Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [vb past] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My plea was wholly contained in the events barely a day old and swiftly took the Bench and the entire Court through the squirt of 174 cannon shells , the wounded , the flight engineer 's heroic effort in repairing the devastated controls twice , his treatment of the wounded and his immediate award of a DFM , which he had been celebrating . |
| 2 | AUSTRALIAN Mutual Provident , the Australian insurance company bidding £1.1bn for Pearl Group , yesterday reiterated that its 605p per share cash offer was generous and fully valued the company . |
| 3 | Sharpe urged the black stallion on , but the footing under the rye was treacherous ; the soil was damp and still held the shape of the plough furrows , and the stallion could not match the Frenchman 's speed on the paved road . |
| 4 | Troops loyal to President Gnassingbe Eyadema again disrupted the transition period [ see also p. 39041 ] when a 100-strong force occupied the National Assembly building on Oct. 22 and successfully demanded the unfreezing of the assets of the Rassemblement du peuple togolais ( RPT ) , formerly the sole legal party , led by Eyadema , which had been dissolved in August 1991 [ see p. 38379 ] . |
| 5 | If the tribunal had , for example , decided that it should be comprised of , inter alia , the need for certain fixtures and fittings , and then later ignored this but still invoked the phrase furnished tenancy , all the objections expressed to the separation of the sum from the parts would still apply . |
| 6 | In the event , however , it was a glossy book from the Town Planning Ministry in 1986 that really took the message to the public — and that message was so remarkable that it deserves examination in some detail . |
| 7 | He was well-known by sight to all the warren , for his fur was entirely grey , with patches of near-white that now caught the moonlight as he sat scratching himself without speaking . |
| 8 | Such people , in his and Val 's world , were not quite real but still walked the earth . |
| 9 | She 'd have let him get in as deep as possible and then started the pressure … |
| 10 | I wanted to tell him calmly that I knew perfectly well that it was absurd and quite understood the point of his questions . |
| 11 | The East Lothian man took the third set 7-1 , came from 1-4 down to take the next 7-4 and then opened the decider with three singles . |
| 12 | The most widely acclaimed of these has been John Rawls 's A Theory of Justice , which was published in 1971 and rapidly assumed the status of a contemporary classic . |
| 13 | Beatrice knew that and bitterly resented the influence of her greatest rival , his mother . |
| 14 | Thomas Cook changed all that and practically invented the tourist industry single-handed , although his first efforts were often financially unrewarding and he kept his ‘ day ’ job as a printer . |
| 15 | Well , we got through it all , I can scarcely believe that I came through all that and thoroughly enjoyed the excitement of it , and was not in the least bit sea-sick . |
| 16 | So as naturally as anything , Judith switched to Spanish and greatly impressed the customer as well as pressing upon him the need to provide proper facilities for his ladies . |
| 17 | For the third day running , 200,000 or more blocked the centre of Prague , cheering Mr Dubcek 's call on the hardline leadership to quit . |
| 18 | For the third day running , 200,000 or more blocked the centre of Prague , cheering Mr Dubcek 's call on the hardline leadership to quit . |
| 19 | The Milan Congress not only severely retarded the development of generations of deaf children for whom the Oral Method was totally inappropriate but also caused the loss of hundreds of teaching jobs held by deaf people throughout the world in schools for the deaf . |
| 20 | My main aim was for some relief to the back pain that I had had for many years but , having tried many other so-called ‘ back pain relief techniques ’ , without much success ( some worked for a short while , others not at all or even made the pain worse ) , I was not too optimistic . |
| 21 | For its next reincarnation , I rearranged , revised and slightly augmented the text of the Queen article , replacing the new introductory essay with the original one from Nova , and in 1969 published it in booklet form under the title Syllabubs and Fruit Fools . |
| 22 | Although neither very efficient nor popular with the other staff , Cabon made herself useful and soon had the run of the office and was able to look at all the files , amongst which she found one relating to the proposed voyage of the Rainbow Warrior into the nuclear test area . |
| 23 | In Europe the ravages of war had to be made good and then came the enlargement of universities , government institutes , and industrial establishments . |
| 24 | The more samples taken , the smoother and less stepped the representation will be and the better quality of the sound . |
| 25 | Mountain sorrel Oxyria digyna and tufted saxifrage Saxifraga caespitosa typify highly variable species ; the colder and more exposed the site , the darker , more heavily pigmented are the stems and leaves ( Savile , 1972 ) . |
| 26 | And as more and more of these areas were given over to cultivation , crop-raiding increased and so did the toll of human lives . |
| 27 | Peter Yeo , accustomed to leading from the front , had arrived at seven-thirty and personally made the coffee and brought in croissants , so that the reassuring presence of food greeted the other three partners . |
| 28 | David Hill , the party 's unflappable director of communications , has more than adequately filled the role performed by Peter Mandelson in 1987 . |
| 29 | He has more than likely planned the expedition for the half of the day when it is not Northumberland Avenue 's turn for heating . |
| 30 | As more and more accumulated the pressure built up : under these circumstances he hoped that a really effective way of making helium might result . |