Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [vb past] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A similar problem was also found with sentence 13 , whereas sentence 12 crashed while printing the bracketed parses . |
| 2 | A statement by the Justice Department on March 2 said that press reports had created an " untrue impression " that an announcement in Parliament by Justice Minister Coetsee on Feb. 26 concerning the carrying out of the death sentence had brought to an end the moratorium on executions . |
| 3 | A year later , having received only part of the sum owed to him , Edward III demanded and got more : all that he had been ceded in 1358 , to which were added Normandy , Maine , Anjou , and Touraine , also in full sovereignty . |
| 4 | Later , in the 1860s , Persigny remarked to the Emperor that the charges on the civil list were enormous — to which Napoleon III replied that had so much money not been allotted in the first place he would have been unable to fulfil all the demands which were made upon him . |
| 5 | In December 1291 , Edward I confirmed and renewed all the grants of privilege bestowed by his Angevin ancestors on Fontevrault , and Henry III 's heart was dispatched ( albeit tardily ) for burial there . |
| 6 | This letter is incomplete in the Darlington collection , but it obviously contained much of use to Bartram whose draft reply ( in the Library of the American Philosophical Society ) dated February 1759 stated that had the postage been three times more he would not have missed it . |
| 7 | The eighteenth of July 1940 arrived and passed without any sign of the invasion threatened by Hitler . |
| 8 | The Habsburg and Ottoman empires , Hitler and Tito all came and went , but Milkovici remained . |
| 9 | According to official Soviet sources , members of a paramilitary group called the Mkhedrioni , allied to the pro-Congress parties , on the evening of Sept. 18 kidnapped and assaulted Vazh Adamiya , a prominent figure in the rival Round Table coalition , and afterwards exchanged gunfire with Round Table supporters on Tbilisi 's main Rustaveli Prospekt . |
| 10 | Though there were complaints in some places that 1 January 1913 came and went with no settlement in sight and though seamen on weekly boats in Hull were aggrieved at receiving less than their colleagues elsewhere , 2s.6d increases on weekly wages and 10s on monthly were fairly readily conceded , more in some places . |
| 11 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of May 23 speculated that Do Muoi " may have won an extension of the deadline for switching from accounting in transferable roubles to hard currency , set for April 1 " . |
| 12 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of Sept. 20 commented that reports suggesting that Li Peng 's decision to step down reflected " political vulnerability " or presaged his removal as Premier " appear to be groundless " . |
| 13 | An Indian Airlines Airbus 320 crashed when attempting to land at Bangalore airport , south India , on Feb. 14 ; 92 of the 146 people aboard were killed . |
| 14 | I was a party to all these decisions other than B. v. B. ( Contempt Committal ) [ 1991 ] 2 F.L.R. 588 cited and relied upon in Howes v. Howes , 142 N.L.J. 753 but I should also refer to two recent decisions to which I was not a party , but to one of which Scott L.J . |
| 15 | Day 26 Purchased and paid for another 100 sets of seats and backrests . |
| 16 | ( FCA ) of having been found to be in breach of Investment Business Regulation 6.03 in that the firm at Shipley between 16 March 1989 and 12 March 1991 sent business letters relating to its investment business without bearing the legend ‘ Authorised by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales to carry on investment business ’ contrary to Investment Business Regulation 2.02 and in that the firm at Shipley between 9 September 1988 and 1 October 1989 entered or required its Principal to enter into an association or arrangement with a person which might result in the defendant being constrained or induced to refer or introduce a client to a person who was not an independent intermediary with a view to that person giving investment advice contrary to Investment Business Regulation 2.03 and in that the firm at Shipley between 16 March 1986 and 31 October 1989 failed before recommending or effecting for a client a transaction in units in an authorised unit trust or a recognised collective investment scheme , to take reasonable steps to establish that other more advantageous or suitable policies or units were not available contrary to Investment Business Regulation 2.11 and in that the firm at Shipley between 1 November 1989 and 16 October 1991 having given advice to a client which was such that when acted upon it resulted in commission being received by the defendant , failed to notify the said client in writing of the amount and terms of such commission as soon as that information was available , contrary to Investment Business Regulation 2.32 was reprimanded , fined £3,000 and ordered to pay £500 by way of costs . |
| 17 | Reports in the Independent of Feb. 24 suggested that splits over the government 's Gulf war policy had prompted new political alignments between the army and right-wing opponents of Sharif . |
| 18 | Certainly it is true that No 506 failed and did not operate on the Saturday . |
| 19 | A report in the Israeli media on Nov. 8 said that following these elections a communiqué issued by the Hamas leadership in the diaspora referred to the importance of a " quiet dialogue " between Hamas and the PLO in order to avoid the violent public clashes between their members . |
| 20 | Scores on these tests were compared with a mother 's record of when her baby first walked and talked . |
| 21 | The collapse of the MacDonald government in August 1931 weakened and divided the Labour Party as effectively as the General Strike had demoralized the trade unions . |
| 22 | ‘ I remember when Jason first came and auditioned for me one day after school in his school uniform , very hot and perspiring , and a typical teenage schoolboy who had just run to the audition . |
| 23 | Then Windows 3 arrived and bang ! — suddenly there was a huge Windows spreadsheet market and Microsoft began to look very smart . |
| 24 | They were in the collection of the local parish priest Johann Georg Martin Dursch ( 1800–1881 ) until King Wilhelm I bought and donated them to the town in 1850 . |
| 25 | When pictures of Indian sweet shops were shown , the English and West Indian children present sneered and made vomiting noises while the Asians watched in silent embarrassment . |
| 26 | I know when we 've er sold the house , when our children all went and left us , the house was for three bedrooms , right , and I , I said to my husband I do n't want to stay here because they built the school outside behind our er , erm back yard , and every , all the rubbish that kids throw threw over and I said to him I do n't want to stay now kids , kids gone , children gone leave , left home , got married and went to off , I said I do n't want to live here , I do n't want to retire to , to stay at home and listen to the kids at school all day long and have the rubbish thrown over the hedge |
| 27 | On 8 January 1989 , at Kegworth , 47 people were killed when a British Midland 737 crashed while attempting an emergency landing . |
| 28 | A report on Estonian Radio on April 27 said that Veering and Puura had been given the responsibility of expediting the setting up of an Estonian Defence Ministry . |
| 29 | On the dresser two posed and tinted photographs rose from the undergrowth of brass . |
| 30 | The universities of Bab Ezzouar ( Algiers ) , Annaba , Constantine and Batna were on June 2 reported as closed . |