Example sentences of "coincided with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group 's financial problems had increased since late 1987 when Warwick Fairfax , a member of the family which had controlled the company since its formation 150 years earlier , launched a A$2,100 million buyout of the group which coincided with the 1987 collapse of the world stock markets [ see pp. 35740-41 ] . |
| 2 | These changes roughly coincided with the progressive mechanisation of paper-making . |
| 3 | Included in the itinerary was a stop-over on the way back in Bangkok , but unfortunately this coincided with the civil disturbances featured on our T.V. screens . |
| 4 | So McCartan — whose understandably well-celebrated 40th birthday coincided with the Grand National , performed the conventional Hobday operation . |
| 5 | The brief fame of Soulages 's easy black stroke formula when there was a School of Paris ( of sorts ) was , I thought , long and rightly forgotten , but it must live still in the memories of political dotards whose prime coincided with the Sixties . |
| 6 | Although he produced valuable results at St Andrews , his major contributions did not come until later , as half the time he spent there coincided with the First World War , when the laboratories were turned over to the production of pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals . |
| 7 | The nun 's call coincided with the first of the bombs . |
| 8 | Feminism for women like me grew out of our dissatisfaction with our social lot and coincided with the first books that provided a context and a theoretical explanation for what we felt . |
| 9 | Significantly their arrival coincided with the first wave of summer visitors in more southerly parts of Britain , including wheatears reported as far north as Staffordshire . |
| 10 | The building of the Grand Union coincided with the crucial years of struggle of the British armies in Europe . |
| 11 | The charges against McDade coincided with the ongoing investigation into the House " Rubbergate " scandal [ see p. 38807 ] and the strong anti-incumbency sentiments consistently uncovered in recent opinion polls . |
| 12 | Last week 's successful Labour conference , which coincided with the 1-point increase in interest rates , will have further dented Margaret Thatcher 's confidence in the run-up to Blackpool . |
| 13 | The same good pay and conditions also coincided with the equal opportunities legislation which declared , in essence , that for all practical purposes there is no difference between the sexes . |
| 14 | This was particularly important as it was a field in which full-time education was only just emerging , and the development coincided with the early days of the CNAA . |
| 15 | Gradually he noticed tiny movements which coincided with the changing numbers . |
| 16 | Moreover , Esquire 's February launch coincided with the darkest hours of the Gulf War . |
| 17 | The turn to terror coincided with the renewed willingness on the part of some radicals to consider seeking constitutional concessions as a preliminary step to social change . |
| 18 | In an immediate sense , purity campaigns for more stringent legislation coincided with the renewed official panic over the urban poor in the 1880s . |
| 19 | The emergence of more professional search consultants coincided with the increased need for headhunting services to help rationalisation and reorganisation ; but arguably as the search industry was maturing , headhunting could attract better-qualified candidates , and as their earnings rose and headhunting became more profitable , executive search was increasingly being seen as a viable alternative to a line-management job . |
| 20 | The demonstration coincided with the official inauguration of Eduardo Villaseñor of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) as state governor , in a ceremony attended by President Carlos Salinas de Gortari and protected by 2,000 police and federal troops . |
| 21 | As did his experience of environmental concerns as head of safety branch and then of environmental and medical sciences division which , as he remembers , ‘ coincided with the great upswing of interest in the environment ’ . |
| 22 | His arrival in Egypt coincided with the great crisis of June and early July 1942 , when morale among the Middle East forces was at its lowest after the long retreat from Gazala , and the fall of Tobruk . |
| 23 | It is not , I think , a coincidence that the publication of Lyell 's " Principles of Geology " coincided with the Great Reform Act of 1832 . |
| 24 | A week overlooking the Firth of Beauty in May , which coincided with the sheer magic of Springtime in that area . |
| 25 | The leader 's shout of , ‘ What th'fuck ! … ’ coincided with the simultaneous upswing of four gun muzzles . |
| 26 | Guest of honour at the celebrations , which coincided with the 24th anniversary of the country 's independence , was Indian Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao . |
| 27 | Their publication coincided with the Red Anchor period of the Chelsea porcelain factory in the mid 1750s , when many beautiful floral paintings decorated plates and other pieces . |
| 28 | It coincided with the commercial development of two key components for the polymerase chain reaction : a DNA polymerase that could be heated at quite high temperatures ( boiling water ) without losing its activity , and robust machines that would quickly heat and cool samples repeatedly in a cyclic fashion . |
| 29 | The vote coincided with the 21st meeting of the JLG , which took place in Hong Kong on Dec. 3-5 . |
| 30 | In ‘ MI ’ No.14 Dr. Langellier , the author of numerous publications related to the Old West and US Army history and currently a senior member of staff at the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum in Los Angeles , published an illustrated summary of the important developments in US Army infantry field uniforms which coincided with the Spanish-American War . |