Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] [vb past] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These interventions , associated with the Keynesian revolution in economic thinking which called for the state to become involved in maintaining the level of aggregate demand in the economy through the use of budgetry policies , have been seen not as a triumph of democratic struggle but as a further example of the use of the state as an instrument of the interests of the ruling class . |
| 2 | When war broke out in South Africa MacBride was one of the first and most prominent members of the Irish Brigade which fought for the Boer republics , and at Ladysmith , Colenso , and elsewhere he proved himself to be a brave and resourceful soldier . |
| 3 | By then , however , such was the devastation of churches and church lands that although the York clergy granted a tenth , which was to be collected in two instalments during 1317 ( a delay eloquent of their difficulties ) , they successfully insisted on a revised valuation of their livings : instead of the tenth being levied on the 1291 valor , compiled before the Scottish war began , it was to be calculated according to the true current valuation of livings , a reduced level which endured for the rest of the Middle Ages . |
| 4 | It is ironic that Holmes 's acceptance of the meritocratic possibilities of democratisation should have led to an Act which allowed for the creation of the comprehensive school — but in fact the ideology he shared with other administrators was one that could embrace the comprehensive , which was , at times , argued in the context of a more successful way of providing a selective education . |
| 5 | The US Supreme Court on Dec. 12 struck down a New York state law which provided for the seizure of profits made by convicted criminals from publicizing their crimes . |
| 6 | The ruling Military Committee of National Salvation ( CMSN ) on July 25 adopted a law which allowed for the setting up of political parties , with the exception of specifically Islamic parties or parties based on race or region . |
| 7 | Now that MIPS Technologies Inc is in its back pocket , Silicon Graphics Inc has gone ahead and acted on its promise to service MIPS ' OEM business which accounted for the bulk of its revenues . |
| 8 | This unexpected move came at the end of an NPFL conference which called for the continuation of the peace process and the enforcement of the Yammoussoukro agreement as outlined in the Geneva agreement . |
| 9 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
| 10 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
| 11 | This innovation is especially significant as it suggests that Marx did not believe there was necessarily one set scheme of evolution which applied for the whole of mankind , the view which was held implicitly by most of Marx 's contemporaries . |
| 12 | Since early July the Medellín judges had received more than 200 requests for releases , as lawyers sought to take advantage of a new Penal Code which allowed for the release of anyone who had been detained without trial for 180 days . |
| 13 | As has been pointed out , several important nazi ideas come directly from English sources , and it was the use of such indigenous ideas rather than the copying of a successful foreign movement which accounted for the ideology of English racial nationalism . |
| 14 | In March King Bhumibol approved an interim Constitution which provided for the appointment of a 292-member National Legislative Assembly to draw up a permanent constitution and prepare for a general election . |
| 15 | ‘ No government which cared for the education of all our children would conceivably follow such corrupt priorities as this one . ’ |
| 16 | Virtually all of the republics , by the late 1980s , had adopted legislation which provided for the majority language of that republic to enjoy official status . |
| 17 | On Feb. 4 the Knesset approved legislation which provided for the holding of a general election on June 23 . |
| 18 | The system chosen was a form which asked for the name of the pupil , their form , and the author and title of the book borrowed . |
| 19 | However , at a session of the Komsomol 's 21st congress on April 16 CPSU central committee ideology secretary Vadim Medvedev read out a central committee resolution which called for the expulsion from the CPSU of Democratic Platform leaders , albeit not those rank-and-file communists whom they had " led astray " . |
| 20 | The United States got the United Nations to adopt a resolution which called for the expulsion of North Korean troops from South Korea , that was the objective , that was the immediate war aim . |
| 21 | But then President Truman made a big mistake he got the United Nations to authorize another resolution which called for the unification of Korea erm through United Nations intervention and American forces crossed the Yalob |
| 22 | On April 28 the two ministers signed an agreement which provided for the repatriation of an estimated 200,000 Rohingya Moslems who had crossed into Bangladesh from Myanma 's Arakan province . |
| 23 | The leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats , Jim Wallace , and Mr Salmond both pointedly reaffirmed their support for last year 's democracy declaration which called for the reconvening of the Scottish parliament . |
| 24 | This was not only a matter of pride but was also done to conform to the old City by-law which called for the cleansing of pavements by 3 p.m. each day . |
| 25 | In February 1959 a treaty was made between the United Kingdom and the United Arab Republic which provided for the return of sequestrated property , except property sold between October 1956 and August 1958 . |