Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Dolgarrog Dam disaster of 1925 led to the passing of this legislation . |
| 2 | In recent times gilt has been widely used to create the effect of gold , but during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries there was a fashion in Europe for silver thrones , like that made for the coronation of the Queen of Denmark in 1731 . |
| 3 | Every buyer , lessee and mortgagee of property bounded by or adjacent to a canal should search before exchange of contracts by letter , with a plan , for information similar to that sought in the case of rivers . |
| 4 | The rise to power of Saddam Hussein and the subsequent outbreak of the Gulf war in 1980 led to a revival of the Iraqi claim to the islands . |
| 5 | But the Brazilian debt crisis in December 1986 led to a collapse in the perpetual FRN market . |
| 6 | This means that in most ( almost all ) cases the Provisional Banding notified in December 1992 will be the same as that notified on the Demand in April 1993 . |
| 7 | Three raids alone in 1736 led to the loss of 1,026 head of cattle . |
| 8 | The coach departed from Clun at 8 a.m. for the four-hour journey to Minehead , the terminus of the West Somerset and indeed of the original branch line whose closure in 1971 led to the formation of the preserved railway which is so successful today . |
| 9 | Eileen Sessions , former head teacher at Smestow School , Stafford , whose introduction of Golf Foundation lessons to her school curriculum 1971 led to the establishment of a Staffordshire County Schools ' Association which now incorporates 60 schools , is the first winner of the Sir Henry Cotton Award for Meritorious Service to Junior Golf . |
| 10 | This is the total opposite to that experienced in the recession of the early 80s when our washroom service suffered badly . |
| 11 | Consequently , the sufferer increasingly cuts himself or herself off from the reality of life as presented by others and continues to blame them for their failure to provide unconditional love and " understanding " comparable to that experienced in the relationship with alcohol or with other substances or behaviour that lead to alteration of mood . |
| 12 | That led to the ceremony at Cirencester Register 's Office at the weekend . |
| 13 | Extension in the early Cambrian led to the eruption of the basic Tayvallich Volcanic Formation in western Scotland . |
| 14 | There were certainly more people in the world who resembled the French , 88 per cent of whom in 1861 lived in the département of their birth — in the Lot département 97 per cent in the parish of their birth — than resembled more mobile and migratory populations . |
| 15 | eleven forty six , he 's got them inside , I think I told you about this did n't I ? , and I was inside helping them out like , he was outside , he did n't have his gas mask , we were doing the things , like M B C stuff , and I 'm inside and he said right you will each go to a post , where inside this tent , each to go to er , erm , cos there was six people inside and like there was six posts , he said you each got to a post inside the tent and on the you will pick up the tent , and I new what was coming , done it before sort of thing and erm , were all in M B C stuff cos there 's still lots of gas , but there was n't for very long , and he said right on the you will , er he just said , we picked it up right , were all fucking all fucking I said go on then , |
| 16 | The fall in crude prices since 1980 coupled with the diminution of oil availability fears has meant a progressive down-grading of forecasts for the future contribution to world energy supply of synthetic fuels as project after project , megaproject after megaproject , has been closed down . |
| 17 | The MTFS in 1980 planned for a reduction in public spending of 5 per cent over the next four years ; there was in fact an 8 per cent growth in real terms . |
| 18 | If experiments such as creep or stress relaxation are performed on the same sample of a polymer over a range of temperatures a pattern of behaviour is apparent that as long ago as 1943 led to the proposal of a " master curve " to which all observations could be reduced . |
| 19 | These symbols are used to denote particular aspects of the hotel 's operation which are considered significantly above the standard applied by the star classification granted , but not necessarily above that expected from a hotel in a higher classification . |
| 20 | And it would appear to many rather strained within that agreed by the Secretary of State , a matter of general principle , the County Council accepted past level er of migration without looking er at the implications er of that . |
| 21 | From the King 's workmen I ordered fifty heavy metal hooks , each fastened to a piece of strong rope . |
| 22 | These well-protected dinosaurs each diversified into a number of genera ; the three main groups are : the stegosaurs of the Jurassic , with paired plates along the back and a nastily spiked tail ( Stegosaurus ) ; the ceratopsians , horned , rhinoceros-like dinosaurs of the Cretaceous , including the familiar Triceratops ; the spiky armoured ankylosaurs , tanks on stumpy legs . |
| 23 | The authors support this finding with their observation that the recurrence risk ratio for first degree relatives in families with two affected members is greater than that found among the relative of single probands ( 18.1 v 8 ) . |
| 24 | They are also more than twice as likely to develop their own meanings as they are to extend those contributed by children , this ratio being almost the exact opposite of that found in the speech of parents . |
| 25 | Each of these Ministries will , in turn , have separate branches each charged with the administration of a particular facet of the Ministry 's affairs . |
| 26 | In 1979 , this precedent was greatly extended with the institution of 14 new select committees each charged with the oversight of the work of a about 10 members selected by a selection committee so as to reflect , as far as possible , the strength of the various parties in the House of Commons . |
| 27 | A college … should provide a school … and the subscribers , becoming Governors of the new institution , should proceed to choose a President , Vice-Presidents , Treasurer , Secretary , and such other officers as should appear convenient … to institute their Veterinary Professor … that His Majesty , and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales , be humbly prayed to take it under their joint patronage : and , the Master of the Horse , the President of the Royal Society , the President of the Royal College of Physicians , and the President of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts , Manufacturers and Commerce , should be each invited to a government of the college … |
| 28 | On May 17th , America 's Supreme Court sought Mr Clinton 's views on a long-running case challenging California 's right to use a completely different method of taxing multinationals to that used by the rest of the developed world . |
| 29 | However , if there is a significant element of goodwill or the price is based on a multiple of earnings , this should be reflected in a formula similar to that used by the purchaser for calculating the price . |
| 30 | The meaning of yabud in this instance is therefore qualitatively different from that used in the context of harmful superhumans . |