Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The ‘ winter of discontent ’ and the subsequent return of the Conservatives for what proved to be a very lengthy period of rule seemed to most observers to mark a profound watershed . |
| 32 | Strong opposition came from former socialists within the JD who argued that the idea was contrary to the party 's founding principles [ see p. 37004 ] . |
| 33 | Was the fire brigade hindered in any way ? |
| 34 | In the course of the next week fighting flared at several points along the Armenia-Azerbaijan borders . |
| 35 | That is why it disgusts me to see the nobility of grief caricatured in this way . |
| 36 | I shared command of the big " V " with two other skippers , Doug Thompson and Denis Mawe , as H.Q. frowned on any policy that kept an officer away from his home port and normal customs duties for too long a period . |
| 37 | The collapse of the Husayn-Arafat accord led to a new phase of cooperation between Israel , the United States and Jordan aimed at objectives similar to those of the early seventies : the erosion of support for the PLO in the territories , the reinforcement of the normality of occupation by a programme to improve ‘ the quality of life ’ , a term coined in this context by US Secretary of State George Schultz . |
| 38 | Williamson 's got five million years of more or less continuous deposit , which he can date pretty accurately erm and he 's got twenty one species of mollusc fossilised in that material . |
| 39 | In the health area , the old fashioned general practitioner functioned in this way ( in contrast to the support structure of a centralised health system ) . |
| 40 | Despite assurances from US Defence Secretary Dick Cheney that only the Okinawa and German weapons would be destroyed at Johnston , the fear persisted in many Pacific countries that the USA would abandon plans to build incinerators on the American mainland and would use the Johnston facility much more widely than had been hitherto suggested . |
| 41 | Sadly the Committee has been side tracked from that task by diversionary arguments about employed lawyers in criminal cases . |
| 42 | The cocaine flew in all directions . |
| 43 | This oversight resulted in this cartoon appearing on mill noticeboards . |
| 44 | I heard Ryan coming on a good wee bit behind him , but this , up that path like , I says to if that wee fella fell off that bike he 's killed . |
| 45 | Prime was brought down when to escape a hostile bid from MAI Systems Corp , it agreed to one of the last — and most doomed — leveraged buyouts in the computer industry by a group led by J H Whitney & Co , just before the boom fell on such transactions , which saddled Prime with a debt burden that at the time looked unsustainable — as so it has proved . |
| 46 | ‘ Marge ? ’ offered Ivy , in a frank , open tone , and tea went through such stages as could be managed in those days of austerity . |
| 47 | The National Children 's Bureau 's parent education and support project identified a number of trends affecting parents in the 1980s ; for example , the pressure on parents as a result of our increasing knowledge of child development and society 's high expectations of the parental role ; the tendency for professionals to undermine parents ' self-confidence with their expertise ; the isolation felt by many parents with young children ; the need for information and knowledge , for social and practice skills , and for self-awareness and understanding of how their values affect the way in which they bring up their children ( Pugh and De'Ath , 1984 ) . |
| 48 | This selection of winning tools includes a 20in Short cut saw for each runner up . |
| 49 | The mulch went on this year in March ( together with the Growmore , as ever ) , and only the keenest weeds have managed to struggle through . |
| 50 | I still have no explanation for why things needed to be weighed in this area , and what connection it could have with the watering hole , but I am certain that my finds from the four sides of the pond resulted from these activities . |
| 51 | But then the shattering instant fallback into sub-light speed felt like some thing was trying to pull my bones out through my flesh . |
| 52 | He had found it and endured it , but it had opened his eyes to what apprenticeship meant under another master than Adam . |
| 53 | The club went for another batsman instead , and that 's why I was intent on resigning . |
| 54 | Perhaps the part played by wine in the excesses of Canaanite religion lay behind this ruling . |
| 55 | To create a sense of occasion that is in keeping with the depth of emotion felt at such times is very difficult without recognized formalities and strong ritualistic content . |
| 56 | The study looked at all areas of the natural environment , including the management of the diverse grasslands and associated rare species , for which the Park has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest . |
| 57 | Although a picture of NCC confusion emerged from this study it still held out the hope , if only by implication , that more rigorous thinking would achieve better results . |
| 58 | The State Department reacted to this hint of interference with peaceful navigation by expressing the US administration 's ‘ grave concern ’ . |
| 59 | The far side crust is thicker and therefore the basins gave rise to less weakening there , and consequently far less lava emerged into those basins than into those on the near side . |
| 60 | What if an enemy appeared at this moment ? |