Example sentences of "[det] [vb past] [adv] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This became both the cornerstone of future government policy and the unquestioned assumption of subsequent government reports , including the Barlow Report in 1940 which made the strongest and most comprehensive case for regional development . |
| 2 | This seemed clearly a case of the patient needing the medicine more frequently so I suggested she take it at least 4 times daily . |
| 3 | This opened up the prospect of democracy being installed not by a bourgeois government but by ‘ a revolutionary democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry ’ . |
| 4 | There was no alternative to capitalism as a method of economic development , and at this period this implied both the realisation of the economic and institutional programme of the liberal bourgeoisie ( with local variations ) , and the crucial position in the state of that bourgeoisie itself . |
| 5 | Side by side with this grew up a number of smaller specialised departments — a bureau des fonds which dealt with the ministry 's own internal finances , the surveillance of foreigners in France , questions of diplomatic privilege and a wide variety of other relatively minor issues ; a bureau des interprètes which took shape in the 1750s and 1760s and was given definitive form in 1768 ; a department concerned with codes and cyphers ; and a geographical one which by the 1780s had a remarkable collection of about 10,000 maps . |
| 6 | The nervous tension of dodging and ducking about a sky crowded with equally dodging and ducking planes , some firing , some looking as if they might fire at any instant , some sheering wildly away to avoid a collision ; and all the time trying to grab a quick shot at a mere point of light : all this brought back the strain of combat , when you were pressed on by the excitement of chasing the enemy , pulled back by the horror of shooting a friend , and periodically shaken with fright by the thought that at any second you might be cut in two . |
| 7 | One immediate response to the CEGB 's announcement was the formation of the Alliance Against Hinkley C. This brought together a mixture of Friends of the Earth supporters from Bristol — only some twenty-five miles north of Hinkley — and others who had been active in the Somerset anti-waste-dumping campaign of the 1970s . |
| 8 | This brought together a number of the main themes of the New Deal its interest in social and economic planning and in scientific farming and conservation , its campaign for the provision of electrical power in the rural areas , and its concern with the revival of depressed communities . |
| 9 | With Britain a nation of mortgage-holders who operated in an economy based in large measure on the credit system , this brought home the immediacy of the government 's difficulties with the economy to almost every householder in the land . |
| 10 | Then came the advent of the digital computer and this brought about the concept of setting type by using light — phototypesetting . |
| 11 | It came to him that he could lock the door , there was a bolt on it , but this conjured up the vision of her battering on it , for she certainly would n't be deterred by the fact that she was raising the house ; she would know that Mary was the only one in it at the moment . |
| 12 | This summed up the view of many : in previous decades intellectuals were frequently punished for being politically ‘ reactionary ’ , i.e. rightists . |
| 13 | This set out a pattern of Soviet policy in Far East and South East Asia in terms of a Soviet policy which sought to weaken the ties between the colonies and the colonial powers through the encouragement of nationalism and by capitalizing on the discontent caused by long periods of ‘ colonial oppression ’ and by disrupting the colonial economies either by armed action or by labour disorders so that the metropolitan powers would be deprived of revenue and resources . |
| 14 | All were approached , and all turned down the privilege of printing Britain 's first underground magazine . |
| 15 | King George IV , the British Museum , Sir Robert Peel and Lawrence 's patron Lord Dudley all turned down the offer of the collection . |
| 16 | The general reconnaissance raid , mounted to find out what enemy defences if any stood along a stretch of coast , developed into the assault pilotage surveys of 1943 and 1944 , secretly landing for specific intelligence of beach conditions and defences . |
| 17 | Each had also a band of black linen with a white stripe running through it tied round their upper arms , wound round their helmets or dangling from their sword hilts . |
| 18 | Jubilant , most gave up the idea of protesting in the freezing temperatures again , but approximately 1,000 persisted with their plan . |