Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ortega promised that at the next congress , scheduled for 1995 , the DN would be elected by individual votes directly cast in a secret ballot and that a woman would be elected to the leadership . |
| 2 | This was a formidable catalogue of sins , but many of the ideas became generally accepted and to some extent underlay Mr Wilson 's thinking in 1963 when he talked of the Conservatives ' period in power since 1951 as ‘ thirteen wasted years ’ and promised that in the first hundred days of dynamic government after a Labour victory at the polls a new atmosphere would pervade Whitehall . |
| 3 | I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place . |
| 4 | The alchemists maintained that through the correct disciplines such a return might be made . |
| 5 | The Association found that for the first time the municipal government was taking its demands seriously and was prepared to make concessions which would effectively improve working conditions . |
| 6 | We found that for the same journey in the same conditions , our average mpg shot up to 52 . |
| 7 | A Consumers ' Association report found that of the 32 tour operator 's policies surveyed , all but four fell short of its recommended levels of cover . |
| 8 | In a study of his four published Song Books , I found that of the forty-two tunes I could identify ( four I could not ) , some 60 per cent are ‘ traditional ’ , mostly of rural origin ( the bulk Scottish ) , while only about 12 per cent come from comic music hall songs and about 25 per cent from bourgeois sources ( parlour ballad , light opera ) . |
| 9 | A recent Institute of Directors ' survey of 200 successful female executives found that of the 87 per cent who claimed to have encountered career obstacles not experienced by male colleagues , difficulty with childcare , at 37 per cent , was the biggest factor . |
| 10 | As the investigation progressed , the researchers found that on the two-toed species males outnumbered females 3.1 , and on the more common three-toed sloth it was 7:1 . |
| 11 | William Dement woke six subjects in this systematic way over a period of six nights , and found that on the first night they did seem to " start all over again " whenever properly woken , so that by the end of the night they had achieved a good deal of slow wave sleep and very little REM sleep . |
| 12 | And all that is is a hammer and stamp and er and they have a habit of buckling because we regularly , erm postcode cycles erm , with the introduction of the mountain bike we found that on the weaker frames we were buckling them . |
| 13 | During which time I found that at the worst all Englishmen stuck together in regard to the West Indians … it was like a thorn in my heels to know that I was working in an atmosphere of hostility . |
| 14 | Malinowski , however , found that among the matrilineal Trobriand Islanders , where the mother 's brother , not the biological father , exercises authority over the child , the child feels hostility towards the maternal uncle , not the ‘ father ’ . |
| 15 | But when we left the capital with its taxis playing Strauss over Beijing Radio and travelled on the diesel train through the countryside , we found that in the rural areas change comes more slowly . |
| 16 | Buxton and Klein 's study found that in the early 1970s local variations within a region were greater than between regions . |
| 17 | We found that in the long term a little under a third of the participating teachers had been significantly influenced by what they had heard and seen and had made major changes in their classroom practice as a result . |
| 18 | He then crossed together members of the first generation , and found that in the second generation tall and short peas occurred in the ratio 3 tall : 1 short . |
| 19 | He found that in the neutral condition , where no particular inference was confirmed or disconfirmed by subsequent information , all potential inferences were falsely identified as having occurred in a passage about 25 per cent of the time . |
| 20 | A Home Office Research Study published in 1989 found that in the 111 cases in the survey which the police judged to involve serious arrestable offences , the suspect was detained over twenty-four and under thirty-six hours in 44 of them . |
| 21 | Not according to Downes and Young ( 1987 ) , who found that in the post-war period , the rate of increase of crime under the Conservatives was , on average , twice that under Labour . |
| 22 | They found that in the United states , Belgium , Thailand and Japan , the decline in the rate of sexual intercourse in marriage is more closely associated with the wife 's age than that of the husband . |
| 23 | He should n't be in her thoughts at all , and yet she found that in the short space of time since she had met him he had sunk in , wormed his way into her mind with his disturbing home truths . |
| 24 | Landau and Nathan ( 1983 ) found that in the juvenile bureau of six London boroughs white juveniles were significantly more cautioned than black , including juveniles with previous convictions . |
| 25 | They ignored temporary conversions from roughland to grass leys ( and vice versa ) and found that in the 30 years to 1980 in their 6 study areas , 15,000 hectares of rough pasture had reverted to roughland but 23,900 hectares of roughland had been converted to grass leys . |
| 26 | It found that in the 3 years since the first survey , crime had moved from third place to the top of people ‘ s list of problems affecting their neighbourhood . |
| 27 | Kim began to study the time these meridians were formed in different species and in a way , echoing Burr 's reports , found that within the embryonic chick , for example , they manifested within fifteen hours of conception ! |
| 28 | ‘ I found that within the first two years I more than trebled my external income simply because I was entertaining at a large conference-style table in a nicely furnished area . |
| 29 | It was a simple , but very pertinent observation and re-emphasised that over the last 18 months or so the All Blacks have been steadily squeezed in the nutcracker of their own ambition . |
| 30 | The Guardian of April 3 reported that over the preceding months Treuhand had become the " focus of growing public anger " and was viewed as the " embodiment of eastern Germany 's economic misery " . |