Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb past] [to-vb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time the Board decided to build a second power station at Hinkley Point in the 1960s , an accepting local population had got accustomed to an industrial development in the middle of the countryside . |
| 2 | But in 1935 the Legislature decided to take the second and more straightforward course . |
| 3 | The Council agreed to postpone the next full visit from the summer of 1979 until later in the year , and to release a press statement that had been agreed by the visiting party with the Polytechnic and the Teesside Education Authority . |
| 4 | On marriage the Dobbies agreed to dedicate a tenth of their income to ‘ the Lord 's work ’ . |
| 5 | The principles and example of the Revolution helped to inspire the first successful slave revolt in the Caribbean in Haiti , as well as the political independence movements of South America . |
| 6 | Of these societies ( outside those areas of disseminated settlement where the parish tended to become the first unit beyond the family and that of those neighbouring farmers who helped each other out at harvest and ploughing ) the most significant was the pueblo . |
| 7 | But he withstood some solid blows and finally saw off Biggs with a right to the temple as the bell sounded to end the seventh round . |
| 8 | A CONSIDERABLE future opened up for Gary Mason here last night when he knocked out Tyrell Biggs as the bell rang to end the seventh round . |
| 9 | The government intended to achieve the first aim primarily through council housing , relegating privately-built housing to a secondary position . |
| 10 | The audience held their breath in one collective sigh as the orchestra began to play the first few bars of ‘ Strolling with Nancy ’ . |
| 11 | And equilibrium in the film industry , by equating the marginal utility of films to the marginal utility of the meals sacrificed to make the last film , guarantees that society 's resources are allocated efficiently . |
| 12 | In 1975 , the BCA decided to publish the second edition of the scheme in parts , commencing in 1977 with the Introductory volume and Classes J ( Education ) , P ( Religion ) and Q ( Social Welfare ) . |
| 13 | The procedures employed to conduct the second multi-agency enumeration survey were similar to those adopted in the first survey , the main differences being the need to revise the agencies employed to enumerate problem drug users ( see Parker et al . |
| 14 | It 's not a college , or even a church , but a Victorian town house , really rather unremarkable but for the fact that the man tipped to become the next American President used to live there . |
| 15 | There was a long silence , during which the noise on the line seemed to become a third party in their conversation . |
| 16 | Given that she 'd nothing in particular to gain , the chances seemed to favour the first of these options . |
| 17 | When a priest arrived to administer the last rites , Mansell sent him away . |
| 18 | Writing in a report published to mark the 20th anniversary , Mostafa Tolba , the organization 's secretary-general since 1975 , complains that apathy about the condition of the environment persists and that there is a lack of political will to tackle serious environmental problems , despite the growth of awareness among the general public . |