Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stress applied to a migrating epidermal cell at right angles to its direction of movement ( tangential to the leading edge of its lamellipodium ) causes the lamellipodium to retract and brings about a reorganization of the cell 's actin into a cable oriented along the major axis of stress . |
| 2 | Where no expansion was taking place , the only chance of transfer was if vacancies arose in the regular workforce . |
| 3 | They fell victims , along with others , to the belief that if a building complied with the existing building regulations and Codes of Practice it must be deemed to be safe . |
| 4 | Their discovery helped overthrow the medieval concept of the Solar System and a few decades later , by a method that I shall not describe , observations of Io led to the first determination of the speed of light , which until then was thought by many philosophers to be infinite . |
| 5 | The gravelled drive split into two ; one branch led to the front door , the other to the back of the house and , according to a finger post , to waiting room and surgery . |
| 6 | The opportunity arose in the close season when the FA decided to form the Mid-Counties Combination . |
| 7 | In her early thirties , her raven black hair gleamed in the overhead light . |
| 8 | As a result , his skin glowed more healthily and his halo of hair gleamed like the outer circle of the sun . |
| 9 | The coast ( or cliff-top ) walk from the hostel in the other direction led to the delightful settlement of Robin Hood 's Bay , where the slipway resembles a drawbridge let down from the towering sea walls . |
| 10 | But the new cohorts felt much less keenly the social conditions from which the class alignment arose in the first place . |
| 11 | But the alliance with Athens must have been renewed before the beginning of the Peloponnesian War when Thessalians fought on the Athenian side again ( Thuc. ii.22 ) . |
| 12 | While Madeleine snored in the bottom bunk Léonie fought to keep awake , to know the exact moment when , in the very centre of the Channel , precisely equidistant from both shores , the walls of water and of words met , embraced wetly and closely , became each other , composed of each other 's sounds . |
| 13 | Bright little creature — it took her just three minutes to work this out as her antennae fluttered in the sudden sweet smelling breeze . |
| 14 | Her olive skin glowed in the artificial light , the curves of her naked breasts softened into a newly voluptuous sensuality that reflected and heightened her resolution . |
| 15 | Wigeon grazed on the far shore . |
| 16 | The Albion board over-reacted to the whole situation . |
| 17 | With their shareholders lulled by the regulatory safety net strung under them and lured by the prospect of fat and easy profits , many banks in the 1980s went for growth instead . |
| 18 | Its activities led to the British Film Weeks of 1924 , which involved screening a programme of British pictures , accompanied by the sort of ballyhoo which left the public , according to critic Paul Rotha , ‘ hypnotized into readiness to applaud the worst picture in the world because it was British . ’ |
| 19 | The application of such skills led to the greater control of an army and , as a consequence , to its more effective use as a military arm . |
| 20 | When he and Adenauer met for the first time , de Gaulle records , ‘ We discussed Europe at length . |
| 21 | Armstrong fought in the First World War and was a war artist in the Second , sharing with other Surrealists the challenge of creating a pattern out of devastation . |
| 22 | On one island the macaques lived in the forested interior . |
| 23 | Technically , it is on commercial grounds , and they can not recoup the money made from the everyday operation of the reactor to pay for the refurbishment of the reactor , that is true . |
| 24 | The difficulty arose in the present case because of the Divisional Court 's decision in R v Board of Inland Revenue , Ex parte Goldberg ( 1989 ) QB 267 . |
| 25 | Conspicuously absent was Mr Ruslan Khasbulatov , the abrasive and ambitious Speaker , whose manoeuvring led to the latest crisis . |
| 26 | Quite what the taxpayer got for the extra money is not readily apparent . |
| 27 | Rain said , exasperated , that each route led to the same point and that meant back to the Tunisian . |
| 28 | Lysosomes incubated with the homogenising medium alone were used as controls . |
| 29 | Until finally , after ten minutes of desperate plodding , the welcome sight of a cream stone building arose around the next bend , nestled among a clump of very wet , but suddenly beautiful , rich green trees . |
| 30 | In a separate case last Friday , Mr Justice Popplewell ruled in the High Court that the courts were not an appropriate place to decide a child 's educational needs . |