Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the following day the Senate was compelled to " freeze " the legislation after opposition deputies successfully appealed to the Supreme Court to block Senate ratification of the law until a ruling had been made on the constitutional legality of the AP 's parliamentary conduct during the lower house vote . |
| 2 | Carew , writing at the beginning of the seventeenth century , had then thought four hours underground was as much as a tin miner could endure , but six- or eight-hour shifts overwhelmingly predominated by the eighteenth century . |
| 3 | Refinements of surgical technique eventually culminated in the selective shunt procedures developed by Warren et al which were designed to decompress the gastro-oesophageal varices while preserving portal blood flow and liver function . |
| 4 | In general , though , it was considered taboo — a place scientists should not tread — until the tide apparently turned at the 1986 international conference of human geneticists in Berlin , where participants openly discussed the possibilities . |
| 5 | Corbett secretly marvelled at the cool composure of his opponent . |
| 6 | He caressed the baseball bat , then holding it down by his side slowly walked down the uncarpeted stairs . |
| 7 | The Guardian and Daily Mail alone stayed in the same ownership throughout the period . |
| 8 | One view put forward by A. G. Dickens in the mid-1960s held that because Protestantism greatly appealed to the many lay people who had been alienated by the formalistic , clerically dominated Catholicism of the later middle ages , the Protestantization of the country was achieved very quickly . |
| 9 | By contrast , wind-dispersed species in a Mexican study normally fruited during the dry season , producing a large amount of seeds , which were simultaneously dispersed on days with low relative humidities . |
| 10 | She began to say , ‘ Thank God … ’ then halted , as the door swung open and she saw a figure momentarily silhouetted against the pale evening light . |
| 11 | ‘ Aye , yesterday ! ’ she exclaimed accusingly , seizing on the distraction when his words finally got through the strange fog in her brain . |
| 12 | B. T. Some of the inspectors always appeared at the wrong time . |
| 13 | The substance of one interview always conflicted with the next . |
| 14 | After her reception in the village store , she was not keen to go back with further questions to establish that Veronica still lived in the Red House . |
| 15 | Is it necessary to show that the defendant subjectively knew of the dishonest design or merely that he ought to have known ? |
| 16 | The mill pond still existed during the 1950s , but has now been filled in . |
| 17 | Episodes of intestinal obstruction usually occurred in the first year of operation but in seven patients admission to hospital with obstruction occurred after the first 12 months . |
| 18 | Labour yesterday put on the biggest gathering of the glitterati in the election campaign so far to underline its claim to be the party most famous people will vote for . |
| 19 | NASHWAN 'S owner and trainer yesterday decided against the only course of action that could have restored the reputation of their Derby winner as one of the outstanding racehorses of the post-war era by opting to by-pass the richest and usually most competitive race in Europe , the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe . |
| 20 | The wrecked Wellington bomber still smouldered in the open field . |
| 21 | Protests about professionalization also came in the 1960s from the prominenti of Oxford English . |
| 22 | Many members of the opposition also disapproved of the planned change , arguing conversely that it would strengthen the LDP 's hold on power . |
| 23 | Whas probably belonged to the Benedictine abbey of Sherborne , for which the Missal was made , and Siferwas may have resided at Sherborne while decorating the manuscript . |
| 24 | The great spate of English translations of Paracelsus also belonged to the 1650s , confirming that the peak of his influence in England connected with what is arguably the unsurpassed golden age of British science and medicine , coinciding with the formative years of such figures as Boyle , Sydenham , and Willis , all of whom were affected by paracelsian influences . |
| 25 | The name of Gary Wolstenholme also remained on the big scoreboards all morning . |
| 26 | Dissidents also protested against the continuing United States military presence in South Korea on the grounds that it hampered unification dialogue with the North . |
| 27 | ( Two other candidates also stood in the first round : Mahmud Othman and Othman Abd al-Aziz . ) |
| 28 | A cost cutting programme also contributed to the better figures at the company . |
| 29 | Drinkers also complained about the poor state of pub toilets and ‘ down at heel ’ gardens . |
| 30 | Musgrave also went to the fair at Guibray , and there among the freak shows was The Largest Fat Boy in France : Aimable Jouvin , born at Herblay in 1840 , now aged fourteen , admission a penny farthing . |