Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] they [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Anthony concludes that the DTI did not adopt this tactic ‘ as a matter of urgency ’ because of the ‘ inadequate grasp within the Licensing Unit of the detail of their powers under the Act which they had the task of administering . ’ |
| 2 | ( 1990 ) report that whereas in a Yorkshire mining community the pro-Labour Daily Mirror was the most widely-read daily newspaper , both before and after the strike , in the Nottinghamshire community which they surveyed the pro-Conservative The Sun was the most popular before the strike , and equally popular with the Daily Mirror after it . |
| 3 | ( Waddington et al. , 1990 , show that in the Nottinghamshire community which they surveyed the immigrant and the ‘ local ’ miners were spatially segregated within the housing stock and that most of the miners who joined the strike were among the recent immigrants whose home lives were somewhat separate from those of the rest of the community . ) |
| 4 | Led by the thought that the evidence of our senses is basic both in epistemology and in the theory of meaning , positivists such as Ayer proposed as a theory of meaning what they called the verification principle of empirical significance ( see Ayer , 1946 , and Schlick , 1936 ) : |
| 5 | The recurrent theme was ‘ informality ’ or ‘ progressivism ’ : the same value-orientation which they saw the Authority itself espousing as the touchstone for good practice . |
| 6 | Neither the Conservatives nor Labour , therefore , had a chance of retaining or obtaining office unless they abandoned for the time being the principal position which they fought the election to obtain . |