Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [adv] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The computer industry also conformed to a common American pattern of running into anti-trust difficulties — following IBM 's overwhelmingly successful System/360 offerings of the early 1960S . |
| 2 | On the following day the Senate was compelled to " freeze " the legislation after opposition deputies successfully appealed to the Supreme Court to block Senate ratification of the law until a ruling had been made on the constitutional legality of the AP 's parliamentary conduct during the lower house vote . |
| 3 | The county council highways and transportation committee yesterday agreed to the scheme which excludes all traffic , including cyclists , between 10.30am and 4pm . |
| 4 | Durham County Council 's highways and transportation committee yesterday agreed to the scheme , which excludes all traffic , including cyclists , between 10.30am and 4pm . |
| 5 | New east-west fold mountains immediately began to be destroyed again , producing mountains of conglomerate such as the fantastic shapes of Montserrat , near Barcelona ( plate 8.1 ) which is remarkable even in a country of conglomerates like Spain . |
| 6 | AMERICAN investment attention yesterday turned to prospects for first quarter earnings figures after job figures failed to provide firmer indications about economic recovery . |
| 7 | Robert Evans , the chairman , said that warm weather and lower margins on sales to households and other tariff customers also contributed to a drop of about £230 million in turnover to £10.3 billion . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , in an unprecedented climbdown the Football League yesterday agreed to Bristol City 's demand for a change of referee in their First Division game at Watford on December 5 . |
| 9 | In their eagerness to give the government a ‘ bloody nose ’ , opposition voters supposedly flocked to the candidate best placed to defeat the incumbent Conservative . |
| 10 | A minute later she had the result , and although the scales were less accurate than those at Dr Greene 's consulting-rooms , the weight gain still seemed to be dramatic . |
| 11 | School meals and milk as well as education maintenance allowances increasingly came to be regarded as complements to a universal scheme of family allowances by its advocates rather than alternatives as had been argued , for example , at the Trades Union Congress in 1930 . |
| 12 | The dock closures inevitably led to the visible scars of acute environmental deterioration and abject physical dereliction . |
| 13 | A cost cutting programme also contributed to the better figures at the company . |
| 14 | An ambitious reclamation scheme on the south coast also came to nothing around this time . |
| 15 | The desert sand sometimes seemed to be made up of pellets of dried yeast , road-workers ' grit , or face-powder . |
| 16 | Mains had been born and bred in Dunedin and , especially in the days when the Evening Star newspaper folded , the rugby matters then tended to be faithfully recorded by the Otago Daily Times and other electronic media as if Otago was sometimes being unfairly treated by the teams and newspaper writers from the north . |
| 17 | Even in the aerospace industry , employment fell by a quarter in the period 1981 to 1988 , following the privatization of British Aerospace in 1981 ; its acquisition of the Rover Group and the Royal Ordnance Factories also led to controversial closures , staff reductions and sales of land . |
| 18 | It was part of a wider agricultural system with sheep pastured on the rich meadow grass then walked to be folded on fallow arable areas overnight , where their dung helped to maintain fertility on the thin chalkland soils . |
| 19 | Our boy friends seldom came to the house . |
| 20 | By a curious twist of fate Kuzmitch later defected to the CIA by which time Blake had been convicted of spying , one of the charges being that he contravened the Official Secrets Act in November 1951 while still in captivity . |
| 21 | In the sectors under study here — the interface between the arms , aerospace and telecommunications industries and engineers — private as well as public sector actors long looked to the state to take the lead : for all the talk of profitability and competitivity in the international market place , procurement policies followed by the DGT with respect to public switching exchanges , or by the Ministry of Defence and the Civilian Space Administration ( CNES ( towards arms and aerospace equipment manufacturers , reinforced this dependent attitude . |
| 22 | Rangers ' boss Walter yesterday refused to be drawn into any speculation about the possibility of the champions of Scotland and England meeting . |
| 23 | Other management jobs only went to outsiders if there were no internal candidates . |
| 24 | The playschemes not surprisingly led on to the development of holiday and weekend breaks , but other social and leisure activities also came to the fore . |
| 25 | Hawk did not look like a soce worker or a shrink , but he was getting to her in a way the juvie officials never used to . |
| 26 | And how had my chestnut avenue suddenly dwindled to one or two trees ? |
| 27 | At the same time , serious threats to the stability of the infant democracy also had to be confronted . |
| 28 | North West North West match angling almost came to a total halt at the weekend with virtually all major matches called off . |
| 29 | The ‘ offensive ’ article in the London Evening Standard also referred to a nude poster wrongly said to adorn her office wall , the High Court heard . |
| 30 | The change from a rural economy largely dominated by subsistence agriculture to one with a greater emphasis on cash crops also led to social changes in the interior of the Low Country similar to those which accompanied the spread of coconut plantations in Kurunagala district . |