Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intention was always to develop the College as a learning community , which deliberately sought to emphasise the common experiences of working-class people through the full use of the residential setting by |
| 2 | The steering group then expanded to include the chief executives of Gwynedd County Council and Targed and the regional director of Welsh Water . |
| 3 | Durkheim sought to establish the scientific credentials of sociology by arguing that it should be concerned only with its own special order of " social facts " ; that is , those events and processes which possessed the qualities of externality , constraint and generality . |
| 4 | For world trade was in serious decline and even the belated one-year moratorium on foreign debt payments , announced by Hoover in 1931 , failed to revive the ailing economies of Europe . |
| 5 | He soon got to know the other joggers of the district . |
| 6 | Some of his harshest condemnations were reserved for those who tried to evade the plain commands of God ( set out in the Old Testament law ) by means of merely human traditions , however venerable . |
| 7 | They are paying tribute to Prime Minister Robert Mugabe 's policy of reconciliation , which had forestalled the kind of ‘ white flight ’ from the commercial sector that helped cripple the modernizing economies of African countries in the 1960s . |
| 8 | The voters , in other words , had not moved solidly to the right , their position was one of ambivalence ; they had become deeply sceptical about the role of government and yet they still expected government to aid them as they tried to meet the pressing problems of modern life . |
| 9 | The Habsburgs thus tried to isolate the various movements of national autonomy from their peasant base , and the Russian tsar did the same in Poland . |
| 10 | Thus he helped to pass the tedious hours of air travel during a world tour in 1946 by reading Bagehot 's The English Constitution . |
| 11 | Firstly because , by giving the EEC its own resources from agricultural levies and customs duties , it would give the Commission greater independence ; and secondly because it proposed to widen the budgetary powers of the European Parliament , again strengthening the supranational element in the EEC to which the General was opposed . |
| 12 | He served on important committees and helped organize the United Colonies of New England , a confederation of the Massachusetts , Connecticut , New Haven , and Plymouth colonies . |
| 13 | It was in the second phase , then , that linguists stepped to the fore and tried to replace the simple notions of language code and language deficit . |
| 14 | The shortages were partly the result of reduced capacity at two main refineries which helped process the 1,700,000 barrels of crude oil produced per day . |
| 15 | We tried to identify the main features of current best practice in English by describing classrooms where , individually and collaboratively , pupils are seen : |
| 16 | Like looters after a big raid who tried to steal the mangled possessions of shattered houses . |
| 17 | Medicare provided those over 65 with 80% of the fees for hospital treatment ; Medicaid helped to cover the medical expenses of the poor . |
| 18 | Intent on trying not to forget what had brought her marching into his room , she tried to stoke the fading embers of her rage . |
| 19 | This is one of the photographs which helped to form the earliest conceptions of the medium . |
| 20 | Soon after this Helen Stoner married her young man and tried to forget the terrible deaths of her sister and stepfather . |
| 21 | Just eleven players since 1905 have appeared in Palace colours more often than Vince but , in reviewing his career with us , one is left with the feeling that , while it promised to climb the highest peaks of success , it in fact merely reached the approaches . |
| 22 | I struggled back into equilibrium and tried to ride the pulverising waves of misery and found to my desperate dismay that the finger of arrow in front was almost an inch longer . |
| 23 | So , just as the falls are important to Schaffhausen 's expanding tourist industry , so energetically fostered by a lively local tourist office , so they helped lay the first foundations of prosperity hundreds of years ago . |
| 24 | In the little garden of the Hof Arents she stopped to admire the modern sculptures of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse when a voice behind her said , ‘ Merrill — Merrill Stanton … ! |
| 25 | Tried to explain the real implications of quantum physics as we crossed Kensington Road . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Anna stopped to examine the great plates of fungus growing out from a tree-stump . |
| 28 | The immediate roots of British fascism thus grew from those who tried to ignore the real consequences of the first World War . |
| 29 | Delia Sutherland stopped calling her unreturned greetings , tried to ignore the many pairs of sun-tired eyes , slow-moving behind glaucous panes , as they measured her progress past the wooden church , the school , the town hall , the fire house , the inn . |
| 30 | She tried to push the painful memories of her young companions ’ deaths to the back of her mind . |