Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [vb past] [to-vb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Pakistanis seemed to find the answers to all these questions a vehement ‘ yes ’ . |
| 2 | had found that plough carriers mounted on one of the bogies tended to throw the ploughs about , particularly if the pony wheels were worn or had flats . |
| 3 | In consequence , the courts came to limit the cases in which recovery of an ultra vires impost was allowed to cases where there had been an extraction colore officii . |
| 4 | This , following the House of Lords decision in Scottish Insurance v. Wilson & Clyde Coal Co was , in effect , done by capital reductions even though the shares were irredeemable and quoted at above par , for the Lords decided in that case and in Prudential Assurance v. Chatterley-Whitfield Collieries in the same year , that the courts had to confirm the reductions since the preference shareholders were being treated in strict accordance with their class rights . |
| 5 | After this the law became increasingly convoluted as the courts tried to escape the rigours of a rule which meant that the court had to make a finding in favour of one party or the other . |
| 6 | Sir Alfred Ewing , head of Room 40 at the Admiralty , where the cryptography was carried on , was bemused that the Germans continued to use the codes which were already compromised , and he assumed that they considered arrogantly that the British were too stupid to break them . |
| 7 | It was not long before the authorities began to harass the unions , and to maintain an aura of fear to keep their membership dormant . |
| 8 | The authorities decided to take the orangs by force , and on 31 October 1991 , armed soldiers carried out a dawn raid on the house and garage — where they were met by more than a hundred students . |
| 9 | The years 1794–1806 were something of a honeymoon for the Prussians and their Poles : a spirit of co-operation flourished as the Prussians sought to secure the affections of their Polish subjects . |
| 10 | The study focuses on the 11-14 age group and the methods employed to investigate the processes of occupational choice include questionnaires to children and parents , and interviews with children . |
| 11 | The parties chose to refer the damages issue to a firm of accountants acting as experts in preference to litigation or arbitration . |
| 12 | For , as the testing progressed , so my life outside of the sessions began to acquire the lineaments of a normalcy I had never felt before . |
| 13 | The defendants applied to have the plaintiffs ' actions struck out on the ground that the proper forum for any claim against them was Scotland and that the special jurisdiction laid down in articles 5 and 6 of the Convention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters 1968 , scheduled to the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982did not apply so as to permit the defendants to be sued in England , notwithstanding that they were domiciled in Scotland . |
| 14 | The defendants failed to remove the buttresses and the plaintiff sued again . |
| 15 | Aided by the occasional dubious refereeing decision , the visitors continued to resist the Reds ' raids , and Radchenko even managed to trouble Hooper again . |
| 16 | The Jesuits were expelled ( 1767 ) from both Spain and Spanish America — a measure that gave its author , Aranda , a European reputation as an esprit fort — and the reformers attempted to turn the universities into state-controlled educational institutions teaching useful knowledge instead of Aristotelean ‘ words ’ . |
| 17 | Under his tutelage , the Indians began to demand the rights over their lands which they had been guaranteed by Brazil 's Constitution . |
| 18 | The stewards decided to return the deposits of both Eddery and Lewis , who had appealed against Silver Wizard 's demotion . |
| 19 | In a memorandum headed ‘ Tories ’ attack on trade unions ’ , Mr Whitty said the Conservatives planned to make the links an issue to set their own agenda . |
| 20 | The workers decided to investigate the carriages , to see what was amiss . |
| 21 | In these examples the therapists endeavoured to help the patients come to terms with the loss and at the same time tried to assist them to tackle the other problems they were facing . |
| 22 | What would be the response of the planning authority if one of the owners decided to remove the cobbles or tarmac over them ? |
| 23 | Now the Moors began to enter the gardens which were round about the town , and the watchman saw them and struck the bell . |
| 24 | In this way , the Nationalists hoped to force the Basques to surrender . |
| 25 | There are other signs that the Greeks began to notice the peculiarities of Roman social life and of Roman behaviour in international affairs . |
| 26 | When twelve women who professed to be virgins were found , only two would swear an oath to that effect , but the executors decided to take the women 's word for it . |
| 27 | The fitters laboured to modify the jeeps for desert travel and to a completely novel specification . |
| 28 | It was when the novices began to overtake the experts that confirmation , if needed , came that sailing skills were not the only factors involved . |
| 29 | The trains appeared to penetrate the buildings themselves , for shed and offices were conceived in a single mass , and the tracks could be closed off by gates . |
| 30 | Volleys of tear-gas shells were fired and an estimated 2,000 petrol bombs thrown throughout the day as the protesters attempted to breach the police lines . |