Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun sg] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , in their daily practice , as in London , each SCC nominated a ‘ responsible helper ’ who first met the headteacher to discuss those juveniles who were about to leave school , and then interviewed the young people themselves and their parents . |
| 2 | There were some reservations concerning the durability of the pact , however , for although the NZCTU covered some 400,000 workers , it lacked the authority to compel affiliated unions to abide by the wage restraint accord . |
| 3 | The relevant statute empowered the council to pay such wages as it thought fit . |
| 4 | With that in mind , the officers rightly in my opinion made the decision to bring this incident to a halt in this way . |
| 5 | The authorities which made the list became hot gossip — Walsall , Avon , Haringey , Greenwich , Barking & Dagenham , North Tyneside , Newcastle , Manchester and Liverpool . |
| 6 | One of the resident theatre companies at the Old Museum , Out and Out , devised the show using extensive research on the situation of hostages and former hostages , including John McCarthy and Brian Keenan . |
| 7 | Whoever owned the cabin had wide-ranging interests — apart from several well-thumbed fishing journals and a variety of motoring magazines , there were numerous glossies that provided her with food for thought . |
| 8 | She married into the Tallentire family , who owned the pub called New Spittal in the same area but relinquished the licence because of their Methodist beliefs . |
| 9 | In this he was only following in Lanfranc 's footsteps , and it is clear that he expected the king to exercise more authority in ecclesiastical affairs than the more ‘ advanced ’ ecclesiastical theorists of his time thought tolerable . |
| 10 | Controllers at the air-sea rescue control centre at RAF Pitreavie in Fife expected the search to last all night . |
| 11 | SWINDON squandered the chance to regain second place in the First Division yesterday . |
| 12 | Peterboro 3 , Swindon 3 SWINDON squandered the chance to regain second place in the First Division yesterday . |
| 13 | The deal involved two power-generating companies : Wisconsin Light and Power sold the right to emit 10,000 tonnes of sulphur dioxide to the Tennessee Valley Authority for $3 million . |
| 14 | Nationalism encouraged workers to identify with their nation rather than their class , while developmentalism asked the worker to sacrifice short-term gains , such as better working conditions and remuneration , for long-term interests , on the basis that industrialisation benefits all in the long run . |
| 15 | Like with the previous meeting to discuss the self-appraisal , the report was considered page by page , but at the end the chairperson asked the head to make some recommendations . |
| 16 | The Prime Minister , Lord Grey , asked the King to create fifty peers . |
| 17 | Corbett entrusted him with a short letter in which he asked the King to supply simple answers to what Corbett considered simple questions . |
| 18 | Mr Parkinson said the report asked the Government to allocate sufficient frequencies for BR to operate cab radios effectively . |
| 19 | Mr Branson yesterday asked the Government to appoint independent inspectors through the Department of Trade to investigate ‘ BA 's commercial practices towards their British rivals ’ . |
| 20 | He asked the department to review all decisions to reduce security levels over the past year , and report to the SSI within three months . |
| 21 | This would last about 2–3 weeks , during which time I asked the family to make great efforts with the treatment plan . |
| 22 | The depute fiscal , Elaine Warden , asked the sheriff to demand more staff for patients whose agitated conditions made them liable to fall out of bed . |
| 23 | Against this background the member states of the Community asked the Commission to put forward proposals for achieving the single market . |
| 24 | Paddy Ashdown went on the now familiar walkabout and braved the scrum to canvass more support . |
| 25 | On May 21 Lesotho announced the decision to establish diplomatic relation as soon as possible . |
| 26 | ‘ What 's puzzling Henry , ’ said Lizzie now , ‘ is where he got the money to buy that bungalow ? |
| 27 | But Levy admitted the case raised important issues about excluding a perpetrator from the family home . |
| 28 | The language of the statute in the Central Bank case led the court to rebut this presumption and to conclude that the Registrar of Companies could make certain binding decisions on issues of mixed fact and law . |
| 29 | Speculation about the cause of the fire led the government to ask British police officers to conduct an investigation . |
| 30 | But still the employers resisted , and it was not until August 1917 that discontent among seamen led the government to establish joint meetings between the Ministry of Shipping , the NSFU and the Shipping Federation , with the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Shipping , Sir Leo Chiozza Money as chairman , from which there evolved in the following November a joint " National Maritime Marine Board " , of the kind which Wilson had long advocated , which within a few weeks referred to itself as the National Maritime Board . |