Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is odd about the fact that admiral Horley ruled Hungary between the two War World Wars ? |
| 2 | If Churchill recommended Ramsey to the new young Queen who had never before been confronted with the situation , and the Queen asked the archbishops whether they objected , they could not say that they did . |
| 3 | Based on David Stuart Leslie 's novel In My Solitude , the story cast Crawford in the clumsy ‘ two left feet ’ role for which he soon became familiar . |
| 4 | The other structures were dispersed to linger only in the imagination of designers ; in its place Conservative freedom provided London with the first of the giant company headquarters built in the style of Orwell 's Ministry of Truth — the Shell building ( 1958 ) . |
| 5 | A delegation from IT Division visited Japan for the annual DTI/MTI Talks held on 25th–26th March , which included an Expert Session on IT . |
| 6 | Corbett led MacAirth to the nearest table , cleared a space and gestured to him to sit . |
| 7 | When his friend Calder took an autumn break , Sole skippered Scotland for the first time , in a 38-17 win against Fiji at Murrayfield . |
| 8 | Marie asked Gazzer for the second time that day . |
| 9 | In mid-November a United States congressional delegation visited China for the first time since the massacre . |
| 10 | In November a Vatican delegation visited Vietnam for the first time . |
| 11 | The two leaders agreed that they would meet on a regular basis in the future , perhaps annually and with less formality , and Gorbachev invited Bush to the Soviet Union . |
| 12 | It became a lost cause in the 66th minute when Wright found Knoetze on the left and this time the centre stepped in to the gap and raced for the line for a second try . |
| 13 | However , Mitterrand denied on Jan. 20 that there was any geographical limitation on French commitment to the allied force and on Jan. 24 French aircraft bombed Iraq for the first time . |
| 14 | Some tried specific local remedies ; the Earl of Chichester reformed Falmer in the 1820s , denying relief to all but the infirm and forcing the labourers to work or leave . |
| 15 | ( According to some accounts , a journalist told Eddington in the early 1920s that he had heard there were only three people in the world who understood general relativity . |
| 16 | For many Arabs the invasion of Kuwait confirmed Saddam as the foremost pan-Arab nationalist leader and the first Arab ruler since Egypt 's Abdel Gamal Nasser who was fully prepared to stand up to the USA . |
| 17 | Donna joined Stoddards within the last two years . |
| 18 | In the sixth minute , Andy Impey released Ferdinand down the right flank . |
| 19 | The Carolingians maintained close contact with Offa 's court and Alcuin congratulated Offa in the late 780s on his eagerness to encourage learning in his kingdom , sent greetings to Queen Cynethryth , and urged Ecgfrith not to be unworthy of his noble birth . |
| 20 | The same waves reached Hawaii in the central Pacific less than 5 hours later and must have travelled at a speed of 740 km per hour . |
| 21 | Mr Al-Kaisy left Iraq in the Sixties , but kept in close contact with his brother Ma'an , and his wife Zhara , now critically ill in hospital . |
| 22 | Of those universities who also support Ph D research in Scottish geology , Edinburgh 's students and staff have consulted 100 of the theses in data set C. For the major universities researching in the field , the numbers of thesis borrowers from particular universities are in proportion ( ratio nearly 1:1 ) to the numbers of Ph D theses produced in these universities . |
| 23 | Yiali in the Dodecanese supplied Crete with the white-speckled obsidian wanted for the fabric of the bowls ; possibly the obsidian came by way of Triandha as a trading station . |
| 24 | In response the United States supplied Israel with the superior A-4 Skyhawk long-range aircraft which , given Israel 's new frontiers , made the main Arab capitals far more vulnerable . |
| 25 | ‘ Far from constituting ransom to achieve the freedom of American hostages , ’ North assured Livingstone over the cooling coffee , ‘ the military goods provided Iran were part of a rapprochement process designed to deliver Iran from the clutches of the Soviet Union and to block the Soviet drive to the Persian Gulf . ’ |
| 26 | They sat in a cafe and ordered citrons presses and Alexander told Frederica about the importunate play , about the evanescent summer of 1914 , about Cabestainh . |
| 27 | ( William and Dorothy Wordsworth rented Racedown in the last years of the eighteenth century . ) |
| 28 | Charles Briant welcomed Hari into the bright lights of his office . |
| 29 | The child followed Aggie through the middle arch and towards a heavy , paintless oak door , then into a room dimly lit by a window that looked on to the covered way . |
| 30 | Norsemen conquered Orkney in the ninth century when the islands became dependencies of Norway and Denmark . |