Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bachelard 's work on the formation of scientific disciplines led him to argue that the proper form of historical analysis should focus not upon an empirical history but upon the cognitive or epistemological status of concepts that distinguish a new science from an old one . |
| 2 | The hostile reception of Alford 's views led him to reflect that he was being denied the parliamentary right of free speech . |
| 3 | As inevitably occurs when abstract semantic properties are posited independently of form and then forms sought which express these properties , however , the binding hierarchy explanation , while offering some significant observations , does not square very well with the full range of data from actual language use . |
| 4 | The IMF 's satisfaction with Jordan 's continued implementation of economic restructuring programmes led it to approve on July 14 , 1989 , a financial package of 76,600,000 special drawing rights ( approximately US$96,000,000 ) . |
| 5 | Gentlemen did n't clout their womenfolk about , beat them , bruise them , tie them up and whip them … or whatever jolly games Johnny 's preferences led him to pursue . |
| 6 | I told him about our own lack of any real bomber force until the Germans made us build one . |
| 7 | As the riders passed they called out : high-pitched cries which startled the birds that nested in the tree-tops . |
| 8 | These attitudes led them to adopt an interventionist style in the management of local authorities that differred in many ways from the more orthodox approaches discussed in Chapter 5 . |
| 9 | Before presenting the subjects with the lists for the second time , the researchers asked them to recall the words . |
| 10 | But when I returned from military service in 1960 , my employers asked me to represent them south of the border , in that troutless land beyond Mr Hadrian 's Wall known as England . |
| 11 | Presumably they imagined their confidences led him to regard them with disgust or pity or contempt . |
| 12 | As a final thought , my enjoyment of the longer essays made me regret that we still do not have an Oxford Companion to the Earth Sciences . |
| 13 | Dzo bells lulled us to sleep and then woke us to a clear and sunny morning . |
| 14 | Often specific language associated with the eventual purpose has been identified and then activities devised which lead to no schematic extension , either because the specialist content is familiar or because the tasks are not designed to engage appropriate modes of thinking . |
| 15 | Yet the thought of being cooped up indoors for another few hours made her feel almost suicidal . |
| 16 | He was a quiet man , so his sudden bellowed opinions made one jump . |
| 17 | For a change of subject , they chose Sniffy Wilson , one of them having heard how colleagues had been tailing two armed members of the Goad gang , Donovan and Wytcherly , and at the end of a hair-raising fifteen minutes found they had arrested Sniffy as well . |
| 18 | Following the notorious deal struck by Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt in 1940 , the Americans had built a naval base at the deep-water bay of Chaguaramas , and , whilst the huge influx of military and civilian personnel created something resembling a boom-time on the island , their recreational habits led to increased levels of prostitution and organised vice . |
| 19 | In carrying out this duty , local authorities found themselves attempting to assess the numbers and needs of the disabled on a scale never before attempted . |
| 20 | And these were the positive ones and , remember , they come from within the ‘ old age ’ field itself where , incidentally , two groups reported they had retirement ages for their own committees . |
| 21 | Anne stole a glance at John occasionally , and several times caught him looking intently at her , but each time he looked away quickly . |
| 22 | So he was operated on , and the vets found he had a misplaced colon , put it right and stitched him up . |
| 23 | Perhaps those artists mentioned who worked in several ways — like Hartley or Guston or Morris — will be shown in a manner that suggests some of the aesthetic connective tissue that is otherwise ignored , but if they are represented only by their signature work a great deal will be missing . |
| 24 | In the evenings the merchants invited us to join them as they sat chatting on their cots in the middle of the courtyard . |
| 25 | During fierce street fighting around the temple of Myrmidia , the warrior goddess of Estalia , a group of knights found themselves surrounded by the dreaded Black Guard led by Emir Wasr the Cruel . |
| 26 | Nor will those investors and depositors who in the mid-1970s found themselves caught in a hurricane sweeping throught the secondary banking system after the collapse of Gerald Caplan 's London and County Securities . |
| 27 | As the day of rehearsals approached I got my usual attack of the ‘ I 'll never do its ’ . |
| 28 | The clubs helped them recruit supporters . ’ |
| 29 | From 1982 onwards , Romania 's Western creditors found themselves faced by a baffling response from Bucharest to their offers of further credit . |
| 30 | The landlord , who felt that the explanation — indeed , to all intents and purposes , the apology — he had made for his wife was more than enough to compensate for any gentlemanly inconvenience , was about to get back to his work in the fields when his visitor 's too casually direct questions about the mines charged him to stay . |