Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It transpired that somehow the clips had twisted and become detached from the rail , causing the only fatal accidents during the entire training programme . |
| 2 | This was welcomed by the head of the Open Software Foundation in Japan , Dr Rob Morel , who ventured that possibly the Foundation was better positioned than before as a ‘ truly independent standards organisation ’ . |
| 3 | Times are so hard at the Manor Ground that even the manager has had to return his club car . |
| 4 | McKeever , Suberi and Van Deventer ( 1972 ) replicated Hines 's experiment but found that neither the magnitude nor direction of visual field asymmetry was affected by the presence of a central fixation digit . |
| 5 | In any case a number of these old pupils found that neither the church nor the State made any provision for them , and agreed among themselves to meet together for prayer and worship . |
| 6 | When I came back to Scotland I found that generally the standard of club rugby was lower . ’ |
| 7 | The bridge humbucker has been designed to give a very hot response indeed , and I found that even the centre single coil kicked the amp quite nicely . |
| 8 | ‘ Parts of the Chambers Street building are 130 years-old and we found that virtually no maintenance had been carried out . |
| 9 | Imaz found that about a quarter of the Argentine industrial elite , at a time when industrialisation was getting well under way , were self-made men from neither middle- nor upper-class backgrounds ( Imaz 1964 ) . |
| 10 | When Peter Townsend and his army of researchers monitored low incomes in the sixties and seventies for their massive study , Poverty in the United Kingdom ( Penguin , 1982 ) , they found that about a quarter of the unemployed were drawing supplementary benefit . |
| 11 | The report , Cracking the Codex , found that about a quarter of the members of the committees that agree codex standards come from the industry , with only a handful of consumer groups represented . |
| 12 | Bradshaw and Millar found that only a quarter of lone mothers on income support said they were managing all right financially and 52 per cent said they ‘ almost always ’ worried about money . |
| 13 | Patterson found that only the problem child was permitted to be out of control in interaction with the parents , while all of the children were permitted to be out of control when interacting with each other . |
| 14 | There are also sparsely distributed , highly nutritious fruits , and Bell and his colleagues found that only the Thomson 's gazelle eats much of these . |
| 15 | Mrs Brundtland , Norway 's Prime Minister , complained about it to Mrs Thatcher and New Scientist reported that even the CEGB 's own scientists ‘ discreetly let it be known that they were annoyed by the final version of the video . ’ |
| 16 | The Committee drew attention to the fact that during the experiment fewer Members had been formally penalised for bad behaviour than in several recent sessions , and reported that neither the Speaker nor the Community had any evidence that rowdiness had significantly increased ; on the possible long-term effect , early evidence was ‘ mildly encouraging ’ . |
| 17 | They were both slightly embarrassed at how they had clung to each other when the thunder crashed and how the daughter had nestled in , practically under , her mother 's nightgown when the sheeting rain slashed down around them , beating on the windows , just as when she was a little girl . |
| 18 | Under Irish law , abortion is a criminal offence and recently the courts ruled that even the provision of information on abortion is now illegal . |
| 19 | In the full light of 5 Corps " insistence that the Cossacks could not be handed back without the use of force , the conference ruled that nevertheless the Cossacks should be handed back , without qualification . |
| 20 | The report also disclosed that both the pilot and the controller on duty in the tower complained or poor reception of transmissions , apparently affected by bad atmospheric conditions . |
| 21 | She realised that even the keepers of the secrets did not know them all . |
| 22 | The morning I woke up and realised that perhaps the reason I resented young Tulloch s much was because I too was an observer of human beings and that this most likely derived from an equal failure to establish satisfactory human relationships , was not a happy one . |
| 23 | The nun realised that now the child had no one to protect her , some of the other children were making up for lost time . |
| 24 | I realised that almost the instant she left me . ’ |
| 25 | Viktor Kirichenko , the chair of the Supreme Soviet 's budget commission , announced that virtually every republic was withholding some or all of its contributions , and that the government had resorted to raising credit and running up a Rbs35,000 million deficit to cover expenditure . |
| 26 | In the second edition Dewey announced that henceforth the structure of the scheme would not be fundamentally changed . |
| 27 | And bosses revealed that only a deal with Taiwan had prevented the number of job losses being DOUBLED.The shock move means BAe 's factory in Hatfield will shut by the end of next year . |
| 28 | He argued that even the procurement of raw materials from abroad should be subject to government control . |
| 29 | Newman and his original associates ( all white and mostly women ) were hard-liners who argued that only a revolution of the working class could resolve the individual psychic crisis . |
| 30 | People began to take notice of the miner 's conditions & inspectors from the govt. came & eventually the reports reached Parliament , where Acts were passed : |