Example sentences of "[coord] [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 | There was a bitter tinge to the triumph , however , for he neither warned nor consulted the PLO before his announcement . |
| 11 | Nor did the London dock strike necessarily foreshadow the style of trade unionism which many formally " unskilled " workers of the time might have wished to adopt . |
| 12 | Nor did the Flemings feel that he was really supporting them ; he had appeared to be using them for his own ends . |
| 13 | Britain was a member of SEATO , the US alliance organisation in the region , and shared the US interest in containing the Asian spread of communism . |
| 14 | She listened attentively to the story and recommended the Waters to see Ernest Baird , a fellow-member of the Northern Ireland Assembly . |
| 15 | In exile he established and led the Malawi Freedom Movement ( Mafremo ) until December 1981 when he and his wife Vera |
| 16 | John Veal was Chief Inspector of Accidents at the time and led the UK delegation while I was its only other member as alternate delegate . |
| 17 | In general the survey revealed that ‘ the declining state of the environment was a ma–or worry to a large number of people ’ and led the NCC to commission a further , more detailed investigation in 1986 . |
| 18 | The coffee arrived , followed a few minutes later by two tall and thin men who introduced themselves and led the Glovers to another room , barely identifiable as an office except for one discreet filing cabinet . |
| 19 | Within the ruling Socialist Party ( PS ) , the supporters of the " socialism and republic " faction led by Jean-Pierre Chevènement ( who resigned as Defence Minister on Jan. 29 — see p. 37941 ) refused to back presidential policy on the Gulf at a meeting of PS officials on Feb. 2 , and attacked the Feb. 1 decision temporarily to let US B-52 bombers overfly the country . |
| 20 | On several occasions , people who had been drinking in the Sparrow Farm tenants ' association club opposite the shop left the club and attacked the Ks , both inside the off-licence and , sometimes , as they left after closing for the night . |
| 21 | I picked up my briefcase , started out the door and asked the FBI agent on the case to see me downstairs to a cab because I did n't feel very safe in Chicago . |
| 22 | ‘ In his letter of July 6 following the meeting , the BAe chairman , Professor Roland Smith , called for the removal of the ring fence around Rover capital allowances , capital losses , and trading losses , and asked the DTI to intervene with the Inland Revenue for ‘ written rulings in advance to certain proposals to be made by BAe with a view to optimising the tax benefits ’ , ’ Mr Brown said . |
| 23 | One of the National Schools — which were aided , in the latter part of the nineteenth century , by voluntary societies and the Church , with assistance from Parliament — was established at Strand-on-the-Green , off Back Lane , in 1874 , and became the Strand-on-the-Green School . |
| 24 | It was on the site of two farms and became the London Area Headquarters of the Royal Flying Corps . |
| 25 | Later the press bureau of the foreign ministry , so small before the war , was greatly enlarged and became the Nachrichtenabteilung . |
| 26 | Dorking County Grammar , a mixed provincial grammar school of around 600 pupils , moved with the times and became the Ashcombe School , a mixed comprehensive of 1,000 pupils . |
| 27 | A number of F.Is were updated to FR.I standard and became the F.IA . |
| 28 | The recession continued unabated in the UK and started to gather pace in many of our export markets , however , we successfully expanded our agriculture business and became the UKs Number One , through the purchase of from . |
| 29 | In desperation I went back to my military roots and consulted the Geneva Convention : ‘ Rules and Regulations governing the treatment of defeated cancer cells . ’ |
| 30 | In August the Young Republicans set up a front organisation , the People 's Action League , which planned to campaign on the issue of high-rise flats , and picketed the Guildhall , calling for an extension of the city boundary and , on another occasion , at the siting of a new Michelin factory at Ballymena in County Antrim instead of Derry . |