Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed Saudi Arabia openly opposed Brezhnev 's proposals ; the Saudis apparently wished to retain the option of an American presence in the Gulf The UAE were also critical of the Soviet plan , while a Foreign Ministry spokesman for Oman rejected it outright . |
| 2 | The curriculum in secondary schools also began to take a predictable shape , mathematics , English , RE and PE for all plus a ‘ choice ’ from six option columns . |
| 3 | Over a hundred other organizations also came to oppose the plan , including trade unions , environmental groups and parish councils . |
| 4 | The infant welfare movement , like the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children , whose inspectors also began to enter the working class home during the 1890s , too often interpreted lack of cleanliness as neglect . |
| 5 | Dressmakers also had to meet the cost of hiring a sewing machine at 1/6d to 2/6d a week . |
| 6 | Working-class political parties also came to serve a useful integrative function for monopoly capital . |
| 7 | Denied the comfortable illusion that the League could restrain aggression without killing people , pacifists now had to face a harsh choice . |
| 8 | Mr Taylor 's selection as candidate 15 months ago threatened to split the local party , when some said he was wrong for the town . |
| 9 | Growers here had expected a bumper season . |
| 10 | Their concerns now became far more parochial and ethnic , and party considerations undoubtedly began to play a greater part . |
| 11 | All subjects then learned to push a handle ( R1 ) in response to A and to pull it ( R2 ) in response to B. The test phase showed that stimulus C tended to evoke R2 , that is , to evoke the response acquired to the training stimulus that had received equivalent pre-training . |
| 12 | Childebert 's tax inspectors then tried to institute the same reforms in Tours , but Gregory claimed that the city was exempt , and related the history of exemption since the time of Chlothar I. However , if reorganization had not threatened Tours , it is doubtful whether we would have heard of the perfectly sensible arrangements at Poitiers , which suggest not only that taxation was normal in the Merovingian kingdom , but also that it could be organized efficiently , and so far as one can see , fairly . |
| 13 | He was only 21 when he answered the call : a young man from a comfortable background who only months earlier had taken an interest in politics for the first time . |
| 14 | Subjects therefore had to obey the laws of their earthly governors , in whatever they commanded that was not contrary to divine law . |
| 15 | The uniform hour of sixty minutes soon tended to replace the day as the fundamental unit of labour time in the textile industry . |
| 16 | Oh , by the way , ’ Luke said , locking the door behind them , ‘ Bob Tilling in Accounts just happened to mention the other day that you had settled an invoice for a piece we made for a client in Sherwood Forest . ’ |
| 17 | Conservatives politely queued to join the the key conference of John Major 's career and prepared to be rallied … |
| 18 | Her parents only came to appreciate the impact the plaintiff had made on others before her accident from the tributes that were paid to her by outsiders of the family during the months the plaintiff was in a coma at Addenbrookes . |
| 19 | Ramsey knew of the bitterness engendered by the coal royalties paid to the Church , and how the miners once tried to throw a bishop into the River Wear . |
| 20 | It was almost as small as the circle of names and acquaintances of the average senior civil servant , and was reduced further by the fact that once they had got on to a board , many businessmen rapidly came to resent the amount of time the job demanded . |
| 21 | Aisha 's annual visits home had sown the seed of travel in my spirit and this seed had grown and opened out and reached my eyes and tongue . |
| 22 | Age barriers also served to structure the young adults ' experience of the labour market . |
| 23 | Other EFTA countries also began to consider the possibility of EC membership [ see pp. 38158 ; 38444 ] , which tended to undermine ongoing EC-EFTA negotiations on a common European economic area [ see pp. 38307 ; 38353 ] . |
| 24 | Four judges then tried to match the reported dreams with the topics , identifying between 5 and 9 of the 29 target suggestions , at barely more than a chance rate . |
| 25 | The engineers sometimes failed to appreciate the full significance of some of the things they established during their detailed examination of aircraft wreckage . |
| 26 | The Conservatives never did mount an efficient and effective campaign . |
| 27 | This ground-level opposition meant that the mining companies never got to prospect the total area that they wanted to investigate , as they would have needed to get court injunctions to get on each farmer 's land . |
| 28 | Assorted pundits and government ministers have in recent times deliberately tried to create the impression that reducing interest rates is the main , or even the only , way to haul the British economy out of recession . |
| 29 | Linfield 's shamed opponents yesterday admitted making a 5,000 dollar payment to the Turkish referee before their 2–1 first leg win in Georgia on August 18 . |
| 30 | To the commuter , the new red , white and blue house colours just had to represent a commitment to strive for quality . |