Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Concern about this led to the appointment of the Plowden Committee on the Planning and Control of Public Expenditure which reported in 1961 . |
| 2 | There were various other complaints about this voiced during the open section of the meeting which followed . |
| 3 | An article about this appeared in The Tiger Rag and a copy was sent to Downing Street and duly acknowledged . |
| 4 | This stems not so much from the differences between conservatives and socialists as from the clash between British attitudessupported by the managements of some American multinational companies — and those of much of the rest of the Community . |
| 5 | The necessity for this arose from the catastrophic collapse in mining employment . |
| 6 | The reason for this lay in the nature of the work done by the Indians … |
| 7 | For many months virtually everywhere in the Soviet Union stocks in state shops of even basic foodstuffs such as bread had been growing increasingly erratic , although some of the blame for this lay in the withholding of deliveries to the state supply network by farms and local authorities , in anticipation of prices rising or to meet local needs [ for indications of breakdown in the distribution system in May see p. 37538 ] . |
| 8 | The development which really strengthened the governments , however , was the tendency , beginning in Paris in February 1961 , for European leaders to meet in ‘ summits ’ where major decisions were taken , even though no provision for this existed in the Rome treaty . |
| 9 | The stimulus for this came from the desire by some landowners to raise the efficiency of sheep rearing to take advantage of the wool trade with the Netherlands . |
| 10 | Indeed , as many of China 's top leaders after 1949 worked in the Taihang region as in Yan'an . |
| 11 | The Thatcher Cabinet after 1983 radiated from the woman at the centre . |
| 12 | Results showed that 95 per cent of the registered electorate of 193,800 went to the polls and that 90 per cent of these voted " to remain part of Yugoslavia with Serbia and Montenegro and others who want to preserve Yugoslavia " . |
| 13 | Some 86 per cent of the electorate of 35,000 went to the polls . |
| 14 | About 85 per cent of the electorate of 1,692,000 went to the polls , all those aged 18 and over being eligible to vote . |
| 15 | The official crime statistics show that , in 1980 , 421 cases of rape were proved in the courts , out of a total of 1,225 cases recorded by the police , and that 2,423 cases of indecent ( i.e. sexual ) assault were proved out of 11,498 recorded by the police . |
| 16 | Attempts to identify a murine homologue of LFA-3 led to the unexpected finding that mouse CD2 interacts with a different molecule , BCM1 ( CD48 ) 49 . |
| 17 | Doing their best for the glory of Canada , the whole field of eleven swept round the bend and went down the far side as if welded together , and it still seemed when they turned for home that that was how they might finish , in a knot . |
| 18 | These 20 patients were taken from a total of 32 diagnosed during the same period ; 12 patients were excluded because of poor compliance with the diet ( seven cases ) or denied consent to the protocol ( five cases ) . |
| 19 | Then one day , when I visited the hospital by chance — Alec was ‘ on duty ’ — a boy of eight arrived at the surgery , carried by his father . |
| 20 | An alternative method of tying off rope coils using a separate figure of eight tied into the harness . |
| 21 | The Dolgarrog Dam disaster of 1925 led to the passing of this legislation . |
| 22 | Whatever advertisers and their agencies may think about the respective merits of Conservative , Labour or even Liberal Democrat administrations , general election mean a windfall of about £10m worth of business for media owners and a favoured few advertising agencies — reportedly some £8m of that spent by the Conservatives , £2m by Labour and a meagre £250,000 by the Liberal Democrats . |
| 23 | The total vertical heat transport is the sum of that transported by the motion and that conducted down the temperature gradient ( cf. also Section 21.7 ) . |
| 24 | The activity obtained at an intermediate ionic strength ( 70 mM ammonium sulphate ) was about 80% of that observed at the lowest concentration used ( 20 mM ) , a situation in which the activity of P A2b in linear templates was of about 10% if the initiating NTPs were present or even lower in their absence . |
| 25 | The meeting was arranged after predictions by the administration 's Office of Management and Budget ( OMB ) and the Congressional Budget Office ( CBO ) that the US budget deficit for fiscal 1991 ( beginning Oct. 1 , 1990 ) , would be considerably in excess of that anticipated in the administration 's budget proposal of January 1990 [ see pp. 37177-79 ] . |
| 26 | By the mid 1850S , for instance , only 5 per cent of London 's milk arrived by train , and the bulk of that carried by the Eastern Counties Railway . |
| 27 | ‘ Our aim is to raise low wages in Britain over time so that the lowest-paid worker will receive an hourly rate not less than two-thirds of that received by the male median full-time worker . ’ |
| 28 | Even after the Equal Pay Act had effected some narrowing of the pay gap , there was an unexplained excess of men 's pay over women 's pay worth about 30 per cent of that received by the average 32-year-old female employee in early 1978 . |
| 29 | Bunkers , coal , they all coal furnace you see , and we er they 'd come in and we used to fill them up with coal , whatever they wanted lot of that went over the side coal , beautiful coal that was . |
| 30 | Head of the school Mike McKechnie later visited Shanghai to seal a friendship agreement and discuss the course content , a scaled down but otherwise authentic version of that taught at the institute . |