Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [conj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This interaction occurred because of the very fragmentation experienced by the country . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was a terrible disappointment , my heart sank as for the first time I detected a stiffness in Leo 's voice . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Buxton and Klein 's study found that in the early 1970s local variations within a region were greater than between regions . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The bomber crashed because of an internal explosion . |
| 11 | The study estimated that of the revised total 300,000 were Polish Jews and 145,000 were Polish non-Jews . |
| 12 | A lifelong Manchester City fan recalled that in the 1940s ‘ it was a very mixed crowd . |
| 13 | Her mouth opened and after a few moments a strange ululation sounded , a despairing cry , a death cry . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The study showed that at the Honours level the non-standard entrants did somewhat better than other students , and the difference was more marked in ordinary and general degree courses . |
| 16 | Scepticism existed as to the duration of the political changes promoted by MacArthur . |
| 17 | ‘ Shallot discovered that in the Book of Legends at Glastonbury Abbey . ’ |
| 18 | At Lausanne , the Ramallah Congress delegation discovered that without a representative government the refugee community had no standing , except as the subject of the deliberations . |
| 19 | The defender averred that as a result of that announcement he telephoned Macfie & Alexander , speaking to Mr Rae , one of the partners , and told him to expect an offer of £70,000 from Ferguson & Forster and that he instructed Mr Rae that when the offer was received , he ( the defender ) would consider its terms and if he found them satisfactory he would instruct Mr Rae to accept the offer . |
| 20 | That Ballo collapsed because of a great row between Björling and Solti . |
| 21 | The defendant counterclaimed that as a residential occupier she was protected by section 3 of the Protection from Eviction Act 1977 so that she could only be evicted by means of execution of a warrant of possession , and she sought damages for unlawful eviction under section 27 of the Housing Act 1988 .. |
| 22 | The travel industry feared that with the UK market leader — Thomson — having about 31pc of the market , two companies would have controlled more than three-fifths of the market had the Airtours bid succeeded . |
| 23 | The Labour party , when O'Brien was a TD , was committed to a change , but Dick Spring saw that as an obstacle to the Labour-Fianna Fail coalition he wanted . |
| 24 | However , the fear remained that excluding the working man from an involvement in the national political system could make for problems . |
| 25 | But a defence lawyer suggested that at the time this was the normal practise in football , and Steve White agreed . |
| 26 | In some cases a carefully monitored rolling programme ensured that over a given period of time , say a week or a fortnight , the teacher engaged directly with every child in every area of the curriculum ; but in other cases the inequality of investment was not adjusted in this way , and the result was the persistent neglect of certain children and certain areas of the curriculum . |
| 27 | In Forsinard Estates Ltd. v. Dykes [ 1971 ] 1 W.L.R. 232 a mortgaged property in Scotland had been sold and an issue arose as to the costs which the mortgagee 's London solicitors were entitled to retain out of the proceeds of sale . |
| 28 | However , the Munn Committee realised that in the area of social studies , in addition to subjects such as history or geography , pupils would have to study units on political , economic , industrial and environmental aspects of life in modern society . |
| 29 | The Defence Department also proposed a possible reduction to a level of 150,000 of US troops stationed in Europe over the five years to 1995 , provided that the Warsaw Pact reciprocated and on the assumption that the Soviet Union could no longer depend upon its Warsaw Pact allies to support any military action it may take . |
| 30 | Money set aside by Borders Regional Council to keep the delicate equipment mothballed and in a state of good repair runs out next month . |