Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [conj] [noun] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Masters of their art , Stock , Aitken and Waterman realised that day they had unearthed a talent that could outshine anything , even in their empire . |
| 2 | The United States argued that Nicaragua itself had previously represented that it , Nicaragua , had no binding declaration under Article 36 ( 2 ) and was estopped from now asserting the validity of its declaration . |
| 3 | The ECJ established that goods which adhered to the national rules and regulations in the member state in which they were produced , should be able to be sold in any member state without need to adhere to the rules and regulations governing the production and sale of the good in the importing member state . |
| 4 | For six-pointed shapes of the type shown in Fig 5.5 , Ellis and Muller found that subjects who had learned labels for the various shapes out-performed controls ( who had simply observed the stimuli in the first phase of training ) on a motor task that required pressing one switch rather than some other in response to these stimuli . |
| 5 | This prescriptive approach has been repeated as recently as October 1988 , when the director of the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools in Northern Ireland said that people who sent their children to integrated schools rather than catholic ones were breaking the law of the church . |
| 6 | In 864 , the Edict of Pîtres ordered that peasants who had fled because of the Vikings should not be oppressed by counts or others in the places in which they had found refuge : they were to return home to their original lordships but they should be allowed to keep their earnings from working in the vineyards ; on the other hand , if they had married and fathered offspring while resident in others ' lordships , the wives and children were to remain with those lords . |
| 7 | In this case Brightman J decided that trustees who held most of the shares in a company were negligent when they failed to prevent the directors of the company from entering into a highly speculative property development project , which turned out to be unsuccessful . |
| 8 | In Horn v. Minister of Food ( 1948 K.B. ) , Morris J. considered that potatoes which had become seriously rotten had not ‘ perished ’ because they were still potatoes , albeit worthless ones . |
| 9 | Ajan said that athletes who tested positive under the technique would not be banned , instead a warning would be issued to the national weightlifting association involved . |
| 10 | Rosie jumped and people who had taken no interest in Ruby since she had sat down made excuses to walk by the diary desk and see what she was up to . |