Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [det] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Oct. 15 , prison officials agreed to meet some of the prisoners ' demands , including the improvement of conditions in isolation cells . |
| 2 | We gradually got to know some of the members of our Pathfinder Squadron , and to realise that they were in fact rather special . |
| 3 | Calandrini 's excellent contacts with leading Puritans , such as William Kiffin and Sidrach Simpson [ qq.v. ] , helped to ease many of the difficulties the Dutch community in London faced during the turbulent 1640s . |
| 4 | In this section I have attempted a preliminary outline of a definition of modernism , and tried to draw some of the connections in the generic relationship between modernism and the bourgeoisie . |
| 5 | As Ariel 's voice reached through the darkness that had walled up Sycorax in pain , she tried to recall some of the things she had once known ; she murmured and found that when she did so Ariel stopped singing , so she tried not to remember out loud , but to save the retrieved pieces inside her so that the low , scraping voice of the girl she loved would not be interrupted . |
| 6 | Kim Young Sam , who was due to begin his single five-year term of office on Feb. 25 , 1993 , promised to maintain many of the policies of his predecessor . |
| 7 | The first stage of the war , to 1343 , had produced more problems and doubts than profits and successes ; the second stage , from 1343 to 1356 , was punctuated by glittering triumphs and extensive conquests , both of which helped to redeem some of the debts and to quell some of the doubts . |
| 8 | The last edition of Network promised to reveal some of the plans for Clarence . |
| 9 | It was switched off when the subject changed to pain control , which seemed to irritate most of the women present . |
| 10 | By the frequency of his visits he came to know most of the artists and was fond of addressing them in a loud voice by their first names as they came out of the studio . |
| 11 | That seemed to satisfy most of the nomes . |
| 12 | Also in Scandinavia was an important study of the mass movement processes on the slopes of Kärkevagge ( Rapp , 1960 ) and this was important not only because it endeavoured to quantify all of the processes that affect a slope in a subarctic environment , but also because it established the relative significance of the different processes and concluded that the most effective agent of removal was running water removing material in solution . |
| 13 | The attractiveness of thermally stable structures for buildings that are in a day-long , year-round use seemed to influence most of the submissions . |
| 14 | At that time the party seemed to have many of the characteristics of a party which did not expect to win elections : it had changed its leadership only a few weeks before the general election was called , Lansbury having resigned and been replaced by Attlee on a temporary basis ; and it suffered from a good deal of internal factionalism , and found its major policy demand — collective security through the League of Nations — ‘ scooped ’ by Stanley Baldwin , the Prime Minister . |
| 15 | Then the smell of warm grass came to join that of the roses and gunpowder and he fell asleep for a few moments , dreaming of cricket fields and meadows . |
| 16 | So Castells was the pioneer of what came to be seen as the ‘ new urban sociology ’ and , paradoxically , The City and the Grassroots seemed to recover some of the themes ( especially that of the experience of the immediate spatial and social setting ) which he had earlier rejected in the Chicago School . |
| 17 | But for many years after 1979 this approach seemed to embody many of the qualities which a depressed , declining nation yearned for and acclaimed . |
| 18 | So successful had been Winterbottom 's immersion in unyielding All Black ways that even though the 1983 Lions , of which he was a member , failed to win any of the tests , he was named as one of New Zealand rugby 's five players of the year . |
| 19 | Those communities which did not receive franchises seem to have suffered a greater degree of extortion , as their lords strove to recover some of the profits they were losing elsewhere . |
| 20 | The baby was born at 7.20 in the morning , in the labour ward not the delivery room because Wendy failed to persuade any of the nurses that the baby was on the way . |
| 21 | Yet there had also been a long lag before financial markets began to apply many of the points these academics made . |
| 22 | After a while I began to understand some of the noises that the people made to each other . |
| 23 | Walking back to the club that night and recalling old Martin 's letter , I began to understand some of the qualities that make a successful courtier . |
| 24 | So we made these tests more complex in order to increase their relevance , but in so doing we produced tests which were so sophisticated as not to be widely available due to cost and personnel requirements , and which began to show some of the problems found when we measured performance ‘ on-site ’ . |
| 25 | The right hon. Gentleman can hardly refer to such a body as having the kind of authority with which he seeks to imbue it when it disagreed on a number of matters and failed to address any of the ones that really matter . |
| 26 | However , CODESA II , which brought together the government , ANC and 17 other organizations , ended in deadlock and delegates failed to adopt any of the reports of the five working parties which had been established at the first CODESA session in December 1991 [ see pp. 38662-63 ; 38705 ] . |
| 27 | He had memories of Vienna before the 1939 war , and liked people who took care over such things as coffee — proper , expensive coffee — as he tried to himself , however much he decided to ignore most of the facts of being poor . |
| 28 | I decided to examine some of the services that made up this massive total . |
| 29 | Nixon now agreed to release some of the tapes ; but others remained " missing " and on one a vital section had been erased " accidentally " . |
| 30 | Hallin managed to alleviate some of the problems with Red Rhino , and as the band found themselves more and more entangled in the music industry , he became a king of protective figure for them , a buffer against the business world . |