Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [art] [unc] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Mansfield 's judgment in the case , adverse to the Crown , became known as the Magna Carta of the Colonies . |
| 2 | ‘ They kept talking about the Magna Carta . |
| 3 | This argued that micromanagement of spending projects had developed on an ad hoc basis , and was failing to provide enough information for a detailed analysis of the efficiency with which resources were being used in existing programmes and policy options . |
| 4 | Erm we sir had objected to the erm er allocation proposed for of employment land under I five er to Harrogate , er believing that it should have been even more than |
| 5 | And finally Mr chairman on this point , we did in fact do some checking to see the sense of using what the county planning committee had recommended to the H er Highways and Transport Committee that they should regard the six five eight , A five nine one as the correct link to the A one . |
| 6 | In the previous year the Cubists and a large number of their friends had exhibited at the Galerie de l'Art Contemporain in the rue Tronchet , under the auspices of the Societe Normande de Peinture Moderne . |
| 7 | Although two years had passed since that nightmare day when Simon had crashed on the Grand Prix circuit in Australia , Ashley had always known that , sooner or later , it must be her destiny to meet up with the tall , broad-shouldered Portuguese again . |
| 8 | The Parisian populace , displaying its usual unpredictability , was not overly enthusiastic in its reception of the Imperial couple — In contrast , noted Count Hubner , the Austrian Ambassador , with the enthusiasm they had shown at the Te Deum held the previous year to celebrate the coup d'état of 2 December . |
| 9 | The BBC decided to prune the Sunday League , and we had to share with a grand prix or a showjumping event . |
| 10 | With the appointment of Shearman as the Board 's resident tutor in Bedfordshire and Baker 's appointment to a similar post for Cambridgeshire for the development of rural adult education , the Board 's rural areas sub-committee had emerged as a de facto permanent committee of the Board — a position constitutionally confirmed in 1932 through its formal designation as the Board 's Rural Areas Committee with Professor Barker as its chairman . |
| 11 | Among the many exhibitions organised by Bean was ‘ Italian Renaissance Drawings from the Musée du Louvre , Paris ’ , which drew on his professional links with the Louvre Bean had worked at the Cabinet des Dessins as Chargé de mission à titre étranger from 1957 to 1960 . |
| 12 | Keynesian economics no longer had to resort to the deus ex machina of postulating a ‘ sociologically determined ’ level of money wages . |
| 13 | Apart from the wad of Reichsmarks that Joyce had acquired at the bureau de change , they had nothing at all . |
| 14 | Thoughts on women and politics generally tended to emerge on an ad hoc basis as a by-product of empirical studies into voting behaviour and political participation carried out in the 1950s and 60s . |
| 15 | Further changes were required to the to the office and to the practice generally er we wanted to maximise on the er er o on the benefits that were going to be derived and the qualities and the skills that we have already got in place er and we wanted to move towards market leadership . |
| 16 | Constance wanted to return to the status quo before the illegitimate grandson of Roger II , Tancred , count of Lecce , became king in 1190 ( i.e. to the state under King William I and King William II , 1154 to 1189 ) , but her offers concerned only the continental kingdom not the island . |
| 17 | Pressure-group activity , therefore , tended to occur on an ad hoc issue basis rather than be based on a system of permanently structured relationships . |