Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I never doubted that for a moment , ’ he replied in an extremely charming , yet at the same time insolent , tone . |
| 2 | I say in interesting , if you built that in a model , people would n't believe you . |
| 3 | The 1977 Royal Commission on the Press found that for a quality newspaper , production costs accounted for 31% of total costs ; the next largest group of costs were attributed to newsprint and ink . |
| 4 | Wright and West , in a study of all incidents recorded by the police as genuine rapes or attempted rapes in six English counties over a five-year period from 1972 to 1976 , found that of a total of 297 cases , fellatio was attempted or demanded in 30 incidents , cunnilingus in 13 , buggery in 12 and other sexual acts usually involving masturbation in 35 . |
| 5 | Researchers found that on a day when an ‘ insular ’ mother reported having an argument with another adult before she was observed at home with her child , she was more likely to behave unpleasantly towards her child ( Wahler and Graves 1983 ) . |
| 6 | India in those days ( round about 1963 ) was much in the air and I found that as a background it decidedly fired my imagination . |
| 7 | And we found that over a period of , oh about a couple of months , the same people almost used to come round . |
| 8 | Similarly , in obese patients receiving weight reduction , Broomfield and colleagues found that in a dose of 1300 mg/day , aspirin inhibited ( albeit to a non-significant extent ) the development of microcrystals , microstones , and gall stones — which developed with high frequency in untreated patients . |
| 9 | Nicola Woods found that in a business setting , gender was a better predictor than status of who would interrupt whom . |
| 10 | Contrary to these expectations , Rose found that in a group of 36211 men followed from 5 to 23 years , two thirds of those who developed colon cancer had initial serum cholesterol values below the age sex specific values for each respective cohort . |
| 11 | In particular , he found that in an organisation committed to consultative management , a superior may become more and more reluctant to exercise his authority . |
| 12 | So all the traffic that used that as a rat run to get on the East Lancs Road |
| 13 | And he said he was working with an old fellow which is getting on in age and he was quite absent minded and he said , I was about thirty feet from the ground on a ledge er filling er s a hole ready for shot for blasting and the old fellow was about twenty feet higher than him and then he was ss er whatsit another hole and then a at the top of the chamber there 's a little hole , he said , like a roof we call it which is a little passage that goes up into the next floor and then we used that as an escape route he did n't have to go far . |
| 14 | Ethiopian radio reported that during a ceremony in the office of President Meles , Carter had said that he was ready to make his own contribution to convince the World Bank , the IMF and other international organizations " to take part in the country 's economic reconstruction " . |
| 15 | The Middle East International of Nov. 23 reported that during an address to the Knesset foreign affairs and defence committee on Nov. 19 , Shamir had specifically linked the territories with the need for space to absorb immigrants from the Soviet Union . |
| 16 | Greenpeace reported that as a result exports were going to east European countries and Latin America . |
| 17 | Capt. Valentine E. M. Strasser , head of state of Sierra Leone , reported that as a result of the conflict his country had had " no respite for the past 15 months " and had suffered as much devastation as Liberia itself . |
| 18 | the Guardian of March 1 reported that at a meeting between the government and members of the opposition in Jeddah , Saudi Arabia , angry debate had erupted over demands by the opposition that martial law be declared not by the government in exile , but by an emergency national unity government reflecting various political views . |
| 19 | The Xinhua news agency reported that at a meeting with Li Peng soon after the Kazakh party 's arrival , the Chinese Premier called for enhanced relations in all fields and said that the recently completed rail link would help bilateral relations in the economic and trade fields . |
| 20 | Money set aside by Borders Regional Council to keep the delicate equipment mothballed and in a state of good repair runs out next month . |
| 21 | She did not turn her head when Melissa entered and for a moment it seemed that she was unaware of her presence . |
| 22 | She looked down at hands that trembled and for a moment she considered taking the dress off and forgetting the whole idea . |
| 23 | I remember in my young days — ’ She stopped and for a moment they sat quietly , both thinking of past Christmases when their parents and grandparents had been alive . |
| 24 | The Child Poverty Action Group , in their comments on the 1975 Act when it was still in bill form , stressed the link between poverty and children being received into or committed to care , and the fact that the latter often occurred because of a lack of housing or day-care facilities . |
| 25 | I wandered as in a dream through the gate and across the road . |
| 26 | They moved as in a dance . |
| 27 | Filmer 's neck muscles slowly relaxed , and I realized that for a moment he must have suspected that the scene had been specifically aimed at him . |
| 28 | The courts have recently demonstrated a reaction against an absurdly over-generous approach to the construction of agreements in the employee 's favour : see Home Counties Dairies Ltd v Skilton [ 1970 ] 1 WLR 526 in which the defendant was employed by the plaintiffs as a milkman and he expressly agreed that for a period of one year after his employment terminated he would not 'serve or sell milk or dairy produce " to any person who had been a customer of his employers and who had been served by him during the six months prior to his leaving . |
| 29 | While it appears that both James and Williams agreed that without an ascendant industrial bourgeoisie , the abolitionists ‘ would have preached themselves as black in the face as any Negro ’ . |
| 30 | But he realised that for a man like Lancaster — trusting and timid — the betrayal would have been much , much worse . |