Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [conj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first week of July the Soviet authorities announced that in the third quarter of 1990 its oil deliveries to its European COMECON partners would be reduced by around 30 per cent . |
| 2 | An examination of magistrates courts revealed that for the under-21 population , black youth on average received 12 months imprisonment , whilst white youth only 9 months for similar offences . |
| 3 | Lisabeth asked and for a moment I thought he was going to slam the door on us . |
| 4 | The same point would occur if the complaint were that the denial of the right to fair trial arose because of the failure of the Court of Appeal to exercise its jurisdiction to resolve B's remaining arguments . |
| 5 | Newman argued that as a commitment in the light of evidence that can not be treated as proof , religious belief is like rather than unlike other forms of belief . |
| 6 | The difficulty arose because for the most part the single-sex grammar schools did not want to become co-educational , in spite of the court 's ruling . |
| 7 | The possibility that the MacQuillan empire was facing hard times raised interesting questions about the future of the Post , but Rain 's glass was empty and Shildon read that as a signal that she was impatient to leave . |
| 8 | In the parliament of 1371 two Austin friars argued that in a national emergency the prince who has endowed the churches may resume their property for the good of the realm ; about this time Langland was enlarging in Piers Plowman upon Holy Poverty , as were so many friars in their sermons ; before the end of the reign Wyclif , spokesman for Gaunt , especially against his wealthy political enemy , Bishop Wykeham of Winchester , was denying the right of priests to hold any property . |
| 9 | The alchemists maintained that through the correct disciplines such a return might be made . |
| 10 | This interaction occurred because of the very fragmentation experienced by the country . |
| 11 | Researchers found that on a day when an ‘ insular ’ mother reported having an argument with another adult before she was observed at home with her child , she was more likely to behave unpleasantly towards her child ( Wahler and Graves 1983 ) . |
| 12 | As the investigation progressed , the researchers found that on the two-toed species males outnumbered females 3.1 , and on the more common three-toed sloth it was 7:1 . |
| 13 | Recently , however , Luck reported that in an unselected population detailed ultrasound scanning detected all of the cases of Down 's syndrome when a physical abnormality was present . |
| 14 | It was a terrible disappointment , my heart sank as for the first time I detected a stiffness in Leo 's voice . |
| 15 | I have some knowledge of the Lutterworth site to which Professor Lock referred and of the Toyota site at Derby . |
| 16 | The President announced that with the exception of these two Committees , it was customary for all Offices to be voted for en-bloc by a show of hands . |
| 17 | Beyen argued that in the long term the ‘ sector ’ approach to co-operation would have to face up to the need for an all-embracing ‘ common market ’ reducing all trade barriers between the Six . |
| 18 | Haviland and Clark found that the reaction time difference between the two conditions remained and therefore concluded that the additional time taken to comprehend the target sentence in the indirect antecedent condition arose because of the need to draw a bridging inference . |
| 19 | Buxton and Klein 's study found that in the early 1970s local variations within a region were greater than between regions . |
| 20 | The Association found that for the first time the municipal government was taking its demands seriously and was prepared to make concessions which would effectively improve working conditions . |
| 21 | The bomber crashed because of an internal explosion . |
| 22 | Freud believed that at the root of all neuroses lay repressed sexual desires , but even if one does not follow him in this , it would be hard to resist the conclusion that this was true of some of his patients . |
| 23 | The study estimated that of the revised total 300,000 were Polish Jews and 145,000 were Polish non-Jews . |
| 24 | Reviewing this same exhibition , both Allard and Apollinaire noticed that for the first time in several years the influence of Matisse and Fauvism was slight . |
| 25 | A lifelong Manchester City fan recalled that in the 1940s ‘ it was a very mixed crowd . |
| 26 | Sitting much later in the genteel coffee shop of a Holiday Inn in Suburban Virginia , Habib Olahi recalled that as the Shah walked to and fro , he said , " This is against the constitution . " |
| 27 | Comparison with PACT data showed that in the two study practices , the 4% ( 5701 ) of prescriptions not recorded on the computer were in the category labelled in PACT level III as ‘ special groups — non-BNF . ’ |
| 28 | Her mouth opened and after a few moments a strange ululation sounded , a despairing cry , a death cry . |
| 29 | However , Defence Secretary Dick Cheney stated that in the light of recent political events in the Soviet Union , which had given him " some pause for concern " , the cutback programme could be halted if the Soviet military showed signs of reasserting its power . |
| 30 | In summary , his research showed that on the whole , supervisors with the best performance were those who concentrated their main efforts on the human aspects of their staff 's problems and attempted to build work groups with high performance standards . |