Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stafford 's Sutherland estates produced an annual income of £16,000 , but this was not enough . |
| 2 | Onions , left to go to seed , displayed magnificent fluffy heads , and a host of chirruping birds fluttered excitedly about the varied riches of the wilderness . |
| 3 | He said the standard return fare between York and London would rise from £84 to £117.60 as private operators sought a 20pc profit on their investment . |
| 4 | Metaphors became mixed and feelings ran high . |
| 5 | Bachelard 's work on the formation of scientific disciplines led him to argue that the proper form of historical analysis should focus not upon an empirical history but upon the cognitive or epistemological status of concepts that distinguish a new science from an old one . |
| 6 | Scales got up from his seat at the table in Wycliffe 's little office but Wycliffe waved him back . |
| 7 | Dahl argued that power is fragmented between the different groups involved in the decision-making process since different groups got their way on different issues . |
| 8 | The queen asked how the groups got on coming from so many different backgrounds and cultures , and if they were making any new recruits . |
| 9 | Geraci asked . |
| 10 | Yet subsequent projects revealed an almost unerring instinct for commercial blackspots . |
| 11 | The debts arose out of a ten million pound plan to build a village to care for the elderly in the grounds of the convent . |
| 12 | The debts arose out of a ten million pound plan to build a village to care for the elderly in the grounds of the convent . |
| 13 | When the researchers re-imaged the same area , they found they had created small groups of three atoms , arranged in a triangle , which appeared higher than their neighbours . |
| 14 | The various plans failed to restore the confidence of either foreign banks or foreign investors . |
| 15 | Other acts sought to prohibit as far as possible corrupt practices and limited the amount of money a candidate could spend on election expenses . |
| 16 | As we have seen , in the past false biological views led to false reasoning . |
| 17 | The hostile reception of Alford 's views led him to reflect that he was being denied the parliamentary right of free speech . |
| 18 | His fierce anti-Common Market views led to a challenge to his candidacy for the South Edinburgh seat in 1973 which he successfully fought off . |
| 19 | The satellites revealed a rather remarkable feature in the Antarctic sea ice in that there are persistent open water areas even in the middle of winter when the area should be frozen over , the atmosphere is cold enough to freeze the ocean and yet , in these areas , the ice does not form . |
| 20 | One full-timer and three part-timers led the move , with a former guest editor and the ever-present — they had little else to do Hell 's Angels . |
| 21 | I jut hope to god Fashanu and John Scales sought themselves out . |
| 22 | As the final notes quivered into silence and he left the stage to tumultuous applause , she rose to her feet in spontaneous acclaim for his effort . |
| 23 | At an extraordinary general meeting last Thursday , Spectrum 's shareholders agreed to form a consortium , Harmony Investments , which has pledged to inject at least £600,000 into the station to cover debts estimated at £450,000 . |
| 24 | If persistently large current account imbalances arose , the antici-pation of devaluation or revaluation would give rise to speculative short-term capital flows in the same direction , putting added pressure on the exchange rate in question . |
| 25 | Moreover , imbalances arose within the economy as a whole , in particular between consumption goods and capital goods . |
| 26 | Some cities housed larger proportions of households whose head was born in the New Commonwealth than national statistics would indicate . |
| 27 | Employers made claims about the familial nature of their businesses and their warm relationship with their employees . |
| 28 | Case studies showed that employers made savings arising ‘ mainly from temporary workers having less beneficial ( or no ) entitlement to holiday and sickness pay , and particularly to occupational pensions ’ ( Meager , 1986 , p. 12 ) . |
| 29 | In the Catholic school moral education is a whole school task where pupils are enabled to experience moral values lived in the life of the school . |
| 30 | From 1960 to 1980 , the percentage of blacks employed in professional , managerial and technical occupations rose steadily and in some cases doubled . |