Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They looked vulnerable , though , against Zimbabwe , their neighbours , who for half of the match played the same brand of power rugby , only better . |
| 2 | While some of the gang looted the safe , the rest of the gang would keep the streets clear with their fearsome yells , thundering hooves and deadly gunfire . |
| 3 | In due course some of the drug reached the United States . |
| 4 | Such studies were inconclusive , but this in no way diminished the influence of the idea that excessive sexual urges in a woman would be linked to the size of her clitoris . |
| 5 | To do this you have to specify criteria and you do this in an area designated the as criteria range where you enter the fieldnames you want to use in a search . |
| 6 | High in the saddle rode the knights , resplendent in coloured surcoats , their slit-eyed helmets swinging from saddle bows , bannered lances carried before them by squires . |
| 7 | The judge 's note of Mr. Gilberd 's evidence when he was cross-examined at the trial included the following : |
| 8 | After Gower won the toss and put them in , West Indies had a good first day as Haynes made a patient 84 and Richardson his second successive century ; 269 for 2 at the close reflected the lack of life that Botham and Thomas had been able to extract from the pitch and the catches that had gone . |
| 9 | The former screened Red Alert , a TV movie about a full-scale alert at a nuclear reactor , a plot related to that of the cinema hit The China Syndrome . |
| 10 | The concept of political freedom , which is now so frequently bandied around by the coiners of political slogans , was , so far as we know , first developed in Athens in the fourth century BC where at least two-thirds of the population had the status of chattel slaves . |
| 11 | How much of a problem had the noise been ? |
| 12 | James II succeeded to the throne but the favourite illegitimate son of Charles II , the Duke of Monmouth , did not approve so he landed in the West Country and encouraged a Protestant revolt , but much of the public supported the King and the uprising was suppressed . |
| 13 | Much of the damage took the form of " bleaching " , which occurs when the water becomes abnormally warm , or " black band disease " , due to an infestation of blue-green algae , which is triggered by an excess of nutrients . |
| 14 | The next day , although three of the team made the descent by mid-afternoon , the rest spent three or four hours walking after dark , with only a few torches between them to light the way . |
| 15 | Talking to Andre Malraux years later , Picasso went so far as to say that it was on this occasion that he all of a sudden received the revelation of why he was a painter at all and that ‘ I realized what painting was all about ’ . |
| 16 | Three days later , a front-page EXCLUSIVE in the Star headlined THE FOX 'S LAIR — A COP 'S HOME He lived with Pc during terror reign is about a named police constable ( with a photograph of his house on the front page of the newspaper ) who ‘ let the evil sex monster lodge at his luxury four bedroom house . |
| 17 | Last night , the senior detective involved in the inquiry told the Daily Post : ‘ Despite these charges our inquiries are still continuing . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , at this point neither senior management staff in the Social Services Department nor the local councillors involved in the conference presented the Conference Report to the Social Services Committee for ratification as council policy . |
| 19 | Many on the right blamed the breakdown of the boom precisely on government interference ( chapter 17 ) . |
| 20 | Even where it is positively established that the right person was questioned , who by being present at the time had the nominal responsibility for cleaning the surface in question , the true reason for the fault may lie elsewhere being the result of one or other of the following factors : |
| 21 | Paragraph 33 of the order prohibited the use of the material so disclosed in the prosecution of either defendant . |
| 22 | In 1986 one poll suggested that one-quarter of the population found the PLO leadership too accommodationist . |
| 23 | The BMA called a press conference on the emigration of doctors an hour beforehand , half the journalists went off to that , and the fierce women sent along by the pressure groups whom I had invited to liven up the occasion terrorised the few press men who remained into almost complete silence . |
| 24 | The crew threw out the lines , and those on the pier pulled the heavy ropes attached to them and made fast . |
| 25 | Owing , however , to a series of accidents , including bad weather , the head of one small clan , Macdonald of Glencoe , a wild valley in Argyllshire , was late in taking the oath , and those on the spot seized the chance to make an example of him and pay off some private scores . |
| 26 | The long dither that preceded the commitment of $4 billion to the alliance took the shine off the contribution . |
| 27 | A demonstration of an estimated 60,000 state-sector workers had protested on March 3 at the sale announced the previous day along with that of Aerolíneas Argentinas . |
| 28 | A victim of the ‘ smouldering ’ that closes stations daily ( between October 1 and November 12 this year , ‘ smouldering ’ -a fire or smoke alert on the Underground- caused the closure of King 's Cross on no less than 14 occasions . |
| 29 | He argued that Article 42 of the constitution claimed the primary right of care for the natural parents and was inalienable : it could not be delegated . |
| 30 | His first of the season gave the Swindon fans a happy half-time . |