Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] the [noun] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It transpired that the foundations of the chimney were inadequate , with the result that the entire structure sank some ten inches , taking floors and arches with it ! |
| 2 | In 1983 , Jim Hartle and I proposed that the state of the universe should be given by a sum over a certain class of histories . |
| 3 | In addition the draft proposed that the size of the Commission be reduced to one member per country ( France , Germany , Italy , Spain and the UK currently having two Commissioners ) . |
| 4 | Following an 1841 expedition to the Aegean Sea , Forbes proposed that the fauna of the oceans could be divided into zones by depth , exactly equivalent to the zones of vegetation ascending a mountainside . |
| 5 | Schrödinger proposed that the reality of the situation was that the cat was neither alive nor dead until the experimenter opened the box to take a look . |
| 6 | They also proposed that the aetiology of the portal hypertension might influence the type of surgery offered for recurrent bleeding from failed sclerotherapy . |
| 7 | In the 1950s John Wain proposed that the task of the Movement in verse was to consolidate the tradition of Eliot and Pound . |
| 8 | In 1347 he promised that the grievances of the Commons should be remedied by Chancery writs against Forest officers , but next year ‘ the commons of the county of Surrey and of other counties ’ complained that although they had sued for a writ in the Chancery , they had not been able to obtain the promised remedy . |
| 9 | They demonstrated that the crust of the Earth can be divided into seven large plates , and many smaller ones , and that all major crustal processes can be related to the relative movements between these plates . |
| 10 | Although they faithfully echoed the time-honoured myth that the Tsarist government stood above social divisions and cared for the interests of all classes , they firmly grasped that the mainstay of the autocracy was in fact the landed nobility . |
| 11 | He maintained that the construction of the flood barriers ( based on the MOSE prototype : see The Art Newspaper , No. 15 , February 1992 , p.1 ) would not be held up until the de-pollution programme was completed : plans and experimental work on the flood barriers would go ahead while the environmental problems were being dealt with and experimental work should be completed by the beginning of 1994 . |
| 12 | He merely maintained that the non-recurrence of the same complexes of qualities was a probability , not a certainty . |
| 13 | Unsympathetic members of the congregation remained unimpressed , however ; they maintained that the source of the vicar 's problems was the French pox ! |
| 14 | A communiqué issued on Sept. 12 said : " The two sides maintained that the restoration of the neighbourly and friendly relations between the two countries of Vietnam and China was necessary . " |
| 15 | Auguste Comte ( 1798–1857 ) , who is credited with inventing the term sociology and regarded as one of the founders of the discipline , maintained that the application of the methods and assumptions of the natural sciences would produce a ‘ positive science of society ’ . |
| 16 | On a similar matter a local resident mentioned that the owners of the property known as Rivendell have , in effect , extended their garden by planting shrubs etc on the grass verge thus making it impossible for either vehicles or pedestrians to use this as a refuge in an emergency . |
| 17 | Until this stage ‘ it had been clearly understood and implicitly accepted during the entire process by all parties involved that the recomposition of the regime in Kabul would occur in parallel with the phased withdrawal of Soviet forces ’ . |
| 18 | TRACE II , like Hearsay-II had no guarantee that the correct weights had been chosen but found that the behaviour of the system was very robust under parameter variations . |
| 19 | Oakenshott ( 1979 ) found a preference for small towns among employers because of their more pleasant physical environments and easier access to the countryside , compared with the larger cities , while Spooner ( 1972 ) found that the attractiveness of the area was the most important factor influencing firms moving into the South West . |
| 20 | The judge found that the substance of the post-termination commission clause was that in the event of termination following a prescribed period of service , commission would be paid to the plaintiff in respect of premiums actually paid under the relevant policies issued during his appointment but that it was subject to the proviso that the agent 's entitlement to such commission would cease if he entered into competing activities . |
| 21 | All subjects participating in our study were caucasians ; we have studied other samples from general populations of caucasian origin and found that the frequency of the ACE/ID polymorphism was fairly similar to that in the ECTIM study . |
| 22 | We found that the output of the Wasp and the Forgen in.particular , was tiny . |
| 23 | Lord Denning M.R. found that the interpretation of the Supplementary Benefits Commission was correct . |
| 24 | In his famous survey of 1849 Henry Mayhew found that the memory of the sawyers reached back through better days up to 1826 before the saw mills proliferated , to the even more lucrative times of their fathers , when sawyers could earn £1 a day . |
| 25 | He found that the intensity of the magnetic field within the circle was lower than that outside . |
| 26 | Choquette & trusell ( 1978 ) found that the intensity of the stain was proportional to the Mg content of calcite . |
| 27 | As regards the nature of the business , the hearing officer found that the invention of the display units represented an important advance in an-essential component in the employer 's final product . |
| 28 | He therefore found that the facts of the case were indistinguishable from those of Wyatt and Bull . |
| 29 | When I moved on to Agra I found that the appearance of the buildings there had changed noticeably . |
| 30 | When the full institutional visit took place in December the Council found that the expectations of the preliminary visit were being fulfilled . |