Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [conj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lisabeth asked and for a moment I thought he was going to slam the door on us . |
| 2 | Newman argued that as a commitment in the light of evidence that can not be treated as proof , religious belief is like rather than unlike other forms of belief . |
| 3 | The possibility that the MacQuillan empire was facing hard times raised interesting questions about the future of the Post , but Rain 's glass was empty and Shildon read that as a signal that she was impatient to leave . |
| 4 | I have some knowledge of the Lutterworth site to which Professor Lock referred and of the Toyota site at Derby . |
| 5 | Beyen argued that in the long term the ‘ sector ’ approach to co-operation would have to face up to the need for an all-embracing ‘ common market ’ reducing all trade barriers between the Six . |
| 6 | Freud believed that at the root of all neuroses lay repressed sexual desires , but even if one does not follow him in this , it would be hard to resist the conclusion that this was true of some of his patients . |
| 7 | Reviewing this same exhibition , both Allard and Apollinaire noticed that for the first time in several years the influence of Matisse and Fauvism was slight . |
| 8 | Sitting much later in the genteel coffee shop of a Holiday Inn in Suburban Virginia , Habib Olahi recalled that as the Shah walked to and fro , he said , " This is against the constitution . " |
| 9 | However , Defence Secretary Dick Cheney stated that in the light of recent political events in the Soviet Union , which had given him " some pause for concern " , the cutback programme could be halted if the Soviet military showed signs of reasserting its power . |
| 10 | Research conducted in the United States discovered that for the top five executives from a sample of 50 of the largest companies three times as much income came from shares as from employment . |
| 11 | Ramsey knew that as a bishop he had a teaching ministry , and that this needed a journal which was more than diocesan news . |
| 12 | The talks had taken place in a remarkably cordial atmosphere , and at a joint press conference at their conclusion on May 4 , de Klerk declared that he regarded the working document [ see below ] as " an important breakthrough in the peaceful process " , while Mandela said that as a result " not only are we closer to one another , but we are all of us victors " . |
| 13 | TI said that in the first quarter it will start knocking off Tsunami derivatives , differentiating features such as cache size , floating point and Sbus according to customer demand . |
| 14 | Sir David said that in the last few days , the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , has written to say that NHS funds can not be used in this way . |
| 15 | Allowing the Crown 's appeal , and dismissing the taxpayer 's cross-appeal , Lord Justice Scott said that on a first reading of s 72 it was natural to read subsection ( 4 ) as one of a group of subsections dealing only with cases where the amount of capital distribution was comparatively small . |
| 16 | While feeling a little sad at leaving , Mr. Offer said that for the first time he would be looking forward to an extra hour in bed in the morning . |
| 17 | Mr Lightman said that at the time of the libel trial the defence had no idea that this payment had been made . |
| 18 | Jonah said that with no police force or organized administration in the capital he was convinced of the need for a UN peacekeeping force , but that while Mahdi Mohammed was ready for one , Farah Aydid was opposed . |
| 19 | Lord Hodson said that in the case of agreements between commercial companies for regulating their trade relations the parties are usually the best judges of what is reasonable . |
| 20 | Belkheir said that in the unrest since January 103 people had died ( a revision of the previous figure — see p. 38790 ) and 414 had been wounded . |
| 21 | Janzen calculated that in a fig ‘ seed ’ shadow in Costa Rica created by bats depositing ‘ splats ’ at the density of some 10perm2 over 2500m2 , there were 367500 fig seeds dispersed . |
| 22 | But the SD added that in the areas tormented by allied bombing the trust of the people was expressed ‘ with more reserve ’ , and non-attendance at the celebrations was carefully excused by saying ‘ that it should n't be taken amiss if , despite all our love for the Führer , we ca n't celebrate his birthday this year with the usual joy ’ . |
| 23 | Laffer argued that with a high tax rate , say a move to a lower one , say , would raise actual income , recorded income and tax revenue . |
| 24 | Cantril argued that on the whole , the less educated were the most gullible . |
| 25 | The result of the tests was to illustrate that the failure of the right stabiliser on G-BEBP occurred because of an inherent inability of what was believed to be a fail-safe structure to carry the flight loads subsequent to the fracture of the rear spar top chord ( a primary load bearing structure ) ; this was a feature of the basic design and construction rather than some factor specific to G-BEBP . |
| 26 | Adler found that despite the legislation a woman 's sexual history was routinely introduced during a rape trial . |
| 27 | The ICRC estimated that in the town of Iscia Baidoa , 220 km north-west of Mogadishu , 7,000 of the town 's 40,000 people had died from starvation in recent months . |
| 28 | Himmelstein added that as a trade association , the AIC can not legally exclude anyone who seeks membership , and must accept all applicants willing to pay the annual dues of $75 . |
| 29 | Realeat marketing director Graham Keen predicted that at the current rate of growth there would be five million vegetarians by the turn of the century . |
| 30 | Drying experiments at Silsoe showed that on an average non-rainy day , thin mats were ready to harvest for wilted silage after about three hours compared with between six and 36 hours of wilting with the unconditioned crop . |