Example sentences of "coincided with [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Appliances like cookers and water heaters tended to be used at off-peak times , but the use of electric fires was concentrated on the colder times in winter which coincided with system peak demand .
2 ‘ Fade ’ is a pharmacological phenomenon in which the response of a steady state system to a given stimulus decreases with time ; thus it might be argued that the cigarette smoking had no effect and that the observed reduction in secretion simply coincided with system fade .
3 In the late nineteenth century the trend to lower levels of recorded crime coincided with developments which , other things being equal , would lead us to expect rising levels of recording .
4 And once again this geographical change coincided with shifts in the economy at national level .
5 The major phases of ruling-class concern with the moral behaviour of the masses , such as the 1790s , the 1830s and 1840s , the 1880s and 1890s , coincided with periods of political and social disruption .
6 In my time which coincided with Frank Hodsoll 's two terms as Chairman the agency ran smoothly , and few grants of a clearly scabrous nature ever managed to make it up from the panels , past the Chairman 's gimlet eye , to the Council .
7 Two events , which more or less coincided with Geikie 's retiral , had a profound effect on the future of the Survey .
8 They coincided with Mrs Yaxlee 's own ideas closely enough for the latter to trust her to do the shopping while at the same time failing to include her in the invitation which she so palpably wanted .
9 The event coincided with New Zealand on the wane and Grant Fox paying the inevitable penalty .
10 The opening of the congress coincided with reports that Henri Emmanuelli , the president of the National Assembly ( lower house of parliament ) since January 1992 [ see p. 38736 ] and PS treasurer from July 1988 to January 1992 , was to be indicted on corruption charges .
11 The decision coincided with reports that at least four Cornish skippers had recently bought drift nets of up to four miles long .
12 Although this certainly coincided with attempts to breakdown the work process , matters were bound to be more complicated in such an unequivocally skilled trade .
13 This coincided with publication of an altogether different motion ( about closure of the BAT works in Liverpool ) signed by loads of Labour MPs , including the member for Warrington North .
14 ‘ A number of people remarked to me how lucky we were that the first Green Shopping Day coincided with publication of the Green Consumer Guide , ’ she says with amusement .
15 The announcement of the results coincided with publication of of the judgment in the Supreme Court of the Republic which explained the reasons why on appeal the constitutional case against the government should be dismissed .
16 This projection coincided with Douglas 's .
17 The SLA 's release of 51 Arab prisoners from the al-Khiam prison in the southern Lebanon " security zone " on Sept. 11 coincided with Israel handing over the bodies of nine members of the pro-Iranian radical Shia Hezbollah organization , and followed the receipt by Israel of information about two of its servicemen missing since 1986 .
18 This coincided with newspaper reports purporting to detail the financial arrangements by which millions of dollars were siphoned from the Bofors howitzer contract and allegedly paid to senior Indian officials .
19 The fact that this coincided with Britain 's exit from the ERM makes it difficult to distinguish between the favourable judgement taken of the merger ( on the day of the announcement and subsequently ) and the general advance of the stock market .
20 The abandoning of unproductive sectarian politics and the embracing of a more realistic popular front strategy coincided with Nizan 's own more realistic scrutiny of the Soviet state .
21 The application for registration by UNITA coincided with press reports , quoting US State Department and congressional sources , that US covert aid for UNITA would be discontinued before the elections .
22 His visit coincided with press reports that Israel had passed on US arms technology to third countries , including China .
23 The Feb. 15 settlement also coincided with moves by 25 Conservative members of parliament who were " names " to press the government to tighten measures regulating Lloyd 's .
24 However , in the short term there was a problem because economic development led necessarily to the integration of territories , and this threatened the much smaller areas which coincided with nationalities .
25 In this way the logic of Whitehall reform effectively coincided with Thatcherism 's emphasis on the use of business techniques within the public sector generally .
26 The transfer , which took place at Panmunjom peace village on the border between North and South Korea , was the first since 1954 and coincided with Memorial Day , the US national holiday to honour its war dead .
27 The decline of the networks roughly coincided with reforms of policing in rural areas , but the economic and social consequences of changes in land use were more significant than the hazards of the new policing systems .
28 And it was the filmmakers ' good fortune that their first creative maturity coincided with Rank 's willingness to give full scope to their talents .
29 It is interesting and significant to notice how Palace 's early post-war fortunes coincided with Graham 's appearances in goal .
30 The hole in the screen coincided with screams and the lights going up and the immediate disappearance of the images .
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