Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British proposals helped to shape the key provisions of the Treaty , including those strengthening the enforcement of Community law , defence , subsidiarity and law and order . |
| 2 | Ones with numerous branches seemed to dominate the earlier rocks , ones with fewer branches were later , while in rocks we would now recognize as Silurian and early Devonian , forms with but a single branch ( or stipe ) were abundant . |
| 3 | And as urgent talks went on in London and Barcelona , the words returned to haunt the top officials trying to sort out the shambles . |
| 4 | I had suggested all cars would inevitably look the same , as rival designers struggled to meet the same constraints dictated by safety requirements and ever-better fuel economy . |
| 5 | In summary , the most successful schools appeared to have the following characteristics : |
| 6 | He had n't been paying much attention to what Throgmorton had been talking about on the way here , but he recalled his ears had caught the unpleasant words ‘ casting vote ’ , and ‘ your important role as president ’ . |
| 7 | Voters in these constituencies would choose between whichever two candidates had won the largest numbers of votes in the first round . |
| 8 | The judges took only 80 minutes to decide the level of fines after ruling the journalists had breached the strict provisions of the 1981 Contempt of Court Act . |
| 9 | In Palestinc the Jews had to face the intruding Greeks . |
| 10 | Memory was tested by cued recall , using slides in which both the woman and the peripheral car were missing and subjects had to describe the missing details , and by recognition , four-alternative forced-choice ( 4AFC ) tested using an additional three slides with the colours of the peripheral and central information changed . |
| 11 | A collection of jeeps and small Toyota pick-ups waited to ferry the arriving passengers to the town . |
| 12 | Commenting upon their total experience of Minor award schools , DCSLs also noted that a few schools had misconstrued the long-term intentions of the project and had cut library capitation in years following external funding . |
| 13 | Anthropological inquiry into the meaning of cultures came to question the established categories which had provided the models and criteria to assess different cultures . |
| 14 | Some days later when the forest fire had been brought under control , rescuers arrived to find the charred remains of the brave telegraph despatcher , his finger still on the telegraph key . |
| 15 | By 1910 the equivalent unit in the Russian foreign ministry was scrutinising more than 150 Russian and foreign newspapers , while even the Ottoman empire had equipped its foreign ministry as early as 1869 with a rudimentary press office whose duties included monitoring the foreign-language papers published on Turkish soil . |
| 16 | British Communists continued to blame the Social Democrats for Hitler 's victory while at the same time trying to organize common anti-Fascist activities between Communists and the Left of the Labour movement . |
| 17 | like vapour trails had scarfed the distant stars |
| 18 | Finally , the uniform taxational system , by which eighteenth-century reformers hoped to replace the fiscal confusions of an historic conglomeration of indirect taxes , was the achievement of a mid-century liberal , Mon . |
| 19 | To save on personnel and consequently to minimize undesirable social contact , the original Metropolitan Commissioners had submitted the personal qualities of ‘ forbearance ’ and ‘ calm demeanour ’ as the major responses to the threat , as the inhibiters of opposition , and as a substitute for colleague support . |
| 20 | Their alchemists were experimenting with gunpowder , their engineers had grasped the basic principles of steam propulsion . |
| 21 | He reminded the Treasury that in 1856 he had made it a policy that all public buildings in London should be open to competition and not given as a matter of course to one of his officers , and if their Lordships did not want to hold another competition , they could well appoint the winner of the Foreign Office design , as the judges had selected the prize-winning schemes ‘ not only in regard to their external appearance , but more especially on account of the excellence of their internal arrangements ’ . |
| 22 | All the models tested had the following features in common : |
| 23 | Overall the positive effects tended to outweigh the negative ones — whatever the American perceptions of the situation . |
| 24 | The traditional medical course at Harvard was a postgraduate entry , four year one with the first two years spent studying the basic sciences and the second two devoted to clinical subjects . |
| 25 | The city developed chiefly after 1040 , when the residence of the kings was transferred from Gniezno to Cracow , and stone buildings began to replace the wooden ones . |
| 26 | Ostensibly objective textual scholarship adopted editorial policies which for many years worked to ensure the above assumptions could be confirmed . |
| 27 | By the late autumn of 1944 , in joint operations with the German forces , the Cossacks had cleared the Italian partisans out of their area , which they continued to garrison until nearly the end of the war . |
| 28 | In a 1981 report , the committee noted that the use of historic costs had made the resulting figures ‘ highly misleading as a guide to past investment decisions and entirely useless for appraising future ones ’ . |
| 29 | The Mexican Finance Ministry had announced on Jan. 10 , 1990 , that only about 10 per cent of the banks had chosen the new loans option , one of three choices under the four-year commercial bank debt refinancing agreement reached in July 1989 with 15 major banking creditors . |
| 30 | This remained a crucial obstacle until well into the 1960s , when attempts began to synthesise the two ideologies , in what has become known as Liberation Theology . |