Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb past] in [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All 49 subjects participated in this study after giving written informed consent . |
| 2 | More slowly , ministers and departments of State charged more or less specifically with the conduct of foreign affairs emerged in most West European countries , though it was not until late in the eighteenth century that this process began to reach completion . |
| 3 | Reporters from both The Sportsman and Golf Illustrated were present and comprehensive accounts appeared in both publications . |
| 4 | The delay in 10 cities had in many instances allowed more time for local coalitions to be negotiated . |
| 5 | ‘ Our resident poet could sing of Stalinvast 's lethal festering jungles which I never saw ; and of viscous scabs blasted in those jungles by a host of weapons ; and of all the reef-cities which I never saw either , infested with their slaving grimy weapons-makers . |
| 6 | Some of these early nautiloids occurred in such abundance that they are conspicuous enough to form an appreciable part of limestone formations — the ‘ Orthoceras Limestone ’ ( Ordovician ) is one of these , widely distributed through Scandinavia . |
| 7 | Such adjustments had in most cases to be sanctioned by the IMF . |
| 8 | Early collectors had in many cases got decretals wherever they could find them . |
| 9 | The 10.0 and 4.8 kb M.spretus -specific fragments cosegregated in this analysis and defined the Oct-11a locus . |
| 10 | ( The Financial Times of June 21 noted that these countries had in any case serviced only about 5 per cent of these debts in 1989/90 . ) |
| 11 | These weaknesses appeared in many forms . |
| 12 | Carnelian 's scheme could n't have been to expose Jaq to whatever type of recycling of human bodies occurred in that underworld . |
| 13 | Now Freud , in trying to the explain the origins of ambivalence about incest , suggests the apparently preposterous and farfetched idea , that in the beginning , human beings lived in these kinds of primal hoards , and er , there was no incest prohibition as such . |
| 14 | ( N.B. not all companies participated in all aspects of the survey either by express wish for total confidentiality or by unavailability for interview ) . |
| 15 | Such experiences clearly demonstrated the need for search consultants , and not surprisingly many new headhunting firms emerged and existing businesses flourished in this atmosphere . |
| 16 | Other people 's answers ( see Appendix 1 , section 8 for detailed discussion ) were concentrated between 10 and 15 per cent — two-thirds of all answers fell in that bracket , and the overall average answer was 13 per cent . |
| 17 | She had a confusing family background , as many children did in those days . |
| 18 | Too many tongues wagged in this place . |
| 19 | One thousand savages fell in that struggle , which is called today the Battle of Sloop 's Bight , after the first engagement in that cove , where a Christian ship , the Rebecca , was fired in a daring sortie . |
| 20 | Discussions with representative bodies resulted in some amendments to the proposals , notably the inclusion of a ‘ matching ’ provision to allow exchange differences on a borrowing , which ‘ match ’ those on a non-monetary asset , to be deferred until the asset is disposed of . |
| 21 | Some speculative builders boomed in these conditions , few having been active prior to the 1920s , though their characteristics suggest some link or other with housebuilding : |
| 22 | Altogether teachers from 36 schools participated in these groups ; a member of the project team was assigned to each group and meetings were initially held once or twice a term . |
| 23 | Two important things happened in such systems . |
| 24 | More riots occurred in several prisons in the summer of 1991 . |
| 25 | Only 247 individuals appeared in both returns ; the local parish register records the burial of 61 people in the intervening period , but another 226 individuals disappeared from the local scene . |
| 26 | These results support the 100% eradication in the 13 patients reinvestigated in this study . |
| 27 | Those in West Germany were utterly opposed , partly because the policy proposals , they had developed , also contained the long-term aim of reducing in a painless manner the number of small , less efficient farm units ; small farms predominated in many parts of West Germany . |
| 28 | THE TITLE says it all : the ‘ stolen continents ’ were the lands in North , Central and South America where gentle loving souls lived in some sort of earthly paradise , happily harvesting luxuriant crops and enjoying a stable regime with only ‘ low-key ’ wars . |
| 29 | There are several factors implicated in this increase in prison numbers in recent years . |
| 30 | However , the statistical picture remains somewhat unclear for two main reasons : the data have not always been analysed with sufficient attention to all the possible factors implicated in such over-representation ; there are insufficient provincial data to show how general are the London results . |