Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It transpired that Ojomoh 's family owned a house in Clapham . |
| 2 | It transpired that Medlock 's patent was badly drafted and the case hinged on the degree of hydration of the arsenic acid reagent used . |
| 3 | The Discussion Paper proposed that shareholders ' funds be analysed between the amounts attributable to equity and non-equity shares , and envisaged that this would be provided by analysing its component parts ( called up share capital , share premium account and other reserves ) between equity and non-equity interests ( Discussion Paper , paragraphs 3.50-3.56 ) . |
| 4 | Swiney proposed that women 's racial superiority was evidenced both by their physical and mental capabilities and in their internal cellular composition . |
| 5 | The ED proposed that auditors ' reports should contain brief descriptions of the responsibilities of directors and auditors ; include a description of the key features of the audit process ; abandon the system of reporting only by exception on such matters as proper accounting records ; and draw attention to a range of inherent uncertainties , including those affecting the validity of the going concern assumption . |
| 6 | Despite the rhetorical insistence that there was now a continuum of special educational needs , in 1984 the DES proposed that children 's curricular needs could be classified under three headings : ‘ mainstream plus support ’ , ‘ modified ’ and ‘ developmental ’ . |
| 7 | His selflessness demonstrated that Debussy 's music can do without the fancy apparel that many other artists might unthinkingly have bestowed upon it . ’ |
| 8 | The report demonstrated that Britain 's cities could and should be improved from the point of view of economic . |
| 9 | The first article in the series which became the book demonstrated that Eliot 's definition of culture begins with the savage . |
| 10 | Others demonstrated that people 's post-school careers were also dependent upon their social class background . |
| 11 | And it demonstrated that Hitler 's instinctive grasp of the ‘ gut feelings ’ of the population , on which his effectiveness as a speaker greatly rested , was also beginning to leave him as a result of his isolation in his distant field headquarters . |
| 12 | Gorbachev pronounced that Sobchak 's statement had been " unseemly for a deputy " . |
| 13 | In reply , Soviet generals grumbled that Kutuzov 's troops on their return from the Napoleonic wars did not have to pay for forage as they crossed what is now Poland ; the Poles , they said , were showing scant gratitude for their liberation in 1945 . |
| 14 | Another charged that Lebanon 's Christians had been let down by President Franois Mitterrand . |
| 15 | He described the Vietnam war as a ‘ noble cause ’ , charged that Carter 's economic policy had caused a ‘ severe depression ’ and raised doubts about the theory of evolution . |
| 16 | On June 14 Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson said that he hoped Sweden would be able to join by January 1995 and maintained that Sweden 's policy of neutrality would not be changed by membership of the EC . |
| 17 | The British consul in Israel maintained that Hurd 's statements to the politicians had been misunderstood , that the UK remained committed to Palestinian self-determination , and that the question of whether or not this led to an independent state was a Palestinian issue . |
| 18 | They maintained that David 's death had resulted from damage done by forceps before his birth . |
| 19 | At a footballer 's dinner in Glasgow , the Irish international Liam Brady once joked that McAvennie 's team-mates nicknamed him ‘ Ginger-Pubes ’ , adding with glee , ‘ I can assure you Frank 's blonde hair is n't natural . ’ |
| 20 | One of the Committee members , Sir Thomas Fremantle , cited a comment by Chawner that Fludyer 's house and No. 15 were suitable for private use for another twenty-one years , and moved that Burton 's third scheme , retaining these houses , should be adopted . |
| 21 | Few doubted that Britain 's position had eroded substantially . |
| 22 | The Court recounted that Nicaragua 's declaration had been reproduced in its first Yearbook with a note explaining the situation . |
| 23 | Not all Ruth 's time with the other servants was disagreeable , but she quickly found that Millfield 's own staff had little time for the servants of visitors , especially anyone they thought might consider themselves superior . |
| 24 | A UN report on the Iran-Iraq war published on Dec. 10 found that Iraq 's invasion of Iran on Sept. 22 , 1980 , and its subsequent occupation of Iranian territory throughout the war had been unjustified and in breach of international law . |
| 25 | In the second case , the Panel found that Ultramar 's treatment of the unrelieved portion of advance corporation tax in the consolidated profit and loss account , including it as part of the cost of dividends , is contrary to SSAP8 , and as a result of this departure , breaches paragraph 3(7) of Schedule 4 to the Companies Act 1985 . |
| 26 | She checked her file again and found that Olga 's husband 's first name was Boyd . |
| 27 | Isaacs and his colleagues ( 1972 ) found that relatives ' failure to provide basic care for elderly people was often associated with their previous rejection by the elderly person . |
| 28 | Research conducted for the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice found that solicitors ' representatives involved in giving advice in police stations are often inexperienced and lack proper training . |
| 29 | The commission found that Galileo 's judges had acted in good faith but had been " incapable of dissociating faith from an age-old cosmology " . |
| 30 | The same research team found that cow 's milk in the mother 's diet could cause colic in breast-fed babies . |