Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is relevant to recall in this connection that Younger did envisage situations where mere observation could seriously impair privacy — where , for example , the person observed had a reasonable expectation that he would not be subject to observation , or had deliberately taken steps to prevent surveillance , but special technical devices , either optical or electronic ( bugging ) , were used to spy upon him . |
| 2 | Paragraph 610 of the Bar code provides , first : ’ Counsel must not make statements or ask questions which are merely scandalous or intended or calculated only to vilify insult or annoy either a witness or some other person ; counsel must if possible avoid the naming in open Court of third parties whose characters would thereby be impugned ; counsel must not suggest that a witness or other person is guilty of crime , fraud or misconduct or attribute to another person the crime or conduct of which his lay client is accused ’ |
| 3 | Megaliths were smashed to make gate-posts or road-stone , blown up or pushed aside to clear space for the plough . |
| 4 | Once myth was destroyed , the metaphysical drive survived at best in attenuated form in the Socratic search for knowledge ; and at worst in a religious syncretism that led only to complete triviality or exotic superstition . |
| 5 | ‘ I think it is fair to say ’ , mused Abrams , that everyone involved in the RIG ( the Restricted Inter-agency Group that met regularly to discuss policy in Latin America ) knew that Ollie was somehow connected with this but did n't know why … |
| 6 | The diversity of organizations and associations that joined together to form Gold EIA shows how widespread concern had become ( see table 3.2 ) . |
| 7 | The 15 companies that banded together include Sun Microsystems Inc , Hewlett-Packard Co , Tivoli Systems Inc , Hyperdesk Corp , Novell Inc , Digital Equipment Corp and all of the object database concerns . |
| 8 | It was not that Nelson had died there , nor was it because many years ago the crucifix that hung there demanded obeisance . |
| 9 | Where his friend Charles Williams had achieved only phantasmal fictions that struggled implausibly to marry realism and the supernatural , Lewis turned that improbable formula into stories that compel attention . |
| 10 | Mrs Izzard 's relentless disapproval consistently underrates her subject as well as missing the richly comic possibilities of a life that did indeed develop knockabout English elements of a boulevard farce . ’ |
| 11 | Returning soldiers were spat on as they walked off their planes and the Death Valley sized rift that ensued still causes tensions among many . |
| 12 | At last , pulling herself together , she went to give Joanna and Helen a watered-down version of the scene that had just taken place — watered-down because , for some subconscious reason , she felt that Dawn 's story was not quite believable . |
| 13 | The stout , hump-backed surgeon — circumspect , but perky and confident ; Morse — looking distinctly weary , his jowls semi-shaven by an electric razor that had seemingly passed peak efficiency , and yet somehow , somewhere underneath , a man on the side of the angels . |
| 14 | Over the last year , I have had to replace my steam iron and hairdryer that had both developed faults . |
| 15 | We can witness all these in Worsley 's book in which he demonstrates that architectural draughtsmanship reached a point of perfection by 1837 , after which it degenerated into mere technical proficiency , when even bodies such as the Institute of British Architects condemned the use of colour and supplementary foreground activities that had previously made competition perspectives more attractive . |
| 16 | The emission standards were set without regard to the constraints of technological or economic feasibility that had previously influenced policy-making . |
| 17 | As Horton Davies , who has explored this subject deeply , wrote : ‘ More worshipful churches proved incentives to , if not a deeper , yet a better ordered and more dignified worship among congregations that had previously regarded worship as merely a preliminary to preaching . ’ |
| 18 | It extended society 's consideration for deprived children towards those groups that had previously excited anger rather than compassion and as such it was a progressive and humanitarian measure . |
| 19 | Poor immigrants from Ireland , Wales and adjoining parts of Lancashire and Cheshire had moved in and the old wealthy elite that had previously enjoyed Everton 's rural isolation had left for more secluded homes beyond the township bounds . |
| 20 | The Court of Appeal rejected the view that had previously held sway , namely that it was possible for any employee to work both ordinarily in Great Britain and outside it . |
| 21 | Frontline bidders were Quelle and Kingfisher — which had the edge of being a domestic buyer in a market that had already seen Otto Versand of Germany buy Grattan and the French Redoute group carry off Empire Stores . |
| 22 | The sudden blindness was a result of Batten disease , a rare , inherited disorder of the nervous system that had already left Christopher with great difficulty in speaking . |
| 23 | Gorbachev , addressing the 27th CPSU Congress in 1986 , was able to welcome the improvement that had already taken place in relations with ‘ socialist China ’ . |
| 24 | After acclamations before the Lateran Palace , like those that had already taken place in front of St Peter 's , the new pope went up to the principal part of the palace , called the Leonine presbyterium , and later celebrated with a banquet . |
| 25 | Everyone was shown sequences and ‘ rushes ’ from the filming that had already taken place , but they were roughly put together and hardly impressive . |
| 26 | It was an aggressive type that had even reached Kingsmarkham , a type that talked pacifism and the rights of man and brotherly love without the energy or courage to do anything that might bring these desirable conditions nearer . |
| 27 | While substantial general support for the dependency approach was accumulated , most scholars now acknowledge that the dependentistas were never able to explain satisfactorily the economic growth and social and industrial development that had clearly taken place in some Third World countries . |
| 28 | Actual demographic trends also contributed to the outward movement , as the rearing of the 1960s baby boom children increased the demand for houses with gardens and as falling average household size reduced the population capacity of cities that had only limited sites available for new housing construction ( Champion , 1987b ) . |
| 29 | The demographic trends outlined earlier in this chapter also played a part , as the rearing of the 1960s baby-boom children increased the demand for houses with gardens and as falling average household size reduced the population capacity of cities that had only limited sites available for new housing construction . |
| 30 | An elegant way to avoid these paradoxes that had so troubled Einstein was put forward by the American physicist Richard Feynman . |