Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clinical trials in which comparable patients received either one kind of treatment or another confirmed this belief . |
| 2 | The area health authority and Department of Health and Social Security on the other hand contended that under the common law a minor of sufficient intelligence and understanding could always consent to treatment and that the effect of section 8 was to produce an irrebuttable presumption that a child of 16 or 17 had such intelligence and understanding . |
| 3 | Gardiner Group , where Scantronic sold 15 p.c. and ASH sold 17 p.c. a year ago , was untouched at 25p . |
| 4 | Gardiner Group , where Scantronic sold 15 p.c. and ASH sold 17 p.c. a year ago , was untouched at 25p . |
| 5 | It was not only that enclosures forced some small-holders into the ranks of the landless and into wage-dependency for the first time ; it was also the case that many who had been able partly to support themselves from small-holdings supplemented by access to common grazing for a beast or two lost that element of independence . |
| 6 | We looked at variations in perceptions across the electorate to see whether television , the press , or both had any influence . |
| 7 | I know that that caused some concern , but , broadly speaking , my hon. Friend is right to say that standards in our schools are very good . |
| 8 | But it seems that neither had any connection with a much more notable and wholly bona fide development , the National Union of Ships ' Stewards , Cooks , Butchers and Bakers which appeared in Liverpool in 1909 under the charismatic leadership of Joe Cotter , known as " Explosive Joe " , who , it has been claimed , had been fired by the Cunard Line for agitating against the influx of continental cooks and stewards on to British ships . |
| 9 | Only the whiteness of her knuckles as she gripped the steering-wheel more tightly than usual gave any indication of the stress from which she was suffering . |
| 10 | But in postoperative testing , both children were visually alert with full eye movements , although each showed intermittent strabismus . |
| 11 | It is our long-held view that foreign spent nuclear fuel should not be sent to Dounreay for storage , let alone for reprocessing , because it breaches what is for us a fundamental principle : that the responsibility for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel should lie with the reactor operators . |
| 12 | Nearly half the funds were , however , unable to offer independent substantiation of their ethical claims , and the report showed that some made surprising investment choices , with Nestlé and RTZ , among others , attracting " ethical " investment . |
| 13 | The ‘ No Smoking ’ and seatbelt signs were on , although this made little difference to Myeloski who had clamped himself into his seat as soon as he had boarded the aircraft . |
| 14 | Although this made less appeal to Chinese taste than paler varieties , it was found useful for feeding a growing export market to the west . |
| 15 | Although this received some publicity , it did not compare with the media attention given a year or so later to the drug problems in Seoul . |
| 16 | There is little doubt that it was the labour shortage which caused the shift to leasing , but although this provided more revenue than persistence in demesne farming would have done it still left the landowner with reduced resources . |
| 17 | More than a hundred kids were wounded and more than 30 died last year . ’ |
| 18 | Even in pre-telegraph days , when instructions could be sent no faster than a horse could trot or a ship sail , it is far from clear that this meant greater independence for diplomats . |
| 19 | She indicated that this meant greater use of mixed arts/science Alevel programmes and of contrasting/complementary ASlevels , worth half an Alevel . |
| 20 | Tylor , who thought of anthropology as ‘ essentially a reformer 's science ’ , did not , of course , believe that this indicated any incapacity of peasants to become fully paid-up members of civilised society . |
| 21 | And this would be an insupportable thing to know about oneself , if one thought that this implied some superiority over the people around one . |
| 22 | A GATT committee ruled that this infringed free trade , but Mexico 's President Salinas has promised to introduce methods to protect dolphins , as part of a " bilateral " solution to the dispute with the US . |
| 23 | In responses to a recent questionnaire from members of Age Concern England 's governing body , it was notable that few saw concessionary entitlement to services as discriminatory and patronising , only necessary in a society which implicitly recognises that older people are not treated fairly . |
| 24 | Personal observation of a number of Health Authorities suggested that few attained this level of almost sublime detachment . |
| 25 | It replaces the present system , where appeals are dealt with by the Department , with less than 10 made each year . |
| 26 | In the context of this paper it is very significant that of OECD 's 24 member states no less than 18 expressed strong interest in their proposal to identify educational policies which effectively support rural economic development . |
| 27 | These students had opted to take the stylistics course as part of the Language " track " of their degree ; all were well motivated and their work in the first and second years had revealed that all had demonstrable ability for language study . |
| 28 | I opened them with my teeth and found that most had more flavour than the chicken . |
| 29 | A trilogy of cases in 1979 and 1980 reflected this development of a clearer rule . |
| 30 | cos that went this morning |