Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun pl] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was not consulted about membership of the Group , and with the exception of Dr Charles Suckling , a member of the Kingman Committee , I met the members for the first time when we assembled in London for our opening working session . |
| 2 | On Monday , the managing director , Jacques Calvet , met the unions for the first time but said there could be no discussion of pay until production was resumed . |
| 3 | Its dictator , President Siad Barre , ditched the Russians for the better-heeled Americans . |
| 4 | Four members of staff shared the honours for the show 's success . |
| 5 | It is an insult to all the people who made the submissions for the Secretary of State to suggest that all those professionals are accepting misleading statements and that the quality of their submissions is not as good as those of the handful of people in favour . |
| 6 | These influences laid the foundations for the blend of the naive and the sophisticated which is the hallmark of Thomson 's maturity . |
| 7 | The Miseroni were called to Prague to set up a workshop for crystal carving and gem cutting , and they laid the foundations for the Bohemian cut-glass industry . |
| 8 | It was with this in mind that a unanimous Parliament supported not a conspiracy of Tory landowners , but Attlee 's postwar Labour Government in passing the 1947 Agriculture Act , which laid the foundations for the great agricultural revolution of our times . |
| 9 | ROBERT BRUCE RONALD ( 1831–1907 ) went to Australia in 1852 as a clerk in a woolbroker 's office and , later , laid the foundations for the Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Company , still one of the country 's leading financial institutions . |
| 10 | Bell , therefore , not only saved the deaf class in the school from closure , but also introduced the oral method of teaching and laid the foundations for the present day Garvel Centre for the Deaf ( as the unit is called ) . |
| 11 | The Bonn family financed the Bureau for a number of years and enabled it to recruit a small staff which laid the foundations for the development of the organisation into what it is to-day . |
| 12 | Later that year Sir Kit laid the foundations for the eventual takeover , when he sold a 14.9% stake in the Midland to the Hongkong Bank in return for a much-needed £383m injection . |
| 13 | Pavel Zhikarev , who stood down as chairman after 25 years at Sberbank , laid the foundations for the changes that lie ahead . |
| 14 | They helped to bring about a severe crisis of authority at the end of Alexander 's reign , they laid the foundations for the major radical parties of the twentieth century , including the Bolshevik Party , and they provided the country 's leadership in the early Soviet period . |
| 15 | Scientific and technological advances laid the foundations for the transformation from a predominantly rural , agricultural , ‘ manual ’ way of life to an urban , industrial , ‘ mechanised ’ pattern of living . |
| 16 | Indeed it was the sheer beauty of some of the finer implements from these remote periods which helped to excite the interest of the collectors who laid the foundations for the scientific study of prehistory . |
| 17 | Arguably this advocacy of mercurials for the treatment of syphilis laid the foundations for the success of the paracelsian movement , because the newly arrived scourge of syphilis was the most feared disease of the sixteenth century , occupying a similar position to AIDS in Africa today . |
| 18 | In this memoir he identified the arrivals of dilatational and distortional body waves ( P-waves and S-waves ) and of surface waves in seismic recordings , a finding which was further documented in a paper of 1900 and which laid the foundations for the instrumental study of earthquakes and of the Earth 's deep interior . |
| 19 | This venture laid the foundations for the Hull Arctic whaling trade , which prospered for the next sixty years . |
| 20 | His lectures and writings played a considerable part in shaping fundamental chemical theory , and in several respects laid the foundations for the theory of valency . |
| 21 | The growth of even limited literacy — and particularly the introduction of written records — laid the foundations for the dispossession of land , the setting up of a centralized bureaucracy and the suppression of indigenous cultures . |
| 22 | This shift in the religious attitude , which saw humanity as alienated from nature , laid the foundations for the Age of Reason . |
| 23 | New selling aids and point-of-sale material were presented by Michael Saulet , Marketing Director Ralph Ellis , Managing Director , concluded the conference with a review of the trading year in which he re-affirmed the company strategy for the Autumn trading period and laid the foundations for the future . |
| 24 | The intervening stations along both the main lines became the focuses for the growth of prosperous , if not quite so grand , suburbs : Heaton Moor , Cheadle Hulme , Bramhall , Wilmslow , Sale , and Stretford . |
| 25 | We erm , we had n't got a lot of room for expansion down there , we were in , when I joined the department it was known as the Ipswich T Electric Supply and Transport Department and er we were in some buildings which were rented from the Electric Supply Department which housed the generators for the electricity , so we had n't got a lot of room for expansion there , I think we were all confined into about three offices . |
| 26 | Jeanette 's friend eventually produced the curtains for the sitting room , and I am very pleased with them ( sorry if I 've already told you that — it 's exciting to me anyway ! ) . |
| 27 | Westergaard and Resler ( who produced the figures for the period up to 1960 in Table 5 ) suggest that the most significant redistribution was within the wealthiest groups , rather than between them and the less well-off . |
| 28 | The three parties fought the elections for the Constitutional Convention as a coalition with a joint manifesto which-emphasised that Northern Ireland should remain indefinitely as an integral part of the United Kingdom and that power would not be shared with Republicans although that was not an objection to Catholics as such . |
| 29 | This applied , I planned the routes for the next weekend . |
| 30 | The opposition especially disputed the results for the governorships of Durango and Veracruz , where the PRD and PAN ran joint slates . |