Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [conj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leaves are narrow , bright green , tapering to a point at the tip , wavy or crinkled and with a bold midrib with two parallel veins on either side of it . |
| 2 | The records must contain day-to-day entries of all money received or expended and of the matters to which that related and a record of the company 's assets and liabilities . |
| 3 | One of the major costs of implementing new technology was the need to train for new skills , but Ms Edwards found that once new technology was adopted it was often under-used or misapplied because of the lack of expertise and investment . |
| 4 | And shall there insert every persons name that shall be wedded christened or buryded And for the sauff ( safe ) kepinge the same boke the parish shale bonde to provide of these comen charges one sure coffer with twoo lockes and keys where of the one to remayne with you and the other with the said wardens , wherein the said boke shalbe laide upp Which boke ye shall every Sonday take furthe and in the presence of the said wardens or one of them write and record in the same all the weddinges , christenyngs and buryenges made the hole weke before , And that done to lay upp the boke in the said coffer as afore . |
| 5 | So all the traffic that used that as a rat run to get on the East Lancs Road |
| 6 | She looked down at hands that trembled and for a moment she considered taking the dress off and forgetting the whole idea . |
| 7 | This free-and-easy arrangement produced strong , healthy kittens that flourished because of the division of labour of the mother cats . |
| 8 | erm I I think if you look back , and again we could put a another paper in on this , N Y one , which was erm sort of a background to the history of planning in Greater York , which er er we we did , which I think Malcolm Spittle wrote for the for the greenbelt , enquiry , erm and that showed that in the , well before nineteen seventy four of course , there there were four authorities involved in Greater York . |
| 9 | At the A.G.M. , the committee meeting that followed and at the Annual Dinner that evening , contributions for Judith 's leaving present were asked for and it very quickly became apparent how highly Judith had been regarded . |
| 10 | There was a body of evidence that established that at the material time there was more than a normal commercial incentive influencing the actions of Bunn . |
| 11 | We apologise for having used old fashioned terminology in misnaming Enterococcus faecalis as Streptococcus faecalis , but the apparent redesignation of the organism as Gram negative was not intentional and arose because of the eradication of one too many ‘ organisms ’ from the text , which should read : ‘ Important indications for this category include infections due to Gram negative organisms ; organisms , such as Enterococcus faecalis , causing infective endocarditis ; osteomyelitis ; and infections of vascular grafts . ’ |
| 12 | I have always found the quality to be of an extremely high standard and presumed that with the publicity generated by the 150th anniversary celebrations last year , there would have been an increase in interest in the magazine . |
| 13 | He adopted the right test and asked whether in the circumstances this mother 's decision was within the band of what a reasonable mother would do . |
| 14 | ‘ They had developed some particularly good methodologies on key performance measurement that they had previously tried to apply to the US insurance industry , and failed because of the lack of diversification into defined activities in the US . |
| 15 | She smiled down at him and realized that in the few weeks he 'd been with her he had not only put on weight but had grown a few inches in height too . |
| 16 | This lovely supple rubber here is exactly the same supple rubber here at one time but now it 's gone all hard and denatured because of the chemicals . |
| 17 | But he fell in with Southey 's plans , none the less , and agreed that in the meantime they must live frugally in Bristol and earn money . |
| 18 | In due course , the company informed their financial advisers of the new arrangement and agreed that in the circumstances , proper practice dictated that D be told of the new development . |
| 19 | She felt a rush of excitement and anticipation , and realised that in the preoccupations of the last half hour she had not thought of Giles Carnaby once — definitely a record . |
| 20 | At Christmas her Uncle Bertie assembled the clan at his manor house in Wiltshire and announced that as a start she had better be presented at Court . |
| 21 | Lord Lane paid tribute to his ‘ team ’ of judges and revealed that over the past four years he had reviewed almost 1,500 life sentences — a task he had been unable to delegate and which he willingly relinquished to his successor , Lord Justice Taylor . |
| 22 | And the thing that was said a lot was a Slippery Elm stick , well I still do n't really know what it was but er it was a kind of a s , bark of the Slippery Elms , a Slippery Elm bark or something and they sharpened it to a point and inserted that into the womb you see and it was done , and then of course I heard a lot about gin , sitting in a hot bath with gin . |
| 23 | If one took that as a parameter , and applied that to the existing settlement pattern , there is indeed a high degree of risk of coalescence if in fact a new settlement were of a significant significantly larger than fourteen hundred dwellings . |
| 24 | It was a simple , but very pertinent observation and re-emphasised that over the last 18 months or so the All Blacks have been steadily squeezed in the nutcracker of their own ambition . |
| 25 | William Dement woke six subjects in this systematic way over a period of six nights , and found that on the first night they did seem to " start all over again " whenever properly woken , so that by the end of the night they had achieved a good deal of slow wave sleep and very little REM sleep . |
| 26 | Hewitt and Burton ( 1971 ) analysed the record for southwestern Ontario and found that in a 50-year period there would be 1 severe drought , 2 major windstorms , 5 severe snowstorms , 8 severe hurricanes , 10 severe glaze storms , 16 severe floods , 25 severe hailstorms and 39 tornadoes . |
| 27 | They ignored temporary conversions from roughland to grass leys ( and vice versa ) and found that in the 30 years to 1980 in their 6 study areas , 15,000 hectares of rough pasture had reverted to roughland but 23,900 hectares of roughland had been converted to grass leys . |
| 28 | He then crossed together members of the first generation , and found that in the second generation tall and short peas occurred in the ratio 3 tall : 1 short . |
| 29 | In a separate experiment they actually monitored the eye fixations of subjects while watching the slide and found that in the arousal condition subjects fixated more often on central details , though for less time per fixation . |
| 30 | On top of the hill was a wood of beech trees surrounded by a stone wall ; I climbed the wall and found that underneath the trees were hundreds of moss-covered gravestones of soldiers from Napoleon 's Imperial Army who had died of disease while waiting to invade England . |