Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [noun pl] [verb] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably the loudest chorus of complaint came from North Wales , where Liverpool children had been billeted : thus Lord Wyndham ( Civil Defence Regional Commissioner for Wales ) wrote to the President of the Board of Education on 25 October 1939 that : |
| 2 | During the interview , MacKie was asked to explain why nearly two million Shanks & McEwan shares had been sold with ‘ indecent haste ’ , after a meeting with the company 's chairman and if he had been told that Shanks & McEwan were going to issue a profits warning to the stock market . |
| 3 | It was noted that SPLA forces had been weakened both by internal divisions [ see pp. 38426 ; 38666 ] and by the May 1991 change of government in Ethiopia , which had meant that they could no longer operate from bases there . |
| 4 | Brandon J. noted that Mareva injunctions had been made to provide security for the payment of any award which the plaintiff might obtain in the arbitration , and he saw ‘ no good reason ’ against this practice . |
| 5 | Bakut reported on Aug. 30 that NPFL forces had been observed around Monrovia and appeared to be preparing for " hostilities " . |
| 6 | Certainly almost all of the characters that Burdon lists have been shown to be of selective importance either in clover or in some related species , though sometimes under very specialized circumstances . |
| 7 | Yesterday 's inquest was told that Legionella bacteria had been found in the heart unit 's hot water system after Mrs Ormerod had gone home . |
| 8 | However , the fall-off in output has blunted the competitive edge that UK companies have been delivered from devaluation . |
| 9 | Not that UK publishers have been suffering alone . |
| 10 | On March 27 , 1990 , the human rights organization Amnesty International cited strong evidence that MTP members had been tortured , illegally executed and had disappeared while in military custody . |
| 11 | It was reported that Johnson Brothers has been repackaged and relaunched with more innovative and modern designs which have been greeted with enthusiasm by the trade . |
| 12 | The previous Congress Party government tried to lay part of the blame on Pakistan , saying that Khalistan terrorists had been trained and armed across the frontier . |
| 13 | The previous Congress Party government tried to lay part of the blame on Pakistan , saying that Khalistan terrorists had been trained and armed across the frontier . |
| 14 | Although US unions have been associated with support for the Democratic Party , the politicians and policies they have backed have by no means been the most socialist of those on offer . |
| 15 | Suggestions , in preparation for the next meeting , for those procedures that we still have to review , the procedure owners are going to put the information to us in one of two ways , if it is a minor modification procedure small changes of wording things need to be uncontroversial , we will resite the procedure with red line and strike out in the way that Jenny procedures have been prepared and circulate before the meeting . |
| 16 | Subsequent reports disclosed that EC ministers had been divided , with a minority , led by the United Kingdom and Germany , pressing for acceptance of the Dunkel draft as " the basis for an agreement " , and the rest claiming with the French Agriculture and Forestry Minister , Louis Mermaz , that it " would be the ruin of European agriculture " . |
| 17 | Once she 'd made her decision to come to the Dordogne , Sabine had read up as much as possible on the area , and she knew that Bergerac wines had been overshadowed in the past by the great vignobles of Bordeaux . |
| 18 | Having already subjected the Hyundai group to rigorous financial and tax scrutiny earlier in the year , on Dec. 4 police raided the group 's offices and seized documents which allegedly proved that company funds had been illegally channelled into the UPP 's election campaign and that Hyundai employees had been mobilized to support Chung 's candidacy . |
| 19 | The Twickenham authorities are predicting a virtual sell-out , but the fact that Lancashire tickets sold are numbered in hundreds rather than thousands suggests that without Trelawny 's Army , the county final would be a mere speck on the rugby programme . |
| 20 | By 1623 the disafforestment and sale of the woods and wastes of Chippenham and Melksham Forests had been accomplished : Bowood Park alone was reserved to the Crown in that part of Wiltshire . |
| 21 | On the Glen Roy ( 63W ) sheet , the regional stratigraphical relationship within and between the Precambrian metasedimentary rocks of the Appin and Grampian groups has been clarified . |
| 22 | ‘ Tactesse ’ appeared 18 months ago and ICI Fibres has been working very closely with leading manufacturers , particularly at its development centre at Oestringen , West Germany , to establish new ranges across Europe and in the USA . |
| 23 | Parts of the Insch and Belhelvie intrusions have been investigated by Aberdeen University using magnetics and shallow bedrock drilling ( Ashcroft and Boyd , 1976 ; Ashcroft and Munro , 1978 ) . |
| 24 | RG and RGGF sequences have been found in several proteins related with nucleolar localization and binding to RNA ( 4 , 5 ) . |
| 25 | Finding that the Middlesbrough , Shields and Seaham branches had been accumulating funds , the Sunderland officials demanded that any surplus cash should be handed over to them at head office , threatening , according to Wilson 's account , " drastic action " if they failed to do so . |
| 26 | Chains of office for the mayors of Ashington , Newbiggin and Bedlingtonshire councils have been stolen from the Woodhorn Church Museum in Newbiggin , Northumberland . |
| 27 | Since then , about 13,000 who took refuge in the Prague and Warsaw embassies have been transported to the West while 450 to 1,200 have been crossing daily through Hungary . |
| 28 | Senior White House aides and CIA officials have been telling members of the Congressional Intelligence Committees this week that Gen Noriega is drinking heavily , taking drugs , and is so nervous that he moves addresses four and five times a night . |
| 29 | The boundary between the Southern Highland and Argyll groups has been mapped in detail , the work being facilitated by the presence of two marker lithologies , a kyanite-magnetite schist and a green mica ( ? phengite ) quartzite . |
| 30 | In March 1898 Leslie Johnson , the general treasurer , reported to an emergency meeting of the Executive Committee that the union was roughly £pound1,600 in debt and that the Glasgow , Dublin , Cork , Swansea , Aberdeen and Ardrossan branches had been closed with wages owing to twelve or more branch officials . |