Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that stuff about ‘ intent ’ and ‘ knowledge ’ might not save a future Exxon from damages in the American courts , if it transpired that a tanker captain was a known incompetent steering through a dangerous place . |
| 2 | It later transpired that the Hargrave vehicle customs-cleared its load of Spanish refrigerated produce in Dover as it would have done on any night of the year , up till now . |
| 3 | If it transpired that the intervention notice was not justified , and Lautro rescinded it , a press notice might already have caused substantial damage to the person affected . |
| 4 | The deputy head ( curriculum ) proposed that a formula approach be considered by faculty heads and most were in favour of developing such a system . |
| 5 | Thus he proposed that an accountability scheme should : |
| 6 | The paper also proposed that an accounting standard restrict the uses of the share premium account . |
| 7 | The statement also proposed that the peace process " must be advanced with the momentum generated by the will of the international community and not made subject to Israeli concurrence and rejection " . |
| 8 | Consequently , he proposed that the reporting unit should be defined as the fund and that organizations should be seen as one fund or a series of funds . |
| 9 | As news of the riots broke President George Bush appealed for calm and promised that the Justice Department would examine the question of whether federal charges should be brought against the acquitted police officers . |
| 10 | A desperate last memo from the London office manager , Anne Diamond , promised that the Christmas party , which had degenerated into a drink in the wine bar opposite GLEB , would now be held in January . |
| 11 | The move follows years of neglect and a recent rude report from the government 's Antarctic research policy advisory committee which maintained that a replacement transport system was essential if Australia was to maintain an effective presence on the continent . |
| 12 | Three countries-Brazil , India and Japan-were initially identified in May as candidates for such retaliatory action ( see p. 36926 ) ; at a special GATT Council meeting on June 21 and at the subsequent regular meeting on June 21-22 these three all expressed the apprehension that eventual US action under this provision would undermine GATT and the Uruguay Round , whereas the USA maintained that no trade action had yet been taken and assured the Council of its continuing strong commitment to both GATT itself and to the Uruguay Round . |
| 13 | In the present case , Mr. and Mrs. M. Deighan maintained that the district council should have considered the application as a submission of details reserved under the original outline planning consent . |
| 14 | Throughout his time in Darlington he maintained that the football club would never succeed while it played at Feethams . |
| 15 | North , however , maintained that the ship story ended quite differently , even victoriously , with the Monimbo ‘ on its side on the beach ’ . |
| 16 | Wilkinson , who has cajoled and bullied to knock Cantona into shape , joked that the language barrier is still there because ‘ If I 'm saying nice things about him he seems to understand — if I suggest he works harder or I say nasty things , he finds that harder to comprehend . ’ |
| 17 | The Germans pretended that an east mark was worth the same as a west mark . |
| 18 | Critics doubted that the freeze period would be used as intended by the Council to resolve possible conflicts between the relevant legislation and the Bill . |
| 19 | But this difficulty was quickly and neatly overcome : the man who hired the car — a man , yes ! — gave the telephone number of The Randolph , and as the firm 's representative was dialling the number he casually mentioned that the Deputy Manageress of The Randolph could be immediately contacted on a certain extension . |
| 20 | The Court of Appeal on 9 August 1989 found that a trial judge has no power to empanel a multiracial jury , even if he believes to do so would be right in the particular circumstances of the case . |
| 21 | And there 's one here with a a group of people and I found that a stone wall makes an ideal thing to trick photography with . |
| 22 | The weather had been typical for August with a period of heavy rain and the men returning to work found that a land slip had occurred . |
| 23 | In the study carried out by Blackmore she found that a cotton towel removed bacteria more efficiently than did paper towels but concluded that both types of towel were far superior to warm air drying methods . |
| 24 | I found that a Parish Church could present almost the same problems as our Congregational ones . |
| 25 | They found that a tax allowance variable played a far more important role than the interest rate in affecting investment . |
| 26 | The testers found that a Heat Mirror has a ‘ heat loss factor ’ of 1.4 compared with a single window 's factor of five . |
| 27 | The Sheen inquiry found that the ferry company was ‘ infected with sloppiness from top to bottom ’ . |
| 28 | therefore investigated recognition memory for conversation in a ‘ soap opera ’ and found that the surface form of an utterance was remembered if it carried some pragmatic meaning . |
| 29 | To my dismay , I found that the bleach formula had left my mind and would not be recalled . |
| 30 | When he looked round he found that the tunnel mouth had changed polarity and become a little patch of brightness , quite faint and very far away . |