Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Whole Curriculum ( 1975 ) and The Practical Curriculum ( 1981 ) both sought to alert teachers to the complex issues that have to be taken into account in whole curriculum planning , but both eschewed the provision of ready-made answers . |
| 2 | The Hungarian Democratic Forum ( HDF or MDF ) , whose leader Jozsef Antall was formally invited on May 3 to seek to form a government , agreed to support Göncz in the eventual presidential elections ; meanwhile the ( HDF ) First Deputy Speaker , György Szabad , would be acting Speaker while Göncz acted as interim President . |
| 3 | Indeed , some of his contemporaries were highly critical of his preoccupation with the technical side of verse ; even friends like Herbert Read placed emphasis on the Wordsworthian ‘ spontaneous overflowing of powerful feelings ’ . |
| 4 | Gorbachev disclosed that " for the first time in recent years we laid quite a strong stress on what our economic relations should be like " , although he failed to provide details on the precise content of the talks . |
| 5 | As an indication of the partnership involved the Group agreed to accept invitations from the individual members to accommodate meetings . |
| 6 | At the general election on March 5 , Haglelgam failed to secure re-election as the at-large senator for Yap . |
| 7 | Appointed to the politburo and then made founding editor of the theoretical journal Hong Qi ( 'Red Flag' ) in 1958 , Chen wrote numerous articles attacking ‘ revisionism ’ and supporting Mao 's disastrous ‘ Great Leap Forward ’ , an ill-conceived and brutally executed drive for rapid industrialisation and rural collectivisation now blamed for the deaths of more than 15 million people . |
| 8 | Absent this year is the rich range of June drawings exhibitions timed to distract buyers from the major auction houses ' summer sales , leaving only Bellinger 's , and , in early July , Flavia Ormond 's . |
| 9 | By that time I had some history of being involved in socialist politics , which helped make sense of the external world , and a dawning recognition that there was also an inner world to be explored and that the psyche could n't just be dealt with by an effort of will . |
| 10 | Despite expressions of indignation by members of the Republican Party , Perot maintained his claim and promised to provide proof of the dirty tricks campaign at a later point . |
| 11 | TED CROKER , who helped bring football into the modern era , died yesterday aged 68 . |
| 12 | When Parliament in 1733 passed the Molasses Act which tried to help planters in the British West Indies by imposing prohibitive duties on New England 's imports of sugar , rum , and molasses from non-British colonies , the Act was not properly enforced and Americans came to speak of its having been ‘ nullified ’ . |
| 13 | Another astute electoral move helped to win 70% of the black vote for Kennedy . |
| 14 | Discover the wonderful Ionian Islands on one of our flotillas tailored to give confidence to the inexperienced and freedom to the expert . |
| 15 | Shrub roses were trussed to let people pass ; signs erected to divert visitors from the non-scenic compost heap . |
| 16 | The first time I tried to film mink in the wild was in the spring of 1990 , in mid-Wales , where I was making a 15-minute programme for Channel 4 . |
| 17 | It cast dancing shadows on the thick white carpet and gilded the green leaves of the plants which spilled from ceramic pots . |
| 18 | The Bretton Woods arrangements tried to ensure cooperation in the international monetary system , not only through the institutional arrangements for the operation of the IMF but also through the widespread acceptance of certain rules of conduct . |
| 19 | As he tried to grab hold of the beautifully-lit see-through material held by the other men in the show , he called out , ‘ Give me a bit ! |
| 20 | The western sectors of Berlin ( entirely surrounded by the Soviet core ) were cut off from all access by land to the West , as the Soviets tried to force concessions from the Western powers on the future shape of Germany . |
| 21 | During its first term ( 1979–83 ) the government 's main public sector policies involved achieving reductions in the public sector borrowing requirement ( PSBR ) and improving the profitability of nationalised industries . |
| 22 | A marketing plan was put in place which helped reduce dependence on the naval base , Faslane ; targeted other sources of revenue ; improved the hotel 's profile and instituted an effective staff training programme . |
| 23 | The only good news in all this time was that Boris Goldgather became one of its victims in 1115 , and news of his death helped to raise morale amongst the oppressed population . |
| 24 | It was part of a wider agricultural system with sheep pastured on the rich meadow grass then walked to be folded on fallow arable areas overnight , where their dung helped to maintain fertility on the thin chalkland soils . |
| 25 | This explanation is consistent with the increase in bending angle reported to take place in the ternary complex and interpreted in a similar way by Zinkel and Crothers [ 27 ] . |
| 26 | He could expect to be " buried , his children to be apprenticed , his wife to be assisted in childbirth and his daughter helped to recover payments from the putative father of her illegitimate child " . |
| 27 | Opening a debate on public spending , the Prime Minister tried to mend fences with the Tory Right by vowing that Britain would not join a single European currency in the next seven years , and ruled out any return to Europe 's Exchange Rate Mechanism in this Parliament . |
| 28 | Opening a debate on public spending , the Prime Minister tried to mend fences with the Tory Right by vowing that Britain would not join a single European currency in the next seven years , and ruled out any return to Europe 's Exchange Rate Mechanism in this Parliament . |
| 29 | Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith sympathised with the general outlook and tried to prepare people for the necessary discussion and negotiations which would have to precede any expression of national opinion and the consequent negotiation with the British Government . |
| 30 | Wilson rose to become Chief of the Imperial General Staff at the end of the war and he was made a viscount , but with the publication of a book based on his diaries in 1927 ‘ Wilson 's reputation was blasted … |