Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who had preferred that solution were uniformly content with it ; though they sometimes expressed feelings of guilt or voiced complaints about the particular institution . |
| 2 | Nearly half of those questioned — all of whom had bought or sold property within the past eighteen months — had some complaint , the most common being that agents charged too much and were inefficient or indifferent . |
| 3 | Since becoming head of the Kimbell in 1980 , he single-handedly built the sleepy Fort Worth museum into one of the most select collections in the country , purchasing a stellar array of old masters , including masterpieces by Caravaggio , Pietro da Cortona , Domenichino , Poussin and Georges de la Tour that would have significantly complemented or filled gaps at the National Gallery . |
| 4 | In the previous section we indicated the direction of changes in national income and aggregate demand when there were increased or reduced injections into the circular flow . |
| 5 | On the card , how often have you used or received items from the main counter during the last year , choosing from fifteen ? |
| 6 | The joint between the end of the dock and the standing work of the bay end is preferably a direct butt joint between suitable packed or faced surfaces at the leading following and bottom sides of the dock which close simultaneously by a direct butting , as distinguished from a sliding , motion against corresponding surfaces on the standing work . |
| 7 | That debate was now not only about traditions and values , but also about the structure of higher education itself , and the declared or perceived missions of the new institutions and the whole new sector . |
| 8 | This philosophy , though on a far grander scale , can be observed in practice in such great gardens as Sissinghurst in Kent and Hidcote Manor in Gloucestershire , where similar plants and colour combinations have been placed in walled or hedged parts of the larger garden . |
| 9 | Their main duty was to arrest wanted persons ; they rarely reported or investigated crime during the early years of colonial rule . |
| 10 | Traditionally , clipping was a spring rite or took place on the patronal festival . |
| 11 | There are a number of arches extant which were built as entrances to towns or bridges , or formed part of the fortified town walling . |
| 12 | These require that where a company is charged , the mental state ( i.e. of knowledge or recklessness ) must be proved to have existed in the mind of a person who was or formed part of the directing mind of the company . |
| 13 | The agreement , which provided for soft loans or mixed credits over the next three years , was made on more generous terms than the £300,000,000 soft loan package extended in 1986 [ see p. 34675 ] . |
| 14 | AEs at one futures bucket shop cheered or hissed colleagues in the early morning , according to their individual sales figures on the previous day . |
| 15 | In the first round on Nov. 20 Thatcher received 204 votes against 152 for Heseltine , with 16 abstentions or spoiled papers from the 372 Conservative MPs now forming the electoral college . |
| 16 | In 1985 some two-thirds ( 63 per cent ) of one-parent families ( with nearly a million children ) were living in poverty — that is they were either receiving supplementary benefit ( now income support ) or had incomes below the supplementary benefit ( sb ) level . |
| 17 | Near the summit of the pyramid was a category of semi-educated members numbering a few thousand occupying subordinate positions : most of these were previously non-political residents or nationals of the Soviet Union or had links with the Chinese communists . |
| 18 | The Report suggested two ways in which direct-grant and other schools might be drawn into patterns of local provision : either as full-grant schools ( a new category ) , or as voluntary-aided or controlled schools along the well-established lines defined in 1944 . |
| 19 | So far as the economic aspects of devaluation were concerned , the situation was almost bizarre : there was little understanding of the interaction between devaluation and various parts of domestic economic policy , no careful or considered analysis of the appropriate rate , and no perception of how sterling fitted into the international structure of exchange rates or , more immediately , whether the problem stemmed from the weakness of sterling or the strength of the dollar ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 20 | If you have any smooth double knitting or chunky hand knitting yarn , this is suitable , or coned yarns of the same thickness can be used . |
| 21 | The firm that made carpets in the old factory in the early nineteenth century went bankrupt , but the industry was revived later . |
| 22 | It is this evidence that led West to the cautious conclusion that ‘ it is reasonable to assume that in the nineteenth century education played some part in economic growth . ’ |
| 23 | More still are for sale legally over the counter in shops like the Brass Rail on La Brea , the store that sold guns to the Black Panthers in the 1960s and where I watched white and Korean men wearing jeans queuing to buy . |
| 24 | Conventional wisdom suggests that agreed takeovers in the financial services sector are preferable since they tend to avoid mass defections of staff in the target company . |
| 25 | Excluding the mining machinery business that contributed £85million in the corresponding period , before disposal , turnover put on almost £70million to £337.5million . |
| 26 | As well as providing a control on the extrapolation of geological boundaries , the cryptic compositional variations between the turbidite units should provide new insights into the different provenances that contributed material for the sedimentary infill . |
| 27 | It was these ideas that found favour with the Royal Society . |
| 28 | The Canadian analysis confirmed the findings of a recent US General Accounting Office study that found prices for the same drug to be higher in the United States than in Canada . |
| 29 | It appears to be unlikely that reduced hydration in the minor groove plays a major role in destabilising the duplexes used in this study , although removal of bound water may be more significant in sequences containing more contiguous A-T base pairs . |
| 30 | TAG creates a specific workshop programme for each production which offers pupils a platform for creative expression while investigating one man 's account of Scottish rural and town life and some of the issues that affected Scotland in the early part of the century . |