Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also transpired that parts of England ( east and south-east ) were put on full invasion alert at the time , but it seems that ‘ Cromwell ’ had been ignored in some places where the junior officers who happened to be on duty had not been let into the secret of what it meant . |
| 2 | Similarly , a study group of the Association of Municipal Authorities proposed that records of void and under-occupied land and property should be held by all public sector bodies . |
| 3 | FINALLY : Those who feel there is too much cricket would have winced at the suggestion made by the Australian authorities , who proposed that series against England be expanded from five Tests to seven to assist the finances of their domestic game . |
| 4 | Gibson and Levin ( 1975 ) proposed that information about letter constraints reduces uncertainty and facilitates the reading of words . |
| 5 | Instead , he announced the appointment of an ombudsman to mediate between the public and the civil service , promised that proposals for democracy would be considered soon , and said that the opposition would be permitted to run in legislative elections expected in April 1994 . |
| 6 | Studies of a group of patients after radiotherapy demonstrated that 50% of cells with dicentric lesions disappeared from the periphery in a little less than 3 years ( the lymphocyte half-life ) . |
| 7 | The Minister of State for Social Security , in outlining his calculations , demonstrated that increases of £5 and £8 in the pensions would have lead to only 100,000 ceasing entirely to draw means-tested assistance ( letter from John Major , MP , to the author , 7 October 1986 ) . |
| 8 | Over a century ago Broca demonstrated that patients with damage involving part of the prefrontal cortex of the left hemisphere had severe speech deficits , although they could understand what was said to them . |
| 9 | However , she also found that differences between students of different disciplines were greater than differences between the sexes . |
| 10 | Hanna and Kuendiger found that differences in mathematics achievement between countries are much greater than differences between girls and boys . |
| 11 | In the Pittsburgh Neighborhood Survey , Ahlbrandt ( 1984 ) found that feelings of neighbourhood satisfaction were well below the city average , although neighbourhood attachment was greater . |
| 12 | MORI found that 61% of viewers feel that the campus featured in the programme is attractive . |
| 13 | For example , Drudy ( 1978 ) in a study of a prosperous farming area , north Norfolk , found that changes in agriculture were the foremost reason why the population of the area had decreased by 3.7 per cent between 1951 and 1961 , and by 6.9 per cent between 1961 and 1971 . |
| 14 | In a world like this , merchant ships went around armed against pirates , and non-Spanish merchant ships which sailed to South America found that citizens of towns on the ‘ Spanish Main' ( the mainland area which is now the coast of Venezuela ) would ask to be forced to trade . |
| 15 | A survey conducted by the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals in 1988 found that students outside London , after paying for board and lodgings , had £380 a year left for all other expenses , and students in London were even worse off with only £109 a year . |
| 16 | The 1988 General Household Survey found that 29% of women and 36% of men divorced during the period 1981–84 had remarried within 2 years of divorce . |
| 17 | Thus Carpenter and Narin found that patterns of citation from one journal to another could be used to generate clusters of journals which could be identified as groups . |
| 18 | Bakeman and Brown found that mothers of preterm babies spent more time actively coaxing responses from their infants ; that joint communication was more likely to be initiated by full-term babies ; and that the flow of action between the four states was more varied and less predictable among full-term babies and their mothers . |
| 19 | In his work in Northern Ireland in the late 1970s , Richard Jenkins ( 1983 ) found that responses to unemployment depended upon the social group to which a young person belonged . |
| 20 | The National Opinion Poll ( NOP ) found that 32% of women were using the pill , compared with 25% in a similar poll taken in 1987 . |
| 21 | The 1987 General Household Survey found that 22% of people aged 60–69 , and 13% of those of 70 or older , were participating in voluntary work . |
| 22 | Mrs Pember Reeves found that housewives in Lambeth were reluctant to move away and forego the help they knew to be available in times of need , for neighbourliness implied reciprocity . |
| 23 | But scientists from the UK 's Centre for Overseas Pest Research , evaluating mass trapping of the cotton leafworm , Spodoptera littoralis in Egypt , found that vandalism of pheromone traps can be a problem . |
| 24 | The 1986 English House Condition Survey found that 62% of dwellings lacking one or more basic facilities were occupied by people aged 60 and over . |
| 25 | A Gallup Poll in 1980 found that 85% of respondents considered other Britons to be very or fairly trustworthy . |
| 26 | Walker ( 1975 ) showed that when he monitored real curriculum decision-making , albeit in the context of a curriculum project , he found that statements of aims did not dominate . |
| 27 | Hatt and Hanson found that preincubation with TPA inhibited the stimulation by histamine of the cyclic AMP content of rat perietal cells , but this finding was not replicated by Ostrowski and Bomsztyk . |
| 28 | The Medical Research Council 's trial of antihypertensive treatment in elderly people found that death from cancer was nearly twice as common in men receiving atenolol as in men receiving placebo . |
| 29 | While voters generally thought that television was unbiased and that the press was biased we found that allegations of bias were not synonymous with disapproval . |
| 30 | Faragher ( 1985 ) found that police in Great Britain downgraded the seriousness of violence against women in the home , for although formal regulations state that it is to be treated as an arrestable offence , policemen often redefined the incident as lying outside law enforcement ( emphasized by Policy Studies Institute 1983b : 64 ) . |