Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [vb past] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example timesheets , they were finally discarded and replaced by er a schedule which was a work study schedule applied to each job . |
| 2 | Most easily identified are the Easton carbon/aluminium shafts with the unidirectional carbon fibres bonded to thin wall aluminium tube . |
| 3 | The companies often preferred slaves to white skilled labour and as a result slaves aspired to skilled positions which were later denied to them as freedmen . |
| 4 | During the third week of the Council , Archbishop Parente appealed to African bishops for support , criticizing them for turning against their old masters ( many had been trained at Propaganda Fide ) and siding with the northern Europeans . |
| 5 | After hearing argument the trial judge acceded to those submissions and ordered a stay of proceedings . |
| 6 | In the 1290s and again in the 1330s the pressure of taxation and resistance to the crown 's recruiting methods led to political crises which undermined the king 's ability to wage war successfully . |
| 7 | A suit of Khornate Chaos armour stands pinioned to one wall ; if so much as touched ( or if directly attacked ) it will attack the adventurers . |
| 8 | SWAPO loyalists were also concerned that top police and intelligence posts went to former security chiefs of the previous transitional government . |
| 9 | Given the sheer volume of works created by people calling themselves artists in the United States during any two-year period , it is unrealistic to think that a museum exhibition devoted to two years of art can give a visitor a sense of the breadth of what is being produced . |
| 10 | The rise in birth-rate from the middle 1950s created new young households from the middle 1970s ; higher divorce rates led to further fission ; trends in retirement meant more elderly lived away from their families . |
| 11 | At the beginning of his speech , the Home Secretary went to some lengths to compare what life on this subject was like under a Labour Government in 1979 with what it is like under a Conservative Government now . |
| 12 | During the 1930s the imposition of the household means test on those drawing public assistance benefits led to greater reluctance to take in elderly relatives . |
| 13 | Here the customer can browse through picture boards devoted to each artist , selecting a style and price to suit , much as one might choose an haute couture outfit . |
| 14 | At the meeting Kohl yielded to Polish pressure in agreeing that the treaty should be signed some months earlier than he had anticipated . |
| 15 | The conflicting demands of efficient service provision , democratic involvement , and local historical or community traditions led to different proposals for dealing with the perceived shortcomings of the existing local government system . |
| 16 | The gambling king stood to one side , wrapped in a black kimono , a white scarf knotted at his throat . |
| 17 | But at 2002 hrs that evening AFHQ replied to Eighth Army 's signal U 128 two days earlier , requesting guidance on questions concerning " Various nationals " : |
| 18 | → The Chicago based Harmony company came to real prominence after it was acquired by the USA 's foremost mail order firm Sears , Roebuck in 1916 . |
| 19 | But as Britain 's burgeoning pop culture came to full bloom in 1966 , so did its mirror , the NME Poll Winners ' Show . |
| 20 | Surrey County Council 's education department appealed to married women to return to teaching to fill the gaps for both part-time and full-time teachers . |
| 21 | From a hefty £685 million in 1979 , their combined share wealth rose to some £6.7 billion when Mrs Thatcher left office , a ten-fold increase easily beating the 240% increase in the cost of living . |
| 22 | But the opening day belonged to Zimbabwe-born Hick , the man who has suffered huge mental torment since becoming eligible for England in April , 1991 . |
| 23 | The heap of lumber on my neighbour 's veg patch grew to monstrous proportions . |
| 24 | The Virgin Mary appeared to three children at Fatima in Portugal . |
| 25 | The share prices rose to 57 pence on the news , giving Gresham a market capitalisation of some £17m . |
| 26 | The confessional boxes stood to one side . |
| 27 | As in the Z2 Carbonate , the platform sediments prograded to some extent over the top of already deposited slope carbonates and , consequently , a lower unit of slope and upper unit of platform sediments is commonly encountered in the Z3 Carbonate ( Fig. 28 ) . |
| 28 | At present the work of the Palaeontological Department staff in Scotland includes providing a service to the field staff related to long term field projects and site investigation enquiries , curating the extensive collections of Scottish fossils in their care and conducting specialist research . |
| 29 | The midwife toad came to public notice when , in the early years of this century , the Austrian biologist Paul Kammerer announced that he had persuaded the toads to breed once more in water and that , as a consequence of this , they had re-evolved nuptial pads . |
| 30 | The fake illness was slipped into a list of sexually transmitted diseases which Health Education Authority researchers showed to 1,600 people as part of an awareness survey . |