Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [conj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Madrid daily El País of Nov. 30 reported that in the previous week gunmen forced the wife of Indian leader Almílcar Méndez to participate in a demonstration against her husband . |
| 2 | This envisaged that by the end of this century there would be 104 gigawatts ( 1,000 million watts ) of nuclear capacity , including 33 GW of fast breeder reactors . |
| 3 | After all , of course , negotiations would be possible and already the French claimed that with an estimated eight to ten thousand dead , Vietminh resistance was weakening . |
| 4 | This meant that under the then current ICAO arrangements in Annex 13 the UK was not entitled to appoint an accredited representative to participate in these investigations , notwithstanding the fact that in each case a very significant proportion of the passengers were British nationals . |
| 5 | This meant that on the blonde version the entire bass — body , neck and fingerboard — was light-coloured wood , except for the scratchplate and the front of the headstock . |
| 6 | All this meant that for the first time all pupils were aiming for " A " levels , and could be helped and encouraged by discussing careers and progress with their masters and parents . |
| 7 | This meant that within the BBC itself sources of finance beyond the licence fee were not ruled out altogether ; nor by the Beveridge Committee in 1951 . |
| 8 | This meant that in the German companies programming was becoming a nucleus of integration , bringing together operators , planners , production engineers and managers , charge-hands , and foremen , while in Britain that work was more concentrated on planners and production engineers . |
| 9 | This meant that in the economic depression of the 1930s many Sri Lankan landowners were thus in the hands of foreign money-lenders to whom they had mortgaged their land . |
| 10 | This meant that from the standpoint of the MTFS , broad money could no longer be relied upon as an indicator of the direct relationship between the money supply and the spending behaviour of the economy . |
| 11 | Some hesitated because of the semi-evangelistic tone of the advertising ; others because of its lack of deference , indeed of reference , to Capella . |
| 12 | This continued until at the peak of exaltation on … |
| 13 | The whole subject was brought to a sudden climax when Hilbert in 1888 showed that for a form of any degree in any number of variables a finite " basis " always exists — and this without giving any indication of how to find such a set in any particular instance ! |
| 14 | The second showed that at the other pole is the city . |
| 15 | Having calculated the odds , Napoleon III decided that at the moment this was unlikely . |
| 16 | ‘ I would not be surprised if that happened because of the quality of their players and such influences as Bryan Robson and Lee Sharpe waiting to come in . ’ |
| 17 | Le Monde of June 9-10 estimated that in the 50 major , policy-determining laws of the 270 passed during Rocard 's term as Prime Minister , Rocard had relied on the support of the right and centre nearly three times as often as he relied on the PCF . |
| 18 | As we have seen ( Chapter 3 ) , Cunningham [ 1957 ] 2 QB 396 held that on a charge of administering a noxious thing under s.23 of the OAPA recklessness was defined as : did the accused himself foresee the consequence ? |
| 19 | An Amnesty International report of Oct. 11 claimed that in the previous 18 months members of the armed forces , often working in collusion with drug traffickers and right-wing paramilitary groups , had killed 2,500 people and were responsible for 250 others who had " disappeared " following detention . |
| 20 | A band like that survived because of the existence of indie labels that kept going in the Eighties even though many of their major acts like The Smiths , and now The Fall and Blue Aeroplanes , deserted them for the majors . |
| 21 | As Antonio Gramsci pointed out , the movement of 1848 failed because of the scanty bourgeois concentration in Germany , and also because the question of the renewal of the state was intertwined with the reaction to the national question . |
| 22 | The Guardian of April 3 reported that over the preceding months Treuhand had become the " focus of growing public anger " and was viewed as the " embodiment of eastern Germany 's economic misery " . |
| 23 | Thus the National Child Development Study which covered all children born during a week in 1958 found that at the age of 7 years there was a far higher proportion of children from the lower socio-economic groups who had not been immunised against smallpox , polio and diphtheria . |
| 24 | The Times of Oct. 6 noted that in the old FRG a party would have to win 2,250,000 votes to win representation as compared with only 550,000 in the former GDR where the electorate was one quarter the size of that in the old FRG . |
| 25 | In Holland opposition to the ambitious and unsuccessful foreign policy of King William I meant that in the quarter-century 1825 – 50 the number of missions abroad was reduced by five , while four others were downgraded and the salaries of Dutch diplomats cut by an average of a quarter . |
| 26 | He could n't see the patient when he first entered because of the people standing around her . |
| 27 | the Guardian of March 1 reported that at a meeting between the government and members of the opposition in Jeddah , Saudi Arabia , angry debate had erupted over demands by the opposition that martial law be declared not by the government in exile , but by an emergency national unity government reflecting various political views . |
| 28 | A review of the Board 's work in November 197 1 indicated that in the previous five years it had approved six courses in librarianship and two in information science at a total of six colleges . |
| 29 | I froze when they first said that in the town where we lived for his firm job . |
| 30 | Commenting on the Khmer Rouge position at the talks , the Independent of June 27 said that for the first time in three years of diplomacy , the group appeared " unsure of themselves , and nervous of being outmanoeuvred " . |