Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No Director has or had during the period any material interest in any contract of significance to the Company 's business . |
| 2 | ‘ We would like to know what connection he has or had with the target of the original surveillance . ’ |
| 3 | We 'll be having er our usual comprehensive coverage of the , five past seven the programme starts and included in the programme we 'll also be talking er basketball , we have er guests from the city 's basketball team , the Nottingham Cobras . |
| 4 | They pinched his toes and rubbed the back of his heels and made a rat-tat sound on the stone flags that echoed through the spooky quiet to announce his presence . |
| 5 | They started drinking before the parson ever arrived and , when he did , fell upon the beer kegs that came on the same cart as though they were men dying of thirst . |
| 6 | In my judgment the Secretary of State , if he sets a tariff period which exceeds that recommended by the judiciary , is not under an absolute obligation to give reasons for departing from the judicial view . |
| 7 | The programme will have succeeded if , in 15 years ' time , primary health care in the capital has lost its status as the national laggard ; the quality of the services it offers matches or exceeds that enjoyed in the rest of England ; and London has become a place where aspiring primary health care practitioners in all disciplines aim to work . |
| 8 | development which only just exceeds that permitted by the General Development Order , Class I ( development within the curtilage of a dwelling-house ) , Class VI ( agricultural ) and Class VIII ( industrial ) developments ; |
| 9 | The other was the huge and spectacular sweep of Beinn Dorain 's west slopes that towered above the railway line giving scale to its forbidding gradient . |
| 10 | But he did not wish to jeopardize Morocco 's relations with the new authorities in Teheran , or with those radical Arab states that rejoiced in the fall of the Shah . |
| 11 | Pristina is surrounded by artillery ranges that belonged to the old Yugoslav army . |
| 12 | They thrust him stumbling up a winding stairway cut in the rock , and along another passage into a large , smoky room , blackened and bare but for certain engines and implements that stood against the walls , and a low brazier in the centre . |
| 13 | But the two were at odds on many issues , especially the 1988 Geneva accords that led to the withdrawal of Soviet troops from neighbouring Afghanistan . |
| 14 | The car rattled along , crossing the myriad narrow gauge loco tracks that ran between the factories lining the route . |
| 15 | I went to the wall near the house , and heard a man 's voice and silver female voices that faded through a door . |
| 16 | He must have triggered off one of the alarm beams that ran along the side of the chalet . |
| 17 | He looked about the room , conscious suddenly of the lowness of the ceiling , of the dark oak beams that divided up the whitewashed walls , the fresh cut roses in a silver bowl on the table in the corner . |
| 18 | RIGHT A view of Tel Megiddo in Israel looming above the landscape shows the size of tells that formed in the Near East through continuous habitation of the site . |
| 19 | Nor is such a provision invalidated because the method of communicating the offer differs from that prescribed by section 90 ; but the procedure laid down by that section supersedes that provided in the memorandum or articles . |
| 20 | If the diplomatic bags contained metal objects that got through the system , surely the Minister or his right hon. Friend the Home Secretary should take note of the seriousness of the problem . |
| 21 | The albatross descended in wide , slow sweeps that ended in an undignified flurry of feathers and a thump as it landed heavily on its platform in the Patrician 's bird garden . |
| 22 | In the long run , if the rate of growth of the money supply set by the authorities outstrips that warranted by the ‘ natural ’ rate of growth of the economy , the result is inflation ; hence the call for a ‘ monetary rule ’ . |
| 23 | The 6ft 9in American centre scored 31 points , gathered several fistfuls of rebounds , hit two one-handed slams and threw in a three-pointer to lead Kingston into the semi-finals of the men 's competition with a 112-62 win over an underpowered team from Oslo . |
| 24 | Where there is such a difference , therefore , ‘ the judicial view ’ means that expressed by the Lord Chief Justice . |
| 25 | According to Arrhenius , the Universe was packed with proto-life spores that drifted between the stars , their interstellar voyages powered by the radiation-pressure of light . |
| 26 | Zweig explains that faced with the vast quantities of surviving documents in conventional archives few historians can be comprehensive , but with an electronic archive and a toolchest filled with versatile software historians could work with digital information more exhaustively ( 1993 : 256 ) . |
| 27 | While the majority of research students were holding SERC awards that ended in the third quarter of 1984 , just over one in ten had other end dates , as Table 6.1 shows . |
| 28 | By the time the graves were dug , it would be 2.00 am and far too cold to sleep in the sub-zero winds that blew around the bottom of the mountain . |
| 29 | PLAYING THIS WEEK TONIGHT Bop Brothers Blues Band The plethora of litigation surrounding Blues Brothers lookalikes almost matches that attached to the release of Wired , the unofficial biography of the original brother , John Belushi . |
| 30 | At that time it was the idea of looking out over fields of swaying poppies and cornflowers that appealed to the Prince . |