Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Gentleman represents a party that has called for a 50 per cent . |
| 2 | However , the UCTA is so intimately connected with the process of negotiation and drafting in the areas covered by the next four chapters that , as a preliminary to detailed analysis of the precedents , it was felt essential to lay out the principles contained in the UCTA and discuss their application in the light of the case law that has evolved in the 15 years or so since the UCTA came into effect . |
| 3 | Economic inequality is a subject that has thrived in the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 4 | What the figure does not reveal is the shift in the balance that has occurred during the 1980s towards overseas securities , prompted initially by the relaxation of exchange controls in 1979 and encouraged subsequently by the strong performance of some overseas economies and stock-markets . |
| 5 | Although the ten per cent holding is less than the original JCI stake , it is a reflection of the close relationship that has continued between the two companies in the intervening years . |
| 6 | In 1926 an agreement ( the Athens Agreement ) was concluded between Greece and Turkey to settle various difficulties that had arisen under the 1923 Lausanne Peace Treaty . |
| 7 | Now in a short time he would be gone , and the era that had begun in the 1960S with the triumvirate of Harold Wilson , George Brown and myself would be at an end . |
| 8 | In the long wake of a critical career that had begun in the 1930s avowedly in imitation of Richards and Empson and which ended with his death at the age of 83 , his final achievement of style was above all to create , for a time , a compelling image of himself . |
| 9 | He displayed perfectly that contradiction of attitude ( or ‘ supreme paradox ’ , as Phillipson puts it ) in ‘ expert ’ thinking on old age that had emerged by the 1940s — on the one hand portraying the elderly as a disastrous burden on society ( men over the age of 65 and women ova 60 had formed 6.2 per cent of the British population in 1901 , an estimated 12.0 per cent in 1941 , and would be 20.8 per cent in 1971 ) , yet on the other hand , paying lip-service to their status as an exceptionally deserving group : ‘ Provision made for age must be satisfactory ; otherwise great numbers may suffer . |
| 10 | Both the Board of Education and Ministry of Health were acutely sensitive on this issue , given the controversy that had raged in the 1930s over the issue of child malnutrition and ill health . |
| 11 | Black pretended not to overhear , but mused at the private world of women and the bond that had formed between the two . |
| 12 | The eventual collapse of the adjustable peg system came about as a result of intensification of the pressures that had developed during the 1960s . |
| 13 | Stenhouse 's proposal was in marked contrast , not only to Hoyle 's , but , for different reasons , to the tradition of curriculum development that had developed in the 1960s , both in the UK and the USA . |
| 14 | The second point to note is the considerable variation in the rate of employment change among those industries that have grown since the 1960s . |
| 15 | While such concerns are admirable in their no-nonsense practicality , they represent a significant decline in ambition when compared with the other criminologies that have appeared during the two hundred years that have passed since Beccaria wrote . |
| 16 | The sharp reductions in prices to the middle-sized customers that have occurred in the 12 months since the new market system came into effect have naturally been greeted by the beneficiaries with satisfaction , but the strategists worry over the implications for the long- term health of the industry and the economy . |
| 17 | With the spread of home ownership , a process that began in earnest during the inter-war years and has accelerated since the 1960s , the passing on of the family home will become an increasingly important aspect of defining who owns what , and confirming the advantages enjoyed by some groups of the population . |
| 18 | The expression is well known in the South , especially among service families and may I add , there were a great number of fine soldiers who came from the South in units as famous as that fine body of men who serve and have served in the DLI . |
| 19 | Nigel Richardson , of merchant bank S G Warburg , said Mr Lamont had faced a fine judgment between an electoral giveaway and financial prudence , but had fallen between the two . |
| 20 | Apart from the pictures from the camera trained on the area of primary interest , others images , were recorded on the same tape and when played displayed on the three other quarters of the video screen contemporaneously , were from cameras situated in other areas of the club and over the entrance door . |