Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [noun] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your summoned that at Worley on the twenty fifth of July nineteen eighty eight , you being the driver or a motor car on King Street and an accident occurred where injury was caused to you failed to stop in accordance with section twenty five of the Road Traffic Act of nineteen seventy two . |
| 2 | In 1968 the Crofters Commission proposed that crofters be given full rights to the ownership of their crofts . |
| 3 | It also proposed that firms be allowed to trade only if they pass cleanliness inspections . |
| 4 | The mines went from bad to worse and during 1579 Höchstetter proposed that shareholders be levied an assessment of 14 per share , or , that the mines be leased to him . |
| 5 | During the discussion , one of the French counsellors proposed that Edward was bound to swear fealty , as well as homage to Philip V. Edward 's own words in reply to what he clearly considered an outrageous suggestion survive : they were spoken without the advice of his council , apparently because they had difficulty in hearing the king 's whispered words and he lost patience . |
| 6 | In a session entitled Sensuous Food he demonstrated that odour is plugged directly into our emotions . |
| 7 | Setting aside the final volume as the copter 's blades slowed , Duroc mused that Gibbon was sending a message to the end of the 20th Century , a message he had never realized was implicit in his text . |
| 8 | Ginzberg and Vojta ( 1986 ) maintained that TNCs are losing their competitive edge in trade and technology and must decentralize to overcome diseconomies of scale . |
| 9 | He maintained that Philip was trying to keep him at war in Scotland ‘ so that he might not pursue his rights elsewhere ’ . |
| 10 | Lord Templeman maintained that valuers were paid , professional men who knew that 90 per cent of house-buyers relied on mortgage valuations and did not commission their own surveys . |
| 11 | Jim Corbett , the hunter-conservationist , after whom one of India 's National Parks is named , maintained that man-eaters are made and not born . |
| 12 | He considered that Liza was behaving disgracefully , maintained that Harriet was encouraging her daughter in what he called ‘ selfish laziness ’ and that , sorry as he was about the death of John Carrow , surely Harriet had not long lost her own husband and it was up to Liza to give her more support . |
| 13 | ‘ They pretended that Paul was hit by a ricochet , but the evidence was clear that he 'd been hit by a direct shot . |
| 14 | Michels mentioned that Novell was using SCO 's training program to get their LAN VARs up to speed for USL-Novell joint venture Univel 's forthcoming UnixWare program . |
| 15 | Still , nobody mentioned that Levi was dominating the USPGA Tour , or that he was the best player in America at the time . |
| 16 | He believed in the established order but found no authority in the Scriptures for a hierarchy of Pope and bishops ; in the early Church indeed he found that riches were despised . |
| 17 | She found that tears were trickling from her eyes , and dashed them away with an impatient hand . |
| 18 | An analysis of early data found that Blacks were over-represented in each main offence group and each age group , whereas Asians ( from the Indian sub-continent ) were roughly pre-portionately represented . |
| 19 | We found that Blacks were over-represented , although not to the same extent as in London , 6 per cent . |
| 20 | She shot a quick look sideways , then visibly flinched when she found that Luke was watching her , with an expression of strained patience on his handsome face . |
| 21 | She groped vaguely for her handbag , then found that Luke was putting it into her hand . |
| 22 | A 1990 study by the National Academy of Sciences found that shrimpers were causing the deaths of as many as 44,000 turtles each year . |
| 23 | He looked at Elaine , and found that Elaine was looking at him . |
| 24 | Acting on a hunch , she brought in a low-frequency recorder and found that infrasound was emanating from its forehead . |
| 25 | A household survey in Kenya in 1974 found that tax was paid on 77 per cent of the income of the poorest rural group . |
| 26 | Empirically they found that densities were tending towards a pivotal density , with metropolitan areas shedding their populations by redevelopment and smaller country towns increasing their densities by infilling . |
| 27 | One of the other things I found that people are conflicting in the paper erm is of people having to travel further erm if I can just yes , on pa , on page three , paragraph this is the choice that seems of the area and the travel and on page four , paragraph one the version says that local people will still get a choice of i in the London hospitals . |
| 28 | In fact I took her out a couple of times myself when I found that Angela was occupied with someone else . |
| 29 | ‘ Some staff reported that lights were left on unnecessarily in certain areas , wasting energy . |
| 30 | The Bethnal Green police reported that truncheons were drawn and mounted police used against militant anti-fascists . |