Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They pointed out that Lome III had not stimulated trade between the EC and the ACP countries ( since 1985 trade in both directions had actually fallen in both absolute and relative terms ) , or lessened the ACP countries ' economic dependence on the production of primary commodities , or encouraged industrialization . |
| 2 | The fact that we had a more open policy over those ten years has actually infiltrated into or irrigated the BBC and ITV , but you will still see a great area of editorial heads , or heads of departments , the equivalents of the commissioning editors , the executive heads , where there are very few women . |
| 3 | the LIFESPAN user name of the assessor , and whether the assessor accepted or rejected the DC , or has not yet assessed it . |
| 4 | Have donors strengthened or weakened the NHS ? |
| 5 | If you 've signed up for a Barclaycard recently , or joined the AA , you will probably have been tempted by the offer of ‘ free accommodation ’ in a ‘ superb range of hotels in the UK and Ireland ’ . |
| 6 | On the issue of PLO involvement in the conference , Shamir repeatedly warned , as in his address at the opening of the Knesset 's winter session on Oct. 7 , that Israeli representatives would refuse to sit with any delegates who might announce " that they were appointed by or represented the PLO terrorist organization " . |
| 7 | The next ten years of international arguments about whaling are best known as the period in which many more countries joined or rejoined the IWC , when the Indian Ocean was designated as a whale sanctuary and when the sperm whale was effectively protected after 200 years of exploitation . |
| 8 | Were they still dressing or had the ADC forgotten to switch off the lights ? |
| 9 | When complete Text tables are being loaded or unloaded the PSN fields are used to specify the range of entries belonging to the Target table . |
| 10 | He remembers writing a document outlining the new range of M50 ( Elite ) , M51 ( a front-engined four-seater V8 ) , M70 ( a wedge-shaped mid-engined car that became the Esprit ) and M71 ( a mid-engined V8 ) . |
| 11 | The Centre — with raids in mind — had devised plans for a relatively silent , low silhouette landing craft that became the LCA ( Landing Craft , Assault ) , and produced some other worthwhile ideas , including methods for supplying troops by air . |
| 12 | Her frustration over the chaos that became the Cleveland controversy is palpable . |
| 13 | This seemed like the hovercraft 's end , but it spawned the technology that made the AP1-88 possible . |
| 14 | It is exactly the same tension that made The Smiths a success , and in their low-key way I suspect that Felt will keep some of the same cult appeal now they are gone . |
| 15 | It was the influx of these outstanding scholars that made the Warburg an internationally renowned research institute and set a pattern for the future . |
| 16 | It was these , not so much the explosions per se that made the Krakatoa eruption the most lethal on record . |
| 17 | He saw , with that sharp acumen that made the Heinz organisation famous , that Portland Place could not absorb the expanding requirements of a British Architectural Library , an architecture centre , and a professional institution . |
| 18 | I was reminded of this , fresh as I was from reading some of the slanging that made the Bermondsey bye-election so appealing , when looking at a joint release from six trades unions . |
| 19 | Heinemann is publishing an Elementary English Grammar to compete with Murphy 's Essential Grammar in Use written by one half of the author team that produced the Heinemann English Grammar . |
| 20 | The project that produced the Aurora started as long ago as 1982 as a search for major improvements to the Condor , Karrimor 's then brand new 60–80 litres , top of the range rucksack . |
| 21 | There was a bitter tinge to the triumph , however , for he neither warned nor consulted the PLO before his announcement . |
| 22 | He was just turning into the featureless modern office block that housed the Heyes-Farringdon Company where Helen worked , when his eye was suddenly caught by a sign on the other side of the street : The Olivera Typewriter Company . |
| 23 | Its populace formed the nucleus of the mob that attacked the Bastille ( July 1789 ) , and thus began the French Revolution . |
| 24 | Not your upmarket angst number with the Pinter script that got the Palme d'Or , none of that . |
| 25 | Over each one was a small wood-burned sign that announced the Susweca Lounge . |
| 26 | But at least that stopped the Montego 's soaraway adventures . |
| 27 | His passion for speculation in land and stocks overburdened him , and Sir Thomas 's good fortune turned rapidly downhill , a pattern that dogged the Websters until they sold the estate in the 1850s . |
| 28 | as if to prove that a Shetlander 's work is never done , the same storms that sank the Braer and then cleaned away the oil caused erosion of the coast along the edge of the unexcavated portion of Jarlshof , and emergency coastal defences had to be installed prior to the provision of a permanent seawall . |
| 29 | However , the aircraft that caught the Stark was a French Mirage . |
| 30 | The north-east of England is battling to overcome its share of the social problems that beset the UK . |