Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [to-vb] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 She tried to find the right words to explain but discovered only a great disconnection between her brain and her voice , which ensured her silence .
2 Army Intelligence and Police Special Branch informant networks allowed British South East Asia Command ( SEAC ) to implement effective tactical plans to block and hit communist bandits transiting through the jungle towards hard civilian and military objectives .
3 Plans to develop the market have so far required 100 businesses to relocate and changed the lives of an infinite number of people .
4 I had , for once , no official papers to read and picked it up to read in the tram .
5 Lord Scarman rejected current medical practice as the test for what a patient needs to know and asserted the patient 's right to know based on self-determination .
6 The ISA project took five years to complete and involved examining basic auditing principles and essential procedures to ensure that ISAs adequately addressed IOSCO members ' concerns .
7 He ignored Cranston 's excited pleas to hurry and went over to the window , unrolling them carefully .
8 In an experiment , people were given three identical T-shirts to smell and asked to select the one that they had worn .
9 Many techniques for stress reduction can be appropriated by the same injunctions to succeed that got you stressed in the first place , and should be discontinued if you spot that they have been subverted in this way ( unless your goal has also changed along the way from stress reduction to record-breaking ) .
10 After the ruling Wolf was given 14 days to appeal but gave himself up to German police at the Austrian border on Sept. 24 .
11 He advised his fellow bishops to flee and retired to his palace and his books .
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