Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Often they have been killed or tortured following mock trials . |
2 | — Fixed path man-rider order-picking cranes — shelved or closed binning back-to-back equipment . |
3 | In 1963 , Roy Kerr , a New Zealander , found a set of solutions of the equations of general relativity that described rotating black holes . |
4 | The approach that involved marking individual plants or seedlings in the field , tracing the fate of individual leaves as they are pulled down earthworm burrows , the behaviour of tendrils as they touch a support , the fate of insects as they land on a Drosera leaf , or recording the number of seeds at the bottom of an earthworm burrow , represented a reductionist level of concentrated observation that contrasted with the geographical view of vegetation with which Warming and others set the early direction of plant ecology . |
5 | For six-pointed shapes of the type shown in Fig 5.5 , Ellis and Muller found that subjects who had learned labels for the various shapes out-performed controls ( who had simply observed the stimuli in the first phase of training ) on a motor task that required pressing one switch rather than some other in response to these stimuli . |
6 | ‘ I could not agree , ’ he said , ‘ to any interpretation of this advice that meant accepting avoidable delay in taking appropriate action in the most affected areas . ’ |
7 | On intimation claim forms and front sheets must be prepared accurately and checked giving particular attention to : — |
8 | Yesterday Gregory , 35 , appeared before Teesside Crown Court and admitted handling stolen goods . |
9 | Work on the site for the stalls began three weeks ago and involved installing individual water standpipes to allow each trailer to link up with a hose . |
10 | The parents contended that the shortest route in the case of their 12-year-old daughter was not truly ‘ available ’ because it was isolated and unlit and involved crossing difficult terrain . |
11 | The ISA project took five years to complete and involved examining basic auditing principles and essential procedures to ensure that ISAs adequately addressed IOSCO members ' concerns . |
12 | He 's been jailed for firearms , fraud and passport offences and caught smuggling 4 tons of cannabis into Australia . |
13 | I was 5′ 10½&in in height in bare feet and weighed soaking wet no more than 12½ stone and since I played in the park , usually at open side wing forward , and since I played against genuinely big men , it therefore followed I had to be galvanically quick . |
14 | Indian survivors abandoned traditional dress to avoid summary execution and stopped using indigenous languages in public . |
15 | It is time we invested seriously in education and training and stopped letting this misery grow worse and worse . ’ |
16 | On the following day he condemned it as " illegitimate and invalid " and rejected opening formal negotiations , this position being reiterated in a resolution passed overwhelmingly by the Congress on March 15 . |
17 | Several times he tore his hands and barked his shins , and once he missed his footing and came crashing several yards down the slope before he got a desperate grip with fingers and toes and knees , and clung sweating till he recovered his breath . |
18 | Reactions were electrophoresed through a 10% denaturing gel and the gel was subsequently dried and autoradiographed using standard procedures ( 12 ) . |
19 | There was no answer to her gibe , and , despite the fact that the fumes in the room told her the substance on her hair was likely to blind her if it made contact , she sat up and risked opening one eye . |
20 | The solution was found initially using the entire Fab molecule , and confirmed using two half-molecules comprising the constant and variable regions . |
21 | Allen , the Hal Far station commander , reported seeing Deacon 's combat and confirmed observing one Messerschmitt crash into the sea ; Deacon was subsequently credited with one destroyed as a result . |
22 | The women later sobered up and returned pleading pre-menstrual tension to the governor . |
23 | Russia wished to use the Teleuts as a buffer against the Dzhungars , but in the end they were overwhelmed by a superior power and began raiding Russian lands again around 1700 at the behest of their new masters , as did the Kazakhs further west . |
24 | He buried himself in books on comparative religion , and began publishing scholarly tracts and books about the goddess . |
25 | As the situation worsened more border police entered the area and began firing live ammunition into the crowd . |
26 | In the early afternoon the gate finally opened , and the crowd arose as one and began loading each other with boxes and sacks . |
27 | She picked up a piece of paper and began drawing little cameo pictures of the bowl of fruit on the sideboard , of the flowers in the garden , bending under the wind . |
28 | In Bosnia , the Yugoslav army yesterday seized control of the town of Visegrad and began enforcing military rule after stamping out pockets of resistance by Muslims , Belgrade radio said . |
29 | During the 1970s , many fishermen were forced from the anchoveta fishery and the associated use of purse-seine vessels , and began using smaller boats , setting gill-nets to catch coastal fish species . |
30 | On hearing this , the brothers ran the two thousand meters back to the start of their rows and began visiting each tree in turn again to empty the cups into their carrying cans . |