Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Criminal proceedings do not become active ’ until a suspect has either been arrested , or charged or a warrant issued . |
| 2 | One example of bad practice of this kind occurred where a hospital refused to re-admit a patient three days after discharge , and the senior social worker in desperation on a Friday afternoon sent a taxi driver to pick up a vulnerable old woman , to gather together her things , and take her into a residential care home . |
| 3 | Secondly , a while ago I mentioned that a guy called Alan Byrne had been over for a trial , in Elland Road , from Shamrock Rovers in Dublin . |
| 4 | erm I think we found that a school has , it 's very important for a school to get the relationship right with individual parents in talking about their children , and how their own children are progressing , and that 's quite a different kind of relationship from the one between schools and a body of parents about general school policy . |
| 5 | Gooding ( 1980 ) surveyed teacher opinion and found that a majority thought there was insufficient consultation on the design of the tests , although a response rate of fifty per cent for the survey casts some doubt on how widespread this may be . |
| 6 | Moreover he found that a concession made in the pleadings to the effect that the plaintiffs did not allege that the defendants had made use of any of the plaintiffs ' trade secrets since leaving their employment was , in the light of the judgment of Faccenda Chicken Ltd v Fowler [ 1986 ] 1 All ER 617 fatal . |
| 7 | I analysed them and found that a material had been used which is only obtainable in Iron Curtain countries . |
| 8 | I called in at the office on one of my days off , to see what was doing , and found that a posting had come through for me to report forthwith to Group Headquarters at Huntingdon . |
| 9 | They found that a journal used as an archive ages slowly , whereas one supporting a research front ages quickly . |
| 10 | All of them were ready for action after the long period of training , but when they arrived they found that a gale had brewed up . |
| 11 | They found that a groundsman had dolled off the hurdle instead of the adjacent steeplechase fence — ommitted because of false ground . |
| 12 | On Jan. 21 All-India Radio reported that a treaty updating the 20-year 1971 Treaty of Peace , Friendship and Co-operation between India and the Soviet Union [ see pp. 24773 ; 24820 ] would be signed during a scheduled visit to India in March by the Russian President , Boris Yeltsin . |
| 13 | For example , in September 1919 , in its account of a meeting of the Board of Guardians , the Bedfordshire Times reported that a member had complained of what he referred to as ‘ an appalling increase of rates ’ . |
| 14 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of Dec. 14 reported that a poll gave the Prime Minister a support rating of over 40 per cent , suggested that , after registering a one-off protest in July , voters were " returning to the fold " , being wooed with promises of political reform , a slowdown in agricultural liberalization and a pledge to reform the consumption tax . |
| 15 | Kvallposten , an evening newspaper in Malmo , reported that a diary belonging to Mr Talb which was seized during police searches shows December 21 1988 — the day on which PanAm 103 blew up — with a circle around it . |
| 16 | A member reported that a circular had been issued by Mr Constable , a leading employer , " to boarding schools etc. , intimating his willingness to receive young men and women and educate them as compositors " . |
| 17 | A Shanghai newspaper , Wenhui Daily , reported that a panda had been caught after killing and eating sheep on farms . |
| 18 | Radio Television Hong Kong reported that a bill based on proposals from the Governor , Chris Patten , would appear in the official gazette tomorrow if China still refused to talk by then . |
| 19 | In February the Institution sub-committee reported that a meeting had been held with representatives of the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board : Sir Frederick Messer , M.P . |
| 20 | The news agency TASS reported that a commission had been set up under Uzbek Prime Minister Abdulkhashim Mutalov , to investigate the disturbances . |
| 21 | It is envisaged that these arrangements shall remain in force until initial expressions of interest have been received and analysed and a decision taken regarding the handling of the next stage of the formal sale process . |
| 22 | Then it moved and a man stepped out in front of her . |
| 23 | She said she and another officer had been pursuing a red Ford Sierra car on the road between the villages of Hillam and Burton , North Yorkshire , when it suddenly stopped and a gunman got out . |
| 24 | Jenny 's lashes flickered and a smile touched her coral mouth . |
| 25 | Behind them a dog howled and a door opened and shut . |
| 26 | This occurred when a broker attempted to undertake a single transaction involving 2,000m Hungarian Forints — $22m — in the government bonds market only to discover that the appropriate field in the application did n't have enough space for the zeros . |
| 27 | The point is that the experts were convinced Leakey was wrong when they could not possibly have known this to be the case In his rollicking ‘ Steady-state cosmology revisited ’ , Sir Fred Hoyle recounts what occurred when a paper submitted by his fellow astrophysicist Sir Hermann Bondi was set before that august body , the Royal Astronomical Society . |
| 28 | Comdisco had been playing in a high stakes financial game known as risk arbitrage , hoping to get ahead of the rapid run-up in a company 's share price when it became the object of a takeover ( or the reversal of fortune that occurred when a takeover fell apart ) . |
| 29 | At Question Time in the House , the Prime Minister agreed that a paper submitted by a European Planning Manager , now being studied by the Government and the European Commission appeared to offer real solutions to Britain 's excessive contribution to the European budget . |
| 30 | Both agreed that a draft outlining the main areas of agreement and disagreement should be drawn up by the end of January 1992 and the US Representative for Trade Negotiations Carla Hills cautioned that the USA had " no intention of substituting speed for substance " . |