Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Verbal abuse was traditionally a crime among the Sinhalese , but the courts stopped trying this offence in the 1820s in the Low Country and a decade later in Kandyan districts . |
| 2 | When the guardians proposed moving some families to Henfield , a few miles away , a fight broke out which could only be stopped by troops from Brighton . |
| 3 | Iraq 's half-dozen Kurdish parties stopped fighting each other in 1987 to form the Kurdistan Democratic Front , committed to democracy for Iraq and autonomy for Kurdistan . |
| 4 | The origins of the realignment lay in long-standing merger negotiations between Kim Young Sam and Kim Jong Pil , whose parties faced waning popular support . |
| 5 | Headteachers began filling empty reception class places with under-fives in the Seventies because the low birth-rate had caused a shortage of five-year-olds . |
| 6 | Results showed that the amount of time subjects spent reading each group of three words varied as a function of clause and sentence boundaries . |
| 7 | Written as a result of attending a Labour Party conference , it was the product of shock at what then seemed to me the amount of time and energy politicians and journalists spent chasing each other 's tails on such occasions . |
| 8 | Consequently when commercial artists and manufacturers began using these photographs as reference for comic strips , book illustrations , box tops etc. they assumed the reel to be a speaker grill . |
| 9 | The G7 nations began pressing last year for international laws aimed at protecting the world 's forests , but North and South have remained divided over should foot the bill . |
| 10 | Shoppers started making moral choices — boycotting battery-farmed eggs , for example — or political ones , which affected sales of South African fruit . |
| 11 | The microcomputer then searches the file to discover any entries indexed using both keywords . |
| 12 | One µl of extract was injected into a column of 20% neopentenyl-glycolsuccinate on Gaschrom Q 80–100 mesh , and SCFA concentrations calculated using internal standards . |
| 13 | When Congress was debating wide-ranging banking reform in 1990-91 , insurers suggested imposing nationwide limits on banks ' insurance powers as a trade-off for allowing interstate branching . |
| 14 | Recognition confusions for the text in the corpus were generated and the lattices produced containing 1246 words . |
| 15 | Industry regulators proposed giving this information greater prominence and adding new features . |
| 16 | As other areas reported improving new homes sales , California continued to experience declining land values and sluggish sales except in the low priced starter homes market . |
| 17 | However , although many policy prescriptions are based on models estimated using such data , for example in taxation and labour supply , the properties of estimators for these models rely heavily on strong and usually untested stochastic assumptions . |
| 18 | In addition the broadcasters envisaged spending some £250,000 on coverage of committees . |
| 19 | In the early 19th century shopkeepers began offering free gifts as an inducement to trade , while in 1844 the first co-operative dividend scheme was introduced . |
| 20 | Following this , the major pump companies began offering similar testing services . |
| 21 | The Brush Type 4 's first depot was Finsbury Park ( 34G ) in North London and early duties included working prestigious ECML expresses . |
| 22 | During spring 1986 his government arranged for a number of ‘ spontaneous ’ demonstrations of support in the West Bank , and a series of newspaper articles appeared confirming popular support for his efforts and denouncing the PLO 's betrayal of an historic opportunity for peace . |
| 23 | By their defence the defendants denied owing any duty to the plaintiff . |
| 24 | Developers kits began shipping last November ( UX No 362 ) when HP promised to have the end-user version ready by June . |
| 25 | There is no doubt in my mind that the many years spent wrestling indifferent cars around the track , trying to make up for what Lauda calls the ‘ evil ’ that dwells in all of them , must take its toll . |
| 26 | On Thursday , the Luftwaffe gunners began putting anti-aircraft batteries in place along the main axial road running east to west through the Tiergarten , to protect the Chancellery and the Reichstag against bombardment . |
| 27 | His responsibilities included arranging royal visits and schedules and ensuring the Maharajah was never offered unsuitable food . |
| 28 | On Feb. 22 UN experts began destroying 400 122mm rockets loaded with the nerve agent sarin at Khamisiya . |
| 29 | It may be difficult to explain why a few minutes spent reading fourteen lines of Shakespeare should be a higher pleasure than reading an equivalent length of a James Bond story , but the analyses of literary criticism elucidate how in the former case one is living those few minutes in intensified awareness with an extraordinarily extended span , from the texture of the words sounding in one 's inner ear to the remotest implications for the living of one 's whole life . |
| 30 | The number of wines produced using traditional cultivation methods is increasing and standards governing these are being introduced in several countries . |