Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] [noun pl] and " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Patients were classified into three groups : ( a ) ‘ probable ’ Alzheimer 's disease if they met the clinical criteria and had a Hachinski score less than 5 ; ( b ) ‘ broad ’ Alzheimer 's disease defined after reclassification of all presenile patients by discriminant analysis ( this group included all probable Alzheimer 's disease ) ; and ( c ) multi-infarct dementia — a definite history of at least one cerebrovascular accident and a Hachinski score greater than 6 . |
| 2 | In fairness to Keith , he realised very quickly that he lacked the requisite qualities and threw in the towel . |
| 3 | As time passed the Roman officials and the new immigrants married Britons and had families so that the differences between the conquerors and the conquered began to disappear . |
| 4 | We three shared the same interests and opinions , and spent the days and evenings very happily together . |
| 5 | Freames and Pitts Mills were in close proximity to one another and this , coupled with the fact that at various times they shared the same tenants and were put to similar uses , has caused a certain amount of confusion . |
| 6 | He found there was no real difference between Santiago marginals and those in higher strata in a cultural way , that is , they shared the same values and aspirations , but the squatters were unable to realise these because of structural features . |
| 7 | She straightened the long limbs and pressed the strands of black cotton she had used for hair more firmly into the scalp . |
| 8 | The mail was uniformly trivial , but he read it all and then stuffed the torn envelopes and their contents into his pockets for disposal elsewhere . |
| 9 | But only the very superior pugilists made the ultimate escapes and so it was in every boxing slave 's interest to wring out his best efforts on every occasion . |
| 10 | Before lunch Jones made the necessary arrangements and they both glanced at the Sunday newspapers , apparently for the first time . |
| 11 | This is the pencil that his kindergarten teacher possessed ; the pencil that made the blue ticks and the red crosses in the register ; the pencil that he wept for , that his mother went all over town to find , and failed to find , because they were all gone , or not made any more , or kept for teachers , or only imagined ; the pencil which he knew would make him happy , if only he possessed it , for evermore . |
| 12 | What with those tutors , hers is English English , her friends ’ English ; she did the same things and made the same jokes and had the qualities they admired — the post-Edwardians , the young new Georgians of her set , her sets — dash , courage , brilliance , intellectual freedom . |
| 13 | On July 1 that year Maxwell Joseph 's Grand Metropolitan Hotels chain , which also owned the Berni Inns and Chef and Brewer setups , made a surprise offer of £34 million for Truman 's . |
| 14 | The May Day parade of 1990 , meant to be a celebration of Soviet unity and triumph , revealed the deep frustrations and divisions in Soviet society . |
| 15 | Some backward tribes inhabited the remoter mountains and jungles but the main population was of the same race ; today they are known as Vietnamese but then the outside world knew them as Annamites or Annamese . |
| 16 | Just to show how the White House was sympathetic to the problems of the Fed and its crusade against inflation , White House chief economist Michael Boskin rebuked the 100 economists and their call for new tax credits and public works spending . |
| 17 | Next he read the two Scrolls and then presented the Environmental insignia to Mr Titcombe and the Export insignia to Dr Evans . |
| 18 | The banks of computers were busy , and together Viktor and Gusev read the long print-outs and the cross-references and the counterchecks on the information . |
| 19 | But these offences largely concerned the local activities and oppressions of the landowners ; only Throckmorton 's misdeeds involved the Council and that very indirectly . |
| 20 | Previous losses have fallen heavily on members of some syndicates , giving rise to claims that insiders have diverted the best business to selected syndicates and channelled the higher risks and charges to ‘ dustbin ’ syndicates , with a high proportion of investors with little or no knowledge of the business . |
| 21 | Some people were outstanding and became the deified men and women of the great religions , and their lives can be shown to be relevant to the conception of the Created God . |
| 22 | Larry and the other pocket knife owner became the prime suspects and it got quite ugly with such suggestions as , ‘ why do n't you admit it , you know you did it ’ . |
| 23 | They then formed a limited company of which they became the sole directors and shareholders and sold the business to the company . |
| 24 | The crucial question now was the extent to which the pupils had understood the content , assimilated the main themes and were able to place the various memories , anecdotes and factual information in a relevant context . |
| 25 | Emphasizing the power of the inner connectedness of all life forms , especially of those who are attached to each other ( as Backster and his plants clearly were ) , Backster noted how the plants registered the emotional ups and downs of his day in their electrical activity whether or not he was physically present with them . |
| 26 | I scanned the xeroxed blurbs and reviews . |
| 27 | Held , allowing the appeal , that in determining the place in which the gross profit from a transaction arose or from which it derived the proper approach was to ascertain the operations that produced the relevant profits and where they took place ; that the relevant business of the taxpayer , the exploitation of film rights exercisable outside Hong Kong , did not amount to the provision of a service or the exploitation of property rights overseas , but was carried on in Hong Kong , and in the absence of any financial interest in the subsequent exercise of the rights , the fact that they were exercisable only overseas was irrelevant ; and that , therefore , the taxpayer 's profits from granting sub-licenses during the relevant years of assessment had arisen in or derived from Hong Kong , and under section 14 of the Inland Revenue Ordinance the taxpayer was liable to profits tax thereon ( post , pp. 444G–H , 445E , G–H , 446E–G ) . |
| 28 | The proper approach is to ascertain what were the operations which produced the relevant profits and where those operations took place . |
| 29 | On 1 November 1781 he appeared before a board at the Navy Office , produced the necessary certificates and papers , answered the examining captains ' questions satisfactorily , and passed for lieutenant , the board observing that ‘ he was more than 31 years old ’ , which suggests the lack of a birth certificate . |
| 30 | He produced the necessary documents and handed them to her , pointing out where she should sign . |