Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [pron] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The union discontinued its " social evenings " in 1951 , but carried on holding occasional events or tea-parties which served as reunions for increasing numbers of retired compositors . |
| 2 | First , the lists mention only those performers singers , dancers , or instrumentalists who appeared on stage , but not any musicians who may have been placed elsewhere . |
| 3 | Essentially , the cases and their history were studied to establish what factors or characteristics they had in common . |
| 4 | The small tradesmen or shopkeepers who made up most Boards of Guardians throughout the period were unlikely to resist such pressure since their elections to the Boards depended upon the ratepayers . |
| 5 | The US administration announced on Nov. 18 that President George Bush had vetoed legislation imposing mandatory trade sanctions on countries which used chemical weapons , or companies which assisted in the development of such weapons . |
| 6 | agreement had called for a " report " , but the Court of Appeal did not agree that the use of the word " report " required the expert to set out the reasoning or calculations which led to the conclusion . |
| 7 | She had always avoided books or films which dealt with carnage and its attendant gore . |
| 8 | I 've always wanted an en suite bathroom , she would say to visitors , to her friends on the phone , to , he would n't be surprised , tradesmen on the doorstep or strangers she accosted in the street . |
| 9 | When the patterns of magnetic anomalies across mid-oceanic ridges were mapped out it was noticed that in several cases the parallel bands of similarly magnetized crust were broken by numerous offsets or displacements which seemed to be aligned approximately at right angles to the axis of the ridge . |
| 10 | When Queen Elizabeth , on a state visit to Germany in May 1965 , arrived in Stuttgart for a formal lunch , John took care over his clothes but either forgot or did not think it necessary to find a pair of socks less obtrusive than the bright reds or blues he favoured at that time . |
| 11 | Acknowledging that it would appear unjust to pay higher allowances out of taxation to the middle classes , she argued that it would only be possible if the higher allowances were paid for by the income groups or occupations which benefitted from them . |
| 12 | Edinburgh was totally different from London ; a royal burgh , it was built according to some sort of plan : long narrow streets with timbered and stone houses on either side , some joined together , others separated by narrow runnels or alleyways which led to a small garden or croft behind each tenement . |
| 13 | The result was that sometimes members of the family or others who went to her for help came away empty-handed , however great their needs or deserts might be ; Addy never used need as a yardstick But on the other side of the medal were the occasions , such as this one , when she volunteered something you 'd never have dreamed of asking for , and you were free to accept it because you knew she 'd be disappointed , not relieved , if you refused . |
| 14 | The schools themselves could never have flourished so significantly without the presence in the town ( at roughly the same time as Gratian ) of the great father-figure of the Roman law school , Irnerius , and the group of glossators or commentators who gathered under him . |
| 15 | But even if that is held to be culpable ignorance , it can not be assumed that if the voters did know of those plans or intentions they approved of them . |
| 16 | In nine cases a subject described a situation which was not at one of the 40 junctions of interest , these were either descriptions of junctions on the practice route or events which occurred between junctions on the route , these were not coded . |
| 17 | THE WAITS were a group of four musicians or minstrels who performed for the local corporation and received a badge and annual payment for their services . |
| 18 | Union officials speak scornfully of the Tribune Company 's assumption that tactics which worked in Chicago would succeed in New York . |
| 19 | The Doctrine of Signatures became fashionable , the theory of which was that plants which looked like the symptoms of an illness would cure it — lungwort or pulmonaria is a case in point , since it was used for lung conditions , because its white-spotted leaves were thought to bear some resemblance to diseased lungs . |
| 20 | Although individuals who went to state schools have some chance of entering these jobs , public school educated elites largely reserve such positions for themselves and their children 's group . |
| 21 | The devaluation of the pound sterling meant that productions which came from overseas — inevitably of great significance for such an international event — would cost about 25 per cent more . |
| 22 | By this time the government was of the opinion that difficulties which arose in relations between clergy and peasants sprang not merely from the economic arrangements on which the livelihood of priests depended , but from the priests ' character . |
| 23 | The ECJ established that goods which adhered to the national rules and regulations in the member state in which they were produced , should be able to be sold in any member state without need to adhere to the rules and regulations governing the production and sale of the good in the importing member state . |
| 24 | ‘ That was what he was good at but at the time we did n't consider him any better than players we had at the club . |
| 25 | ‘ That was what he was good at but at the time we did n't consider him any better than players we had at the club . |
| 26 | Last year the Government abolished the allowance that mothers who moved from benefits to work could claim . |
| 27 | It is understood that councillors who voted in favour of the motion are now to consult with the Department of the Environment over the legality of offering waste collection free of charge to Orange halls . |
| 28 | She had met John briefly on Friday night and he told her that someone had told him that men who fought with the International Brigade would not be accepted in the Forces . |
| 29 | With the exception of Speshnev 's subsection , the " Petrashevtsy " ( as Petrashevskii 's associates came to be known ) were no more radical than others who dissented from the administrative and social practices of Nicholas I. The Dictionary of Foreign Words was one of a number of indirect criticisms of the regime to find its way into print in the 1840s . |
| 30 | And I suspect it 's the same kind of actual physical complaint that women who complained of being depressed have . |