Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The planners could determine the availability of finance : ‘ Every single externally financed project was therefore meant to be scrutinized for conformity with the targets and if the projects passed this test the Commission would see to it that sufficient tax and credit incentives would be made available ’ ( Estrin and Holmes , 1983 , p. 179 ) . |
| 2 | BORIS Yeltsin chose the best word to describe the economic recovery plan which the Congress of People 's Deputies passed this week . |
| 3 | Last October , Swiss bondholders agreed that interest on the bonds should be deferred with the bonds not being declared to be in default until 1 March . |
| 4 | He says ‘ His rules made good sense then and they make better sense now as the pressures grow inexorably , yet they have been ignored in certain sensitive areas , with results which are both plain and heart-rending to see . ’ |
| 5 | Some local authorities made good use of their autonomy . |
| 6 | The 20mm and 40mm quick-firing guns here were in or on concrete emplacements , and although the crew of the outer guns were knocked out for a time the Germans got this battery firing again , and the searchlight on the Mole 's tip was never put out . |
| 7 | But despite apparent government support a number of ministers objected and the proposals made little headway . |
| 8 | The leader writer depicted the Minister of Education Florence Horsbrugh as having been ‘ hoist with her own petard ’ : if she had hoped that her Committee of Enquiry would recommend financial cuts she had been disappointed , for if anything the proposals made some increase in expenditure likely . |
| 9 | Whatever one 's political view of them , if the privatization proposals made any sense then prices being kept down by competition should be at their heart . |
| 10 | Once the ice shifted , 250,000 years ago , nomadic hunters made this region their own — we know , for they left a trail of hewn flint artefacts . |
| 11 | The presence of such oases made human travel and nomadic existence possible in arid lands . |
| 12 | In those days , marriage was mainly a matter of economy and family ; it was not normally possible to marry for love , and indeed the Courts ruled that love and marriage were incompatible . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , the cities experienced growing disorder ; in the countryside , a diversity of agitations was beginning . |
| 14 | The new textbook is the second one to have emerged since the crisis of early 1988 when the authorities announced that school graduation exams in history were being abolished . |
| 15 | Prices of industrial products doubled this week and rising prices of bread , milk and meat will worsen the already fast-declining living standards of the population , two thirds of whom live on the poverty line or below . |
| 16 | Spittals made great play of tapping the microphones and checking that they worked before he introduced the superintendent . |
| 17 | The Sherwood sandstones were shallower and their water correspondingly cooler than expected , whereas the Lower Permian sandstones lacked sufficient permeability to give an adequate supply of hot water . |
| 18 | In fact , the Germans experienced limited success with their Fifth Column in Holland . |
| 19 | Liberal deputies countered this argument by pointing out that " rampant privatization " was already in progress at all levels , including the state administration [ see dacha scandal below ] . |
| 20 | She said nothing , but turned and led the way into the living room , where it was almost dark and the coals glowed bright red between the bars of the stove . |
| 21 | The chart shows that in total the non-telecom activities made less profit in this half year than last time . |
| 22 | The Princess Royal has around 10 hats made each year which means she must have at least 260 to choose from by now . |
| 23 | The new rules laid greater emphasis on economic factors such as professional qualifications and work skills . |
| 24 | One of the Baptist J. H. Shakespeare 's sons became private secretary to Lloyd George and an MP . |
| 25 | Pictorial discoveries and transformations succeeded each other rapidly . |
| 26 | Most of the 2.2 billion pet-food cans sold each year are made from steel coated with tin . |
| 27 | The meetings produced wide-ranging agreement on the need for full co-operation on operation of the Empire air routes . |
| 28 | Cartwright found that the lower socio-economic groups made less use of such local health services as ante-natal clinics or family planning clinics . |
| 29 | LORD Spencer 's death might have served to remind this country of the dread winter of 1978/1979 when rubbish was uncollected in the streets , the fire brigades were on strike , hospitals were picketed by auxiliary workers who demanded to approve all surgical operations , housewives fought each other over a cauliflower leaf and the dead lay unburied in every churchyard . |
| 30 | Their class opponents shared that expectation , and feared and fought the extension of the franchise for that reason . |