Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where no expansion was taking place , the only chance of transfer was if vacancies arose in the regular workforce . |
| 2 | On the other hand , in a short-term study using the artificial pancreas , normalisation of blood glucose for 48 hours led to a significant fall in β-thromboglobulin levels ( Voisin et al , 1983 ) . |
| 3 | The rise in American self-esteem that followed Reagan 's more aggressive foreign policies led to a greater acceptance of the ‘ revisionist ’ view of the war . |
| 4 | Berle offered the American objections to international control , insisting that the British proposals amounted to a 50–50 division of traffic on the North Atlantic route . |
| 5 | But the alliance with Athens must have been renewed before the beginning of the Peloponnesian War when Thessalians fought on the Athenian side again ( Thuc. ii.22 ) . |
| 6 | Dr Linebaugh has discovered that around 40 per cent of those hanged at Tyburn in the middle years of the eighteenth century had completed apprenticeships and a further 20 per cent had at least begun one ( see pp. 230 – 1 ) Even in London , the greatest centre of artisan manufacture , not all apprenticeships led to a skilled trade — the unfortunate climbing chimney boys for example — but it would seem reasonable to suggest that around half of the working men of the capital were to some degree skilled , in the sense of selling specialised labour . |
| 7 | Bright little creature — it took her just three minutes to work this out as her antennae fluttered in the sudden sweet smelling breeze . |
| 8 | In contrast , mergers led to a significant increase in industrial concentration and monopoly power in the UK . |
| 9 | With their shareholders lulled by the regulatory safety net strung under them and lured by the prospect of fat and easy profits , many banks in the 1980s went for growth instead . |
| 10 | Its activities led to the British Film Weeks of 1924 , which involved screening a programme of British pictures , accompanied by the sort of ballyhoo which left the public , according to critic Paul Rotha , ‘ hypnotized into readiness to applaud the worst picture in the world because it was British . ’ |
| 11 | The application of such skills led to the greater control of an army and , as a consequence , to its more effective use as a military arm . |
| 12 | On one island the macaques lived in the forested interior . |
| 13 | Disputes under them are to be referred to arbitration , where contracts made on a particular exchange are in issue , and otherwise to the English courts . |
| 14 | Lysosomes incubated with the homogenising medium alone were used as controls . |
| 15 | Decreasing COHb values led to a slight increase of SpO , as would be expected by the formula SpO= ( OHb+0.9COHb ) /total Hb100% , according to Tremper and Barker . |
| 16 | Brief enthusiastic accounts surfaced in the popular press every now and then , offering highly suspect details on her ‘ phenomenal ’ sailing characteristics . |
| 17 | However , the level of total exports and of exports of manufactures rose throughout the long boom and the 1970s . |
| 18 | Her teeth bared in a tight smile . |
| 19 | But ten minutes sufficed for the blazing gun-fight , and for the affecting death scene with soaring strings . |
| 20 | Diehard opinions ranged from the virulent obscurantism of Northumberland , Page Croft and Cooper , who saw politics as a black-and-white struggle between good British imperial-minded Christians and Jewish-dominated marxist wreckers , to the high-minded Association of Independent Peers , who were primarily concerned with the effect of coalition on the standards of public life and its failure to halt the drift towards class politics . |
| 21 | Those endeavours were proved to be somewhat premature as no real bombing of cities occurred until the following year , and many of the children had returned home only to have to be again evacuated when the bombing did start . |
| 22 | Our discussions ranged through the whole spectrum of life , from the sublime to the trivial , and while I do not now remember many of the conclusions that we reached then , the quality of that communication is still with me . |
| 23 | Provision was patchy , and professional attitudes ranged from a sensitive understanding of the issues to the blandly ignorant . |
| 24 | This is the only court of appeal for cases tried by the military court , and looks only at points of law and not at facts and findings , thus providing a restricted appeal . |
| 25 | To determine whether particular sequence features were found in peptides presented by HLA-B53 ( HLA-B5301 ) , as has been described for other class I molecules , we used the cell line Hmy-B53 ( ref. 55 ) : this was derived by transfection of the cell line CIR , which lacks HLA-A and -B molecules , with a genomic clone of HLA-B53. 1.5x10 10 Hmy-B53 or Hmy-B35 cells were pelleted and lysed and HLA class I molecules purified with the monoclonal antibody W6/32 ( ref. 56 ) on an immunoaffinity column as described . |
| 26 | The 15 most heavily indebted developing countries ( see p. 37017 ) in 1988 as a group increased the surplus of their merchandise exports over their imports to nearly dollars 28,000 million ; the dollar value of their exports rose above the 1981 peak for the first time since the onset of the Third-World debt service problem , although the GATT report pointed out that this trade performance needed to be seen against the background of rising interest charges and continued lack of fresh capital inflows . |
| 27 | In addition there are also galleries devoted to the American Indian , the Pennsylvania Germans , the religious community of the Shakers , and the isolated Spanish colonists of New Mexico . |
| 28 | The catalogue raisonné is destined to become one of the finest projects devoted to a modern artist and will be the invaluable source of reference for scholarship and the trade alike . |
| 29 | In the in vivo assay both mutations behaved as the wild type , but they had slightly lower affinities than wild type in vitro as judged by gel retardation assays . |
| 30 | Such lack of interest in any active Turkish diplomatic relationship with the European states stemmed from a deap-seated view of the world . |