Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 've got to say this , in some cases I had additional time as a shop steward and a convenor , to spend on major problems er affecting the incentive scheme . |
| 2 | In some cases I opened that menu and selected exit . |
| 3 | For several hours I accepted this absurdity . |
| 4 | A petite , pleasant-faced doxy , however , caught my eye and for a few hours I became old Shallot again , whiling away the time , telling the most outrageous stories and making her laugh both in the taproom and on her feather-filled mattress in the chamber above . |
| 5 | Proposals I announced last month to create 12 new environmentally sensitive areas will more than treble the area covered . |
| 6 | Every few minutes I found some reason to stop : to take off my sweater , to put on my robe , to change from boots to training-shoes and back again , to eat some oats , to take my temperature , to redistribute the load inside the lockers and , when I had no other excuse , simply to rest . |
| 7 | So what with Carole 's soft voice and that we did n't get a lot of and it seemed as though it was well like that , several times I went last year and I really got a bit cheesed off . |
| 8 | From the batch of over seventy birds I ringed that day , only one other came to light . |
| 9 | This reinforced my interest in the subject , but as I soon became involved in postgraduate studies in busy medical , surgical and then paediatric units I had little time to pursue it at that stage . |
| 10 | In one of my books I gave more information than was needed to solve a particular problem . |
| 11 | Those were the last human voices I heard all day . |
| 12 | Will he take particular note of the excellent report on reading by the Select Committee on Education , Science and Arts which established that reading standards have certainly not fallen and that teachers of reading should be congratulated on the excellent job that they do ? |
| 13 | Many of these are mentioned in chapter 8 ( p. 173 ) but a particularly important viewpoint offered by Strahler in 1956 , provided fundamental guidelines which acknowledged earlier work by engineers , hydrologists , soil scientists and geologists and proceeded to formulate an improved understanding of fluvially produced landscapes . |
| 14 | Remarkably , compounds which showed particular promise as drugs became routinely discussed by number alone , although everyone knew the chemistry behind them . |
| 15 | But the considerations which persuaded this House to hold that there was a discretion whether or not to require an undertaking in damages from the Crown in a law enforcement action are equally applicable to cases in which some other public authority is charged with the enforcement of the law : see e.g. Lord Reid , at p. 341g , Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest , at p. 352c , and Lord Cross of Chelsea , at p. 371b–g . |
| 16 | His design focused on his brilliant performance of the various solos but otherwise filled the stage with authentic steps which played little part in making the action unfold . |
| 17 | The CNAA had to decide not only the merits of the particular case , but whether it would be willing and able ( under its Charter ) to validate a teachers ' certificate as well as a degree , and how it might relate to the Area Training Organizations which had some responsibility for the teaching practice component of existing courses . |
| 18 | Working-class organizations which exhibited independent initiative — be it soviets or trade unions — were regarded with acute suspicion unless and until they were firmly under party tutelage . |
| 19 | The Council 's Chairman , CBE , DL , and OBE , Vice President and Managing Director of NCR ( Manufacturing ) Ltd , provided stimulating addresses which provoked much discussion . |
| 20 | Within the Main Library , all consultations had to be recorded by signature of the declaration form at the front of each thesis , but this was not rigorously enforced in the departmental libraries , largely due to staff shortages which precluded adequate supervision . |
| 21 | The anger over the Flow Country is not so much about employment as about the ending of a scandalous rip-off of public funds which fuelled private forestry and the associated inflation of land values . |
| 22 | Attention has been drawn to a range of influences which debilitated economic performance and it is hard , if not impossible , to see how the removal of the sterling burden would have significantly altered them . |
| 23 | These variations were so great that he questioned the applicability of formulae which used this approach to sampling . |
| 24 | Beers , building and properties were other sectors which suffered acute discomfort . |
| 25 | For example Camden social services department made public the findings of an independent review of their homes which revealed that lack of recreational activities and opportunities for choice , lack of training for staff and management difficulties were all interwoven ( Booth , 1987 ) . |
| 26 | They formulated a series of demands which included equal pay for women . |
| 27 | In six months which included many business trips , they were never apart for one night . |
| 28 | If the military and civil branches of the East India Company 's service were the most attractive forms of Indian patronage , the appointment of surgeon , either in India itself or on board an East Indiaman , one of the privately owned merchant vessels which carried Indian trade , was considered a desirable place by many Scots with the necessary professional training . |
| 29 | Our college 's initial provision for ‘ students with special needs ’ was established in 1978 — a ‘ discrete ’ course for students with moderate learning difficulties or , in some instances , school leavers from high schools who needed extra support before joining training schemes . |
| 30 | The division of the national press into ‘ quality ’ and ‘ popular ’ papers was one of content as well as circulation , and it was itself largely a result of the higher advertising rates chargeable by the papers with readers who had more money to spend ( not necessarily their own ) . |