Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But whereas General Franco 's rapid and decisive action resolved at a stroke the problem of order and the underlying political question , the use of force to suppress anarchists and revolutionary communists in Barcelona only exacerbated the Republic 's political difficulties and thereby seriously undermined its capacity to offer united resistance to its attackers . |
| 2 | His murder brought to an end a political dynasty stretching back through his mother Indira Gandhi to Jawaharlal Nehru , Indira 's father and India 's first Prime Minister . |
| 3 | Of course now he did n't have to walk quite so far to do his searching ; but a similar kind of dedication was still required of him , for The Bar contained in a way the streets of the whole city , there were men there from all the different parts of it . |
| 4 | Walmsley looks at several possible explanations and concludes that the change is largely due to the Act itself , firstly in the simple sense that the passing of the 1967 Act brought to an end a trial period of uncertainty for the police by making quite clear that , although in the future homosexual acts in private between consenting adults were to be legal , such acts in ‘ public ’ as defined by the Act were not . |
| 5 | The move brought to an end an intense struggle between Wilson and the Democrat-controlled state legislature over how to deal with the state 's $10,700 million budget deficit . |
| 6 | In the fusion device known as a tokamak the field runs around the doughnut-shape ( toroidal ) container . |
| 7 | The accident brought to an end a promising army career which began in December 1986 when he was 17 . |
| 8 | For changes proposed by a user the following procedure should be followed . |
| 9 | The decision brought to an end a case which had begun in 1979 when a female student filed a complaint over the exclusion with New Jersey civil rights officials . |
| 10 | This decision brought to an end a hunger strike which several city councillors had been observing since the police force had been taken out of the city 's control . |
| 11 | What matters is that economic advances in some regions offset to a degree the general pressure on real wages of the rising population . |
| 12 | Their motto put in a nutshell the place of training in relation to other advisory inputs : ‘ la theorie sans pratique est absurde , mais la pratique sans theorie est aveugle ’ — ‘ theory without practice is absurd but practice without theory is blind ’ . |
| 13 | The report concerned a number of items taken in a raid the previous evening on a gaming club frequented by the sons of several important Company heads . |
| 14 | The bill included as a disbursement the sum of £500 plus VAT payable by Marshalls to Coleman & Co . |
| 15 | The incident brought to an end a month-long period of peace in Kashmir , and dashed hopes of a reduction in the border tension . |
| 16 | The English Cup and league champions brought to an end a 33-match unbeaten home run by Neath , dating back to Pontypool 's visit on 8 March , 1988 , and recorded their first win over Neath since 1983 . |
| 17 | If you play each note of the Pentatonic scale followed by a note a third higher ( when ascending ) or a third lower ( when descending ) , what you are in fact doing is playing ‘ third interval skips ’ . |
| 18 | The line referred to a cold the character had had for six months and ‘ could n't shake ’ . |
| 19 | And he made clear that even if British Coal decided against a reprieve the Government would not block its sale to a private company . |
| 20 | Images and echoes fill the room , diffuse and speeding , the glass darkened to a degree no one thought possible ; his immense talent , his ring wisdom , his antipathy for chemicals , argued against destructibility ; all he would ever do is grow old . |
| 21 | The backdrop of rural discontent kept at a minimum the government 's tolerance level for criticism and signs of independent organization in the cities . |
| 22 | While as professional soldiers immersed in a war the Committee members were primarily concerned with the military considerations , the fact that a general state of martial law was in force meant that whoever was appointed would effectively also exercise supreme authority over both the civilian and the military populace . |
| 23 | The shootings brought to a climax the long-standing complaints by opposition groups in Serbia that the Milosevic government had embarked on a course of confrontation not only with non-communists but also , more ominously , with other ethnic groups in Yugoslavia . |
| 24 | A new extra-statutory concession has also been published to the effect that the Board of Inland Revenue will accept group relief claims signed by a person the company has authorised to make the claim , except where a liquidator has been appointed . |
| 25 | There is in my view a close analogy to the right to recover money paid under a contract the consideration for which has wholly failed . |
| 26 | The visit brought to an end a period of tension in Franco-Lebanese relations , and Mitterrand accepted an invitation to visit Beirut . |
| 27 | In matters of potential Dual Indemnity for Third Party damage or injury caused by a vehicle the intention is that the Dual Indemnity Undertaking and Explanatory Notes ( G.M. 22/7/76 , C.L. 's 4/10/76 and 26/10/76 ) thereto shall apply . |