Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb past] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The use of easily-obtained European woods helped to keep costs down and contributed to an individual and unique tone . |
| 2 | Domestic monetary authorities had to hold dollar reserves to support their exchange rates in foreign exchange markets and at the same time currencies were officially convertible into gold via the dollar . |
| 3 | This took place against a backdrop of reports of executions of detainees , mass expulsions through force and intimidation , and other human rights violations , as armed groups attempted to establish facts on the ground which might become the basis for any future international negotiations over territory . |
| 4 | Friesian bulls continued to attract sound demand and John Stewart , Portaferry collected £178 and £176 for a couple of suitable bulls . |
| 5 | The favourable response to Labour 's initiative in circles well removed from the Party 's normal supporters helped to persuade Lloyd George that the time had come for the Government to reassert its authority . |
| 6 | However , only 308 Branches managed to raise income from this very cost effective method , and of those only 60 achieved a rate of £1 or more per member . |
| 7 | Other political parties tended to attack Singh over his handling of the affair , without actually criticising the Mandal Commission 's basic principle of positive discrimination . |
| 8 | German musicians preferred to compose operas in Italian — or were required to do so . |
| 9 | That 's why the workers ' weekly pennies went to pay men like Bobby to speak for them and that 's just what Bobby Keith could do best . |
| 10 | THE WIFE of a man accused of committing three sex attacks in 12 hours agreed to give evidence as a Crown witness at his trial at a Perth High Court sitting yesterday . |
| 11 | There was widespread concern about the effect of the movies and over 30 states began to draft censorship bills . |
| 12 | Thus , ads targeted at 40-year-old housewives started to use hit tunes first from the fifties and now the late sixties . |
| 13 | One wonders whether the explanation of this may be that the Parliamentary draftsmen immediately after the Union were English lawyers , and that it was not until well on in the nineteenth century that Scottish draftsmen came to draft bills applicable to Scotland and the spelling ‘ Burgh ’ was adopted in Statutes applying to Scotland . |
| 14 | Even though the university system grew rapidly , demand for places in some subjects began to outrun supply . |
| 15 | LABOUR 'S Darlington candidate Alan Milburn claimed yesterday some schools had to use lotteries to help pay for basics like books and pencils . |
| 16 | It was noted in the course of development that some computers continued to send characters after the CTS input was taken low . |
| 17 | But despite some concessions made to access considerations , there has been little evidence that he will change his mind . |
| 18 | Some drivers tried to help others who were trapped or injured … they made efforts to free the driver who died but could n't reach him . |
| 19 | In the 1980s , Asian economies moved from low-tech to mid-tech or even high-tech , and some countries began to export knowledge products and most were turning more to research as an underpinning of future economic growth . |
| 20 | Even while the war was going badly for the English , they suffered fewer major military defeats , and fewer English nobles had to pay ransoms than received payments from their French equivalents . |
| 21 | In the 1890s purists began to make headway at a local level by persuading the police and the courts to support their programme . |
| 22 | Some momentary interruptions earlier by nearby geese failed to distract Jose Carreras , who carried on to give four encores , before the audience would let him go . |
| 23 | Sectional groups like the Fascist Union of British Workers tried to organize strikes at the Firestone works in Brentford and on Birmingham buses . |
| 24 | To add to the problems , some stations began to voice unease about the format and content of the traditional , international and national ITN service followed by a short local programme . |
| 25 | Although the presence of the foreign troops helped to restore calm , official sources said that 117 people had died by Sept. 25 and at least 1,500 had been injured . |
| 26 | On the final day of the war thousands of disorganized Iraqi troops attempted to flee north through Basra but were unable to find a means to cross the Shatt-al-Arab waterway as all bridges had been destroyed by allied aircraft . |
| 27 | The study investigated children in care whose social workers wanted to find homes with substitute families for them , taking as two basic assumptions that every child has a right to a family of his [ or her ] own , and that adoption and fostering are not completely separate categories but have a considerable area of overlap . |
| 28 | During this decade , whilst there was increased competition , comparatively few policyholders decided to change underwriters with one particular exception . |
| 29 | How some teams managed to climb Mount Chirripo amazed even Gerard Fusil . |
| 30 | Foreign investors continued to buy sterling and UK assets . |