Example sentences of "supported a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is why the CIA during the 50s and 60s covertly supported a multitude of initiatives whose aim was to present the new American Art across the world as a promise for the future . |
| 2 | In the closing decades of the fifteenth century , Florence and Venice in particular supported a large industry of book-copying when the art was at its height . |
| 3 | They were free to raise funds elsewhere if they could , and one at least got a substantial sum from a local authority which would not have supported a project of that nature if it had not come to them from their own school children . |
| 4 | As Bromberg tells us at the beginning of her excellent mixture of history of science and politics , ‘ The US government has supported a research programme in fusion energy since 1951 , and in the 30 years through 1980 it has expended more than $2 billion . |
| 5 | Jesus may not have supported a particular party line , but His criticism of the political-religious leaders of His day led to His crucifixion on a Roman gibbet . |
| 6 | The incumbent monarch , Amanullah , whom the Bolsheviks had supported a decade before in his campaign against the British , was despatched into exile . |
| 7 | Instead , the Government had supported a daily press in Dar es Salaam , which catered for a relatively small and mainly urban readership . |
| 8 | Formed in October 1918 , the LNU brought together advocates of the League who had supported a negotiated peace , with prominent patriots who wanted the Allies to consecrate their victory with the establishment of a League of Nations . |
| 9 | Workers from the integrated playscheme subsequently supported a local special school in integrating under fives into a playgroup . |
| 10 | Apart from considerations of cost , the changing forms of family life also supported a move to substitute family care rather than institutional care . |
| 11 | In the reign of Alexis I the Ukrainian stimulus took full effect , and the Tsar himself eagerly supported a flurry of reforms aimed at intellectual and moral renovation . |
| 12 | A crocketed arch running from front to back originally supported a mitre on the inside . |
| 13 | This raises questions at present unanswerable , and complicated by the existence of a second long base in the sanctuary which seems to have supported a pursuit-scene ( possibly Zeus and the Nymph Aegina on whom he begot Aiakos , Telamon 's father ) ; and this might have been a first west pediment . |
| 14 | Of three bases , which were built together into the city-wall hastily thrown up by Themistocles after the return from Salamis and which probably originally supported a single group of statues , two are carved in low relief . |
| 15 | Melanie could not have supported a laughing , singing Victoria for breakfast and Uncle Philip might have struck the baby , which would have been dreadful . |
| 16 | Prompted care in Islington successfully supported a shift of two thirds of the burden of care from hospital clinic to community setting over two and a half years . |
| 17 | Voters had limited information about the policy positions of the parties and often supported a party in spite of its policies instead of because of them . |
| 18 | However , the tiny amount of " wad " obtained from the mine could never have supported a mill and all alternative supply must have been arranged . |
| 19 | It would n't be the first time that a man had lovingly supported a woman through crisis only to discover that when she was strong again his own need was to confine her in a dependent role . |
| 20 | What evidence there was supported a relatively minor charge under military standing orders and the soldier concerned was charged , found guilty and punished under the powers accorded to the commanding officer . |
| 21 | If the Minister can identify any objective professional evidence that five years is the period needed , that would be very interesting , but I believe that all the expert evidence that he received supported a period of seven years . |
| 22 | The ESRC has supported a cross-sectional or panel interview survey of a sample of the Great Britain electorate at every general election since 1964 . |
| 23 | The Supreme Soviet on Feb. 14 nevertheless supported a compromise proposal by Gorbachev that it should return to the question , and on Feb. 27 it approved in principle ( by 347 votes to 24 , with 43 abstentions ) a draft bill on creating the new presidency , and agreed to convene an extraordinary Congress . |
| 24 | Labour fully supported a settlement freeze . |
| 25 | Park , until recently the chairman of the huge Pohang Iron and Steel Company , had supported a rival candidate in May at the party 's national convention which had chosen Kim Young Sam as the presidential candidate . |
| 26 | Kim , who had transformed Daewoo from a small textile-exporting company into the country 's fourth-largest conglomerate , was renowned as an entrepreneur and was known to have had a huge amount of personal wealth with which to have supported a presidential campaign . |
| 27 | The MRF , it pointed out , had supported a vote in the National Assembly on Dec. 29 approving the release from detention of former Prime Minister and BSP member Andrei Lukanov . |
| 28 | GDA has also supported a range of industrial , workshop and office developments . |
| 29 | I would have supported a move into anything intelligent , but I do n't think anybody 's voice was being heeded enough . |
| 30 | It welcomed the direction CNAA discussions were going , held a joint meeting to discuss the CDP 's ideas , but the Committee learned at a meeting in June 1975 that the CNAA had not supported a CDP paper on ‘ accreditation ’ . |