Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [noun pl] [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The banking system — and with it the whole world market economy — was subjected to new risks of insolvency if debtors defaulted or delayed repayment . |
| 2 | It was a bright day with thin sunshine burnishing up from the snow and men blinked and rubbed their eyes as they crossed the open space between the two compounds , tramping over the road running down to the village and the railway line that stretched far the other way to Pot'ma . |
| 3 | The record of his own work and ideas meant that the only dull part of this programme was a tired , conventional exchange about the balance between pure and applied research . |
| 4 | At the time there were widespread rumours of an Establishment plot and stories circulated that the trial had been stopped because the protracted Guinness saga was becoming an embarrassment to the authorities . |
| 5 | The Government brought in the new law after inspectors found that 97 per cent of ‘ pints ’ contained less . |
| 6 | The role of the ENS in the secretory response to 5-hydroxytryptamine and prostaglandins suggested that nerves may also be involved in secretory states accompanying an inflammatory response . |
| 7 | The absence of policy and the paucity of central support and initiatives meant that the majority of schools devised their own home-school policies , strategies and roles . |
| 8 | His nose and cheekbones protruded as never before , and he was paler than Helen , so pale that no one could possibly call him a darkie or black bastard , though they might legitimately have used the word bastard . |
| 9 | The campaign and touring roadshow aims to promote playtime safety after figures revealed that 1,500 children under four from North Clwyd ended up in Glan Clwyd Hospital last year with head and face injuries . |
| 10 | Already human trees were growing towards his catwalk as survivors clawed and clutched upward . |
| 11 | Consumers began to stockpile fuel as fears grew that the government would try to combat smuggling by cutting petrol subsidies to raise the price from about US$0.5 a litre to something nearer that of neighbouring countries . |
| 12 | Day and colleagues estimated that there were about 23,400 HIV-infected individuals in England and Wales by the end of 1991 . |
| 13 | He gives the traditional account of how a merchant ship was pillaged in the Red Sea and its crew and passengers massacred except for two boys who were brought to Ella Amida in Aksum . |
| 14 | Unilever is not revealing the price but analysts speculated that on the basis of recent transactions in the European branded food business , such as the French BSN 's purchase of HP Sauce and Lea & Perrins from Hanson , a figure of between £30m to £40m may have been paid . |
| 15 | Press and public were then excluded from the court as lawyers debated whether an alleged tape recording of Newall was admissible as evidence . |
| 16 | Officials had recommended £450 for the Band D rate but councillors decided that the figure should be reduced . |
| 17 | Now Great-Great-Grandmother Elizabeth must have been a very capable woman because circumstances demanded that her husband went out to work as a miner , so she was left to manage the farm . |
| 18 | Some authors argued that such feedback was the primary signal for hunger while others argued that the signal came from elsewhere . |
| 19 | A joint declaration issued by the EFTA heads of government and ministers stated that " we are now on the verge of taking a new step forward in the integration of Europe by forging a close and structured partnership with the EC " . |
| 20 | Dada came in ; Hunt evening coat , waistcoat fitting him with the same exact pinch as waistcoats had when he was twenty . |
| 21 | But it was during the next year that observers noticed that King Charles himself had become so fond of Berkeley that he was now one of the principal royal favourites , and perhaps the greatest . |
| 22 | Because of all the bad press that miners got and in a sense Quix was responding from higher up probably by saying you know well take the b they took the box away in fact at the end of the miner 's strike and then when this strike came along they thought it would n't you know the the they that was their rule sort of thing . |
| 23 | Instead of increasing grants during the year if prices rose or wage settlements reached were over the original target , the grant was fixed whatever happened . |
| 24 | The government made no effort to redeem this promise but Unionists believed that they were in a temporary phase pending the reconstruction of the upper house , and that it was therefore no business of the government to bring in other constitutional Bills before they had settled the constitution itself . |
| 25 | It is time that players realised that if their club had not given them their chance they would not be internationals . |
| 26 | At the same time that Engels argued that primitive societies were classless , he inevitably argued that the complex and subtle theory of history which he and Marx had developed just did not apply to these societies . |
| 27 | Despite the fact that connoisseurs applauded and collected his sumptuously produced , privately printed editions in terms of the designer 's art , his work became unfashionable after 1918 , and appreciation was marred by the poet 's increasingly vilified personal reputation . |
| 28 | After 1945 this philosophy became the conventional wisdom and governments accepted that they had a responsibility for macroeconomic management , predominantly through their own fiscal position . |
| 29 | Sleep is impossible yet the Commando in the next trench when I looked in on him was sleeping soundly , his face and arms uncovered and the mosquitoes completely ignoring him . |
| 30 | Higher oil production and prices ensured that the trade balance remained in surplus ( at US$409 million ) in the first half of 1990. 1988 1989 Exports 1,348 2,812 Imports 1,986 1,821 Balance -639 +991 |