Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [prep] a " 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 | His ginger beard came round and his teeth gleamed for a second . |
| 3 | On the other hand , in a short-term study using the artificial pancreas , normalisation of blood glucose for 48 hours led to a significant fall in β-thromboglobulin levels ( Voisin et al , 1983 ) . |
| 4 | Thus , after two days in which a negotiated settlement to the original squabble seemed possible , an ultimatum to the Vietminh to clear out of Haiphong in two hours led to a bombardment which must have killed at least 1,000 people , many if not most of whom would be described as innocent civilians . |
| 5 | The rise in American self-esteem that followed Reagan 's more aggressive foreign policies led to a greater acceptance of the ‘ revisionist ’ view of the war . |
| 6 | Berle offered the American objections to international control , insisting that the British proposals amounted to a 50–50 division of traffic on the North Atlantic route . |
| 7 | At Maastricht , the Germans argued for a common foreign policy for the European Community . |
| 8 | Dr Linebaugh has discovered that around 40 per cent of those hanged at Tyburn in the middle years of the eighteenth century had completed apprenticeships and a further 20 per cent had at least begun one ( see pp. 230 – 1 ) Even in London , the greatest centre of artisan manufacture , not all apprenticeships led to a skilled trade — the unfortunate climbing chimney boys for example — but it would seem reasonable to suggest that around half of the working men of the capital were to some degree skilled , in the sense of selling specialised labour . |
| 9 | In contrast , mergers led to a significant increase in industrial concentration and monopoly power in the UK . |
| 10 | Naval surveying ships pioneered the way , taking soundings along the proposed routes and sampling the seabed : these activities led to a surge of interest in the scientific exploration of the sea . |
| 11 | Disputes under them are to be referred to arbitration , where contracts made on a particular exchange are in issue , and otherwise to the English courts . |
| 12 | The Board 's discussions led to a conclusion that in order to improve profitability and obtain the benefits of economy of scale , it is desirable to merge the subsidiaries into the parent company , thereby creating a single company . |
| 13 | It is fitting that the river should , according to legend , be associated with Tamara , a beautiful nymph who in ancient times lived in a cave deep below the earth . |
| 14 | A FEAR of handbag-snatching pedal cyclists led to a Stockton borough councillor trying to halt a proposed cycle route through the town centre . |
| 15 | Apart from these , only four other PJC-2s were ordered by private pilots and together with the prototype , eleven were sold when the need to build-up America 's defences led to a curb on the use of strategic materials and production ceased . |
| 16 | Stopes 's fundamental conception of the role of the clinics led to a heated political debate during the inter-war years as the issue was fought within political parties and in parliament . |
| 17 | The absence of student groups led to a relatively small growth in WEA activity in most villages during the three-year period and the scheme suffered , perhaps inevitably and unfairly , in comparison with the earlier success achieved in Bedfordshire . |
| 18 | Decreasing COHb values led to a slight increase of SpO , as would be expected by the formula SpO= ( OHb+0.9COHb ) /total Hb100% , according to Tremper and Barker . |
| 19 | The Okapi projects arose from a research proposal entitled " Micro-computer networking in libraries ! |
| 20 | For a moment she looked furiously at Donald , her teeth bared like a cat 's , then she shook her hair out , spattering Donald with bree and barley , and hauled him back into the dance . |
| 21 | Then , larger than life , so vivid she might almost have reached out and touched herself , there she was , transformed , hardly recognizable : teeth bared in a grin of manic glee , her eyes white-hot and blazing like a berserk android in a film she had seen once . |
| 22 | She looked like a hell cat , sloe eyes glittering , teeth bared in a terrifying rictus grin , body rigid with loathing . |
| 23 | Dead rats , floating in the brown swill of beer with teeth bared in a last deathly snarl . |
| 24 | She slowed , reading what he had written , then stopped , her teeth bared in a smile . |
| 25 | Her teeth bared in a tight smile . |
| 26 | On an SE/30 — a 68030 machine with a maths coprocessor — myoglobin ( 2658 atoms ) approached the upper limit for interactive manipulation and a monochrome drawing on the screen required about 20 sec ( wireframe ) , 1–3/4 min ( ball and stick ) and three min ( shaded space-filling ) ; the times tripled on a smaller SE system . |
| 27 | The number of listeria cases rose by a quarter in the first six months of this year , Dr Diane Roberts , of the Central Public Health Laboratory , told a London conference yesterday . |
| 28 | Provision was patchy , and professional attitudes ranged from a sensitive understanding of the issues to the blandly ignorant . |
| 29 | The judge has power under s 65(1) of the 1984 Act to refer to the district judge or to a referee ( N 280 ) for inquiry and report : ( 1 ) any proceedings which require any prolonged examination of documents or any scientific or local investigation which can not , in the opinion of the judge , conveniently be made before him ; ( 2 ) any proceedings where the question in dispute consists wholly or in part of matters of account ; ( 3 ) with the consent of the parties , any other proceedings ; ( 4 ) subject to any right to have particular cases tried with a jury , any question arising in any proceedings . |
| 30 | The manor did not disappear when the Middle Ages drew to a close , nor when the Tudors made the parish the administrative unit that was responsible for maintaining the poor and the highways and for petty law and order . |