Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [art] [noun] [vb past] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since 1979 , when the Government came to power , coal imports have increased from 4 million tonnes to 19 millions tonnes , an increase of 346 per cent. , which has had the effect of wiping out the coal fields of south Wales , damaging our balance of payments , costing the taxpayer £8,500 for every one of the tens of thousands of unemployed miners , and making us dreadfully dependent on foreign supplies . |
| 2 | As a result of the Government 's policy , the pensioner 's widow is more than £17 per week less well off in real terms than she was when the Government came to power . |
| 3 | Will he now give us the figures for the whole period since 1979 , when the Government came to office ? |
| 4 | Now , as though solaced by the memory she said , ‘ I have known times when the water went to ice . |
| 5 | Contrary to Labour 's claims , the report said the proportion of national income spent on education is almost the same now ( 5.1 per cent ) as it was when the Conservatives came to power in 1979 ( 5.2 per cent ) . |
| 6 | Police salaries adjusted for inflation went up from 983 million in 1979 when the Conservatives came to power , to 2,378 million by 1987 , a rise of some 47 per cent in real terms . |
| 7 | Since 1979 when the Conservatives came to power Durham Constabulary has received approval for 40 extra officers , a three per cent increase . |
| 8 | After criticising Government policy since 1979 , when the Conservatives came to power , Mr Clarke said : ‘ For John Major to claim credit for Hoover jobs staying Scotland — thanks to him opting out of the Social Chapter and keeping wages down — is a disgraceful betrayal of the Scottish workforce . |
| 9 | It was thought that he would be able to rest better during the day when the unit switched to night shooting , but daughter Emma only a few weeks old — had other ideas . |
| 10 | For some , the crime may even pay : thus in the Goodrich disc-brake scandal of the late 1960s , when the company attempted to foist a defective brake-disc system on to a customer who happened to be too clever to be deceived , two of the main executives involved were later promoted ( Vandivier 1972 : 33 ) . |
| 11 | Emigration began to Curação in the Dutch West Indies in the 1930s , when the Madeirans went to work in the petroleum industry there . |
| 12 | The film did not attempt to explain why the Americans went to war in Vietnam , but surpassed any previous film in examining the pressures to which the American soldier was subjected and his reaction to them . |