Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [conj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This arose because although the site was nearly ideal for our purposes , right in the middle there stood a small cottage in which lived a retired shepherd , Amos Chatfield . |
| 2 | This failed and when the auction was over he sold it by private treaty ( agreement ) . |
| 3 | The Elector of Hanover was known to hold little sympathy for the Tories , whom he felt had betrayed the Allies at the Peace of Utrecht , and few doubted that when George I became King the Tories would lose the political ascendancy they had enjoyed since 1710 . |
| 4 | The French believed that as smugglers in rowing boats constantly managed to get ashore on the English coast , an invasion fleet , given a favourable southerly wind and a calm , dark night , should be able to do the same , and hoped to use some of these clandestine sailors as pilots . |
| 5 | Some of them turned out to be not as indifferent to my plight as I 'd feared they all would be , and a few murmured that if I did really feel strongly about the way I had been treated , I should indeed take the matter up with the Senate . |
| 6 | His premiership appeared not so much to be running out as running down , Few believed that when he came back in the autumn he would be able to do more than coast gently and desultorily along for another six months . |
| 7 | Another believed that if its markets were to become less stable , which it expects , then it will put more emphasis on social and cultural information . |
| 8 | Charles Haughey , the Irish Prime Minister , on Jan. 21 and again on Jan. 22 declared that if " a new and more broadly based agreement can be reached by direct discussions and negotiations with all the parties involved , the Irish government will be prepared to contemplate , in agreement with the British government , a new and better-structured agreement or arrangement to transcend the existing one " . |
| 9 | Another remarked that once one had seen the ostriches ( he meant the ospreys at Loch Garten ) , the Aviemore Centre , and been up in the chair lift to Cairn Gorm there ‘ was n't anything else to do ’ . |
| 10 | The Azerbaijan Supreme Soviet , meeting in emergency session , on Jan. 22 threatened that unless all troops were withdrawn from Azerbaijan within 48 hours it would call a referendum on Azerbaijan 's session from the Soviet Union . |
| 11 | This emphasised that after military government was terminated the civil Governor would return to function as sole authority until December 1948 . |
| 12 | This meant that although the Iroquois might be observed contemporaneously with nineteenth-century European society , they could , none the less , be considered as a source of information about European society several thousand years before . |
| 13 | This meant that while from our side they appeared cautious and reactionary , for the Board they provided a cheerful dawn chorus to which it could always confidently wake up . |
| 14 | This meant that while criticism was encouraged — often in the form of parody or satire - , innovation was kept to a minimum . |
| 15 | ( This meant that till Philip II 's time Macedon was short of good harbours . ) |
| 16 | This meant that if the plane increased in value , Virgin were the beneficiaries ; while if it decreased in value , Virgin were protected by a fixed-price agreement . |
| 17 | This meant that when a traveller came upon a stretch of road made impassable by ruts , holes or waterlogging , he simply led his horse or walked off the highway and into the flanking fields . |
| 18 | This meant that when some ancient sharks first took to the sea bottom , there was an easy smooth progression to the skate shape , with each intermediate being a slight improvement , given bottom conditions , over its slightly less flattened predecessor . |
| 19 | Yes , well just a postscript just to show to my earlier comments , I , I think this undertaking about street lighting will be met with some clarity over wide areas of Suffolk which have never seen a street light , er as far as I can recall the last figures I saw on this suggested that if we were to er carry out all the work that er parish is required it would take forty years to er meet the er thing , so perhaps it would be advisable for , for when this promise is acting on the |
| 20 | This ensured that after randomisation , there were about equal numbers of obese patients in the three treatment groups ( diet , n=5 ; ursodeoxycholic acid , n=8 ; placebo , n=9 ) . |
| 21 | A national survey in 1979 found that whereas 22 per cent of boys from ‘ lower-manual ’ families had been convicted for criminal offences , only 4 per cent of boys from ‘ upper-middle ’ families had been . |
| 22 | Nothing that I have read about the case leads me to the conclusion that anything untoward happened or that the basic and important principle of the GP 's right to refer has been undermined . |
| 23 | However , the results of an autopsy carried out by an Israeli and a US pathologist on Feb. 7 indicated that whilst Akawi had been beaten he had died as a result of a " cardiac insufficiency " brought on by a serious heart condition . |
| 24 | Even the heavy armour of a knight is n't much good against a strength 10 hit and and one casualty will sometimes cause a panic test in a small unit . |
| 25 | Chapter 10 explained that although the four macroeconomic objectives listed earlier are each related in some manner to the level of demand , the relationship is by no means uniform or in the same direction . |
| 26 | But the development of trusts and the final disappearance of common law dower rights in 1833 meant that until the late nineteenth-century reassertion of women 's independent property rights , a wealthy widow was much more dependent on her male kin than either in the past or today . |
| 27 | All three spoke as though the moment were of no real consequence , but I know that for Mother and for O at least it must have been a strange and moving moment . |
| 28 | Yet Lord Scarman in his report on the Brixton riots in 1981 argued that while maintaining their independence , the police must be accountable to the community . |
| 29 | ‘ I think we all realized that when we met him , ’ Kolchinsky said , glancing at Whitlock . |
| 30 | Without giving it much thought , we all assumed that after the present infatuations had cooled down , Andrew would marry Judith , but it never happened , although he did marry twice during his later years in Toronto . |