Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clerk argued that it was not a " competent application " . |
| 2 | Lange admitted that he had " been over a barrel " after the French government had threatened that unless the accord was accepted , New Zealand would be denied access to French markets for its agricultural exports , the mainstay of its economy , |
| 3 | If they have a common root , we test the remaining quadratics to see if they are satisfied by this common root . |
| 4 | ‘ By terms of his will , Lucas asked if he could be buried near his home , instead of in prison grounds . |
| 5 | Even Mandeville agreed and , from the discussion which followed , I gathered both agents were keen huntsmen with an inordinate love of the chase . |
| 6 | Repossession of the goods , if payment stopped after at least one third of the credit price had been paid , was allowed only by court order . |
| 7 | Defeat — and yet not truly defeat , Maria realised as she felt Luke 's response . |
| 8 | The jeep was gone and the dust had settled , surely the driver realised that dust-raising meant instant reaction from the Germans with shelling and heavy mortaring of the area and the inevitable casualties . |
| 9 | When he woke , sweating and exhausted , with his heart thudding as though he had been running , it was properly morning . |
| 10 | ‘ The Community proposals mean that one out of ten farmers set aside land in the rest of Europe compared to six out of ten in the UK . |
| 11 | The proposals mean that joint local planning and action will continue to be essential , but that responsibilities and accountability for the plans and action will be clearer than they are now … it must be emphasised that effective co-operation at the local level will be essential , both to the success of individual projects and , more broadly , if the whole range of community care services is to be delivered effectively . |
| 12 | The proposals mean that , for the first time , parents can name their preference for a school , including ordinary ones — and backed up by a new appeal system . |
| 13 | Subodh Kant Sahay , Minister of State for Home Affairs , in a statement on Jan. 2 to the Indian parliament announced that 890 people had been killed and nearly 4,000 injured in 15 weeks of Hindu-Moslem riots triggered by Hindu agitation around the disputed sacred site where a mosque currently stood in Ayodhya , Uttar Pradesh . |
| 14 | Parliament announced that it would hold an emergency debate on the accidents . |
| 15 | After long and entertaining research ( that 's hours sitting watching the story unfold and telling everyone that this really was work ) I can divulge that Johnny has a long-distance girlfriend , fishes an awful lot , is taken water-skiing by sharks , enjoys parties on passing cruisers , is invaded by ancient midget pirates , and is a very clean living , regular bathing type of guy . |
| 16 | The award guarantees that the candidate is competent in a significant range of work activities . |
| 17 | Olive Maguiness argued that the scholarship system itself was dysgenic because of its effects on social mobility ; she wrote that the bright members of the working class were removed from their environment , which encouraged fertility , and encouraged to defer child-bearing in favour of career . |
| 18 | Case studies showed that employers made savings arising ‘ mainly from temporary workers having less beneficial ( or no ) entitlement to holiday and sickness pay , and particularly to occupational pensions ’ ( Meager , 1986 , p. 12 ) . |
| 19 | Further investigations revealed that the platypus 's electric sensors lie within its bill , probably in glands which secrete a fluid to stop the sensors drying out on land . |
| 20 | The investigations revealed that there were , in fact , no clear trends . |
| 21 | The chair of the US House of Representatives banking committee stated on Feb. 3 that investigations revealed that 13 US firms had knowingly or unknowingly participated in the Iraqi nuclear weapons programme prior to the invasion of Kuwait , despite an administration report in autumn 1991 to the contrary . |
| 22 | On a positive note , in this last year there have been many achievements of major contracts completed and new business won in both nuclear and industrial sectors . |
| 23 | He had initially made braziers and water carriers on the estate of a European settler , who had persuaded him to manufacture in addition chisels and hammers . |
| 24 | When the Assembly closed the story goes that they found hundreds of dead Indians behind the screen . |
| 25 | The story goes that when the House of Commons was discussing this issue , a leading politician was heard to exclaim : ‘ If the Book of Common prayer was good enough for St Paul , it is good enough for me ! ‘ |
| 26 | The journalist Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd , continuing his indefatigable quest for the ancien régime , identified a clutch of MPs who owned country houses , including Paul Channon and Mark Lennox-Boyd of the Guinness dynasty ( the story goes that when Channon was selected for his seat in Southend , which had been represented by the family since 1912 , local advertising hoardings were proclaiming ‘ Have Another Guinness ! ’ ) . |
| 27 | The story goes that in September 1665 a parcel of cloth arrived in Eyam from London , where the plague was then rife , and infected the villagers . |
| 28 | The story goes that Wenceslas wished to prove his queen was guilty of adultery and Nepomuk , as the queen 's confessor , denied that she was . |
| 29 | He was also a vegetarian , although the story goes that Chapman persuaded him to eat steaks after hearing that he sometimes felt faint when heading a ball . |
| 30 | The story goes that one dismal morning they were detailed to take their Mosquito , ‘ D ’ for Dog , up for testing , and as there had been quite a party in the Mess on the previous evening , neither was feeling in the best of moods as they trudged out to dispersal at the crack of dawn . |