Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walls need to be mellow : dark creams , possibly sponged or rag rolled to give a textured effect . |
| 2 | Shelves of wooden toys , oiled or hand painted . |
| 3 | In two other important areas , Johnson succeeded where Kennedy had failed . |
| 4 | Many would say that as George the Sixth , he succeeded where Edward had failed . |
| 5 | When real wages rose or unemployment fell , marriage and then fertility increased , and vice versa , roughly as Malthus claimed it would . |
| 6 | He stopped where Tallis stood on the wall . |
| 7 | Because it transpired that Galileo had not mentioned the 1616 prohibition when applying for his license , Urban felt betrayed on several counts . |
| 8 | His wife had disapproved of this development at first — he suspected that she had paired off Damien and Clare in her mind — but when it transpired that Mark had been baptized a Catholic , and when he started to go to Mass again , she had become favourably disposed to the idea of their going out together . |
| 9 | Although the maternal recommendation was that Jane should see a psychiatrist or a priest , it transpired that Jane felt she had turned the corner simply by spilling out her innermost thoughts to her mother . |
| 10 | It later transpired that Macmillan claimed that he had deliberately delayed answering questions in the Commons in order to give time to withdraw MI6 agents from East Europe . |
| 11 | It transpired that Clive had received no formal sexual education and had learned almost everything he knew about sex from Companions and sex magazines . |
| 12 | Anyway , ’ he went on , ‘ I made some further enquiries and it transpired that Len had been convicted on a drink-driving offence and had lost his driving licence . |
| 13 | It also proposed that claimants seek " an agreement for joint exploitation of the Spratlys ' natural resources " . |
| 14 | They proposed that Harward create such a super-track tuned to human elasticity , and predicted it would increase speeds by 2 or 3 per cent . |
| 15 | In a famous paper on logic and conversation , the philosopher H. P. Grice proposed that conversationalists acknowledge the existence of a ‘ cooperative principle ’ which requires them to give as much information as is needed , to be truthful , relevant and not vague or ambiguous . |
| 16 | From these observations , Hofmann and I proposed that plumes consist in part of deeply subducted oceanic crust and sediment . |
| 17 | This proposed that Comex become a subsidiary of the Merc in a $10m deal . |
| 18 | Mike Benton 's ideas are reminiscent of those of Tony Swain and Gillian Cooper-Driver who proposed that dinosaurs became extinct through their dietary requirements They suggested that the development of alkaloidal synthesis of cyanogenic glycoside precursors in the early angiosperms made them unpalatable to the dinosaurs , effectively starving them into extinction . |
| 19 | Before he left , he proposed that Frederica join a beach party at Les Saintes-Maries de la Mer , next week . |
| 20 | The legislation , the Trade Union Acts 1871 to 1927 , demonstrated that Parliament intended that this new entity , or ‘ near corporation , ’ should be able to sue in respect of a tort , including the tort of libel . |
| 21 | Brewster demonstrated that Newton had been a ‘ searcher in the scriptures ’ throughout his life . |
| 22 | In the familiar language of environmentalism , Mearns demonstrated that overcrowding spread the infection of immorality from the dissolute to honest and upright working-class families . |
| 23 | This analysis demonstrated that activation detected in the left BA 40 was associated with the phonological short-term memory task but not with the rhyming task , and hence , following the psychological model summarized in Fig. 1 , we believe that left BA 40 is the primary location of the phonological store . |
| 24 | References in the commentary to shutter speeds , and exposures and lenses demonstrated that Miles had read a book on photography too . |
| 25 | It seemed to Theda that neither Rose nor Benedict appeared pleased that she was to benefit thus . |
| 26 | It helped that Verdeţ had been a miner . |
| 27 | Soviet sources charged that Ghotbzadeh had made ‘ the totally unsupported claim that he had obtained Soviet concurrence in his proposal ’ and had maintained that ‘ an understanding had allegedly been reached between Iran and the Soviet Union on some kind of principles for a settlement in Afghanistan , including the imposition of ‘ neutrality ’ on that country ’ . |
| 28 | He maintained that Washington feared that the gradual shift of the states of the region into the political orbit of the Non-Aligned Movement could draw them away from the system of ‘ inter-American treaties of mutual assistance ’ . |
| 29 | Kochen maintained that DEC had been taking a worldwide census of ‘ hundreds of customers ’ recently to ascertain whether OSF/1-on-MIPS was a viable policy . |
| 30 | It must be appreciated , therefore , that when Coenwulf maintained that Offa wished to diminish the dignity of Canterbury because of his hatred of Archbishop Jaenberht and the people of Kent , whereas Pope Leo declared that it was because of the vastness of his lands and kingdom that Offa had desired it , both were representing Offa 's motives in ways which suited their immediate purposes . |