Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baldwin 's declaration for Protection had the immediate effect of reuniting the two sections of the Liberal Party around the historic cause of Free Trade , and Asquith and Lloyd George came together at public meetings to exchange insincere pleasantries . |
| 2 | In contrast to 1956 , when Khruschev 's call for reform in the East had soon led to a Soviet clampdown , Gorbachev 's desire for change included an acceptance of political pluralism . |
| 3 | The report called Help with Hostel Charges , Proposals for Change cited the PSI study and stated : ‘ Many hostels provided little or no care to their residents . |
| 4 | The NJCC for Building published a Guidance Note on Collateral Warranties and a Procedure Note on Tendering for Building Works without Bills of Quantities . |
| 5 | A comparison of men and women in terms of rectal CSA , wall tension , and pressure at the onset of intermittent need for defecation showed no significant difference ( p=0.22 , p=0.26 , and p= 0.49 , respectively ) . |
| 6 | From this debate about assessment came the idea of videoing lessons . |
| 7 | Donaldson 's for instance became a German prisoner-of-war camp ; the Royal School for Deaf Children at Margate was taken over by the Corporation of Margate and used as the Civil Defence Headquarters , Food & Fuel Office , W.V.S. Headquarters , Emergency Police station , among a number of other wartime departments . |
| 8 | ( Then , the dancing craze swept Edinburgh as everywhere else , and Miss Brechin for instance became an enthusiastic ballroom dancer for several years , winning prizes and championships . ) |
| 9 | The incentives have been such that several farmers in the LFA in Snowdonia for instance made no secret of their view that they would not have contemplated the schemes in the absence of grants . |
| 10 | The independence of India and Pakistan in 1947 , Ghana and Malaysia in 1957 , and most other African dependencies in the 1960s , were only milestones in the long , gradual process of the relative weakening of Commonwealth links , which for instance withdrew the tariff advantages of the British cotton industry in many tropical markets . |
| 11 | A paper tabled on June 26-29 by the group 's chairman , George Maciel , as a basis for negotiating represented a synthesis of proposals already made by participants . |
| 12 | The need for money made the lord increasingly concerned to turn the fiefs of his vassals to his own financial advantage when he could . |
| 13 | This frequently meant that the demand for money exceeded the supply of money that the authorities were prepared to permit . |
| 14 | Value for money became the watchword , explains Derek Kelly , a turkey breeder for over 40 years : ‘ It was all a matter of price per pound . ’ |
| 15 | On our number line Paul 's account shows this : Starting from " 0 " the moves are +56 then +12 for money paid the bank . |
| 16 | A few weeks later when the Prime Minister informed the House of the name of the chairman and the terms of reference , it became clear that the remit to consider ways of ‘ limiting ’ or ‘ modifying ’ capital punishment for murder excluded the outright abolition of the death penalty . |
| 17 | His facility for drawing became an essential tool in recording the sites that he excavated and the objects recovered from them . |
| 18 | The women weeping over an open coffin in a Rowlandson drawing of c.1760 would have had more reason for grief had the merchandise not come up to their expectations ( Col. 6 ) . |
| 19 | The annual report of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration criticised the system whereby claimants had to go through a cumbersome late appeals procedure to obtain the full arrears benefit to which they were rightfully entitled where those exceeded the statutory 12-month limit . |
| 20 | She looked round almost wildly , her hands clenching and unclenching as tension pulled every nerve tight . |
| 21 | Foremost amongst these ‘ neo-classical/conservative ’ criminologists is James Q. Wilson , whose book Thinking About Crime reached the list of American Best Sellers . |
| 22 | The use of the ultra vires doctrine as the basis for review posed a number of serious problems . |
| 23 | The excess demand for labour generated a faster scrapping of old equipment . |
| 24 | Thus , a young baby made the subject of an emergency order shortly after birth took the residence of its foster mother and not its natural mother with whom it had never lived . |
| 25 | After breakfast came the one happy moment of the day , when the pupils could play and talk freely . |
| 26 | And it 's quite true , I was there about four years and they always took stock before January the first , so that after Christmas came an anomaly , we 'd had a Christmas holiday and gone back to work . |
| 27 | Screams and desperate cries for help filled the streets . |
| 28 | They spent 40 minutes locked inside … another paperboy arriving for work raised the alarm . |
| 29 | In Re Abbott ( a bankrupt ) [ 1983 ] Ch 45 ( a case decided before the Insolvency Act 1986 ) a wife 's petition for divorce sought an order transferring the jointly owned matrimonial home to her . |
| 30 | The struggle for independence forced the ‘ homogenization ’ of the national liberation movement relative to the imperial power . |