Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But by then he had already come to doubt whether Parliament shared the commitment he felt , with Harrison , to the kingdom of Christ on earth . |
| 2 | Carter had advocated deregulation , but he approached reform via legislation whereas his successor sought the same end primarily through administrative action . |
| 3 | In most countries north of the Alps wine was the luxury of the rich , even though most of the wine drunk at this time was what we should call ‘ vin ordinaire ’ ; and even communion wine ( which had done so much to foster the growth of the northern vineyards ) was drunk less and less by the laity in these centuries , until communion in one kind became the rule . |
| 4 | But there was no semblance of a fluke about the result — it was the fastest Gold Cup ever run — and as Norton 's Coin made the long walk past the stands to the winner 's enclosure he started to receive the reception he deserved . |
| 5 | The new catchment boards ' first decade of river clearance was followed by the outbreak of war , during which Parliament empowered the boards to carry out even more extensive work at the request of county war agricultural executive committees . |
| 6 | After Charibert 's death Leudast made the mistake of wishing to see Tours transferred to the kingdom of Chilperic . |
| 7 | The taxpayer transmitted the case stated to the High Court out of time and the Court was thus deprived of its jurisdiction to hear the appeal . |
| 8 | These repeated the proposals of the earlier memorandum and in addition recommended the disbanding of the National Advisory Committee , the suspension of the 1937 League conference and the replacement of the New Nation by a bulletin for League branches prepared by the National Organizer 's office . |
| 9 | The certificate asked the wrong question and merited the short shrift which it received . |
| 10 | Labels were shifted about , the Higher School Certificate became the General Certificate of Education at Advanced Level , but it was many years before new pressures distorted the ancient simplicities . |
| 11 | Few of the specifics of the James proposals were implemented in the forms envisaged , but government acceptance of the principle of a degree structure to replace the certificate became the focus of debate and planning in the colleges and departments of education . |
| 12 | Champagne became the sole refreshment , and topless girls sported trays of Havana cigars and hashish cigarettes . |
| 13 | The driver led the way , turning around periodically to check that the others were with him . |
| 14 | When we were about twenty yards away from them an old woman turned and saw us. I just had time to see the panic on her face before the driver applied the brakes . |
| 15 | How is it that Television South West passed the quality threshold , offered by far the most money but still lost ? |
| 16 | Value for money became the watchword , explains Derek Kelly , a turkey breeder for over 40 years : ‘ It was all a matter of price per pound . ’ |
| 17 | Here , though , the procedure of the auctioneer was somewhat different , for at first the most attractive girls were auctioned to the highest bidders and then a sort of reverse auction took place in which the unattractive ones were distributed : instead of ascending , the bidding descended until the man prepared to accept the least payment got the girl . |
| 18 | Before the collapse of the Soviet Union , the central Soviet budget met the cost of the decontamination , medical treatment and checkups of the several hundred thousand victims and liquidators , as well as the compensation payments to those still living in contaminated areas . |
| 19 | A CHEEKY vicar got the sack — for demanding a poll tax rebate during council prayers . |
| 20 | Such dreary teaching could be eliminated if literature were separated from language , theory from practice , and literature became the chosen subject only for those who had a particular aptitude for it , or a desire to learn to criticize and analyse . |
| 21 | Much as she would have liked to stay , Penny had to hurry home with her budgie , but she learned later that Brownie Owl got the puppy out of the tree and took it home and gave it food . |
| 22 | Of the 26 legal parties , 17 ( including the PDCI ) fielded candidates , but the opposition parties for the most part lacked the finance and organization to launch national campaigns , so that in more than 40 constituencies there was no opposition challenger to the PDCI . |
| 23 | This experience laid the foundations for his application of compounds of mercury and other metals for therapeutic purposes . |
| 24 | In mid-1988 the PTT Ministry became the PTE ( 'E' for space — ‘ espace ’ ) Ministry and its Minister , Paul Quiles , announced that France Télécom would become the majority shareholder in TDF . |
| 25 | The permanent secretary in each ministry became the accounting officer responsible to the Treasury for the expenditure of the money allocated to his ministry . |
| 26 | It was presented , to Darlington Harrier Andy Campbell , when the race was established as an open event in 1904 and given to Duncan McLeod-Wright to keep when the Scottish runner became the first man to win three times , in 1929 . |
| 27 | For magazines such as the Illustrated London News the solution was to bolt a number of small blocks together ; but for full-page scientific pictures the technique of lithography became the standard one . |
| 28 | Not until October 14 , when a U-boat penetrated the defences of Britain 's ‘ safest harbour ’ at Scapa Flow and killed the Royal Oak and more than eight hundred of her sailors , did the chill of autumn begin to bite . |
| 29 | The measure met the qualified support of Labour in Parliament who argued , as always and reasonably enough , that the scheme gave too little . |
| 30 | Until New Scientist asked the NRPB to reexamine its assessment of the fire last week , to take account of the polonium , no official body had tried to calculate the effect of its release . |