Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Gilvear 's study found that most often the breaches in the embankments occurred where they overlaid old channels and were vulnerable to erosion . |
| 2 | I was very annoyed over the whole business this end , when it transpired that nobody had any information on the subject either . |
| 3 | They proposed that they became Frankish vassals in return for protection against the expanding might of Abd-ar-Rahman the Ommeyad , who had taken over virtually the whole of Spain . |
| 4 | I proposed that I teach one woman what I knew so that she could teach the others after we got more machines . |
| 5 | The doctor arrived and after examining me pronounced that I had some sort of mystery virus , and there was nothing he could do for me . |
| 6 | In his evidence at the subsequent trial , Paisley maintained that he did this to keep the parade moving and hence diffuse tension . |
| 7 | Lucy also saw the plan Doreen had in mind , but she doubted that it had much to do with married couples in search of outdoor adventure . |
| 8 | She rejected about a dozen of these sample shades before she mentioned that they cost sixty or seventy pence each . |
| 9 | The monopolistic merchants found that they had insufficient capital to advance the loans required ; there was much evasion of the monopolies ; and the export trade itself was disrupted by the crown 's impressment of merchant shipping for war , and its political pressures on Flanders . |
| 10 | You mentioned the accounts of the Maxwell Charitable Trust as having five hundred thousand of assets , I saw those accounts for the first time the other day and I found that they had five hundred and one thousand of assets of which er five hundred thousand consisted of a a purely hypothetical transfer of an asset from a Liechtenstein trust to the U K trust and that asset had no valuation done on it as far as I can make out a and no reference to any valuation appeared in the accounts , so we actually had B I M apparently owned by a charitable trust on the face of it with figures of five hundred and one thousand of assets , but in practical accounting terms and valuation terms , no evidence that those five hundred and one thousand pounds er of assets had any valuation approaching that figure . |
| 11 | He hated pomp and humbug , and he resigned from the National Academy of Sciences because he found that they spent most of their time deciding which other scientists should be admitted to the Academy . |
| 12 | We have used the FCL record as published , although we found that they omitted two minor troughs around 1800 and that a different length for the final solar cycle is obtained when making use of the most recently available data . |
| 13 | ‘ When I got to my door I found that I had this cement cock in my pocket . |
| 14 | They then got his notes out and found that he had malignant hypertension — just high blood pressure . |
| 15 | The mocking-birds were probably his best clue , since here he found that he had clear evidence showing that the populations of different islands were quite distinct . |
| 16 | John Gadsby who travelled across France in 1855 found that he needed two greatcoats and a large travelling wrapper to keep himself warm even though the carriage was supplied with hot footwarmers which were renewed at certain stops along the route . |
| 17 | Talking to a tobacconist I found that he has some women customers and a range of smaller pipes for them to choose from . |
| 18 | Sally found that she had good abilities in this area . |
| 19 | She took out her wallet and found that she had six pounds and ten shillings which she placed on the chair by his bed ; ‘ Will that be enough to be going on with ? ’ she asked . |
| 20 | Okapi was certainly easy to use and most people found that it needed minimal learning and relearning . |
| 21 | ‘ I had always thought that its grip on me was purely personal , ’ wrote Amanda , ‘ — I loved it simply because it was my home — but then I found that it caught other people in its web too . ’ |
| 22 | Harvard 's experiments on bird tumours , for example , showed that viral insertion increased the expression of the myc gene — and Croce and his collaborators reported that they found increased expression of myc in Burkin 's lymphomas ( Science , vol 21 8 , p 983 ) . |
| 23 | The provision of specialised consultants for accident units also came under criticism and the committee reported that it took seven years , until 1992 , for the number of A&E consultants in Scotland to increase from 11 to 23 , even though the most recent review concluded that 34 were needed . |
| 24 | Now he rose and they faced each other across the table . |
| 25 | A flight of alarmed mallards rose and I counted 25 before a second similar flock and then a third took to the air . |
| 26 | All the changes that were made underlined trends already evident before Fulton reported and none made any basic difference to the civil service . |
| 27 | In the nineteenth century this all changed because opiates became much more widely and cheaply available so er babies were dosed with paregoric to stop them crying erm er and subsequently in the twentieth century that stopped and we do other things now . |
| 28 | She stopped and they faced each other . |
| 29 | ‘ Nooty tried and she got all covered in yuk . ’ |
| 30 | The Netherlands disagreed because it thought harmonised taxes would be too weak . |