Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb past] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This suited the British , especially when pro-Egyptian groups appeared to pose a threat to Jordan in April 1957 . |
| 2 | It was during this period that with the cooperation of the US Occupation , parts of the bureaucracy , elected conservative politicians and private employers sought to alter the extent of labour rights in order , it was argued , to maintain internal political stability . |
| 3 | Both the Conservative and Labour parties appeared to draw the conclusion that it was an experience to be avoided , not one to be encouraged . |
| 4 | Joseph and his Spanish supporters tried to break the fiefs of the occupying generals by sending out civil commissioners , who soon found that , if they were to get anything done at all , it could only be done as subordinates of the generals on the spot . |
| 5 | ‘ Last year Donegal was allocated 9,000 tickets for the final , but 18,000 supporters managed to get a place at the match , ’ he said . |
| 6 | The package of fiscal policies aimed to cut the budget deficit from its current level of about 50 billion forints ( £500 million ) to 10 billion forints . |
| 7 | The English courts had to consider the meaning of the phrase ‘ civil or commercial matter ’ as used in section 9(1) of the Evidence ( Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions ) Act 1975 , passed mainly to give effect to the Convention ; the precise question was whether the evidence sought was ‘ for the purposes of civil proceedings … before the requesting court ’ within section 1 of the Act , the italicised phrase being interpreted in section 9 to mean proceedings in any civil or commercial matter . |
| 8 | A few shillings sufficed to repaint the notice-boards . |
| 9 | All the old delusions seemed to stain the air . |
| 10 | Among the upper classes the public schools laboured to subvert the principles of liberalism , inculcating future imperial governors — ‘ Head Prefects of the World ’ — with élitist and anti-democratic values . |
| 11 | He and a group of clerical supporters refused to accept the outcome of events , despite the fact that Cautinus was at first conciliatory — he may even have been responsible for the proposal that Cato should be given the see of Tours . |
| 12 | He was one of 12 finalists told to cook a meal using two oven-ready Gressingham ducklings , potatoes , savoy cabbage and other ingredients costing no more than £3 . |
| 13 | The former is itself a fascinating tale that will surely be told in full elsewhere , of how interested parties helped to orchestrate the episode and stimulate financial investments in ways that have been widely criticised in the scientific community . |
| 14 | As British companies began to feel the pinch , it was ad campaigns which felt the finance director 's scalpel first ( the Saatchi-owned , media-buying organisation , Zenith , which bulk-buys TV slots predicts a real-term fall of 3.5% in revenues over the next year ) . |
| 15 | In the late 1620s , some Calvinists attempted to obstruct the collection of money for the repair of St Paul 's , and throughout the 1630s large numbers of churchwardens were summoned to appear before the ecclesiastical authorities for failing to introduce the required changes to the lay-out of their churches . |
| 16 | But as the value and importance of the trade became clear , some companies moved to meet the milk importers ' requirements . |
| 17 | Seeing the humans abandoning their lands , the tribes of the deep forests and high mountains flocked to join the Waaagh . |
| 18 | The sensitivity and specficity of Helico-G in our study are also comparable with those of another , but it is worth noting that some workers had to modify the manufacturer 's instructions in order to improve the performance of this test . |
| 19 | ‘ Some workers tried to stop the spread of machines but this was a hopeless cause . |
| 20 | But a decade later , French observers continued to lament the absence in most of the 12 other member-states of ESA of strong centralized and specialized space policy-making bodies such as the CNES : ‘ In Germany , the DFVLR covers a much wider sector than that of the CNES but does not exercise political responsibility ; in Britain , responsibility is dispersed among the end-users such as British Telecom . ’ |
| 21 | Co-operating Scottish libraries continued to support the SUC ISBN COM File ( a microfiche listing , by ISBN , of items in the SUC ) by contributing reports of 136,545 new accessions , and 63,181 withdrawals . |
| 22 | We looked in vain in Siemens AG 's first half report on Monday for any mention of its Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG computer subsidiary , and with all the dreadful economic news coming out of Germany , it began to assume the air of the dog that did n't bark : Siemens said of its overall business that it did not show any revival in the first half , and that continued economic decline affected domestic business and led to a decline in incoming orders , and there was no recovery in its foreign business ; laying it on with a trowel , Chancellor Helmut Kohl 's leading economic advisor was quoted on Tuesday as saying that German workers failed to recognise the danger of high wages in a time of recession , and that German products were too expensive for world markets as wage increases outpaced growth in productivity , and earlier , Siemens Nixdorf had had to rebut a magazine report that its losses would be even worse this year , saying that it was certain that its results would improve this fiscal year ; the article , in Manager Magazin , also said that Siemens was looking for a replacement for Siemens Nixdorf management board chairman Hans-Dieter Wiedig , and added that plans to reduce the workforce to 41,000 by 1995 from 47,200 at the end of February could well be accelerated . |
| 23 | The Jamaican Director of Public Prosecutions decided to discontinue the proceedings so that the defendant could again be charged with murder . |
| 24 | It consists of a fortuitous , almost accidental , alliance between a particular fraction of development capital and New Right political reformers , not always particularly clearly articulated , which has in the last few years managed to don the cloak of inner city concern . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , complaints about station 1OAB competing with the commercial stations continued to plague the Ottawa board , and shortly after our decision to carry on as before , the CRBC abruptly cancelled our license to broadcast and ruled Station 1OAB off the air by the end of the month . |
| 26 | Public choice theory arose from the fact that , although many welfare economists were concerned to examine the phenomenon of ‘ market failure ’ , very few economists seemed to show an interest in applying their techniques to institutions other than the market ; and , in particular , to political institutions . |
| 27 | British governments continued to accept the need for collective security under the Covenant of the League of Nations . |
| 28 | Some Boards tried to preserve a sense of identity , basing districts on pre-nationalisation undertakings ( encouraging rivalry between them ) , while others aimed to blur old loyalties in merged districts , and encouraged increased cooperation between them . |
| 29 | Whether these common benchmarks are effective predictors is not clear , but they capture accurately how social workers tried to judge the child 's circumstances . |
| 30 | The growth of rural manufacturing and commercial dealings served to reinforce the integration of both into a single national economy . |