Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [conj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lesser folk were aggrieved by the foresters ' interference with their rights of common in the Forest ; the Forest officers for their part reported that privileges they claimed had no warrant . |
| 2 | Masters of their art , Stock , Aitken and Waterman realised that day they had unearthed a talent that could outshine anything , even in their empire . |
| 3 | A recent study revealed that children who smoke are 3 times more likely to have time off school [ 10 ] . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The same study found that people who read a daily paper were more likely to watch the news on TV than people who did not . |
| 6 | My research found that managers who wanted to innovate , or try something new , almost invariably needed more resources , information , and support than they had . |
| 7 | Psychologists have legitimised this in the most peculiar ways : Sigmund Freud claimed that people who are not selfish enough are probably pathological , and therapists now urge us to ‘ actualise ourselves ’ in between bouts of learning how to assert ourselves . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Undoubtedly the succession was an important issue ; the terms Whig and Tory had been coined in the first place to describe different sides taken during the Exclusion controversy , whilst for a long time after the Glorious Revolution Whigs continued to be able to embarrass the Tories by alleging that their attachment to the divine-right , hereditary succession meant that deep-down they were Jacobite sympathisers . |
| 10 | On May 18 Justice , Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Emmerson Munangagwa said that farmers whose land was compulsorily purchased would no longer be paid compensation in foreign currency remittable abroad , as provided for by the Lancaster House agreement . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Rhee explained the failures to control inflation as the fault of his incompetent ministers but Muccio maintained that Rhee himself was to blame . |
| 13 | Still Anabelle thought and thought what she might do . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Dr Michael Moore of Glasgow University showed that mothers who drank water with a high lead level were twice as likely to have mentally retarded babies ; 61 per cent of mothers involved in stillbirths or whose foetuses were abnormal had placental lead levels over 1.5 ppm whereas only 7 per cent of those with normal babies had such high lead levels . |
| 16 | The two officials alleged that Sacher himself was engaged in vetting deputies and persons in state positions , and was employing former officers of the StB . |
| 17 | The British penchant for shooting themselves in the foot emerged again when officials decided that professionals who resided and worked outside Britain were ineligible to play , although they qualified by birth . |
| 18 | The devaluation of the pound sterling meant that productions which came from overseas — inevitably of great significance for such an international event — would cost about 25 per cent more . |
| 19 | The former solicitor general said that woman who bring false charges should be named . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Although the statement did not give further details , other official sources confirmed that soldiers who saw a Palestinian carrying a firearm , a knife or other lethal weapon might open fire without further warning " in an attempt to stop him " . |
| 22 | The court heard that Lucy who is thirty three has suffered a serious and intractable illness for thirteen years . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But the policeman knew that people who break windows do not stop to talk to policemen . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Until recently , people assumed that women who have sex with women are not at risk from HIV infection . |
| 27 | In 1817 Miloš discovered that Karadjordje himself was back in Serbian territory . |
| 28 | But she had just settled down , flicking the control through a dozen or so channels until she found the one she wanted , when the door opened and Marc himself came in . |
| 29 | Before she had time to remonstrate with Tamar , the door opened and Jonadab himself strode in , followed by his two sons . |
| 30 | Articles appeared in the press extolling the creativity of ‘ home-making ’ ; psychiatrists warned that children who grew up without their mother 's constant care and attention were seriously deprived and might well become delinquents . |