Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , being unused , they progressively deteriorated and caved in and the entrances filled in or became overgrown with vegetation . |
| 2 | Spelt out slightly more fully ( and at the risk of oversimplification ) , this means that a decision is open to review where it has been arrived at as a result of a mistaken view of the law , or where the decision is one that could not reasonably have been arrived at , in the sense that the person deciding must have taken into account irrelevant considerations , or failed to take into account relevant ones , or where he has failed to observe the dictates of natural justice which require him to give the parties a hearing before arriving at his decision . |
| 3 | Cells came together ( or failed to separate after cell division ) to form many-celled bodies . |
| 4 | Published diaries which record a day-to-day chronology of events may not be the most coherent of records , but they do not suffer from being over-edited , tidied up or altered to fit into hindsight . |
| 5 | Should the enemy charge the hand gunners will flee , and the attackers are either drawn onto the halberdiers or left struggling in front of the main body of the regiment ready to be charged next turn . |
| 6 | The mean rate of recurrent or continued bleeding in control groups was 37% . |
| 7 | But again there was no reply , and she decided that Bertha was either out in the garden or had gone to town . |
| 8 | I should mention that if for any reason we did not go ahead or had to withdraw from publication , we reserve the right to give you adequate notice of our intention . |
| 9 | I should mention that if , for any reason , we did not go ahead or had to withdraw from publication , we reserve the right to give you adequate notice of our intention . |
| 10 | I should mention that if , for any reason , we did not go ahead or had to withdraw from publication , we reserve the right to give you adequate notice of our intention . |
| 11 | It went against all biological sense to suggest that the receptors and the elaborate physiological adaptations which they set in motion had no purpose , or had evolved in response to taking opium . |
| 12 | The Act creates several offences , all of which are committed by organisation , participation or incitement in a controlled or banned procession , or controlled meeting in breach of the conditions imposed . |
| 13 | Bernard 's father had been a builder , his two elder brothers were house painters ; his older sister was married to a carpenter : another just left nursing to be married ; his two younger sisters were still at school and planned to go to college against their mother 's wishes . |
| 14 | This was the real fear behind the arguments about the declining calibre of the new county councillors compared with that of the magistrates of Quarter Sessions ( Dunbabin 1965 ; Dearlove 1979:Ch. 4 ) : ‘ democratic alterations were widely believed to be dangerous , and expected to lead to extravagance , inefficiency , or even rapacity and disorder ’ ( Dunbabin 1963:227 ) . |
| 15 | Free trade in industrial goods with Turkey was to develop by end-1995 under an agreement initialled in Geneva in mid-October and expected to enter into force in April 1992 following the completion of signature and ratification procedures . |
| 16 | In Phillips v. Brooks ( 1919 K.B. ) a rogue called North entered a jeweller 's shop , selected some items including a ring and asked to pay by cheque and to take the ring with him . |
| 17 | I enjoyed the lessons a great deal , and became fascinated by Greek . |
| 18 | It seemed that the detailed pattern of the embryo was laid down in the egg and became partitioned during cleavage , thus supporting Weissman 's claim . |
| 19 | The Danish invasion took place in A.D. 787 , and one Danish ruler , called Egbert , succeeded as King of Wessex , in A.D. 802 ; becoming overlord of Cornwall and Devonshire in 815 ; then King of Kent in 825 , and became known as King of the English , in 829 . |
| 20 | After independence in the 1820s , an expanding plantation economy removed the forest and became dominated by coffee and bananas , with a dangerous reliance on a few exports . |
| 21 | This view seems a little extreme and in Asfar v. Blundell ( 1896 C.A. ) it was held that dates , which were under water for two days and became impregnated with sewage , had perished — i.e. in a commercial sense . |
| 22 | In the abstract the Free City arrangements might have worked , but they failed to take into account the hostilities they provoked ; failed to take into account the fears and prejudices unleashed by the sudden alteration of patterns of trade and allegiance ; and failed to take into account the long years of humiliating Polish partition , Prussian Polenpolitik and the rise of revolutionary Russia . |
| 23 | Nelson argues that the failure of other reviewers to come to the same conclusion was because they used vague definitions of depression and failed to take into account the severity of the disorder . |
| 24 | Germans were confidently walking in the streets when the alarm sounded but they did n't take it seriously and failed to go to air raid shelters . |
| 25 | Fujimori , justifying the air force action , said that the C-130 , one of many used to support US anti-drug operations in the northern Upper Huallaga Valley ( the world 's largest single source of coca ) , carried no markings and failed to respond to radio and visual warnings . |
| 26 | The man has convictions for violence and failed to return from home leave three weeks ago . |
| 27 | If your saint is to remain here now , then even if Tutilo escapes the sheriff 's law , if Herluin takes him back to Ramsey they 'll make him pay through his skin for what he attempted and failed to bring to success . |
| 28 | One article which had been revised and resubmitted appeared in proof partly returned to its original form and partly left in the resubmitted form . |
| 29 | In the beginning there was carbon , and after several generations of Super Novae there was the solar system and then there were a whole lot of trees and they all fell down plonk into bogs and got turned into coal , and that led to the dinosaurs and that led to the mammals and that led to humans and that led to the miners . ’ |
| 30 | I done that twice , and got put on report for it . |