising sun from the steps into the church , and , most of all , to attend the great festive games and shows . |
| 7 | Any earlier wheel-pit on this site could however , either have been demolished and rebuilt , or enlarged to take the new wheel . |
| 8 | Verderers might also be removed from office on a report by the Justice of the Forest to the Chancery that they were incapacitated by old age or sickness , or occupied with other duties , or were insufficiently qualified in that they held no land within the forest and did not dwell there , or had committed or connived at trespasses of vert or venison , or had become a paid officer of the forest , or , in one case , had ‘ entered the priestly order ’ . |
| 9 | 223 ) that the visitor had failed to take into account relevant matters or taken into account irrelevant matters or had reached an irrational conclusion . |
| 10 | The detective wondered whether Nicola 's husband was deliberately misleading them or had had a genuine slip of memory . |
| 11 | Often , such people never consider that it might be because they are not academically qualified or had had a bad interview ; they automatically blame racism . |
| 12 | Foreign aid is so important in conservation policy-making in lesser developed countries because , with a few exceptions , most newly independent lesser developed countries had either no official conservation organisation whatsoever ( as in Latin America with the exception of a couple of Southern Brazilian states ) or had experienced the colonial model mentioned above , principally in Africa , South and South-east Asia . |
| 13 | Though there was never-ceasing change , each movement was not a chance occurrence in a hotch-potch of bewildered uncertainty , but part and parcel of a pre-conceived plan , trimmed down or adorned to suit the particular circumstances of the moment … |
| 14 | When I say I 've never , in my life , sold a telephone number or refused to help a fellow journalist , he says it is ‘ union policy ’ , and that I ‘ ca n't be a real journalist ’ if I find this surprising . |
| 15 | And a breeze that failed to set a single leaf atremble . |
| 16 | His early work about the alleys of Gamalliyya was fundamentally on the side of the revolution-the one that failed to dislodge the British in 1919 , and that finally threw out Farouk and brought Neguib and later Nasser to rule Egypt . |
| 17 | Resisted and resented though he had been at every turn , he nonetheless detected a direction to his enquiries that promised to become an unwavering course . |
| 18 | The Scots spirit of liberty , frustrated at home , had been exported to magnify the noble principles that helped create a new world across the wide Atlantic . |
| 19 | They are paying tribute to Prime Minister Robert Mugabe 's policy of reconciliation , which had forestalled the kind of ‘ white flight ’ from the commercial sector that helped cripple the modernizing economies of African countries in the 1960s . |
| 20 | It meant that , by carefully counting and scoring different animal actions in given time periods , I could make complicated analyses that helped to unravel the intricate behaviour patterns that existed in so many species . |
| 21 | It was Robson 's return four games ago that helped spark a maximum haul of 12 points . |
| 22 | In return Televisa provided slanted news coverage that helped keep the Institutional Revolutionary Party eternally in power . |
| 23 | In 1991 Darren started a job that involved covering a huge business mileage but did n't provide a company car . |
| 24 | While the politicians and administrators who framed the Act would not have wished to have espoused the notion of the ‘ undeserving poor ’ they felt unwilling to risk the public criticism that would have resulted from an approach to poverty that involved ignoring the potential waste on the ‘ work-shy ’ and the fraudulent application in order adequately to meet the needs of the majority of applicants . |
| 25 | Despite the mood of despondency that seemed to shroud the whole idea of European unity in the mid-1950s , there was nevertheless a wide array of cooperative bodies in which the European democracies were involved to a greater or lesser extent . |
| 26 | But then she thought again of that motherly , homely face that seemed to radiate a simple gentleness and warmth , and she felt sure that she was being over-cautious , perhaps even slightly prejudiced in her feelings about Janice . |
| 27 | It was MGM that seemed to take the whole business most seriously . |
| 28 | An owl few over the ford , banked into a beechwood and gave a last hollow call , which was lost in the dawn 's loud chorus that seemed to presage a bright hot summer 's day in this rich and placid countryside . |
| 29 | He was standing in the doorway , his lean frame clad in a loose-fitting tawny-coloured suit that seemed to emphasise the taut muscle that lay beneath it . |
| 30 | Turning back to look at the door , he could see no manual locking mechanism — only a circular brass inset that seemed to need a special key . |