Example sentences of "[noun pl] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | The alchemists maintained that through the correct disciplines such a return might be made . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Although there was widespread speculation as to the authenticity of the leaflets , experts believed that for the first time there was fairly solid evidence to show that the group was experiencing internal problems , with the possibility that a moderate faction had appeared to question the cult of leadership of Sendero leader Abimael Guzmán Renoso and his military strategy to bring down the state . |
| 8 | Because of all the bad press that miners got and in a sense Quix was responding from higher up probably by saying you know well take the b they took the box away in fact at the end of the miner 's strike and then when this strike came along they thought it would n't you know the the they that was their rule sort of thing . |
| 9 | My computer models showed that at the beginning the swing ( about 230 ms before impact ) , the application of wrist torque bends the shaft backwards . |
| 10 | To suggest that the dicynodonts and the rhynchosaurs disappeared because of the decline of basically similar Gondwana arborescent plants would seem to indicate a rather simplistic view of both animal-plant in relationship , and plant evolution in general . |
| 11 | The high quality of the Gulf pearls and the fact that the fisheries were controlled by Arabs ensured that from the market at Bandar e Lengeh on the Iranian coast not far west of the Gulf of Hormuz they entered into the trade network of the Indian Ocean and adjacent areas . |
| 12 | Half a century later the 1851 census provided clear evidence that an historic turning point had been reached ; the returns showed that for the first time more people lived in towns than in the countryside . |
| 13 | But yesterday a friend who had been telephoning around Tories who are fighting marginal seats reported that on the doorsteps more voters were saying that , although they did not like the Tories , they liked Mr Kinnock even less . |
| 14 | The Christians believed that by the death of Jesus , the suffering servant of Isaiah , God had formed a new covenant not only with the Jews but with all peoples of the earth . |
| 15 | Social investigators assumed that in the private sphere of the family altruism prevailed , and tended to ignore the possibility that resources within the family might not be shared equally . |
| 16 | These workers noted that in the studies by Kinsbourne ( 1972 ) and by Kocel et al. |
| 17 | However , Syrian officials contended that with the signing of the treaty Syria had for the first time formally acknowledged Lebanon as an independent state . |
| 18 | The investigators knew that within an hour or so of their arrival at the accident site , but they had to work for another year and a half to find out why : |
| 19 | Between 1957 and 1967 eight times as many such collections appeared as in the previous decade , and thereafter the flow continued , if at a slower rate . |
| 20 | Royal watchers said that during the first official engagement of the day the royal couple appeared to be in fairly good spirits , although they were not seen to talk to each other or exchange glances . |
| 21 | Disaster relief officials said that over the last three days another 12,000 people had been evacuated to join 45,000 already crammed into the centres after an eruption killed 75 people on 2 February . |
| 22 | But ANC officials said that after a meeting with police , Mr Mandela had decided not to attend the funeral because of increased tension in the Table Mountain district , outside Pietermaritzburg . |
| 23 | Retail price rises averaged 17.8 per cent for the year , but foreign economists said that in the fourth quarter inflation scarcely rose above zero . |
| 24 | Difficulties arose because of the relative impurity of even the best available caustic soda , and this led to his greatest success — a process for manufacturing very pure caustic soda by the electrolysis of brine in a rocking cell containing mercury . |
| 25 | Albanian sources reported that during the talks Alia had stressed the government 's intention to develop its relations with the UN . |
| 26 | A recent Institute of Directors ' survey of 200 successful female executives found that of the 87 per cent who claimed to have encountered career obstacles not experienced by male colleagues , difficulty with childcare , at 37 per cent , was the biggest factor . |
| 27 | A number of unexpected things happened and in the middle of it all they had to make a decision about purchasing a property . |
| 28 | An even harder-hitting report from the National Association of Citizen 's Advice Bureaux claimed that for every council house in the country there are ten people on the waiting lists . |
| 29 | Polisario sources claimed that in a recent internal investigation he had been found guilty of corruption and diversion of funds . |
| 30 | But their two aims conflicted because on the one hand they 're trying to protect production and to allow erm er capit private enterprise and capitalism to develop but on the other hand they 're erm trying to redistribute all the land er because the May the fourth directive was n't going far enough , they , they needed to be more severe upon landlords |