Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I never doubted that for a moment , ’ he replied in an extremely charming , yet at the same time insolent , tone . |
| 2 | I say in interesting , if you built that in a model , people would n't believe you . |
| 3 | The 1977 Royal Commission on the Press found that for a quality newspaper , production costs accounted for 31% of total costs ; the next largest group of costs were attributed to newsprint and ink . |
| 4 | Wright and West , in a study of all incidents recorded by the police as genuine rapes or attempted rapes in six English counties over a five-year period from 1972 to 1976 , found that of a total of 297 cases , fellatio was attempted or demanded in 30 incidents , cunnilingus in 13 , buggery in 12 and other sexual acts usually involving masturbation in 35 . |
| 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 | India in those days ( round about 1963 ) was much in the air and I found that as a background it decidedly fired my imagination . |
| 7 | And we found that over a period of , oh about a couple of months , the same people almost used to come round . |
| 8 | Similarly , in obese patients receiving weight reduction , Broomfield and colleagues found that in a dose of 1300 mg/day , aspirin inhibited ( albeit to a non-significant extent ) the development of microcrystals , microstones , and gall stones — which developed with high frequency in untreated patients . |
| 9 | Nicola Woods found that in a business setting , gender was a better predictor than status of who would interrupt whom . |
| 10 | Contrary to these expectations , Rose found that in a group of 36211 men followed from 5 to 23 years , two thirds of those who developed colon cancer had initial serum cholesterol values below the age sex specific values for each respective cohort . |
| 11 | So all the traffic that used that as a rat run to get on the East Lancs Road |
| 12 | Ethiopian radio reported that during a ceremony in the office of President Meles , Carter had said that he was ready to make his own contribution to convince the World Bank , the IMF and other international organizations " to take part in the country 's economic reconstruction " . |
| 13 | Greenpeace reported that as a result exports were going to east European countries and Latin America . |
| 14 | Capt. Valentine E. M. Strasser , head of state of Sierra Leone , reported that as a result of the conflict his country had had " no respite for the past 15 months " and had suffered as much devastation as Liberia itself . |
| 15 | the Guardian of March 1 reported that at a meeting between the government and members of the opposition in Jeddah , Saudi Arabia , angry debate had erupted over demands by the opposition that martial law be declared not by the government in exile , but by an emergency national unity government reflecting various political views . |
| 16 | The Xinhua news agency reported that at a meeting with Li Peng soon after the Kazakh party 's arrival , the Chinese Premier called for enhanced relations in all fields and said that the recently completed rail link would help bilateral relations in the economic and trade fields . |
| 17 | Money set aside by Borders Regional Council to keep the delicate equipment mothballed and in a state of good repair runs out next month . |
| 18 | She did not turn her head when Melissa entered and for a moment it seemed that she was unaware of her presence . |
| 19 | She looked down at hands that trembled and for a moment she considered taking the dress off and forgetting the whole idea . |
| 20 | I remember in my young days — ’ She stopped and for a moment they sat quietly , both thinking of past Christmases when their parents and grandparents had been alive . |
| 21 | The Child Poverty Action Group , in their comments on the 1975 Act when it was still in bill form , stressed the link between poverty and children being received into or committed to care , and the fact that the latter often occurred because of a lack of housing or day-care facilities . |
| 22 | I wandered as in a dream through the gate and across the road . |
| 23 | They moved as in a dance . |
| 24 | Filmer 's neck muscles slowly relaxed , and I realized that for a moment he must have suspected that the scene had been specifically aimed at him . |
| 25 | The courts have recently demonstrated a reaction against an absurdly over-generous approach to the construction of agreements in the employee 's favour : see Home Counties Dairies Ltd v Skilton [ 1970 ] 1 WLR 526 in which the defendant was employed by the plaintiffs as a milkman and he expressly agreed that for a period of one year after his employment terminated he would not 'serve or sell milk or dairy produce " to any person who had been a customer of his employers and who had been served by him during the six months prior to his leaving . |
| 26 | But he realised that for a man like Lancaster — trusting and timid — the betrayal would have been much , much worse . |
| 27 | They realised that with a car slowly sinking into the marsh there was not a minute to spare . |
| 28 | On July 10 , 1990 , the government announced that as a result of its decision to withdraw subsidies " for commodities in ever-growing demand that can not be met by home production " it would ( i ) almost double the price of fuel ; ( ii ) increase the price of luxury goods , newspapers and books ; and ( iii ) double the price of mineral water . |
| 29 | On Sept. 27 Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi announced that as a result of the agreement reached between de Klerk and Mandela , his predominantly Zulu Inkatha Freedom Party had withdrawn from constitutional talks . |
| 30 | 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 . |