Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Particular attention is given to the provision of financial services for industrial development and agrarian improvement ; the extent of movement into and out of Edinburgh ; the social structure and occupational zoning within Edinburgh ; demographic change ; the role of the law and of secular and ecclesiastical institutions in helping or hindering change ; the nature of social relationships within the town and the extent to which new and more progressive values existed in the city .
2 Evidence that drug-related corruption had penetrated Venezuelan institutions came with the arrest in June of Adolfo Ramirez Torres , a former governor of the Federal District of Caracas , who was accused of being part of a cocaine smuggling ring .
3 At the same time , disputes between France and the rest over institutional , political and economic plans grew to the extent where they called into question not just the desirability and possibility of the ultimate goal of political union , but also the current shape and even the viability of the Community .
4 That of the southern European states led to the establishment of commonplace majority voting , as enshrined in the Single European Act .
5 In the 1890s about 60 per cent of European emigrants went to the United States , but this proportion tended to drop while South America 's share grew steadily .
6 A law amending the Constitution and enabling President Aylwin to pardon some 250 political prisoners incarcerated under the Pinochet dictatorship was approved by the Chamber of Deputies on Jan. 22 .
7 The first was in March , when eight bombs fell on the outskirts of the village , killing one person and wounding fourteen others , and damaging the convent in which the Dominican nuns lived .
8 Determined to defuse the crisis , the Croatian authorities complied with the Presidency 's directive and began a withdrawal on Oct. 3 .
9 Her hazel eyes glinted across the table at him .
10 She nodded and her alert hazel eyes flickered around the room , taking everyone in .
11 Some of the rallies were violent , if only because of the resentment which Labour supporters felt at the splitting of the anti-Conservative vote .
12 Three-quarters of the population throughout the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth centuries lived by the land .
13 The high , family cheek-bones stuck up gaunt and stark and her narrow shoulders jutted through the fabric of her sweater like bony wings .
14 His two strange secretaries slid into the room and , without a flicker of a glance at us , went to sit at another table .
15 The man 's face was pale , long and lined , his blue watery eyes squinted in the daylight .
16 Labour shortages occurred across the economy , particularly in the construction industry [ see pp. 37085-86 ] .
17 Three youths armed with Armalite pen-knives waited for the band to unload their gear before threatening them and attempting to drive away with their van .
18 De Gaulle now had to deal with political parties reinvigorated by the return of elections and normal democratic processes .
19 Labour candidates looked to the record of reform .
20 It re-appeared a few weeks later as Netwise UK Ltd , in what some creditors argued at the time was ‘ an apparent breach of Section 312 of the UK Insolvency Act of 1986 . ’
21 It re-appeared a few weeks later as Netwise UK Ltd , in what some creditors argued at the time was ‘ an apparent breach of Section 312 of the UK Insolvency Act of 1986 , ’ ( UX No 375 ) .
22 Some of the English shareholders withdrew from the enterprise and during 1570 Haug & Co. pulled out entirely having lost heavily .
23 The truckloads of returned prisoners drove past the office and the girls draped the banner between two windows and hung from the window ringing a handbell so that the men would look up and see the banner and hear them cheering .
24 Perfusion of the stomach with 25% ethanol for 30 minutes led to the formation of grossly visible injury , which covered 8.6 ( 1.9 ) % ( n=6 ) of the area of the glandular mucosa , as had been previously reported .
25 Nevertheless , the three would-be breakaways said after the vote that they were ‘ satisfied ’ with the composition of the new leadership , despite the big sacrifices they had to make .
26 However , he did concede that " there were indications that some activities and individuals might have been motivated to prevent success in constitutional goals " and that " some activities led to the deaths of people " .
27 In social research , perhaps the most famous example is that of Elton Mayo 's study of American girls in a factory , where his observations of the importance of the creation of social groups led to the development of a whole school of thought in social psychology .
28 The British authorities argued at the time that the way to tackle this problem of falling competitiveness , far from being to allow the pound to devalue , was to maintain a rigid exchange rate for sterling and so through the resulting high interest rates and tight money ‘ to squeeze inflation out of the system ’ .
29 The coverage angered the royal entourage on what was supposed to be a high-profile visit to a close trading partner , and a country where British servicemen died in the fight against Communism in the early 1950s .
30 The fact that human beings do not always perceive the correct ( rigid ) structure when presented with a mathematically adequate though impoverished stimulus , may be due not ( as Ullman suggests ) to their failing to pick up all of the mathematically necessary information in the stimulus , but rather to their using computational strategies evolved for the perception of non-rigid objects which — even when directed at rigid objects — need more information than is present in the experimental stimulus concerned .
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