Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From now on it will refer to products validated as working with all Sparc-compliant hardware and software , not just Sun . |
| 2 | It was known that many European plants and animals flourished when introduced into areas such as Australia , thus fuelling the imperialist assumption that the products of Europe — including the human products — were destined to rule the world . |
| 3 | Several ex-conduit cars survived as works cars , such as car 8 seen here on New South Promenade c. 1926 . |
| 4 | Of these only the CLC ( Cheshire Lines Extension Railway ) and LYR Derby Road sheds survived as working depots into the 20th Century , although until the 1980's , the WLR shed existed as a workshop by the Windsor Road/Hampton Road footbridge . |
| 5 | Bailey 's Jamaican informants did when providing her with examples of JC for her book , Jamaican Creole Syntax ( 1966 ) . |
| 6 | The only defendant to testify was Salaam , a move which most observers saw as having increased his chances of conviction . |
| 7 | One source of controversy had been the plan 's provision for a total of $27,000 million in foreign investment , especially in the oil and petrochemicals sector , which hardliners saw as compromising the country 's independence . |
| 8 | Once transferred to series production , so many defects emerged as to make the consignment unusable . |
| 9 | The blue grey mud banks glittered where wet from the tide , but lay dry and cracked like acres of crazy paving above the high water mark . |
| 10 | ANGRY delegates revolted when asked to observe a minute 's silence in memory of Robert Maxwell . |
| 11 | The vast benefits many farmers saw as accruing to cities as a result of rural exploitation were no more than illusory . |
| 12 | Bills will increase by £60 a year after valuation officers bungled when working out charges based on property bands . |
| 13 | On June 7 , 1989 , a DC-8 aircraft belonging to Surinam Airways crashed while trying to land at Zanderij airport . |
| 14 | Details emerged when United 's new owners Bio Mass Recycling started looking into the clubs records and came across payments for seventy thousand pounds . |
| 15 | Part of the accounts went as follows : |
| 16 | Numerous such accidents happened whilst igniting , for if the slow fuze happened to be not so slow , or the miner inadvertently touched the straw with his candle , then he might have but a few impossible seconds to make good his escape . |
| 17 | Otherwise cell nuclei of embryos or aggregates can be stained and embryos disaggregated as discussed below . |
| 18 | Izanami died when giving birth to the fire god , and the distraught Izanagi followed her to the Land of Gloom , where he was appalled by the sight of her body infested with maggots . |
| 19 | But perhaps the critics hesitated when faced by a film whose politics were rarely foregrounded . |
| 20 | When Professor Fogelman undertook a survey of school work for the Speaker 's Commission , he collected a most eclectic list of topics which teachers proffered as contributing to work in this field . |
| 21 | More local law societies disagreed as agreed with the question , but amongst respondents from medium-sized and larger firms there were slight majorities in favour . |
| 22 | The only trouble was , the whales sank when killed . |
| 23 | Planrainwater'sts died when exposed to 2 ppm or more for 14 days . |
| 24 | The two rivals ' remarks came as attempts to negotiate a truce in the bitter struggle between parliament and Mr Yeltsin 's executive seemed close to collapse . |
| 25 | At the 10th plenum a new draft political platform was released , which some commentators saw as marking a return to central planning , while others saw it as an essentially reformist tract . |
| 26 | Today the British and Irish Prime Ministers debated whether to talk to the terrorists . |
| 27 | I am s one that has just been recently appointed to one of these er regional ecumenical teams and at a meeting that was held for the three presbytery areas in the sort of west coast of Scotland , around the Greenoch area , erm it was , it became apparent that all these people who are being appointed er through their , their churches are in the main clergy and the convenor of the local committee himself a ruling elder of the Church of Scotland expressed concern about this , that there is no real er and I would just put it to the , to the assembly , there is there is no need for these members to be members of the clergy , in fact it would be good if presbyteries remembered when making a nomination eh that it , er it need n't be , it could be a , a an elder or indeed er a lay person holding no particular office within the church . |
| 28 | In the bluey greens of the sea , for example , I was able to make even , intense washes of colour , and was amazed at how soft and delicate the washes became when watered down . |
| 29 | When the trucks paused while negotiating a particularly tricky turn , and Rain recognized where they were and that it was a good place to be , they climbed out and took a short route out of the old town and back to the hotel . |