Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [conj] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meteorology is probably the most international of the sciences , and Scott played a significant part in establishing the tradition of ready co-operation between countries that became the accepted norm . |
| 2 | The countries that were under the control of ruling Marxist-Leninist parties represented , for the USSR , the ‘ world socialist system ’ , a community of nations that shared the same political , social and economic interests . |
| 3 | The FDA complied with the legislation regarding the registration of parties and submitted the necessary 3,000 signatures . |
| 4 | Clients now became appreciative of specialisms and saw the basic good sense of employing the building specialist , not only to put right a defect , but also to refurbish entire buildings . |
| 5 | She wrote it as a series of articles and sent the first three to Richard Crossman , then editor of the New Statesman . |
| 6 | She quickly began to sketch , and at the same time tried to imprint on her mind the combination of colours that made the whole scene so eerily effective . |
| 7 | Sprawling around the main house were the new wooden huts built to accommodate an increasing school population and almost encroaching on the distant row of classrooms that housed the still-private primary school . |
| 8 | The same trio of firms that occupied the top three overall places in 1989 took the honours again this time ( see table 1 ) . |
| 9 | Throughout the 1960s , a number of surveys that highlighted the growing problem of low income and poverty amongst pensioners were carried out . |
| 10 | Whilst the weather could have been kinder for the photographers wishing to capture the splendid liveries of the trams , both in the sheds and on the extensive outdoor system , we managed to dodge the couple of showers and visited the considerable number of preserved vehicles and small exhibits . |
| 11 | During the first few winter holidays I went out on our pony with the Teme Valley , the local pack of hounds that hunted the rough hill country on the Welsh border . |
| 12 | A firm of builders undertook construction work on a block of flats and sub-contracted the plastering work , which was carried out negligently . |
| 13 | Clearly he has listened at a number of keyholes and collected the right gossip . |
| 14 | Our Solar System is certainly a prerequisite for our existence , and one might extend this to the whole of our galaxy to allow for an earlier generation of stars that created the heavier elements . |
| 15 | It has also partly reduced the bureaucratization of farms and lessened the social distance between farmers and their workers . |
| 16 | However , the whole matter was another aspect of one of the storms in a set of teacups that accompanied the whole unhappy Profumo matter and has continued to do so for the many years since it was first raised . |
| 17 | Miss Murdock , who appears to have had a sense of humour , expressed her high regard for the autochrome process , the delights of which she said , were mainly due to the high number of failures that made the occasional success all the more thrilling . |
| 18 | Miss Murdock , who appears to have had a sense of humour , expressed her high regard for the autochrome process , the delights of which she said , were mainly due to the high number of failures that made the occasional successes all the more thrilling . |
| 19 | People put their heads out of windows and saw the tall white-faced man and the little girl , with their arms around each other . |
| 20 | With an eye on the speed indicator , he eased the main out an extra couple of inches and did the same for the jib . |
| 21 | The size of the holes , and the thickness of the surrounding bubbles of enriched galaxy formation , depend on the details of the perturbations fed in to the idealised model calculations , and this offers hope that better observations of these holes in the Universe may reveal information about the kinds of disturbances that made the big bang of creation develop irregularly . |
| 22 | In the Holy City of Mashad , Mrs Ghodssieh Alavi , a 50-year-old doctor associated with the ‘ pragmatist ’ faction supporting Mr Rafsanjani , took the highest number of votes and became the first Iranian woman to be elected outside Teheran . |
| 23 | In his nightmares he had visions of the dead as skeletons and saw the disfigured shape of Mr Townsley at his desk . |
| 24 | He had discovered when reading A Burnt-Out Case the sentence , ‘ The pouches under his eyes were like purses that contained the smuggled memories of a disappointing life ’ . |
| 25 | ’ Applying this to the body of Christ in Cranham , the very week that I finalised the membership of the team and announced it , one couple in the team had a violent row with others and left the new work and also the church . |
| 26 | Most of them opened on to storerooms , or offices , which he was n't interested in , but eventually he found one door that opened into a chemical laboratory whose air was tangy with scents that irritated the nasal and throat passages . |
| 27 | Thus they recommended greater use of shop floor premises , encouraged innovative work practices , emphasised the need for interpreters and encouraged the professional bodies to assist people from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds to become established as lawyers . |
| 28 | Reporters could not attend meetings , press releases were couched in generalities and favoured the conservative line . |
| 29 | This chapter has introduced some of the issues surrounding the propagation of error in GIS and described the preliminary application of a Monte Carlo approach to assessing their effects . |
| 30 | In various measures after 1911 governments extended benefits in ways that undermined the true insurance basis of the scheme ; but the contributory principle remained an important political symbol , and from time to time attempts were made to return the scheme closer to its roots . |