Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TENBY VERDICT : Epsom Derby flop Tenby was not doped , the Jockey Club announced today following results of a test . |
| 2 | The irritating clarity which her dissolving mind afforded long gone events brought back memories of an archaeological expedition to classify similar megaliths on Sensuron . |
| 3 | The former study compared carefully matched samples of British , French , and German factories , and having held as constant as possible factors such as size of enterprise , technology , and the firm 's environment , discovered substantial differences in the way work was organised in the three countries , concluding that these could best be accounted for by features of each nation 's culture , and in particular its educational and occupational structures . |
| 4 | The left side contained neatly arranged papers , the right contained stacks and rows of pipes , tobacco tins , cigarettes and cigars and a large selection of tablets and capsules . |
| 5 | The boat went back to rescue others but was sank . |
| 6 | The machines in the spring department gave off choking fumes and a grey pall seemed to hang over the department … about 90 per cent of the work force are coloured , many of whom can not speak English . |
| 7 | Worries that the relocated employees faced were finding employment for relocated spouses and ensuring that the relocation did not affect children 's schooling . |
| 8 | The fact that she was known to be on a special complex carbohydrate diet designed to help her regain weight did n't help matters . |
| 9 | Councillors decided to uphold Mr Sprayson 's appeal because they said his action did n't put children in danger . |
| 10 | Mr Trotter as slightly taken aback by this stupid suggestion , as his scientific mind did n't include ghosts . |
| 11 | Even in those early years , when honest old men were tossing out such useful snippets of information as ‘ Macrobius would be the man ’ , the college did not provide soulmates of the kind Lewis always craved . |
| 12 | For many years the College did not provide pensions for members of staff , let alone dependents . |
| 13 | The defendant did not commence proceedings against the appellant until 7 March 1988 . |
| 14 | Among the allegations related to the Iraqgate affair was the claim that the US administration had fraudulently channelled loans to Iraq through the Atlanta branch of Italy 's Banca Nazionale del Lavoro ( BNL ) . |
| 15 | The CAR had already received disbursements totalling SDR15,200,000 under the first and second annual arrangements of the SDR21,280,000 three-year arrangement approved in June 1987 [ see pp. 35428 ; 37058 ] . |
| 16 | At ‘ J.F. Kennedy ’ , for instance , where the department had formerly entered candidates for the Mode 1 ‘ O ’ Level syllabus , they had been severely restricted in the way composition could be taught : |
| 17 | Childebert 's tax inspectors then tried to institute the same reforms in Tours , but Gregory claimed that the city was exempt , and related the history of exemption since the time of Chlothar I. However , if reorganization had not threatened Tours , it is doubtful whether we would have heard of the perfectly sensible arrangements at Poitiers , which suggest not only that taxation was normal in the Merovingian kingdom , but also that it could be organized efficiently , and so far as one can see , fairly . |
| 18 | In that year the secretary of the Society for the Relief of Persons Confined for Small Debts received a letter from Spencer Perceval the Prime Minster ( who was later to be assassinated by a bankrupt , John Bellingham ) to say that His Majesty had graciously given orders to present The Thatched House Society with £2,000 from his private purse . |
| 19 | Waldheim , a former UN Secretary-General , had been banned from entering the United States , and during his term as President had only paid visits to various Islamic countries ( including Iraq and Iran — see pp. 37759 ; 38309 ) and to the Vatican . |
| 20 | The concept of a system was not new because Newton had written on the solar system , biologists had been concerned with living systems , and geography had implicitly used notions of the systems concept since early days of the subject . |
| 21 | Mutations in the D-stem and/or the variable loop in tRNA Asp caused drastically decreased levels of m 1 G37 , Q34 , manQ34 and Ψ40 in the anticodon loop/stem , while the m 2 2G6 formation was unaffected and the rate of m 5 C49-formation was enhanced . |
| 22 | Management moved immediately to recruit workers in almost every department of the factory . |
| 23 | A great bed with a dark carved headboard like an ecclesiastical panel reaching half-way up the wall , a chest of drawers supporting a mirror between brass pillars , a desk dropped open exposing drawers and pigeon holes stuffed with papers : these high-polished , sombre items , out of keeping with the rest of the house , subsided within the airtight hush of the room curtained and shuttered against the light . |
| 24 | The fact that Einstein 's general theory of relativity turned out to predict singularities led to a crisis in physics . |
| 25 | Thus a careful analysis of the USA system was undertaken in the belief that no race under the sun knew how to sell products as well as Americans . |
| 26 | This question went on to ask respondents whether they had seen the booklet , or any part of it . |
| 27 | The adoption by the BCP congress of a moderate reformist manifesto did not dissuade members of a BCP faction calling itself the Alternative Socialist Organization ( ASO — the most radical of several pro-reform factions which had emerged in the party in January ) from carrying out a threat to split from the BCP and form a new social democratic party . |
| 28 | It concluded that Community law did not impose requirements concerning the granting to ships of flag rights . |
| 29 | [ The Jewish law did not allow Jews to eat the flesh of some animals , such as the pig , which were called unclean . ] |
| 30 | ( c ) There was an additional reason for considering that there was no infringement of article 52 : the criterion of the owner 's nationality did not prevent nationals of other member states from establishing themselves in the United Kingdom to operate fishing vessels — it only prevented them from doing so under the British flag . |