Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some Guardians pursued the new policy more vigorously than others . |
| 2 | Some schools adopted the imagined Plowden ideal enthusiastically , sometimes , it must be said , without thinking through the implications of the changes which they introduced . |
| 3 | The members of the School Boards were more secular in their thinking than the builders of the earlier parish schools , and although some designers used the Gothic style , it was argued that ‘ … a continuation of the semi-ecclesiastical style … would appear to be inappropriate and lacking in anything to mark the great change which is coming over the education of the country ’ . |
| 4 | Rather than attempt to make the painful transition to a new reality where those who were yesterday 's ‘ enemy ’ today become the ‘ friend ’ , some guards preferred the strange safety of death . |
| 5 | Few clients knew the probable losses they were letting themselves in for , were they to continue trading . |
| 6 | A few schools used the Minor award to take on " major " challenges , while two were successful in receiving additional project funds in a subsequent year , presumably an acknowledgement that the initial diagnosis of their need was only partially informed . |
| 7 | A few schools mentioned the expanding remit of senior staff as ‘ a worrying situation ’ and implications for staff development of the co-ordinator were also raised : |
| 8 | WC apps : 7 Some observers thought the Soviet Union were a better all-round side than Holland in the 1988 European Championship . |
| 9 | In Rome he was housed comfortably and on 13 April attended the first hearing , when some Dominicans produced the unsigned document . |
| 10 | Ironically , Mr Yeltsin 's studious absence from public view for the past few days forced the two parties to seek a solution and not wait for him to intervene . |
| 11 | To this Downs added the technical constraints on spontaneous co-ordination arising from limited capacities for knowledge and information , meaning that different officials have to specialize and therefore acquire different ‘ bundles ’ of information . |
| 12 | I 'm in some ways surprised the non-political groups want to affiliate with with the party . |
| 13 | The dissection was continued 5–6 cm up the oesophagus , leaving the vagal trunks intact while some surgeons divided the perioesophageal vessels , others did not . |
| 14 | He was so favourably impressed by the industrial potential of the area that he and some friends raised the necessary capital to revive the works , and as a result he moved to Shropshire . |
| 15 | Some doctors recognized the medical need for relief from child-bearing , others were concerned about the eugenic aspects of differential birth-rates . |
| 16 | Some teachers adopted the recommended practices ; some found difficulty in doing so ; others rejected them . |
| 17 | Some teachers said the first draft of the unit was biased toward an anti-nuclear view , Ris concedes , but he adds that the final version is more balanced . |
| 18 | When large crowds gathered for an illegal rave last year at Castlemorton Common in Worcestershire , some critics suggested the easy availability of benefits was one factor in allowing the event to drag on for almost a week . |
| 19 | When large crowds gathered for an illegal rave last year at Castlemorton Common in Worcestershire , some critics suggested the easy availability of benefits was one factor in allowing the event to drag on for almost a week . |
| 20 | In this day and age , a few walkers find pleasing footpaths leading through this quiet old village , which was once very much a self-supporting community when access to the world outside the dale was difficult , especially in a hard winter when few travellers braved the snow-blocked lanes between the hills . |
| 21 | However , this leaves uncovered the larger part of the region in which 10 per cent of its population live . |
| 22 | In combination with his ardent desire to improve the living standard of the British working man , this made for a potent brand of imperialism ; few politicians took the Dual Mandate more seriously than Ernest Bevin . |
| 23 | Some shafts rose the full height of the wall to support the vault springing , others ended at the nave arcade . |
| 24 | The regular salaries attached to the more important posts in the customs and excise administration , for example , were in themselves attractive to many voters in Scottish constituencies , and were the objects of a great deal of political negotiation , for this kind of appointment was the normal currency of management for the politician able to procure it , and the links between parliamentary politics and the disposal of such offices made the nominal right of appointment possessed by the boards of commissioners in Edinburgh somewhat illusory . |
| 25 | About 68 per cent of illegitimate births were jointly registered in the names of both parents in 1987 compared to 53 per cent in 1977 , and in 1987 , 70 per cent of such parents gave the same address . |
| 26 | As such Curteys represented the new voice of Elizabethan England , combining a zeal for spiritual regeneration inspired by the Swiss Calvinists with the new theological learning of Cambridge . |
| 27 | The relative ignorance of judges and barristers about such films led the Criminal Bar Association to testify to Williams in 1978 that the deprave-and-corrupt test had outlived its usefulness , which led that Committee to recommend replacement of the criminal test by a scheme of prohibition based on physical rather than psychological harm to ( 1 ) children involved in child pornography , and ( 2 ) humans or animals involved in so-called ‘ snuff movies ’ . |
| 28 | Once immensely popular , such paintings commanded the highest prices : in the 1880s Meisonnier 's ‘ Information : General Desaix and the peasant ’ was bought by William Vanderbilt from a German collector for $50,000 . |
| 29 | Such topics included the economic dominance of the small ethnic Chinese community and religious issues ( which seriously compromised the electoral prospects of the PPP ) . |
| 30 | Such arrangements suited the mutual interests firms shared both with each other and with skilled workers . |