Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two control individuals and three adult coeliac patients in remission agreed to take part in the study . |
| 2 | The defence sought to discredit Gravano as a " serial killer " and habitual liar who was seeking to evade life imprisonment by striking a deal with the authorities . |
| 3 | The Estonian parliament agreed to postpone discussion of provisions of its election law amid disagreement over demands by Russians for a second chamber to represent local minorities . |
| 4 | The Estonian parliament agreed to postpone discussion of provisions of its election law amid disagreement over demands by Russians for a second chamber to represent local minorities . |
| 5 | Teachers were promised salary increases and better social security facilities , while the ministry agreed to increase expenditure on education and set up a joint planning agreement with ANDES . |
| 6 | Bakufu and daimyo administrations found themselves in increasing economic difficulties as their income failed to keep pace with rising expectations of consumer expenditure and other demands on their budget . |
| 7 | Ten students at Kent University admitted taking part in a £400,000 telephone fraud . |
| 8 | After a short persuit through the city streets the driver tried to dodge traffic at the Barton Gates junction on Eastgate street . |
| 9 | It was part of a wider agricultural system with sheep pastured on the rich meadow grass then walked to be folded on fallow arable areas overnight , where their dung helped to maintain fertility on the thin chalkland soils . |
| 10 | There was some attempt made to reach agreement at the continuous disarmament talks but the only real progress was a pledge not to test in the Antarctic , a gesture of more value to the species Penguin than the species Man . |
| 11 | A major issue to be explored is why social disruption failed to stimulate unrest in lowland Scotland unlike other areas of Britain at this time . |
| 12 | Prime Minister Poul Schlüter on Nov. 22 called an early general election for Dec. 12 , after his minority centre-right coalition failed to reach agreement with the opposition Social Democratic Party ( SD ) over the 1991 budget and an economic programme including tax reforms . |
| 13 | The Court of Session directed a special sitting of the licensing court to be held when an applicant failed to take advantage of this subsection before the conclusion of the statutory sittings : Bell 's Exr . |
| 14 | In London , the Tory lord mayor tried to stop work on the construction of a Catholic chapel in Lime Street , and when the eventual opening of the chapel provoked rioting , he was reluctant to take action to suppress the disorders . |
| 15 | The lord president tried to attract support by embarking on a reform of the council , particularly by a reduction in its fees ; but it could make little progress against the obstructionism of Secretary Ingram , who had the backing at court of the lord treasurer , Lionel Cranfield ( later Earl of Middlesex , q.v . ) . |
| 16 | And then she looked across at him , her dark eyes smiling , and his blood seemed to catch fire in his veins . |
| 17 | Further enlightenment is delayed until ( 11 ) , which at last explains how the interview came to take place at all ; but again , this information is postponed to the end of the main clause , in the relative clause " on which he had been invited which in turn contains a further relative clause " who happened to know … resident tutor " . |
| 18 | Protesters on April 5 disrupted a march organized to show support for the President , and on the following day police broke up a protest in Adzope , 100 km north of Abidjan , shooting dead a student . |
| 19 | A prisoner is being treated in hospital after another inmate threw scalding water over him . |
| 20 | Around the turn of the century , the term began to gain currency among people who wished to acknowledge the increasing political and economic maturity of the colonies of white settlement . |
| 21 | The fire brigade declined to shed light on the matter , however , claiming that moggies always came down of their own accord . |
| 22 | In one participating practice one general practitioner declined to take part in the study and a further three were excluded — two because they had joined their practices within the previous six months and one because he left the practice during the study . |
| 23 | In Rasbora Ltd v JCL Marine [ 1976 ] 2 Lloyd 's Rep 645 , which was a case decided under SOGIT 1973 , the builders of a power boat purported to exclude liability for breach of s14 of SGA 1979 . |
| 24 | Even with the new heating , warmth was hard to get : two years later the chapter struggled to find firewood for the canons since other fuel could not be got ; and a defective boiler in the cathedral was made in Germany and could not be mended . |
| 25 | Well , we did n't have much luck out in the open because the rabbits saw or heard or smelt us coming a mile off and bolted down the nearest hole , even though we were mute and trying to stay down wind ( the wind kept switching direction in little gusts ) . |
| 26 | Diagnosis of AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis for the purpose of this study required HIV seropositivity by two separate methods , and changes on direct cholangiography that were compatible with diagnostic criteria for primary sclerosing cholangitis . |
| 27 | To date no patient with right upper quadrant pain and a raised alkaline phosphatase but a non-diagnostic endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography has progressed to AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis despite an increasing readiness to repeat cholangiograms in this situation . |
| 28 | Unlike Payne et al , we have found a high frequency of AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis in AIDS patients with substantially raised serum alkaline phosphatase . |
| 29 | It appears that about two-thirds of well documented cases of AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis in the United Kingdom will prove infected , and that at least a sixth of patients with cryptosporidiosis will have AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis if subjected to endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography . |
| 30 | Cytomegalovirus was associated with AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis in only two of the present patients in whom cryptosporidiosis was not also implicated and in less than a third overall ; these represent less than 10% of all cases of cytomegalovirus enteritis seen during the study period . |