Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Residents cheered when a bulldozer moved in to demolish wartime flats and maisonettes condemned by tenants as a disgrace . |
| 2 | Yet the Commons debate went far beyond the usual slanging match — and although Minister Robert Key tried hard to describe Government policy in the best possible light , serious concern and strong criticism was expressed that alone in the National Heritage budget , the English Tourist Board 's ( ETB ) funding is to be fiercely reduced . |
| 3 | In 1983 , when the AIDS danger to the American blood supply was first identified , the US Food and Drug Administration acted decisively to approve heat treatment to purify blood products . |
| 4 | did not accept that the Vice-Chancellor in Cloverbay had intended to lay down a rule that no order could be made under section 236 if the purpose for which the office-holder claimed reasonably to require information sought included obtaining information the receipt of which would go beyond a reconstitution of knowledge which the company once had and was entitled in law to possess . |
| 5 | In a housing project car park , we watched as a white Cadillac stretch limousine pulled up to buy cocaine from the barrio kids , while Los Angeles 's contribution to the economy of the underclass . |
| 6 | ACTION NEEDED NOW TO CUT ACCIDENT TOLL ON THE FARM |
| 7 | MR KINNOCK put the future of health care back at the centre of the electoral stage last night with a powerful warning that the NHS was in mortal danger if Labour did not win power . |
| 8 | MR KINNOCK put the future of health care back at the centre of the electoral stage last night with a warning that the NHS was in mortal danger if Labour did not win power . |
| 9 | At the Angel Road rail bridge on the A406 the cost of remedial work is put at £1.2 million , partly because the department did not install water-proofing until 1983 , about 15 years after the problems were identified . |
| 10 | Granddad did n't use slang because he were Norfolk man . |
| 11 | This success in constitution-making did not bring success for the Virginia Company ; Sandys was able to keep up emigration , but death and discouragement meant the population hardly rose above 1,000 . |
| 12 | Such a clause in a contract to supply building materials to a building contractor did not exclude liability for damages payable by the contractor to sub-contractors as a result of delay in delivery ( Croudace Construction Ltd v Cawoods Concrete Products Ltd [ 1978 ] 2 Lloyd 's Rep 55 ) . |
| 13 | Preoperative radiotherapy did not prolong survival in oesophageal cancer . |
| 14 | At the same time , the shake-out of British industry did not gather momentum before the late 1970s . |
| 15 | I get the impression that the poet did not take death seriously , did not quite believe in it . |
| 16 | It was reputed to be one of Europe 's most disordered cities , and there was scarcely a year in which some rioting did not take place . |
| 17 | The Democratic and Social Centre ( CDS ) with 0.9 per cent of the vote did not gain representation ( three seats and 3.8 per cent in 1988 ) . |
| 18 | Patients participating in this study gave fully informed consent to a protocol approved by the Yale University School of Medicine Human Investigation Committee . |
| 19 | And a murder did not take place . " |
| 20 | A journalistic facility for finding and talking to knowledgeable people , reading the right reports and informal commentaries , plus a number of more academic and analytical papers , should enable the researcher following the general methodology outlined here to explain soil erosion in a particular country . |
| 21 | Punk did n't mean shit to a palm tree to them even if it meant so much to us . |
| 22 | Theft did not take place until the accused did the unauthorised act . |
| 23 | The traffic going to Mr McGiffert 's shopping complex did not wreak havoc on the Ringdufferin Road , nor would I expect the traffic going to the golf course to do so . |
| 24 | Unfortunately despite the wide range , the stock did not include paste so they were up until the early hours , matching and fastening the wallpaper on with drawing pins . |
| 25 | The final shattering of the delusion did not take place until the 1940s ; but when it did occur , it prompted not the abandonment of the system of the delusion itself but a further and almost incredible elaboration of it . |
| 26 | The court took the view that since the contract was formed at the reception desk , the notice in the bedroom did not form part of the contract , thus it could not be relied upon by the hotel as excluding liability . |
| 27 | However , reserves of $6,700 million ensured that this figure did not give rise to undue concern . |
| 28 | The 1990–91 figure did not include expenditure attributed to the ‘ Fighting Fund ’ . |
| 29 | After the Malta summit the Bush administration had repeatedly expressed support for Gorbachev 's reform initiatives in the Soviet Union , but the Soviet reaction to the declaration of independence by Lithuania in March [ see p. 37299 ] threatened to throw the preparations for the Washington summit off course . |
| 30 | This included sophisticated equipment and " fly-by-wire " technology to allow India to build the light combat aircraft ( LCA ) planned as the principal fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force in the late 1990s , and for which the US administration had already granted use of the F-404 engine from General Electric . |