Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ultimately , this led her to challenge the way the professionals conceived Tom 's needs . |
| 2 | This led us to monitor the implementation of the programme closely and to modify follow up protocols in the light of our experience . |
| 3 | However , this made him re-examine the foundations of his faith and as a result he became more convinced of their truth than ever . |
| 4 | This made them hold the glider down and often caused overspeeding or even overrunning of the cable or parachute . |
| 5 | But where this occurred it took the form of state control and the resulting technologies and forms of industrialisation differed little from their capitalist counterparts . |
| 6 | If my readers still doubt this let them consider the situation as we find it among societies which have not advanced as far as we have , for instance , among the aborigines of Central Australia . |
| 7 | The irresponsibility of this helped me to escape the force of the problems , but at the same time I was constantly troubled by suspicion . |
| 8 | This helped us to maintain the dividend at 9p per share , rather than having to reduce it . |
| 9 | ‘ Until this happened we resisted the use of shutters because we are supposed to be a furniture showroom . |
| 10 | If this happened you have the right to contest this in court and a court may decide to give you back parental rights . |
| 11 | This allowed us to explore the process of secondment more generally , from first approach to application up to the point of departure some six to 23 months later . |
| 12 | This allowed us to revolutionise the balance of height and width . |
| 13 | This allowed us to line the side curtains in striped fabric and make up a flat roof instead of a gathered one . |
| 14 | As a result it was accepted by the 1630s that English colonies could take most decisions for themselves , and this meant they developed the institutions which , over the course of time , grew in a way that enabled them to become self-governing and then independent by stages which could be so small as sometimes to be imperceptible . |
| 15 | On the day before the match I travelled the 60 mile journey with Ivan ( Marks ) , this enabled me to walk the sections and try to sort out various methods . |
| 16 | The peculiar quality of Tamm 's work was that he recorded individual plants , shoots or rosettes , within his populations and this enabled him to follow the fates of individual plant units ( often tillers or ramets ) rather than to study the grosser vegetational change that was the aim of many others who set up permanent quadrats . |
| 17 | This enabled them to control the activities of people who did not expect the Navigation Acts to be taken seriously . |
| 18 | This enabled them to seize the initiative at the turn of the century and ally the zemstvos ever more closely with the broader liberal and constitutional movement . |
| 19 | This enabled them to adjust the angle . |
| 20 | This enabled them to make the choice to preserve order by containment or prevention of picketing . |
| 21 | This enabled us to calculate the ratio of cortex to ganglion cells for the region enclosed within the labelled sites and to compare it with the same ratio obtained for the rest of the retina . |
| 22 | Perhaps the most extraordinary of all the peculiar things that the Chancellor has said during his period in office was his comment on , I believe , 8 January : ’ the policy would not have been different had we known the outcome ’ . |
| 23 | Now we have their final assurance that things ’ would not have been different had we known the outcome . ’ |
| 24 | He said , How much did you pay the others ? |
| 25 | Even Graham , one of the few members who had left home and lived in a flat , would be helping in the campaign , although he would not be voting Conservative , so much did he dislike the personality and politics of the local MP . |
| 26 | That allowed it to weather the Thatcher bombardment . |
| 27 | What is sure is that Field , with his access to the latest English pianos at an early age , at no time played the harpsichord , and this , perhaps , above all helped him to develop the use of the pedal , which he would often sustain through changes of harmony , for the sake of the colouring of the phrase . |
| 28 | 4 Did you use the VCR and monitor after it was borrowed last Thursday ? |
| 29 | The public would have been less impressed had it known the facts . |
| 30 | It was Thomas who had on their many rambles first made her see the city in all its architectural wonder , distinguishing between façades , pointing out detail . |