Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [verb] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because several tutors failed to keep to the new time table for applications the Board has decided that they will have to revert to the original dates for the Written Examination entries . |
| 2 | Those troubles — referred to as the ‘ Irish Rebellion ’ — were overcome only by violent methods used by the ‘ Black and Tans ’ , plus some restless ex-soldiers , known as the ‘ Auxiliaries ’ , and when the facts of those violent methods became known to the British public , they were declared unacceptable — despite the outrages which Sinn Fein had instituted in London and the bombings in Belfast . |
| 3 | He had noticed how the boy 's eyes kept going to the broad window behind him . |
| 4 | Perhaps because of this he contrived to fight on even after his brothers had surrendered to the Old King . |
| 5 | These offers were meant to demonstrate that the two younger brothers had gone to the very limit of reasonable concessions , and hence would bear no guilt for the casualties of battle . |
| 6 | Within a few decades , forests and animals had returned to the shattered islands which were all that remained of Krakatoa 's outer rim ; and from the waters between them emerged an ominous smoking mound , sometimes growing at a rate of more than three feet a month . |
| 7 | Her eyes had darkened to an intense , violent green , sparks flaring within their depths , and when he moved towards her once more she lifted her hand and hit him hard across the face , her palm cracking along his cheekbone with satisfying force . |
| 8 | Mechale said that civil conflict , drought and seed shortages had contributed to the poor harvests in 1991 . |
| 9 | Within an hour of the Syrian air attack , Aoun , his family and high-ranking supporters had fled to the French embassy . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He had to think like this because of the nature of his employment , whereby he was often required to make inflated claims for the nature and properties of the products which his clients wished to bring to the daily notice of the populace . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I did not think of following him , my feet seemed rooted to the sandy path and I saw him through a mist of tears as he appeared to melt through the door , which closed behind him . |
| 14 | Earlier , weeping parents had rushed to the popular beauty spot at Holme Hall , Chesterfield , Derbys , near where the boys lived . |
| 15 | Both parents had come to the open evening and she had been able to talk to them . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Six of the engineers had swum to the northern bank where they were fastening a rope to a great elm tree . |
| 19 | The upper level of exposure for workers had reduced to a seventh of its level in the 1930s , for example . |
| 20 | At the beginning of September 1942 , the German 6th Army under General Paulus had reached Stalingrad — a city whose capture would have had symbolic significance ; on 19 November a major Soviet counter-offensive had begun and led , within only a few weeks , to the encirclement of the 250,000 men of the 6th Army ; by Christmas 1942 the situation was as good as hopeless ; on 10 January , the last Russian assault commenced ; on 31 January Paulus — disobeying orders of the Führer that the troops had to fight to the last man — surrendered , and almost 90,000 survivors entered Soviet captivity , from whom only a small minority were to return . |
| 21 | Although most state governments had switched to the new award as a means of recognizing public service , Queensland and Tasmania had continued to recommend Australians for knighthoods and lower awards . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Banks had appealed to the Supreme Court against the ruling [ see p. 38726 ] . |
| 24 | The tradition whereby legislators tended to defect to the governing party following an election , however , meant that such assessments were liable to frequent change . |
| 25 | In 1943 , the Maronites had agreed to an unwritten National Covenant which awarded them the presidency of Lebanon , command of the Lebanese army and other assets in return for their abandonment of French protection . |
| 26 | In a sense , then , little had changed , as the managers had to resort to the old method of cajoling the workforce to extract maximum effort . |
| 27 | 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 ] . |
| 28 | Before the war , Unionists had pointed to the huge disparity between the smallest and largest seats ( in 1910 Kilkenny had an electorate of a few hundred and Romford an electorate of over 50,000 ) , and had noted that Unionist constituencies were on average larger than Liberal constituencies , far larger than those of Nationalists in Ireland . |
| 29 | By the second century AD such refined tastes had spread to a wider public . |
| 30 | 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 . |