Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [prep] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Devlin and O'Cathain found that of 122 children consecutively referred , 22 became dry after a structured interview ( with the child alone as well as with a parent ) , advice on personal hygiene and cleanliness training , daily bladder exercises , and provision of a ‘ star chart . ’ |
| 2 | We found that on two occasions it was unable to copy a large file across 5 floppy discs . |
| 3 | The researchers found that at three weeks of age , 39% of the infants had been exposed to passive smoking from any source . |
| 4 | I found that after 2 hours of playing the small adventure game called Wumpus my friends youngest child lost all her worries about pressing the wrong key , except that she kept falling down the cavern when she did . |
| 5 | When we published our reports on country houses at risk ( Tomorrow 's Ruins , Silent Mansions and Endangered Domains ) we found that within two years up to two-thirds of the houses had found new owners or new uses . |
| 6 | 1986 ) found that by 8 years of age only 3.3 per cent of children had never been dry at night but another 4 per cent had relapsed after achieving control ( secondary enuresis ) . |
| 7 | Lohmuller et al reported that among 671 patients with chronic ulcerative colitis , if preoperative extraintestinal manifestations had been present , pouchitis occurred in 39% of cases , but in only 26% if no extraintestinal manifestations had been present . |
| 8 | In 1991 , the brothers are believed to have inherited an estimated £500,000 when a Jersey court ruled that after three years the missing couple could be presumed dead . |
| 9 | The following month , after an appeal by Iranian opposition leader Rajavi , Iraq announced that for seven days it would halt attacks on towns . |
| 10 | And it seemed that within three months of going to see her , the bingeing and fasting , and endless weighing myself and despairing at my size , had stopped . |
| 11 | They recalled that in 1958 Quakers had made an unsuccessful attempt to interrupt atmospheric testing of H-bombs at Bikini atoll in the Pacific . |
| 12 | Martin Jajo equalised and within five minutes Jacobson sealed Darlington 's fate . |
| 13 | The decree stated that within three months negotiations with other CIS member-states and former Soviet republics would establish co-ordinating mechanisms for the safe use of atomic energy . |
| 14 | Although she stated that after 25 years in government she was keen to seek new challenges , there was widespread speculation that she would resume her political career in 1992 by contesting either the governorship or a Senate seat in her native North Carolina . |
| 15 | A quick check confirmed that with two eyes this was a different fish . |
| 16 | In a fiery encounter , he claimed that on five occasions his players were grabbed by the testicles and , on more than one occasion , were spat on by their opponents . |
| 17 | But it remained true , as a very experienced commentator pointed out , that " any man filled with an excessive desire of fortune or riches should abandon the calling of negotiator " , while the most successful English diplomat of the eighteenth century claimed that after fourteen years in several highly important posts he found himself £20,000 worse off . |
| 18 | Sefton 's consumer protection chief Tim Cox said : ‘ A recent survey showed that of 132 retailers visited , 12 per cent were not displaying the statutory sign . |
| 19 | Marc Bloch showed that on two estates in the heart of northern France there were in the ninth century only twenty-five servi ( slaves or serfs ) out of 278 householders ; whereas at the end of the twelfth century all but a handful of the population of these villages were serfs ; none slaves . |
| 20 | Korth , for instance , showed that within 20 metres of the point of origin , pellets dropped into a small stream start to lose some of their bone , by 80 metres the pellets start to break up , and by 200 metres all the bone is lost . |
| 21 | It was an order totally alien to the most basic principles of the religion they were fighting to uphold , and showed that after 40 years of the struggle , some of those fighting under the flag of the Covenant had lost sight of the most important aspects of their Faith . |
| 22 | A recent edition of Priorities , a publication of the American Council on Science and Health , reported that a Food and Drug Administration study showed that in 7,394 samples of domestic food , 65 percent contained no pesticide residues and 34 percent had residue levels below the legal tolerance level . |
| 23 | Delay figures extracted from the present databases showed that in 82 cases , ( 25% ) , related papers were published before the date of completion of the thesis . |
| 24 | Delay figures extracted from the present databases showed that in 82 cases , ( 25% ) , related papers were published before the date of completion of the thesis . |
| 25 | Experiments illustrated in figure 1 on fires in a storage of goods on pallets in open racks showed that in three minutes after ignition , the flames were growing at a dangerous rate , and that after eight minutes the flames had encompassed the whole height of the racking ( 18 m ) and were producing large volumes of acrid smoke . |
| 26 | And there 's also something else that I forgot to bring up and that is that they 're trying to find new ways of removing the gases , and they reckoned that in 2 years there 's going to be an electrical method , an electrical filter , and the lab is 99% efficient . |
| 27 | The London Food Commission in its research into 299 permitted additives , discovered that in 25 cases evidence existed of severe toxic hazard . |
| 28 | The wind parts survived and in 1978 Chandos recorded everything , played by the excellent Athena Ensemble . |
| 29 | After National Service in the RAF , he worked for for eight years and it was during this time that he came in contact with , whilst the Belfast mill was being refurbished . |
| 30 | This meant that for six weeks he was on a special bed that could be turned so that he spent some hours on his back and some on his front , never getting off the bed at all . |