Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb base] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ceasefire mediated by Kazakhstan on Aug. 28 between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the disputed region of Nagorny Karabkah [ see p. 39059 ] produced little respite in the fighting . |
| 2 | True , Shearer got little change from the skirmish with Neil Ruddock , his pal from Southampton days . |
| 3 | The plenum , in the event , made little influence upon the continuing discussion , and by the early 1990s it was clear that only a reconsideration of the very bases of Soviet statehood would be likely to satisfy the aspirations of the various republics and nationalities . |
| 4 | In local government elections , to which much importance was attached , the Labour Party made little advance after the victories of 1934 , actually losing seats in 1936 . |
| 5 | It found little favour in the United States , where there was however considerable interest in securing some workable arrangement . |
| 6 | But otherwise the City found little cheer in the results . |
| 7 | García went underground and issued calls for national resistance , but this found little echo on the streets , and subsequent opinion polls suggested that Fujimori retained the overwhelming confidence of the public . |
| 8 | In order to make this facility useful , it is recommended that an organisation-wide policy be adopted ; e.g. ‘ Errors reported always apply to the module which first detects the error , not the reporting module ’ . |
| 9 | The opposite extreme is represented by the Russian saxophonist , Vladimir Chekasin , sometime member of the Ganelin Trio , caught here live on the Munster Jazz Festival . |
| 10 | She used ter sit in the Kings Arms on the comer o' Page Street shellin' 'er peas in the summer an' puffin' away at that clay pipe of 'ers . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , accordin' ter Will , Joe 's bruvver used ter fight in the pub tournaments over Stepney , ’ Nellie went on . |
| 12 | ‘ Carrie 's bruvver Danny was a good boxer , ’ he went on amiably. ‘ 'E used ter box in the army . |
| 13 | She used ter sing at the Star in Abbey Street , ’ Broomhead informed him . |
| 14 | Rob 's party , and Richard Stirling 's mention of Elise … and Luke 's terse reply which effectively forbade further talk on the subject . |
| 15 | Denny Beresford , chairman of FASB , added further support to the view that the US is more strongly involved than ever in international financial reporting issues , while Hugh Collum , finance director of SmithKline Beecham , emphasised industry 's pressing need for effective harmonisation . |
| 16 | The proposal for National Parks , however , received further support in the Dower report , published in 1945 , and that of the Hobhouse committee , which proposed setting up a National Parks Commission paid for out of public funds . |
| 17 | It was in fact a humble beginning , for the cast was enormous and his crowd work was not exceptional ; he received neither credit in the programme nor any mention in the press for his direction . |
| 18 | Although this synthesis of ideas has been rightly praised by subsequent historians and political commentators , Mosley came too realize during the later 1920s that such ideas could only partially solve Britain 's economic problems . |
| 19 | The two regions were more industrially developed and russified and showed little support for the IRP . |
| 20 | The outcome of the local government election showed little change for the main parties , and SDLP MP Eddie McGrady said the Secretary of State would see the results revealed nothing that he did not already know . |
| 21 | Share prices showed little change throughout the day however and the FT-SE 100-Share Index closed just 1.0 down on the day at 2,817.0 , with just under 593 million shares changing hands . |
| 22 | They showed little regard for the ceremony of church weddings , although they both hoped to find some form of acceptable New Testament-based belief for themselves without benefit of clergy ; they believed , in Lamarckian fashion , that the physical match and spiritual preparation of parents would ensure a ‘ better ’ offspring , as one essential step to a better world . |
| 23 | The serfs had swallowed the slaves , a process made hopelessly obscure by the fact that the same word , servus , often did service for both . |
| 24 | That the negligence or rather the breach of the implied term , was failing to ensure as is the common practice amongst solicitors that the proposed source of finance had in fact agreed both finance for the transaction and the term thereon . |
| 25 | Some of them had chains round their boats , fore and aft , to hold them together , do they d ha sunk ; busted right open from the swelling of the wood with too much water . |
| 26 | KENNY Dalglish yesterday brushed aside talk about the prospect of unbeaten Blackburn Rovers setting the pace in the Premier League . |
| 27 | Glasgow Airport recorded its 11th sunfree day in succession on the 14th but the pattern changed as a cold front made eastwards progress across the country . |
| 28 | I read that the film-maker , Gareth Wardell , had such a project that needed only support from the fund . |
| 29 | Thanx mussed also go to the Mitchley Road Primary Skool printing clubb four taking over the produckshun of owr programe . |
| 30 | The result has been that the majority of boards produced today fall under the blanket description of being funboards , although there are in fact a number of different designs . |