Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the decade before the war , Jewish settlement in the East End led to some involvement in the London underworld on the part of the Jewish population . |
| 2 | The ever expanding knowledge of the builders led to these forms . |
| 3 | But is the thing is budget led at this stage , I mean is n't that , are we really , is n't the |
| 4 | He has winged his way across the world in pursuit of his hobby , a mission that has included Venezuela , Thailand , Africa and Israel among others — with Costa Rica planned for this year . |
| 5 | Sarah schemed for several weeks before daring to put forward a proposal . |
| 6 | One by one , from about 5 April , their supplies depleted , badly damaged , often without masts and rigging , and with exhausted crews , Alberoni 's armada crept into any ports its captains could find . |
| 7 | But their efforts to collect the money from Germany met with little success ; and when French and Belgian troops occupied the Ruhr in 1923 in an attempt to force payment , the German economy collapsed amidst wild inflation ( CORE , pp. 6–7 ) . |
| 8 | In each year , less than 800 of these cases led to any form of criminal or disciplinary action , and the vast majority of even this small number involved nothing more severe than ‘ advice or admonishment ’ — 651 of the 766 cases in 1987 , for example . |
| 9 | The freedom to experiment , to organise classrooms in a way which supported and encouraged children 's learning , and which incidentally ( though not haphazardly ) covered the key areas of the curriculum led to many innovations . |
| 10 | One Soviet writer argued in this vein that the EEC proposal was not directed at the neutralisation of Afghanistan at all but at hiding the ‘ undeclared war against the Afghan people ’ . |
| 11 | The travellers were trying to get into a rock festival at Long Marston airfield near Stratford on Avon planned for this weekend.Roads around the site were blocked by the travellers as they confronted the police for most of the night . |
| 12 | The estimated cost of all these improvements amounted to some £18,000 . |
| 13 | So the struggle became to some extent a contest between the German bishops and the pope , and the position of the German bishops in extending the conflict can only be understood if we understand their relationships with the political parties and the rival claimants . |
| 14 | What we do know is that I M R O asked for this information in June nineteen eighty-eight and not long afterwards I M R O granted recognition to B I M and other Maxwell Companies , all the more surprising perhaps having raised the questions whether the question must come about , did they continue with their investigation , or did they let the matter drop and perhaps you might to comment in that context . |
| 15 | Hedges rose to either side and the Cadillac 's wing mirrors clipped against them . |
| 16 | In the second two pairs devoted to this relationship the same pattern emerges . |
| 17 | In aggregate , substantial gross flows occurred between all zones , although an inflow to an individual ring was not necessarily from its own core or outer ring . |
| 18 | The 1988 budget occurred during that period and proposed legislation such as the Housing Bill , poll tax , Education Bill , Consumer Protection Act , Financial Services Act , Legal Aid Bill , Immigration Bill and Criminal Justice Bill had to be monitored . |
| 19 | Being an American , Hauser referred to all Socialists as liberals . |
| 20 | This judgement was made by comparing the percentage of the regional budget devoted to this service with the corresponding percentages in other regions . |
| 21 | Section 1 of the 1944 Act gave tremendous responsibilities to the Minister : ‘ It shall be the duty of the Minister of Education to promote the education of the people of England and Wales and the progressive development of institutions devoted to that purpose , and to secure the effective execution by Local Authorities , under his control and direction , of national policy for providing a comprehensive educational service in every area . ’ |
| 22 | It shall be lawful for his Majesty to appoint a Minister whose duty it shall be to promote the education of the people of England and Wales and the progressive development of institutions devoted to that purpose and to secure the effective execution by the local authorities , under his control and direction , of the national policy for providing a varied and comprehensive educational service in every area . |
| 23 | According to the 1944 Education Act the Secretary of State has a duty to ‘ promote the education of the people of England and Wales and the progressive development of institutions devoted to that purpose … ’ , although effective control was , at the time of the Tyndale dispute , devolved to the LEAs . |
| 24 | As the driver stopped at this junction the girl managed to jump out of the car . |
| 25 | As for the reform of the National Health Service , it is already well established that every hour devoted to this subject plays into Labour 's hands . |
| 26 | His black hair sprouted at all angles from his scalp and he still had n't found time to shave . |
| 27 | Inside the plant , levels of radiation in the abandoned reactor building rose to many times the lethal level . |
| 28 | Physiologists capitalized on this instrumentation to demonstrate that the electrical activity of the brain and its nerve cells was a function of what the individual was doing , or not doing , or how sensory receptors were stimulated . |
| 29 | No great change occurred in this situation until the outbreak of the crisis and the introduction of the adjustment policies . |
| 30 | On St Kilda solifluction and the formation of pro-talus ramparts occurred at this time ( Sutherland et al. , 1984 ) . |