Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initial Egyptian investigations into the attack revealed little concrete information about the perpetrators of the attack , and on Feb. 7 the authorities imposed a news blackout . |
| 2 | Notwithstanding their impulse to improve , most officials came to recognize , after a year or two in Masailand , that on the whole the Masai made remarkably efficient use of the land . |
| 3 | She bought a car , which widened the range of our activities but made little other difference to the lives of us boys . |
| 4 | Right across the social scale , religion made little perceptible difference to the outward shape of life . |
| 5 | A heavy stream of important trading statements made little lasting impression on the shares involved . |
| 6 | A heavy stream of important trading statements made little lasting impression on the shares involved . |
| 7 | the rest of the production process was dependent upon this stage , but the operators got only intermittent feedback on the performance of the mixing process and were unable to effect control over it ; |
| 8 | For a while they made so much work for the bailiffs that they had little time to harass the Nonconformists . |
| 9 | The company says that while it expected somewhat lower revenue in the first quarter because of seasonal factors and a product transition to R4000-based systems , the revenue decline was principally down to deferrals in customer orders and licensing activity as a result of the announcement of the proposed merger deal . |
| 10 | The first point to note , therefore , is that many of the disruptions in the first evacuation scheme , which produced so much distress in the children ( resulting , in particular , in bed-wetting ) were primarily the result of poor civil defence planning . |
| 11 | Though President George Bush regularly devoted large chunks of his State of the Union address to foreign affairs , Mr Clinton made only passing reference to the end of the Cold War . |
| 12 | In terms of the circulation of literature , birth control ideas made only modest progress before the 1870s . |
| 13 | The contemporary academic debate among economists had become bogged down in a rather arid byway of marginal costing and subsidies , and provided little useful guidance on the substantive issues of the day . |
| 14 | ( The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic had become a member on April 7 , 1948 , but had for many years maintained only token participation in the organization . ) |
| 15 | But in fashioning his movement , Baden-Powell skilfully wove together any number of the political questions that preoccupied his contemporaries , and the movement 's spectacular growth drew on deep funds of social anxiety — anxieties which invariably settled around the excessive liberty allowed to young people and the attendant demoralisation which was , in turn , linked to a newly perceived upsurge in crime and violence among the young . |
| 16 | Days after finding the card which promised so much happiness for the future , Tim learned that his wife and her best friend Elizabeth Over had been beaten and knifed to death , their bodies mutilated . |
| 17 | For example , Buttel and Flinn ( 1977 ) in a survey of Wisconsin residents found only weak support for the hypothesis that ruralism was more strongly associated with environmental ( ecological ) concern rather than agrarianism . |
| 18 | She proposes to recruit a famous cricket fan Prime Minister John Major , with whom she dined only last week to the fight . |
| 19 | Leaving aside food , drink and tobacco , industrial prices rose only 2.9 p.c. over the year and 0.6 p.c. in the last three months . |
| 20 | Following the application of correction factors to permit comparison of intermediate diameters from both sieving and settling techniques Komar & cui ( 1984 ) demonstrated extremely close similarity between the results from the two forms of analysis applied to sediments from a wide range of depositional environments . |
| 21 | As it claimed to be the functioning government of Vietnam it was hardly surprising that US officers , particularly OSS , maintained fairly close contact with the Vietminh and perhaps there was a genuine basis for the American — Vietnamese Friendship Association ; and when the senior US officer , General Gallagher , was persuaded to sing at one of their meetings and , apparently , broadcast on Vietminh radio , this too was in itself a comparatively innocent exercise . |
| 22 | Two of the old Bunch ( Burroughs and Sperry ) merged into Unisys ; Digital Equipment ( DEC ) and Hewlett-Packard provided increasingly severe competition in the minicomputer range and as the main beneficiaries of ‘ down-sizing ’ ( in effect producing mainframe-level computer power on a much smaller and cheaper machine ) . |
| 23 | While the agencies maintained almost total control over the enforcement of standards , a control which could be preserved in the absence of publicity , this posed no problem : ‘ A lot of the standards were set by River Authorities ; and the works were n't capable of achieving [ them ] anyway , ’ a senior official said . |
| 24 | Wellcome 's share price rose earlier this year after the suggestion that a combination of Retrovir and Zovirax halved the number of deaths in Aids patients compared with Retrovir alone ( Chem . |
| 25 | Most of all she found there strong support for the mutually independent role of husband and wife that she and Edward had developed over two years of frustration and parental disapproval . |
| 26 | Similarly , Nava , Butler and Glass ( 1975 ) found relatively greater suppression over the right hemisphere when subjects performed a face recognition task and greater suppression over the left hemisphere when subjects attempted problems of mental arithmetic . |
| 27 | THE BMC 'S BUXTON FESTIVAL PROVIDED YET ANOTHER FORUM FOR THE BOLTS ISSUE TO BE DEBATED . |
| 28 | Overall , we found very strong support for the idea of basing the new qualifications on existing modular provision in Scotland , in order to maintain the coherence of our national qualifications framework . |
| 29 | It was notable that , in his introductory speech , the Home Secretary devoted very little time to the content of the Bill and scarcely sought to justify it . |
| 30 | On the principle question in the case , the concensus of the judges was that the authorities against the existance of the defence were irresistable , but perhaps this payed too little regard to the paralell rule for the priviledge of self-defence . |