Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The framework for the investigation of ‘ sensory coding ’ was established in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , when the business of explaining perception was transformed into the more specific project of correlating the physical properties of perceived objects and events with patterns of activity in the nervous system and the latter with the subjective properties of the experience : |
| 2 | Hall 's speed was matched against the slightly greater power of Baddeley . |
| 3 | Hall 's speed was matched against the slightly greater power of Baddeley . |
| 4 | The defendant was convicted of the more serious offence . |
| 5 | But the movie was stolen by the then little known Marlene Dietrich , playing ‘ naughty Lola ’ the cabaret girl of the Blue Angel nightclub , who destroys the life of a respectable schoolteacher ( Jannings ) . |
| 6 | PLAYER OF THE TOURNAMENT TO MARK the 21st anniversary of the Benson & Hedges Cup , a special trophy was created for the most consistent player of the 1992 tournament . |
| 7 | And the salesman or agent was cited as the most common source of information about the terms of their credit agreement — more than twice as often , for example , as the contract itself . |
| 8 | The strained relationship between prison governors and the Home Office Prison Department was overshadowed by the even more turbulent staff relations between management and prison officers which came to a head in widespread industrial action in 1978 . |
| 9 | Confrontation with the United States was followed by the more dramatic confrontations with the French at Moruroa atoll where the goaded French beat up Greenpeace 's skipper , McTaggart , rammed a protest boat and eventually murdered a photographer who went down with the sabotaged Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour in July 1985 . |
| 10 | Morice was admitted to the strongly Calvinist Middle Temple in 1558 and in 1565 he was sharing chambers with his future colleague in the Commons , Edward Lewkenor . |
| 11 | This effect was used in the very early cameras , which did not have a lens but produced an image by admitting light through a pinhole . |
| 12 | While the secret garden was returning to life , a man with high , crooked shoulders was wandering round the most beautiful places in Europe . |
| 13 | The target set by NATO for Britain was nine to ten regular and territorial divisions ( in 1954 the figure was raised to the even more impracticable level of nine of each by D-day plus 30 ) . |
| 14 | The Commission considered that the United Kingdom was scarcely in a position to claim otherwise , since until 1988 the right to the flag of fishing vessels was governed by the far less restrictive provisions of the Act of 1894 , which continued to apply to merchant ships . |
| 15 | The caecum was considered to be reached only if the light of the instrument was seen in the right lower quadrant , the base of the appendix was visualised , and the ileocaecal valve was seen . |
| 16 | He added that , in the meanwhile , DK had entered a number of new geographical markets , including Taiwan , Korea , Thailand , India , Argentina , Mexico and the Middle East ; and that the decline in sales of children 's books was offset by the very strong growth in adult titles . |
| 17 | Throughout dinner and afterwards , an entertaining cabaret was provided by the well known ‘ Country Dawn ’ band with vocalist Lew Benedict . |
| 18 | This may reflect King Henry 's more immediate concern with rebels whose main fortress was only fifteen miles south-west of Poitiers , or it may be that Count William of Angoulême was overshadowed by the more vigorous personality of the new head of the house of Lusignan , Geoffrey de Lusignan . |
| 19 | Until the end of the month David Zwirner , son of the Cologne gallery magnate Rudolph Zwirner , shows a video installation called ‘ hors-champs ’ by Stan Douglas , a young Vancouver artist whose work was seen at the most recent ‘ Documenta ’ . |
| 20 | In time , the iron drilling chisel was superseded by the much tougher steel , though for many years in the interim , mine smiths steeled , or tipped , the iron jumpers with a steel chisel edge . |
| 21 | Many early traditions , and the Jewish , Christian , and Islamic religions , held that the universe was created in the fairly recent past . |
| 22 | Yet although attempts were made to assure the British public that telephone-tapping was conducted in the most exceptional and in the most highly controlled circumstances , it was suspected by some that the practice was very different . |
| 23 | For the old fear of the mob was intensified by the now much greater possibility of the people obtaining real political power and political rights . |
| 24 | During the course of May the government of South Korea was shaken by the most serious unrest since President Roh Tae Woo came to power in 1988 . |
| 25 | Once up and running , the equipment was put to the most rigorous of tests almost immediately — catering for a banquet with over 300 guests . |
| 26 | The presence of incomers was presented as the most immediate and tangible aspect of the general threat to the Shetland ‘ Way of Life ’ Although Shetland is reputed to be something of a melting pot , given the many different influxes of people over the centuries ( one native council official saw the typical Shetlanders as a bit of a ‘ mongrel ’ ) , these incomers were presumed to be somewhat different : most of them are here because their jobs brought them here ( those who are not here because of their jobs are eccentric ! ) , their stay will be temporary , there are more of them , they represent mainstream and hence dominant ways of life , they regard Shetlanders as peasants or country hicks . |
| 27 | The maintenance of this posture was ensured by the generally rightward shift of French cabinets between 1936 and 1939 , interrupted only by Blum 's shortlived second government in early 1938 when aid was briefly resumed . |
| 28 | The moral connotation was accentuated by the always at least implicit use of the term to contest , to resist contemporary claims of state . |
| 29 | The growth in the provision made by Douglas-Smith and Hampden Jackson in the year before the war was endangered by the rapidly diminishing availability of part-time tutors after September 1939 . |
| 30 | On the other hand , the spiky nature of the brown ferns was echoed by the slightly spear-shaped thalictrum leaves . |