Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the local authority associations ( including those with a Conservative majority ) opposed rate-capping in principle , the local government press , and the media generally were hostile , while the Bill 's passage through Parliament led to strenuous opposition from senior Conservative MPs and sizeable backbench revolts in some votes . |
| 2 | The numbers accepted for settlement fell from 81,000 in 1976 to 70,000 in 1980 and 55,000 in 1985 . |
| 3 | He suggests that this maladaptive strategy helps to explain the traumatic neuroses which sometimes follow events like bereavement , and which can be contrasted with successful adjustment in which the individual works through grief triggered by indirect reminders and gradually progresses to being able to respond to stronger reminders of the deceased . |
| 4 | But the decision for closure had in any case already been made by the predecessor AHA . |
| 5 | UNTIL READING THIS , I HAD NEVER REALIZED THAT MY UNQUESTIONED PICTURE OF NEANDERTHALS AS DARK AROSE FROM STANDARD RECONSTRUCTIONS … |
| 6 | Potter 's bid for martyrdom came at twenty-five-foot Waimea in the winter of '86‐7 when the early rounds of the Billabong Pro were held at the Bay . |
| 7 | THE number of hard-up homebuyers asking housing charity Shelter for help soared by 50 per cent last year . |
| 8 | There is a self-willed flight forward here , a certain careerist mentality , a belief in the objectives of the company , a sense of purpose and an appetite for work encoded in this trajectory which mirrors the relentless flight forward of the son a generation later . |
| 9 | Whether the production work sharing is something that is still to be decided er at the start of that phase but on the equipment , we were er originally entitled to thirty three percent of the common equipment er when we last gave evidence to the committee the U K work share for equipment stood at some thirty six percent of those that had been selected at that time . |
| 10 | The vote for independence came after two days of acrimonious debate between the Lithuanian majority and the Russian Polish minority , who were joined by a handful of old-guard Lithuanian Communists . |
| 11 | In this , the third issue of Update devoted to general SVQs , we also report back on the seminars held recently for external verifiers and for centre co-ordinators from new piloting centres . |
| 12 | The signs of progress came in recent bilateral negotiations between America and the EC over tariff barriers — big cuts are crucial in winning industrial backing for a successful round . |
| 13 | For example , the average frequency of bingeing fell from four or five time a week to once a fortnight at the twelfth session . |
| 14 | Pledges of support came from other institutions of higher education and there were reports of demonstrations and boycotts elsewhere . |
| 15 | The wave of change continued throughout 1990 . |
| 16 | As social workers have always known , the ‘ product ’ is in fact a ‘ process ’ — an explanation and acceptance of change mediated through social relationships — not a standardized item of service . |
| 17 | A fringe of hair plaited with tiny Belial clay beads bobbed gently in the reduced gravity , obscuring her dark skin and brooding eyes . |
| 18 | The degree of formality ranged from elaborate and schematic written documents to a simple mental rehearsal of what would happen next . |
| 19 | While some of the clearest evidence for localization of function came from neurological studies on humans with damaged or disturbed brains , some of the best evidence against it came from experimental studies on animals . |
| 20 | The idea of inspection started with national inspectors ( Her Majesty 's Inspectorate ) , but increasingly local inspectors are being used at local education authority ( LEA ) level . |
| 21 | The severity of damage ranged from small islets in which the surface remained completely denuded ( Fig 5C ) to areas in which the continuity of the surface epithelium was nearly complete ( Fig 5D ) . |
| 22 | More training of young members should be provided as well as distribution of literature aimed at young people . |
| 23 | Confidence in the civilising effect of the study of literature waned during this period . |
| 24 | Station improvements , and most of the reopenings , of course resulted from that new pragmatic combination of railway , municipal and industrial sponsorship . |
| 25 | The LCC grant aid scheme offered £2 million to local authorities to buy up land for green belt purposes , and a vigorous period of purchase ensued between 1935 and 1939 . |
| 26 | In the twelfth century , when the issue of coin had in many areas ceased to be a royal prerogative , this sort of charge was known as seigniorage — a valuable perquisite of controlling a mint . |
| 27 | The member of parliament saw in this ambition an opportunity to strengthen his own interest in the burgh by detaching the schoolmaster 's brother-in-law , the bailie , from the opposition party in the council , for the bailie was at that moment firmly attached to that faction by a promise from Dempster 's rival that he would procure a kirk for the bailie 's son . |
| 28 | A week of action began on 13 June with a mass picket , at which 84 people were arrested and there was large scale police violence . |
| 29 | Again , the relatively popular policy of the privatization of industry fell on stony ground when it was proposed for extension to the electricity supply industry and to water services . |
| 30 | Desperate villagers who searched the area around Cerska on Monday for 21 tonnes of aid parachuted from C-130 cargo planes were reported to have been killed by Serb snipers . |