Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The planners could determine the availability of finance : ‘ Every single externally financed project was therefore meant to be scrutinized for conformity with the targets and if the projects passed this test the Commission would see to it that sufficient tax and credit incentives would be made available ’ ( Estrin and Holmes , 1983 , p. 179 ) . |
| 2 | In the fourth condition they were asked to judge whether a sentence made any sense . |
| 3 | The Brixton Gang Rape case produced several complaints to the Press Council which upheld most but not all of the complaints . |
| 4 | When Mr Rocard made that speech , the ecologists were being credited with almost 20 per cent of the vote . |
| 5 | In this Minton admitted that lithography for him remained ‘ a business of surprises , hazards and disasters ’ . |
| 6 | BORIS Yeltsin chose the best word to describe the economic recovery plan which the Congress of People 's Deputies passed this week . |
| 7 | and then time went along until it was September and September the third I was in church when the vicar announced that war has just been declared . |
| 8 | Three weeks ago Goering met some Englishmen on Sylt , you know it ? |
| 9 | There is even the suggestion of a ‘ conspiracy ’ , that the authorities manipulated these troubles , realising the existence of conflicts between Chinese and African students and hoping to divert attention away from the disastrous economic forecasts for the coming year . |
| 10 | Last October , Swiss bondholders agreed that interest on the bonds should be deferred with the bonds not being declared to be in default until 1 March . |
| 11 | The 20mm and 40mm quick-firing guns here were in or on concrete emplacements , and although the crew of the outer guns were knocked out for a time the Germans got this battery firing again , and the searchlight on the Mole 's tip was never put out . |
| 12 | The chairman asked each candidate to give a one sentence reason why people should vote for them . |
| 13 | But despite apparent government support a number of ministers objected and the proposals made little headway . |
| 14 | The leader writer depicted the Minister of Education Florence Horsbrugh as having been ‘ hoist with her own petard ’ : if she had hoped that her Committee of Enquiry would recommend financial cuts she had been disappointed , for if anything the proposals made some increase in expenditure likely . |
| 15 | Whatever one 's political view of them , if the privatization proposals made any sense then prices being kept down by competition should be at their heart . |
| 16 | Exactly same jeans , same jeans , same t-shirt got same colour hair . |
| 17 | The truth would never lose its power to wound , but Maria lacked any inclination to retaliate , aware that the same truth must be hurting Luke just as deeply , albeit in an entirely different way . |
| 18 | But the enthusiasm so often expressed in favour of change produced little movement within the industry . |
| 19 | Of the two famous rune stones which stand outside the church at Jelling , the smaller states that " King Gorm made these memorials to Thyre his wife , Denmark 's ornament " ; the larger that " King Harald commanded these memorials made to Gorm his father and Thyre his mother . |
| 20 | Once the ice shifted , 250,000 years ago , nomadic hunters made this region their own — we know , for they left a trail of hewn flint artefacts . |
| 21 | Mummius made some amends to the Greeks by generous dedications in their sanctuaries . |
| 22 | Frau Nordern made another foray . |
| 23 | In those days , marriage was mainly a matter of economy and family ; it was not normally possible to marry for love , and indeed the Courts ruled that love and marriage were incompatible . |
| 24 | The duo face competition from at least five bank-led consortia , all vying to operate the network , which should be up and running by 1995 , with the licence award expected this autumn . |
| 25 | The new textbook is the second one to have emerged since the crisis of early 1988 when the authorities announced that school graduation exams in history were being abolished . |
| 26 | Finally — perhaps one should say continuously — there is the comparison between conductors ; and here again , rather surprisingly , Davis 's tried and proved expertise made less impression than the new but not dissimilar touch brought by John Nelson . |
| 27 | Prices of industrial products doubled this week and rising prices of bread , milk and meat will worsen the already fast-declining living standards of the population , two thirds of whom live on the poverty line or below . |
| 28 | Indeed , Moscow entertained some hopes that the growth in interest in non-alignment in Latin America , a phenomenon which had induced Soviet writers in the mid 1970s to talk of a ‘ Latin American stage ’ of the Non-Aligned Movement , could weaken or even undermine the military treaty system which bound this continent to the United States . |
| 29 | On the contrary , her policies thwarted these energies . |
| 30 | Mr. Gordon never had a look in after Brown Owl met that pilot . |