Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an earlier chapter I noted that a study of poor people 's movements in the US concluded that such influence as they had was derived from mass protests rather than from participation in electoral politics ; and a study of the economic progress of black Americans in the late 1970s argued that it was ‘ under the impetus of the civil rights movement and the ghetto revolts of the sixties , [ that ] blacks gained access to new employment opportunities in business , government , the media , and high paying jobs in the skilled crafts ’ ( Smith , 1978 ) . |
| 2 | Well we had er , we took out all the gear for that , so I knew a lot , being a crane driver I 'd know what gear I wanted but a lot of these stevedores what are on there now , they were lorry drivers and they ai n't got a clue what they do , so there part of my job meant I 'd go round and give advice . |
| 3 | That absurd prejudice which implied that a girl lacked authority for a news programme was reluctant to go away . |
| 4 | Quote the story of the old soldier who saw that a watch had fallen into a bear-pit , climbed down into it , and was eaten . |
| 5 | When she held it up to the light she saw that a small circle of skin was inflamed . |
| 6 | In this study we investigated whether a definite pronoun , they , was easier to interpret when its referent was introduced directly by a plural noun phrase than when that referent was only implied by the use of a cognate verb , together with an adverbial phrase suggesting a repeated event . |
| 7 | When I got out into the corridor I saw that a piece of wire had been strung between two beams on either side of the block and that a sort of ladder was leaning against it . |
| 8 | The move follows years of neglect and a recent rude report from the government 's Antarctic research policy advisory committee which maintained that a replacement transport system was essential if Australia was to maintain an effective presence on the continent . |
| 9 | Other than in a most exceptional case , I doubt whether a judge who heard that a defendant in the charge of a jury was being interrogated under compulsory powers would have a moment 's hesitation about what to do . |
| 10 | The heavy workload and the difficulty of the work itself meant that a high degree of conformity was required of all but the most able students . |
| 11 | He was not utterly Reverend for a start : he kept bees , but he also boxed , ruggered and rowed with the same poise he showed as a raconteur . |
| 12 | There were those in the LNA , the NUWW and the NVA who argued that a more coercive police approach was essential to protect innocent women and children . |
| 13 | The defence argument put paid to yet another proposal in 1924 but in 1929 the Labour Government set up a Committee of Inquiry which concluded that a ‘ double barrelled ’ rail tunnel could probably be built although it would be necessary to drive a pilot tunnel to demonstrate its feasibility beyond doubt . |
| 14 | There were still those among the Shah 's military who believed that a coup against Khomeini was possible . |
| 15 | On scrutinising the notes of the 80 patients not referred for a specialist opinion we concluded that a nephrological opinion might have helped management in 17 cases . |
| 16 | A job they enjoyed and a good family life . |
| 17 | For a moment he thought that a sprinkling of light fell wherever Fael-Inis walked , but as it touched the floor it vanished , and he could not be sure that he had seen it at all . |
| 18 | At that moment he felt but a poor copy of Li Hang Ch'i . |
| 19 | Yeah and Mike 's seen him like that and mum went round the ward and she made all the beds to help them and all , we had to bribe them to look after him , but was he looked after in the end , on Saturday I said look , I said do n't fucking come over here and tell me my dad 's gon na be turned in a minute I said because a minute is a minute , I said but when you come over here three and a half hours later to my dad that 's like three years , he 's in excruciating agony , he wants to turn him when you tell him you 're gon na turn him |
| 20 | One was the periodic factor that wages did increase from time to time -and the other was what he called the adjustment factor which meant that a time might come in any industry when a distortion or trend had to be recognized as such for correction . |
| 21 | I checked the documentation which implied that a 2Mb version of this machine needed to have all four SIMM sockets occupied for it to work . |
| 22 | US government officials stated on Aug. 5 that they had uncovered evidence which indicated that a series of photographs purportedly showing that US servicemen listed as missing in action ( MIA ) were recently alive in Indo-China were fakes . |
| 23 | For example , one respondent who indicated that a ‘ training officer ’ was employed , added ‘ staffing officer , ⅛ time on training ’ while another respondent who had indicated that they had no designated ‘ training officer ’ added ‘ if you mean literally , the answer is no . |
| 24 | DH Lawrence 's " The Rainbow " was destroyed in 1915 , and " The Well of Loneliness " suffered the same fate in 1928 at the hands of a magistrate who felt that a passage which implied that two women had been to bed ( " And that night they were not divided " ) would induce " thoughts of a most impure character " and " glorify a horrible tendency " . |
| 25 | Many teachers , I have found , can remember from their own schooldays the shock and guilt they felt when a teacher finally broke down in the face of what , to the class , had seemed to be ‘ just having a bit of fun ’ . |
| 26 | One day he noticed that a mutation of this rose , pink in colour , ad emerged naturally , and he set to work to make sure it did not revert — and succeeded . |
| 27 | Then the seas settled a little , and a boat came , carrying a crew he recognised and a Skyeman he knew well , but who would not meet his eye . |
| 28 | At a very early stage in my career I learned that a sympathetic response on my part to the child 's needs within the family setting made my work as a classroom teacher considerably easier . |
| 29 | I think back to the letters of complaint I had when a ‘ rap ’ competition was set . |
| 30 | Survivals include the Cambrian Coast , radio signalled in 1988 , where Barmouth viaduct was after all repaired , the Central Wales where a decision was taken to rebuild the bridge which collapsed while a train was crossing it in high flood , and the Settle & Carlisle where the government perhaps surprisingly refused closure . |