Example sentences of "[ex0] [adv] [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Personnel management could thus draw upon a wealth of experience , a skilled data processing staff and the fact that there already existed a library of programs although none of them were designed to access or process personnel records .
2 There was a puzzle about how this bleak , broad-browed carved head had come into existence , since there also existed a photograph of the poet in his last sleep , still patriarchally bearded .
3 The evidence which the Inquiry was able to gather and to consider indicated that the events had dislocated the constitutional arrangements for police accountability and that there now existed a need for a fundamental review of our police system .
4 The judgement led one observer to point out ruefully that there now existed a situation where two tribunals faced with similar circumstances could quite reasonably come to different conclusions , and that their rulings could not be overturned on appeal in the Interests of consistency ( IRS , 1985a ) .
5 There then appeared a chink of light when we were advised by Mr F. Musgrave of Saintfield that he wished to sell the site of the former Ballynahinch Junction Station , a site which the Trust had been trying to secure for the past 20 years .
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