Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor is it known how such circumstances arose or whether the balances are individually or cumulatively material in relation to the company 's accounts . |
| 2 | Facing his first annual meeting as IBM Corp 's chairman and chief executive , Louis Gerstner did not mince words , telling the Tampa assembly that the company 's very survival had been called into question in the past year , but promised that although the company 's reputation was temporarily tarnished , it will remain strong thanks to its worldwide base — ‘ It would be a great mistake for naysayers to underestimate IBM , ’ Gerstner said . |
| 3 | A recent survey of selection methods used by companies in both Britain and France for management selection , demonstrated that although the number of British companies using psychological tests had increased since an earlier survey carried out in 1984 ( Robertson and Makin , 1986 ) most organisations still relied on the traditional selection methods of the application form , interview and letters of reference ( Shackleton and Newell , 1991 ) . |
| 4 | In 1977 , J. Ekstrand demonstrated that when a healthy adult male weighing 60 kg swallowed 10 milligrams of fluoride , the levels of ionic fluoride in his blood peaked after about an hour to just over 0–4 ppm per kg of body weight ( European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology , vol 12 , p 311 ) . |
| 5 | Daedalus mused that if the metal was not uniformly heated , upwelling convection cells would form within it . |
| 6 | The mother of one of the victims maintained that although the girls were referred to in court only by their first names to protect them from reprisals , she was particularly worried that people in the court 's public gallery knew who the girl was . |
| 7 | Deborah maintained that if the company wished to keep hold of its original and still loyal customers , now in the thirty-plus age bracket , and looking for more elegant attire , it had a lot of ground to make up . |
| 8 | He also mentioned that when the guitar reaches full production level , a care kit will be included with each one — which comes as something of a relief , because at present I would be nervous about approaching this instrument even with something as seemingly innocuous as furniture polish . |
| 9 | In a report published on Aug. 30 , 1991 , the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development found that after the UK economy had entered " a sharp recession in the summer of 1990 " , a " modest economic recovery " was " widely expected towards mid-year [ 1991 ] " . |
| 10 | I went to the alpine Club library in London and found that while the mountain does n't have the drama of the Matterhorn or the Eiger , there had been a lot of activity on it in the Golden Age . |
| 11 | However , consumer questionnaires found that while the Superspec concept appealed to 91 per cent of people , only a third were willing to pay a premium for energy efficiency . |
| 12 | Edwards ( 1986 ) found that while the simple past was acquired early by her Dudley informants , the past marked with did , etc. was acquired much later . |
| 13 | Jones found that although a reasonably high number of employers thought that qualifications were desirable , less than half thought them to be essential . |
| 14 | At a second Walla Walla council in September 1856 , Stevens found that although the Nez Perce were unwilling to fight , they were clearly divided , largely as a legacy of Spalding 's days amongst them . |
| 15 | The House of Commons Select Committee on Education found that although the Act had enhanced the position of parents in many respects , there were ‘ still situations in which parents feel their contribution … to be insufficient or ineffective ’ . |
| 16 | Rather surprisingly , the recent The Artist readership survey found that although the cast majority of readers have a video player , not everyone has purchased an instructional art tape . |
| 17 | He found that although the coincidence of business and political cycles was " very marked " with respect to the United States , New Zealand and Germany , this was not the case with respect to Britain because pressing action on the balance of payments swamped the cycle of economic policy-making revolving around elections . |
| 18 | He found that although the rats in the third group made many errors until the eleventh day , upon reinforcement on this day they made almost no mistakes . |
| 19 | In a randomised blinded phase I/II trial comparing Ro-24-7429 with nucleoside RT inhibitors in 96 patients ( CD4 50–500/L ) , Haubrich et al ( California , USA ) found that although the drug was well tolerated , it was ineffective in producing either a rise in CD4 count or a fall in p24 antigen activity . |
| 20 | This judgment , implicitly criticizing the Aug. 6 order , found that whereas the President had allowed the Punjab and Baluchistan assemblies ( controlled by opponents of the PPP ) to dissolve themselves , those of Sind and the NWFP ( both dominated by the PPP ) were summarily dismissed [ see p. 37652 ] . |
| 21 | While studying the relationship between visual stimuli and the EEG , Adrian found that if a regular series of bright flashes was presented to the subject 's eyes there was an equally regular series of blips in the EEG recorded from electrodes on the scalp over the visual areas at the back of the skull . |
| 22 | However , Walker found that if the BFP algorithm was altered to reflect the first three levels of SPAR 's ordering given above , correct results were obtained by eight of the 21 pronouns resolved correctly by Hobbs but incorrectly by the original BFP . |
| 23 | Baldwin ( 1977 ) found that if the eldest child was abused , the likelihood that the second eldest would be abused was 78 per cent . |
| 24 | They found that where the market value was 85 per cent or less of that predicted by the model , shares outperformed the market . |
| 25 | Additionally , he found that when a horse discovered that the messages it was trying to convey were understood , either by another horse or by a person , its range of communication could be extended considerably . |
| 26 | He found that when a hen has decided where to nest , she works her whole body about to mould a comfortable shape , then pecks up more loose stuff to tuck in around her . |
| 27 | Preliminary investigation found that when a topic is closed two options for the ensuing course of the interaction may be relevant : making a definite move to close the whole conversation , or beginning a new topic by actively searching for something to keep the conversation going . |
| 28 | Another agreed : ‘ I found that when the canvassers come to the door , and this is true of all parties I think , on the whole they feel embarrassed if a disabled person goes to the door and they always ask for my husband . ’ |
| 29 | Home Office researcher Simon Field studied 40 years of statistics and found that when the temperature rose a few degrees Celsius above normal : |
| 30 | However , Sophian and Huber ( 1984 ) found that when the causal task involved a larger number of conflicting cues , three-year-olds did not consistently rely on temporal priority cues , whereas five-year-olds did . |