Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personally , I 'd like to see Deane ( or whoever ) rested half way through the 2nd half if he 's having one of his off days , and Strandli , Whelan or Forrester given a 20-odd minute run out . |
| 2 | Have X , Y or Z committed an offence ? |
| 3 | The facts must show , however , that whether A or B committed the final act , the other must have assisted , encouraged or , at least , failed to take necessary steps to prevent what happened . |
| 4 | Tom Jones : The Right Time , a pop history programme-cum-chat show — where Tom sung a bit , introduced some contemporary guests and reminisced a lot about the good old days — was only the first . |
| 5 | Peace was alleged to have broken out in the civil war or scrum called the Labour Party , creationism was adjudged not acceptable in Little Rock , Arkansas , schools , the Advanced Passenger Train ran with no passengers aboard to prove how advanced it was in every way except actually working , and the Soviet mission to the UN sued New York for better protection . |
| 6 | The extent to which contemporaries really believed that clubs affected the infant mortality rate is difficult to gauge , though in club circles such a proposition may well have been tenable . |
| 7 | There 's also a close correlation by not just the erm the size of the number for G , but how long can it go on pulling that G given the thrust and the aerodynamic capabilities of the machine and we are essentially building this aircraft so that it can sustain nine G and we are providing the pilot with the sort of equipment he requires to be able to survive in that kind of environment . |
| 8 | Then in the 1979 paper he found that subjects placed the time of occurrence of this sensation only a few milliseconds after the peripheral stimulus which evoked it . |
| 9 | We have already seen that subjects given no pre-training do less well in the test phase than those given initial discrimination training and we have acknowledged that unambiguous interpretation of this difference is impossible . |
| 10 | Their findings were that parents regarded a good school as being one where : |
| 11 | The sixth annual summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation ( SAARC ) , due to have been opened in Colombo , Sri Lanka , on Nov. 7 , was postponed indefinitely after King Jigme Singye Wangchuk of Bhutan , who faced unrest among ethnic Nepalis in southern Bhutan [ see p. 38534 ] , said on Nov. 1 that he would be unable to attend ; the Indian government insisted that SAARC 's constitution stipulated that summits required the attendance of heads of state or government from each member country . |
| 12 | The increasing concern for inflation , felt during the 1970s , meant that governments restricted the price rises of nationalised industries in an attempt to moderate inflation in the economy as a whole . |
| 13 | A joint study by Keefe , Bruyette $ Woods , a stockbrokerage that specialises in bank shares , and Ernst $ Young , a firm of accountants , found that banks achieved an average 35% saving in costs when they joined forces ( admittedly less than they expected ) . |
| 14 | Some Tories even employed the Whig exclusionist language of the ancient constitution , and suggested that Parliaments predated the Norman Conquest . |
| 15 | The assumption that evolution solved the problem by showing that ‘ relationship ’ should be interpreted in a genetic sense oversimplifies the situation . |
| 16 | One opinion poll showed that people regarded the transport union leader as being more influential than the Prime Minister . |
| 17 | It was only after the event that people ascribed an actual day . ’ |
| 18 | It is not my intention to argue that villagers confused the two institutions , or that they thought magistrates and demons to be similar types of beings . |
| 19 | Making family portraits and documenting weddings , she learned that photographers occupied a special place in the iconography of domesticity . |
| 20 | On May 10 Kolingba told an extraordinary meeting of the RDC executive committee that multipartyism required a gradual preparation and education of the population and was in no way a guarantee of democracy . |
| 21 | It is , unlikely , therefore , that withdrawals influenced the outcome of the trial . |
| 22 | Witness agreed with Caldwell 's defence lawyer that police regarded the case as ‘ purely a domestic matter ’ . |
| 23 | And in March 1958 he travelled with his wife to Rome where he was to receive an honorary degree : it is a mark of his extraordinary fame that students lined the route to the university and shouted " Viva Eliot ! " as they drove by . |
| 24 | We felt it was important that smokers limited the time they spend away from their desks . |
| 25 | Third parties believed that Unkiar-Skelessi marked a further stage in Russia 's southward advance . |
| 26 | Both brands had heavy advertising expenditure and James demonstrates empirically that consumers ranked the brands according to the claims of the advertisers ( soil and stain removal etc. ) , despite the fact that independent tests showed very little actual difference between the brands . |
| 27 | RUSSIA 'S leaders vacillated between confrontation and compromise yesterday as President Boris Yeltsin softened his claim to special powers and parliament called an emergency session of the Congress of People 's Deputies to try to oust him . |
| 28 | Eri was replaced temporarily by the Speaker of Parliament , Dennis Young ( PAP ) , until Parliament elected a successor . |
| 29 | But his words and attitudes heartened the Danzig Party , who had begun to feel that Berlin no longer cared for the city 's struggle against Poland and Polish trade . |
| 30 | A huge backlog of unfit dwellings was apparent , and in the event the period between the mid-1950s and mid-1970s wrought a major transformation . |