Example sentences of "launched [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 His review of the law on unofficial action and strikes in essential services was launched during the early summer this year , when a sequence of strikes hit the railways and the London Underground .
2 The research project took into account factors like a business being launched during an economic recession and a particularly severe recession in the construction industry .
3 EUROPEAN X-ray satellite , Exosat , is to be launched aboard an American rocket , the Delta , the council of the European Space Agency agreed last week .
4 Even when not launched for a revolutionary purpose , war according to Marx has a revolutionary effect .
5 A hunt has been launched for a German lorry driver who 's gone missing after arriving in England with a load of melons .
6 A hunt has been launched for a German lorry driver who 's gone missing after arriving in England with a load of melons .
7 WHAT STARTED out as a circular to keep former squadron members in touch was launched as a full-blown book at the Mosquito Aircraft Museum ( MAM ) during September .
8 On April 14 , Sri Lanka-born Queenslander Michael Jeh ran in and bowled to John Glendenen. and Durham were launched as a first-class entity .
9 In June 1988 ACET was officially launched as a registered charity .
10 As a consequence , ‘ Scientific research is not a neutral activity : child abuse was launched as a public issue out of a variety of private interests and its subsequent development has continued to reflect those and other interests ’ ( Dingwall , 1989 ) .
11 Similarly , in 1978 , the Daily Star was successfully launched as a national tabloid from Manchester .
12 Between October 1989 and March 1990 there occurred a number of attacks on Spanish diplomatic missions : on Oct. 26 , 1989 , an explosive device wrecked the car of the Spanish consul-general in Rotterdam ; the following day two grenades were launched against a Spanish embassy building in The Hague ; on Dec. 6 a bomb exploded at the embassy itself .
13 ATEST case aiming to set new standards of compensation for journalists suffering from repetitive strain injury may be launched against the Financial Times .
14 In the shopping centre , the Conservative candidate and his supporters , decked in blue rosettes , thrust their campaign leaflets into largely willing hands and launched into a well-practised patter .
15 Environmentalists and defenders of popular culture launched into a week-long debate about the pros and cons of the bonfire culture .
16 Dressed in a striped prison suit bearing his prison number , Guzmán remained defiant , however ; he ignored all questions and instead launched into a seven-minute address , insisting that his arrest was " simply a bend in the road " and that Sendero 's 12-year " people 's war " would finally end in triumph .
17 So , as the architects comfortably settled back into their chairs cradling their after-dinner brandies in preparation for some regal platitudes , the Prince launched into a stinging attack that left them reeling .
18 Warm things are said in the flush of the campaign but now that it 's over the first question the Tories should ask is how it would look to the country if a victorious party launched into a frontal assault on the BBC in the wake of its victory .
19 An investigation has been launched into a religious cult trying to recruit in Scotland 's universities .
20 On another occasion she was on the bus with fellow sixth-former Huma Farooqui when another passenger launched into a verbal assault .
21 Drums began pounding , and several seemingly frail old men launched into a frenzied war-dance , prancing and stabbing at each other with their kerises .
22 Armed with a transcript , Mr Patten , Tory Party chairman , and Mr Heseltine , Environment Secretary , launched into a carefully-rehearsed re-enactment of the Labour leader 's encounter with 20-year-old Alec Dunn , a first-time voter from Bolton .
23 On 18 January he circularized all sections of the Labour Party and the Press , and launched into a revived campaign for the Peace Alliance .
24 The governor raised his shaggy brows at Flavia Sherman in a theatrical expression of sympathy as her husband launched into a detailed discussion of his hunting plans , and taking her by the elbow , he guided her away towards the waiting throng to begin introducing her .
25 Laverne is launched into the still treacle of pond water which reluctantly draws itself up like sluggish curtains to receive this intrusion .
26 Miss Ellis ' eyebrows launched into the twitchy dance they always seemed to at the mention of the words , ‘ my mother . ’
27 His plans to grant land titles to shanty-town dwellers were effectively launched into the Apra-dominated Congress by the ‘ reformist ’ left .
28 An urgent investigation has been launched into the potential impact of the spill , which has been described by the Department of the Environment as " extremely worrying " .
29 At first blush this seems , though more cautiously stated , not too different from Macaulay 's grand vision of a free and regenerated India , launched into the civilized world by the patient efforts of generations of Englishmen .
30 The band launched into an almighty blues riff and Mick Jagger appeared on stage in one of the most impressive entrances we 've seen .
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