Example sentences of "[vb past] various [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lady Paignton , too , found various jobs for the girls , as Mrs Dare had prophesied , and when her son Tony came home for a fortnight , things began to hum in another direction . |
| 2 | We opposed various stages of the Bill , regretting the fact that it did not cover consumer safety ; but , on Third Reading , I committed our party at the Dispatch Box — this was just before an election — to honouring the existence of the Office of Fair Trading and the appointment of John Methven as director general . |
| 3 | They undertook the extensive analysis of various documents , compiled statistics of their own , made use of officially provided statistics and other materials , such as records , participated in community events and organisations , interviewed various members of the community in depth as well as administering a standardised questionnaire to various sets of people . |
| 4 | We explored various explanations of the present situation — such as Schumpeter 's analysis , the growth of government and the role of technology as an autonomous and primary force — and concluded that the root of the problem lay in the basic tension within humanism — the prevailing philosophy today in the Western world — namely the conflict between the desire to control and the desire to be free . |
| 5 | We explored various explanations of the present situation — such as Schumpeter 's analysis , the growth of government and the role of technology as an autonomous and primary force — and concluded that the root of the problem lay in a basic tension within humanism ( the prevailing philosophy today in the Western world ) namely between the desire to control and the desire to be free . |
| 6 | At his farewell , received various gifts from the company and workmates , and said that he plans to devote more time to his allotment and to his duties of vice-chairman and bar-chairman at the Ipswich Conservative Club . |
| 7 | From the buffet we could see the restaurant where a ten-piece dance band was playing ‘ Mambo italiano ’ and about thirty couples danced various improvisations on the Western dances according to whether they came from Leningrad , peking , or East Berlin , where the TV picks up the Western stations . |
| 8 | He found an engine core of the right type in the Middle East , obtained various components from the US , Hong Kong and elsewhere , and had the engine assembled , tested and delivered all within three months . |
| 9 | In addition to the oratory provided by Havelock Wilson , the NAS&FU also made a contribution of £pound100 to strike funds and encouraged various branches of the Seamen 's Union throughout Australia to donate over £pound1,000 . |
| 10 | It also ratified ordinances which allowed various crafts for the first time to organize their activities . |
| 11 | On some occasions , as in 1319 , they invoked the bull Clericis Laicos ; on others , they raised various objections to the procedures adopted by the king , sometimes protesting against the writ of summons , sometimes against the venue , sometimes against the presence of royal lay councillors in their assembly . |
| 12 | Baker expressed grave concern at the Bootle killing and attacked various institutions for the fact that society has become more violent and selfish . |
| 13 | Earlier this year , on April the twenty second , her Royal Highness , the Princess Royal , entertained various representatives from the world of entertainment and sport and journalism at Buckingham Palace . |
| 14 | Now , as far as I know , mechanical missionaries from the copper-capped brigade made various sorties on the L.M. main line over the years , but only one expedition by what might be considered a top-link engine is on record having penetrated further than Mold Junction . |
| 15 | The Scuttlers also jealously guarded the territorial seclusion of their local beer-house — known as the ‘ blood-house ’ or ‘ blood-tub ’ — and they were such a force in Lancashire that the public authorities made various petitions to the Home Secretary for sterner repressive measures to put them down . |
| 16 | Pressed by the men , they offered various compromises at the April 1910 negotiations of which the minutes have been kept . " |
| 17 | There followed a frantic exchange of telegrams between Rangoon and Whitehall in which the Governor offered various solutions to the prevailing deadlock , finally coming up with the unexpected suggestion that a new coalition ministry was possible with Paw Tun , the last premier of Burma before the invasion ; U Saw , his predecessor as premier , an unscrupulous schemer who had been interned for dealing with the Japanese ; and Aung San , previously portrayed by Dorman-Smith as a murderer and an enemy . |
| 18 | The offender approached the till , kicked down the security glass and took various documents from the safe . |
| 19 | They took various steps at the beginning of the century to invigorate trade in the town , including the construction of a new town hall . |
| 20 | If the respondent was a relative , friend , or neighbour , they were asked to say whether they thought various aspects of the home were good or not so good . |
| 21 | On the other hand , Flourens ( in Phillips , Zeki , and Barlow 1984 ) removed various parts of the forebrains of birds and found that the degree of disturbance of behaviour was very much more a function of how much brain was removed than which part was eliminated . |
| 22 | They exacted various dues from the forest inhabitants , such as cheminage , pannage or afterpannage , and the dues for having dogs unlawed in the forest . |
| 23 | The two Daves won various prizes in the lead-up to the big prize — when a professional darts player throws the darts , and his points are turned into pounds for a charity chosen by the contestants . |
| 24 | Both Sony and the Koei Group gave various reasons for the split , Sony that its mission of developing the desk-top publishing market on workstations had been accomplished , while the Koei Group indicated that Sony 's NEWS was too narrow a system for the jointly developed software , which will now be converted for other workstations and personal computers , including Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcsystems and Apple Computer Inc 's Macintosh . |
| 25 | News reports gave various names for the group , including the " Armed Islamic Movement " or the Takfir wal-Hijra organization . |
| 26 | The Egyptian press gave various names to the fundamentalist group allegedly involved . |
| 27 | He himself gave various explanations for the failure of an organization which was , after all , peculiarly his own , both in origin , structure and policy . |
| 28 | Packets leaving the wrapping machine still passed over the checkweigher as before but now , instead of merely passing or rejecting each pack , the computer captured the data it measured and performed various analyses including the average weight and standard deviation for each hour . |
| 29 | The Government was unwilling to spend money on taking over the house , but for a long time courted various businessmen in the hope that they would provide a major part of the funds . |
| 30 | He held various positions at the Ordnance Office between 1696 and 1708 . |