Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] in [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of the secret , as I tried to demonstrate in the last chapter , is the way in which we discuss again and again our ideas and proposals up and down the company , continuously adjusting , altering and probing our positions until , at last , we reach a conclusion which we can all accept and work to . |
| 2 | In particular the Polish government ( supported by the UK government , with which Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki had talks in London on Feb. 14 , and by Modrow , who visited Warsaw on Feb. 16 ) sought to participate in the second phase of the two-plus-four talks . |
| 3 | The apparent ineffectiveness of naval forces , particularly when contrasted with the vital role which they came to play in the sixteenth century , may have turned students against the subject . |
| 4 | As for Edmund , the Danes themselves may have supported his cult , as the Danish rulers of East Anglia came to do in the ninth century , and if so he would eventually have become a means of reconciliation between the two peoples . |
| 5 | This came to dominate in the last years of the century . |
| 6 | In 1970 the Heath government sought to fit in the third piece of the Plowden jigsaw — the efficiency function . |
| 7 | Next 's 8 p.c. fewer high street shops , to 312 , returned to profit in the second half and sales rose 6 p.c. year-on-year after a 9 p.c. second-half rise . |
| 8 | The Masterpiece , a collection of folklore about the body and its functions , was probably the single most popular source of information on sex relations and childbirth , and the continuing publication of this work was possibly the last remnant of a much stronger popular demand and usage that began to grow in the nineteenth century with increasing literate audiences demanding knowledge . |
| 9 | Franco himself may have realized this , for his erstwhile enthusiasm for Arrese and his project began to wane in the second half of 1956 , as opposition to it became more widespread and vocal among the non-Falangist sectors of the regime . |
| 10 | Things began to improve in the nineteenth century , however , when more coordinated methods were employed , and for the first time , digging began to be directed at finding out about Pompeii , rather than making a profit . |
| 11 | The strain under which Airdrie are operating began to tell in the second half when Falkirk attempted to mount a fightback . |
| 12 | ‘ How did they get the £250,000 spare wealth needed to qualify in the first place ’ , is one theme I hear from these envy-driven commentators . |
| 13 | After a year at Oxford University , Edward went to fight in the First World War . |
| 14 | In the first half we attacked the Kop end and hopes were high that Crewe would conceed a bagful of goals in the first half when Deane actually managed to score in the 17th minute . |
| 15 | First commissions could be obtained through political interest , and this would appear to have been the situation of Philip Hay , whom Admiral Lord Keith managed to place in the 11th Foot as an ensign on the strength of imaginary past service , though his patron remarked that ‘ if his father can not get at old General Grant or Lady Sutherland he may not be confirmed . |
| 16 | With atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide expected to double in the next century , plants would open the stomata through which they breathe for shorter periods reducing the transpiration of water and providing less water for cloud formation . |
| 17 | The Portadown player had to work in the first couple of frames but after that he stepped up a gear and dismissed the English player almost scornfully . |
| 18 | A few years earlier it had been calculated that if the populations of modern cities continued to increase in the 20th century , so would the horse-traffic , and that by 1960 cities like New York , London , and Glasgow , would be 100 feet deep in horse manure . |
| 19 | Recession may be burying the major continental economies , with the likelihood that things will get much worse before they start to get better , but the European personal computer market continued to prosper in the first quarter , the Wall Street Journal reports . |
| 20 | Although the decision represents a much needed victory for the regulatory authorities , it is unfortunate that the appellate courts had to intervene in the first place . |
| 21 | I continued to stay in the Second Son 's bedroom in the villa . |
| 22 | Well Charlton had to improve in the second half , and they did ; they got more men into mid-field , and United began to run out of a little bit of steam . |
| 23 | As for the second charge , that democracy , perhaps like British liberty in the nineteenth century , was parasitic upon empire , A.H.M. Jones points out that it continued to operate in the fourth century , after the loss of empire , and , indeed , was if anything more expensive then than before , since it was then that payment for attendance at the assembly was added to payment for other public duties . |
| 24 | If we were all going my father and the elder boys had to follow in a second cab . |
| 25 | NEC is to develop a special version of its UP 4800 server series for Control Data , with shipments expected to begin in the second half of 1993 . |
| 26 | By 1741 the British version of the cabinet noir , the ‘ Secret Office ’ , was employing nine people ; and its cost tended to increase in the second half of the century . |
| 27 | Why has executive power tended to increase in the twentieth century ? |
| 28 | And delighted Blades , who began the season on a month 's loan at Molineux , insisted : ‘ I never wanted to leave in the first place . ’ |