Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [adj] [noun sg] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He agreed that moral development was in 3 stages , but believed that these were divided into two parts . |
| 2 | An influential report by Professor Jurg Niehans in February 1981 argued that monetary policy was in fact excessively tight because the high interest rates were attracting foreign money to London and maintaining a high pound . |
| 3 | In addition , he argued that legalizing adoption was against the teaching of ‘ the church ’ . |
| 4 | The nineteenth century Germanic philologist Jakob Grimm believed that grammatical gender was in some sense a more advanced form of natural gender . |
| 5 | In Roslavl' during March and April it was frequently noted that the public believed that ecclesiastical gold was to be handed over to the Jews . |
| 6 | He stated that supporting evidence was on a videotape stored in a New York bank vault . |
| 7 | He once remarked that good prose is like a window-pane , meaning that you ought to be able to see through it without seeing it ; and anyone who has ever tried to write prose like that , or to see human creatures in life or fiction like Waugh 's early fictional characters , will know how much clutter of mind and words needs first to be cleared away . |
| 8 | He said that ecological energetics was like grinding up cows to make hamburgers — you could not be sure a monkey had not slipped in somewhere . |
| 9 | Rowe and Lambert concluded that residential care was of value for some children , but not usually for young children except very briefly . |
| 10 | In another case , the judge suggested that mass picketing was of itself capable of amounting to intimidating conduct , echoing Lord Reid in Hunt v. Broome ( above page 83 ) and so contrary to section 7 of the Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act 1875 . |