Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MP for 20 years , when he successfully fought against the closure of Shildon wagon works . |
| 2 | Joe Maitland his boss was very often out buying and selling and he rarely interfered with the running of the store . |
| 3 | He thought back over the last few hours , the acknowledged relief of talking to Alice , the knowledge that nothing shocked her , nothing surprised her , that everything he did , if not right in her eyes , was judged by a different standard from the one she rigorously applied to the rest of her life . |
| 4 | We now know that during the Saturday daylight raids on London , a chiefs-of-staff meeting took urgent action on deciding that invasion was likely within a few hours ; they had the code word ‘ Cromwell ’ flashed from the War Room to military units at 20.07 hours that evening ( which presumably led to the flap at my unit ; the station commander was away that weekend , and the acting CO in charge ) . |
| 5 | Somerset 's arrest in 1549 did not , as many expected , return the conservatives to power , but rather led to the primacy of John Dudley , Duke of Northumberland , who in alliance with Archbishop Cranmer eliminated the remaining conservatives from the council . |
| 6 | The notable successes of the women 's branch under Anderson 's leadership , particularly women inspectors ' ‘ substitution ’ for men inspectors during World War I , paradoxically led to the demise of the women 's branch in 1921 , when women and men inspectors were ‘ fused ’ into an integrated inspectorate . |
| 7 | Forrester eventually got on the pitch with about 5 minutes left , and indeed Fowler was attempting to put him through when the ball richoched back to him , hit him in the stomach and sat up in a ‘ kick me please ’ type fashion , which he did , and scored . |
| 8 | In the first place , as the age of marriage decreased , the years of potential childbearing for the wife increased , and this in turn eventually led to a shortening of the intervals between generations , so increasing the proportion of the population likely to get pregnant . |
| 9 | It was in this capacity that Le Duc Tho conducted secret negotiations in the early 1970s with Henry Kissinger , US President Nixon 's National Security Adviser , which eventually led to the signing of the 1973 Paris agreements . |
| 10 | This division eventually led to the departure of some of the laboratory 's senior staff , a loss that became the universities ' gain . |
| 11 | This eventually led to the initiation of the annual ‘ Puritan ’ Conference in 1950 ( since re-named the ‘ Westminster ’ Conference ) and which continues to this day . |
| 12 | Ever since 1914 , when the great majority of the leaders of social democratic parties in Europe supported the war effort of their own nation states — under a variety of influences , one of which was undoubtedly the nationalist fervour of the peoples involved — the capacity of the socialist movement to bring about a new kind of political relationship among the peoples of the world has seemed more questionable ; and the doubts have multiplied not only as a result of the course taken by the revolution in Russia , culminating in the project of building ‘ socialism in one country ’ , which eventually led to the identification of socialism with the national interests of the Soviet Union , but also in the light of the actual relations that developed between the communist countries in the postwar period . |
| 13 | Subsequently , and very shortly after having written that letter , the father sought legal advice in Australia and then took the steps which eventually led to the issue of this originating summons . |
| 14 | In late 1959 Goleniewski had given MI5 enough information to identify Harry Houghton , who worked at the Admiralty 's underwater research laboratory at Portland , which eventually led to the exposure of the Portland spy ring . |
| 15 | The failure of this ‘ mechanical speech ’ approach ( which eventually led to the development of speech synthesis by rule ) has many lessons to teach us about pronunciation teaching and learning , and it will be useful , in looking at connected speech , to bear in mind the difference between the way humans speak and what would be found in ‘ mechanical speech ’ . |
| 16 | As an undercover customs agent based in Tampa , Florida , it was his suggestion to target a small-time Colombian drug-money launderer called Gonzalo Mora Jnr that eventually led to the uncovering of a huge laundering operation centred on BCCI . |
| 17 | An example is William McDougal 's correspondence with Friendly Societies which revealed their discrimination against deaf people , and eventually led to the acceptance of the deaf and dumb on equal terms with hearing people by the Church Benefit Society . |
| 18 | The expense , the incompetence of the personnel , the distances involved , the lack of an agricultural base , the foreign competition , a reorientation of imperial policies in the far East — these and a number of other factors analysed by Gibson eventually led to the sale of Russian America to the United States in 1867 ‘ at two cents an acre ’ . |
| 19 | First , although it was a serious issue which eventually led to the introduction of the Public Order Act in 1936 , such violence was only a pale reflection of the conflict which led to the growth of fascism in Italy and Germany in the inter-war period . |
| 20 | This eventually led to the establishment of the Phillimore Committee , which issued a fairly modest report in 1974,1R and thence to the Contempt of Court Act 1981 . |
| 21 | The £500 white van , which was reported stolen from Wallasey , eventually crashed into a field by the Post House hotel , on Wrexham Road , in Chester . |
| 22 | Over 600 amateur performers representing 11 Organisations including the League of Health & Beauty , Keep Fit , Margaret Morris , Medau , Slimnastics , Ballroom and Folk Dance , etc. moved in a kaleidoscope of colour within the splendour of the Royal Albert Hall enthralling their audience , ending in a grand finale flooding into the arena from every entrance and aisle , swirling round in one great happy group to celebrate this wonderful occasion . |
| 23 | In the second paragraph they expressly referred to the right of an over-subscribed school to adopt reasonable criteria for selection , the criteria had been published in this case , and that they were required to take such criteria into account . |
| 24 | Producers were so busy fighting their own corner , and so mesmerized by the success of Hollywood , that they did n't have the strength to argue that keeping the industry fragmented and flexible , learning from Hollywood 's example without simply imitating its outward forms , might be a better way of catering for a market the size of Britain than heading up the road of monopoly . |
| 25 | Lieutenant Stapleton suddenly realized with a shock of fear that he was lucky not to have been shot down by one of these tattered lunatics . |
| 26 | Certificates were awarded to the 63 girls who all passed at a variety of levels in the recent exams . |
| 27 | In the late 1960s and the early 1970s , Greimas , Todorov , Genette , and Barthes all argued for the autonomy of narrative theory with respect to its object . |
| 28 | The successes of penicillin and streptomycin naturally led to a search for further antibiotics . |
| 29 | Those in a correlated condition experienced the light only after a correct response in the presence of one of the cues ( and thus , as the task was learned , increasingly often along with this cue ) ; those in an uncorrelated condition received the light after 50 per cent of rewarded responses whether these were in made in the presence of the tone or of the clicker . |
| 30 | Webster 's resignation came only a month after a fire in the US embassy in Moscow , which apparently led to the loss of computer disks and other sensitive material when Soviet firefighters , possibly including State Security ( KGB ) agents , were allowed to move unescorted through parts of the building . |