Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once , it was a pop cliche that the records which mattered most to you were the ones which marked your earliest sexual encounters or which signposted key events in your adolescence . |
| 2 | The race was only open to vehicles which ran on unorthodox fuels , or which had internal combustion engines modified for greater energy efficiency . |
| 3 | Thorndyke inserted another statement further on in the passage which was either neutral with respect to possible inferences or which supported particular inferences . |
| 4 | But suppose now suppose I were a middle-aged to elderly teacher who had never come across dyslexia until recently and was now aware that he or she had dyslexic pupils , the first thing to do , I think , is to inform yourself . |
| 5 | There is also a strong sense of' learning' , in which the student identifies with the truth claim he or she is faced with , and can offer it ( for example , back to the consultant physician ) as something with which he or she had personal experience ( having had an opportunity to examine some patients ) . |
| 6 | However , there are both practical and legal problems in cases where the woman says that she consented through fear only : she did not resist , because she thought that it would be hopeless in the circumstances , she was terrified , or she feared serious violence . |
| 7 | The subjects in one of the trials referred to were patients in whom pain control was inadequate or who had appreciable side effects , which is why the cerebrospinal fluid was accessed . |
| 8 | Shaikhs collected money from members of their lineages to support those who had no other support , or who had heavy expenses of certain kinds ( educational or medical , but not business expenses ) which they could not meet ; but these were in no sense an attempt to redistribute resources . |
| 9 | Those who held forth in the Royal Institution in the second half of the nineteenth century , or who addressed large audiences at the British Association or its equivalents in other countries , were confident ; and they had reason for their confidence . |
| 10 | A person who was swept along by the crowd ( in a literal bodily sense ) , or who encountered unexpected barriers when attempting to comply with police conditions , would be able to avail himself of this defence . |
| 11 | Existing members of pension schemes set up prior to the 1989 Budget or who joined established schemes before 1 June 1989 may not be affected by the rule and may be entitled to a higher tax-free lump sum . |
| 12 | Adam Smith believed that competition among capitalists would give the public the opportunity to compare the quality and prices of goods , so that producers who were inefficient or who charged excessive prices would be put out of business . |
| 13 | Some letters were found to be more often confused with other letters and these letters were deemed to share similar features E G , B and P were often confused whereas B and X were n't so you 'd be flashing either a series sequence of letters up , some of which shared features , some of which did n't , or we thought shared features , and then we saw whether they were confused or not , and this was taken to support the idea that features were extracted from the input , or that 's how we constructed the letters or characters that we were perceiving . |
| 14 | The other boys either had enormous appetites for books of many kinds , or they had native wit . |
| 15 | The big supermarkets , or what seemed big supermarkets then , which disfigured numerous high streets in the 1960s , have now been replaced by a much larger generation of stores . |
| 16 | Then I used to go dancing down at down the and I 'd strict orders to get in on a Saturday night early , but it was always eleven o'clock walking on my own back . |
| 17 | I have to record loads of tapes , no no not just these ones and I got other ones at home , I 've got have a bath , I 've got clean up my bedroom and you know . |
| 18 | And I got new trainers . |
| 19 | I I saw it somewhere and I got lost track of it . |
| 20 | And er when it come to the election of a shop steward about in ni nineteen er I think it were nineteen twenty seven , it were nineteen twenty seven er I there were two hundred in our shop and I got elected shop steward , mainly I think because a lot more , most did n't did n't want to be bothered you know but anyway I I and so that 's what I retained . |
| 21 | My brother and I got dried bananas |
| 22 | On we drove , and I noticed stacked turf everywhere , in wooden shelters and under tarpaulins , usually by the side of a house . |
| 23 | At first , I thought it was spilt wine but then it spread and I noticed little splashes coming down from the ceiling above . |
| 24 | I just ca n't get off the scale Moby and I swapped fond farewells as She-She led me away . |
| 25 | " The amount the young can do nowadays — now when I was carrying Dan I was not able to get up for days together , me ankles swoll so , and I 'ad dizzy spells , something terrible , but she still gets around on that bike , perky as Punch . |
| 26 | So my visits to the Ainsworth home were frequent but undemanding , and I had ample opportunity to look out for the little cat which had intrigued me . |
| 27 | And I had total confidence in Robin as , very touchingly , he had in me when we climbed on the mountain . |
| 28 | Although my hon. Friends the Member for Billericay ( Mrs. Gorman ) and for Basildon and I had certain concerns about the overall reorganisation proposed — my hon. Friend the Member for Billericay and I expressed them very forcefully , as my hon. Friend the Minister knows — we took exactly the same line as the community health council on the centralisation of casualty . |
| 29 | The day you went to get Bunny and I had terrible hay fever . |
| 30 | I also did a great deal of business with Alfred Gates , director of Ackermann 's , and I had great respect for him . |