Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a period when the number of courses increased , WEA membership in the District declined by 150 and in 1931 , capitation fees from branches had slumped to a mere £44 . |
| 2 | Some medium-sized schools had shifted to a three-tier model , while some large schools were still operating a rather unsatisfactory and somewhat stressed version of Type 2 or even Type 1 . |
| 3 | The first part of our study , which was reported in the October 1992 issue of ACCOUNTANCY ( see p 13 ) , demonstrated that over this five year period the combined effects of mergers among the large audit firms and voluntary auditor switches among listed companies had led to a significant increase in seller concentration . |
| 4 | By 1973 the Conservatives had moved to a statutory prices and incomes policy and massive state intervention in industry ; the reorganization of secondary schooling along comprehensive lines proceeded , albeit at a slower pace than under Labour , and the trade union legislation under the Industrial Relations Act was effectively non-operational . |
| 5 | The upper level of exposure for workers had reduced to a seventh of its level in the 1930s , for example . |
| 6 | As a result , she had been able to put away a few shillings every week , and over these past three years the shillings had mounted until now the bag of coins which she kept hidden under the bedroom floorboards had swollen to a tidy sum . |
| 7 | Pravda 's financial difficulties had led to a brief suspension in March [ see pp. 38825 ; 38874 ] , but its pro-communist line had changed little since its reappearance following a ban in August 1991 for alleged support for the attempted coup [ see pp. 38418 ] . |
| 8 | By the second century AD such refined tastes had spread to a wider public . |
| 9 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 10 | On the fourth occasion of suspension , 11 April 1978 , when MLR was raised from 6 ½%; to 7 ½%,; it was stated that the formula would remain suspended until it was capable of being applied without a change in the rate : that is , until market rates had risen to a level consistent with the administered rate . |
| 11 | Intensive farming techniques had led to a rapid decline in hare numbers during the 1960s and 70s , as traditional hare habitats were destroyed . |
| 12 | ‘ The feastings had drawn to a close , ’ said Raynor . |
| 13 | The Loyal Standard emerges from history as the epitome of the moderation which its leaders sought to convey to a hostile Select Committee . |
| 14 | When Lord Leverhulme abandoned Lewis , the crofting villages seemed doomed to a steady decline and eventual extinction . |
| 15 | After Nasser , he says , his themes seemed to refer to a vanished society and for five years Mahfouz wrote no books . |
| 16 | In addition , Piaget ( 1926 ) carried out an observational study of children 's spontaneous speech , and a study in which children had to listen to a spoken explanation and then relay it to another person . |
| 17 | The figures , submitted to the Arab League in Cairo on Dec. 17 , were described as " realistic " by the United Nations Children 's Fund ( UNICEF ) which on Dec. 19 confirmed that the shortage of polio vaccines had contributed to a significant increase in reported cases of polio among young children . |
| 18 | Rowntree 's later study in York ( Rowntree , 1941 ) suggested that the introduction of widow 's benefits had led to a substantial decrease in the extent of poverty among lone mothers . |
| 19 | But with water shares expected to soar to a 30 per cent premium on the first day of trading , Mrs Ullman 's delay on the Tube could have cost her as much as £150 . |
| 20 | During his two months as Labour leader and Prime Minister Moore was successful in closing the gap between the two parties , but the opinion polls continued to point to a clear National Party victory . |
| 21 | The fields appeared to have been abandoned , the broken stalks of the crop left to rot in a vast expanse of furrowed mud which the recent rains had reduced to a sticky mess . |