Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [noun] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1982 , the government 's first national survey of children 's smoking found that 11% of both boys and girls aged 11–16 smoked regularly . |
| 2 | Pollack & Pickett ( 63 ) , presenting listeners with stretches of conversational speech in a gating experiment , found that samples of about 140 csec ( i.e. about seven words ) were required before intelligibility reached 90% , despite the fact that listeners knew how many words were in each sample , and , for later samples , were hearing repetitions of the initial context . |
| 3 | We found that patients with acromegaly not receiving treatment , were able to contract their gall bladder almost completely after a meal . |
| 4 | They found that 40% of highly cited papers were cited for historical reasons , but 60% were still actively being used . |
| 5 | But the optimism of workers at Rover 's Cowley plant in Oxford and the Stratton St Margaret site in Swindon turned to anger 18 months ago , when the European Commission announced that sweeteners worth almost £45m that helped clinch the deal , were illegal and would have to be paid back . |
| 6 | Military analysts estimated that control of over 2,500 sq km of territory had been lost to the guerrilla forces in six weeks . |
| 7 | However , another memorandum obtained by the press indicated that Buthelezi at least knew of the financing of the rally in November 1989 . |
| 8 | Surprisingly she discovered that funding for both film-makers and festival organisers is proving as elusive in the larger metropolitan centres as it is here where the state of gay and lesbian film culture can safely be said to be embryonic at best . |
| 9 | It thus resembles the open gravelled spaces in the F centres of several small towns , among them Catterick ( p. 114 ) and Godmanchester ( p. 126 ) , which , as well as Alcester , most likely functioned as markets for both local and itinerant traders . |
| 10 | The premature end to what could have been a professional ballet career meant that Carol at least had more time to devote to the blossoming courtship with a young accountant , Ron Minogue . |
| 11 | Now , I 'm not a sociologist but I would say i it meant that children without both were more prone to trouble , or more prone to erm lack of parental control or lack of love , care there has , I mean somebody can draw a a conclusion from that , but barely fifty ! |
| 12 | In particular , they felt that enterprises in both Britain and Germany were having to cater for increasingly small market niches rather than for homogeneous mass markets . |
| 13 | The Bank of Scotland had frozen the overdraft of Monktonhall Mineworkers Ltd some weeks ago when it emerged that debts of about £1.7 million had accrued . |
| 14 | Poetry and music , well attested as pastimes of both upper and lower deck in the period concerned , come to us in rehearsals for a noisy and enthusiastic Messiah in which hierarchies are temporarily forgotten , in the verse-contests of two junior officers partial to odes , in the stamp of hornpipes and the therapy of farces and dramatic interludes and , pertinently , in the comments of the inartistic , like the complaint of Aubrey 's cantankerous servant Killick , exasperated by the noise of a first attempt at ‘ Old Bach 's D Minor double sonata ’ : |
| 15 | In a letter to the council , Stuart McHardy of the campaign wrote that stones from all over Scotland and other parts of the world would be formed into a cairn on 10 April to mark the first anniversary of the Vigil for a Scottish Parliament on Regent Road . |
| 16 | The studies followed on from research in the US ( New England Journal of Medicine , p 689 ) and London ( Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology vol 237 , p 567 ) which suggested that children with more than 12 micrograms of lead per 100 millilitres of blood had IQs which were 5 to 7 points below the expected value . |