Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later that month , Dr. Harvey Goldsmith who had been appointed medical officer to the Poor Law Institution in 1900 , resigned . |
| 2 | The Israeli government also announced on Aug. 23 that some of the approximately 280 houses in the West Bank and the Gaza strip which had been sealed up by the army since 1987 would be unsealed . |
| 3 | To Abbott and Hornsby were added the names of Captain Lawrence , with whom Wilson had been associated in the formation of the Certificated Officers ' Union , Maurice Darby , the originator of the first Glasgow branch who was alleged to have gone over to the Shipping Federation in 1890 , Robert Pleasance , former secretary of the Tower Hill branch who had been expelled from the union in the same year , and a Thomas Carey , an official of the NSFU discharged for unsatisfactory conduct in 1911 who , Wilson claimed , immediately became involved with the Federation and , while still in its pay , assisted Lewis in setting up the British Seafarers ' Union . |
| 4 | The end labelled probe was mixed with 20µg of protein extract which had been preincubated with 5µg poly ( d ( I-C ) ) and single stranded or doubled stranded competitor DNA . |
| 5 | The Cornish lands , however , do not fit into the normal pattern of tenures , for demesne exploitation there had been abandoned before 1300 , if indeed it had ever existed ( 76 , pp.10–11 ) . |
| 6 | The canal boatmen who came to live in Fisher Row upon the opening of the Oxford Canal in 1790 were a colourful group with distinctive dress , customs and style of boat decoration which had been developed in the previous two decades upon the canals of the Midlands . |
| 7 | He challenged the validity of a search warrant which had been obtained from a sheriff , alleging that statements by inquiry officers about a flickering light being seen at a bedroom window were a blatant and malicious fabrication . |
| 8 | Southey had reached the city shortly before , having walked from Oxford with George Burnett , a Balliol friend who had been persuaded to join the Pantisocrats . |
| 9 | BEIRUT — Syrian forces freed a Lebanese air force pilot who had been picked up by a gunboat after ditching his plane in the Mediterranean yesterday , Reuter reports . |
| 10 | In Kaye v Alfa Romeo ( GB ) ( 1984 ) 134 NLJ 126 the plaintiff 's damages in an action against the manufacturers of a seat belt which failed were reduced by one-third because of his own negligent driving . |
| 11 | In 1818 , the Walker colliery which had been closed for the preceding 30 years was reopened . |
| 12 | It has been suggested that the ambush on William Black at his cottage was the work of an MRF unit which had been placed under the charge of the SAS specialist from Hereford . |
| 13 | That was not altogether surprising given that , as a KGB officer who had been posted to London for six years , it would be astonishing if he had not . ’ |
| 14 | The Wasserschutz Polizei , or River Police launch , Whose arrival had been expected much earlier , turned on its blue flashing light and jauntily turned to take station upstream , in order to intercept any barge or ship choosing to ignore the river closure order which had been imposed by the river authorities for the night . |
| 15 | In that case the plaintiff , Dr. Roy , had begun an action in the Queen 's Bench Division against his family practitioner committee seeking , amongst other things , payment of part of his basic practice allowance which had been withheld by the committee , following their decision that he had failed to devote a substantial amount of his time to general practice as required by the relevant regulations . |
| 16 | They had managed to buy the son of inexpensive terrace house which had been built at the end of the nineteenth century for workers and which still continued to be in a working-class area . |
| 17 | Hiroshi Mitsuzuka was selected on June 20 as leader of the second-largest LDP faction which had been led by Shintaro Abe until his death in May . |
| 18 | Lafaille rapidly reached his previous high point and bivouac , and recovered the sleeping bag he had been forced to abandon . |
| 19 | When the Hewers bought Vine House it had been used as a dormitory for an air Force course int he village during the war . |
| 20 | Two weeks later , Henry changed his will and excluded Gardiner from the regency council which had been appointed to rule during the minority of his son . |
| 21 | It 's simply the reason it was done that way was to reflect a County Council decision which had been taken fairly recent times on the route of an outer as opposed to an inner . |
| 22 | It was a large , first-floor apartment which had been furnished as a suitable setting for an up-and-coming superstar . |
| 23 | She was a thin , long-waisted girl of about thirty , with a bony , intelligent face and a cap of dark curling hair which had been layered by an obvious expert , and no doubt expensive , hand to lie in swathes across the forehead and to curl into the nape of her high-arched neck . |
| 24 | In December 1983 , the Lord Chancellor dismissed for misbehaviour an Old Bailey Circuit judge who had been fined £2000 on two charges of smuggling whisky and cigarettes . |
| 25 | The Raasay Ironstone which had been discovered by Woodward in 1893 was assessed and as a result was worked by German prisoners of war . |
| 26 | Despite a long history of hostility between the two organizations the tone of the seven-hour meeting was described as good-natured , while the joint peace strategy which emerged was seen as a positive development . |
| 27 | Bowls of the clear chicken soup they loved were put on the table . |
| 28 | A 59-YEAR-OLD woman WHO tried to burn down a council flat she had been evicted from narrowly escaped prison yesterday . |
| 29 | Their targets were ostensibly bases of the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) guerrilla movement which had been used for cross-border attacks . |
| 30 | The arrangements for auditing were reorganized by the Local Government Finance Act 1982 and the Audit Commission it established was given powers to undertake ‘ value for money ’ studies designed to help the efficiency of local authorities . |