Example sentences of "[vb past] with [art] [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heath 's revived corporatism in the early 1970s crumpled with the miners ' strikes and the OPEC price explosion , while the Labour government of the late 1970s was able only to breathe intermittent life into a system of corporate direction which powerful producer-groups and multinational companies in the so-called ‘ meso-economy ’ were both undermining . |
| 2 | At about the same time he began buying copyrights : the first book to bear his imprint was an edition of Horace 's Lyrics , published in 1653 ; the first copyright he registered with the Stationers ' Company was a translation by Sir Kenelm Digby [ q.v. ] of Albert the Great 's Treatise Adhering to God , entered 19 September 1653 . |
| 3 | Christie sat in the dock yesterday gently nodding as if she agreed with the judges ' decision to increase her sentence by 80 per cent . |
| 4 | During the 1950s pressure for road improvements mounted ; the British Roads Federation , which represented road construction interests , joined forces with professional lobbies , motor manufacturers and traders , while the TUC aligned with the employers ' associations for more spending . |
| 5 | These trends were supposed to be so powerful that many groups were driven to extinction as once-useful organs became overdeveloped to the extent that they interfered with the animals ' ability to cope with the environment . |
| 6 | The craft of caring for clothes vanished with the ladies ' maid and the most common modern method of storage — hanging them , shrouded in plastic , on a wire coathanger — is less than ideal . |
| 7 | Within the government , local officials of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources have expressed misgivings over the fact that permission was granted at senior level despite the findings of environmental impact assessments which concurred with the environmentalists ' fears . |
| 8 | Fear of being ousted from Edward 's entourage by the king 's Poitevin half-brothers perhaps gave him a personal interest in the political upheaval of 1258 , which began with the half-brothers ' expulsion from England . |
| 9 | Cullen is a Morse veteran , the cast is to some extent interchangeable , and the story is re-jigged so that instead of opening in Paris — as in the book — it began with the Fellows ' Winter Feast at St Mark 's College , with intrigue and skulduggery at high table . |
| 10 | They met up and talked with the carpenters ' committee , who would have lent £3,000 out of their fund of £20,000 had they not been astonished to learn that the knitters had themselves no permanent fund " to answer any demand at any time " . |
| 11 | The interacting transparent planes used by the Cubists to achieve this fusion and to explain and develop form , coincided with the Futurists ' conception of the transparency of objects , and proved capable of adaptation to give a sense of dynamic balance or movement . |
| 12 | Although they were all allocated to coal traffic in the East Midlands , their arrival coincided with the miners ' strike , and in truth BR only tolerated the construction of so many because the components were already on order . |
| 13 | Fortunately it coincided with the miners ' strike of 1984 . |
| 14 | They were the most frequent of the Tyburn rioters who contested with the surgeons ' agents for the bodies of the hanged . |
| 15 | It also contrasted with the tenants ' associations in that it was not directly representative of those whose cause it espoused . |
| 16 | A third group were idealists and enlisted with the Artists ' Rifles and other forces , whether or not they were physically suited for fighting . |
| 17 | A third group were idealists and enlisted with the Artists ' Rifles and other forces , whether or not they were physically suited for fighting . |
| 18 | The 1980s ended with the tabloids ' confidence waning , and with the Sun 's nudes moving to page five , perhaps to slip away for good . |