Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His fierce anti-Common Market views led to a challenge to his candidacy for the South Edinburgh seat in 1973 which he successfully fought off . |
| 2 | In addition to the services of every kind asked by the voters , effective management would also involve the politician in substantial expenses , for any major political figure owed it to his position in society to give generously for any public concern . |
| 3 | Moreover , imbalances arose within the economy as a whole , in particular between consumption goods and capital goods . |
| 4 | In the Catholic school moral education is a whole school task where pupils are enabled to experience moral values lived in the life of the school . |
| 5 | first , the existing local authorities argued for the retention of the status quo ; second , some Conservative Members of Parliament sought to retain the existing system as far as possible in such areas as Surrey ; third , groups concerned with some services — particularly education — pointed out weaknesses in the proposals as far as their service was concerned ( Rhodes 1970 : 120 ) . |
| 6 | The British authorities argued at the time that the way to tackle this problem of falling competitiveness , far from being to allow the pound to devalue , was to maintain a rigid exchange rate for sterling and so through the resulting high interest rates and tight money ‘ to squeeze inflation out of the system ’ . |
| 7 | He felt that such ‘ impersonal ’ coverage amounted to a propaganda victory for the IRA . |
| 8 | The settlement does not , however , protect E&Y from civil suits filed by former investors in S&Ls — the $63m it paid in connection with Lincoln arose from a civil suit . |
| 9 | His ginger beard came round and his teeth gleamed for a second . |
| 10 | She stared at him , her mouth slightly open so that her rather small even teeth gleamed in the thin October sunshine that was now filling the kitchen . |
| 11 | Lally gasped and coughed , she even spat , her teeth gleamed against the mud . |
| 12 | SHEILA lived in a cottage on the rocky shelf of a mountain . |
| 13 | The Great Earth Mother Mafulke lived in the Underworld and tended the enormous fires which blazed there . |
| 14 | Tarn Howe glowed beneath an unsuitably blue sky . |
| 15 | His chest gleamed like a mirror as the thick , cheap jewellery draped across it caught the sunlight . |
| 16 | Flora Macdonald lived in a small farm estate , off this road . |
| 17 | William read through the article , finding two literals , while she finished the last page . |
| 18 | Countries making commitments in August to the multinational force , apart from the USA and those European and Arab countries as described above , included ( i ) Canada , a NATO member country , which announced on Aug. 10 that it would send two destroyers and a supply ship , to arrive by September ; ( ii ) Australia , whose Prime Minister Bob Hawke announced after a telephone conversation with Bush on Aug. 10 that two frigates and a supply ship would be sent ( a decision endorsed by the Cabinet on Aug. 14 ) ; ( iii ) Pakistan , which had some 90,000 nationals working in Kuwait , and whose President Ghulam Ishaq Khan said on Aug. 13 that it would send troops to protect the Moslem holy places , with a first contingent to leave on Aug. 17 and a total commitment expected to number 5,000-8,000 ; and ( iv ) Bangladesh , which on Aug. 15 announced a commitment in principle to send troops to Saudi Arabia numbering some 5,000 in all . |
| 19 | Gerald fought to the bar for a couple more glasses and generously shared the bottle . |
| 20 | The charge of racism arose after the recent British National Party bye-election victory in East London . |
| 21 | As the Clean Air Act had left much to state initiative , congressional dissatisfaction with the rate of progress in some states led to the Air Quality Act of 1967 which at last required states to establish air quality standards consistent with federal criteria , and then to devise implementation plans setting out ways of achieving the air quality standards . |
| 22 | That of the southern European states led to the establishment of commonplace majority voting , as enshrined in the Single European Act . |
| 23 | ALEXANDER Workwear tumbled from a £5.3m profit to a £500,000 pre-tax loss last year , after charging £1½m ( £1.3m ) of exceptional rationalisation costs . |
| 24 | Born in 1927 , Denis Serjeant qualified as an architect the hard way , by taking external examinations whilst articled to an Oxford architect . |
| 25 | Her long ginger hair tumbled to the floor ; her short white skirt rode up to hint at the delicious curves of her tender derriere . |
| 26 | Long black hair tumbled from the top of the boy 's head . |
| 27 | Its ancient buildings reflect the air of a former age , when the pace of life was slow , when landlords and merchants lived off the fat of the land and when labourers , in vast numbers , worked that land . |
| 28 | Mr. Occhi got into the taxi , took £1 out of his wallet and gave it to the appellant who then , the wallet being still open , took a further £6 out of it . |
| 29 | Stress applied to a migrating epidermal cell at right angles to its direction of movement ( tangential to the leading edge of its lamellipodium ) causes the lamellipodium to retract and brings about a reorganization of the cell 's actin into a cable oriented along the major axis of stress . |
| 30 | Kolchinsky asked with a frown . |