Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [vb past] [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The garden city lobby alleged that the vested interests of London had worked against a decentralist approach , for which it had been striving for many years , and F.J. Osborn acknowledged in correspondence with Lewis Mumford that the Plan was a bitter disappointment to him and the Town and Country Planning Association ( TCPA ) : |
| 2 | Others have progressed rapidly in the beginning , only to experience considerable difficulty in overcoming the final hurdle — almost as though the mind was loath to give up a fear to which it had been clinging for years . |
| 3 | This gave it an influence among the Middle classes which it had never previously enjoyed , while allowing it to maintain the tenuous but important industrial base which it had been creating in the 1920s . |
| 4 | The document inevitably evoked much discussion within the Principality , and the WJEC , for example , responded by advocating a solution which it had been cherishing for some time , namely the creation of a small advisory body made up of representatives of three bodies : the Welsh Office ; the Welsh Counties Committee , consisting of local authority representatives ; and the WJEC . |
| 5 | The allegations against Lacayo were seen as the latest attempt by right-wing elements in the ruling 14-party ruling coalition ( still known as the National Opposition Union , UNO ) to discredit the government , which it claimed was collaborating on security and economic matters with the left-wing Sandinista National Liberation Front ( FSLN ) , the main opposition party [ see p. 38957 ] . |