Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb base] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 As a result the expansionist economic policies favoured by David Lloyd George found little support amongst electors and , thus , in parliament .
2 Thus the courts have , for example , limited their intervention in cases concerning homeless persons , using arguments concerning the subjectivity of administrative discretion which found little favour in cases such as Tameside considered above ; and they have counselled restraint in circumstances where propositions of law are interwoven with issues of social and ethical controversy concerning the scope of parental rights , while being more willing to intervene where legal issues are intertwined with questions of social and economic choice , as in the Bromley case .
3 This oppressive measure on the part of the authority aroused much anger among writers .
4 He had uneasily come to terms with the fact that Connors had been more than vague , had actually held back vital information .
5 just looking at that one where we said well report to parents
6 She had never come to terms with her old life , but , inch by inch , she was coming to terms with this one : her first reality .
7 He had never come to terms with his former master 's failure to expire properly .
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