Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That failed far from the surface . |
| 2 | Potentially the same criticism can be levelled at the discussions of monetary union as that made above regarding the SEM , i.e. EC politicians are proceeding to adopt policies which are very vague in their analysis of spatial considerations . |
| 3 | The form is very similar to that recommended recently by the BMA . |
| 4 | I am unaware of any allegations of malpractice at the prison I visited , but it has often been claimed elsewhere that frauds are common among both staff and prisoners responsible for storing , weighing and distributing food , and that the actual consumption per prisoner can be up to 20 per cent below that laid down in the regulations . |
| 5 | The Foreign Office accommodation , with the possible exception of the Foreign Secretary 's residence , would be almost the same as that laid down in the competition . |
| 6 | It was enacted that the vill should not be required to pay the cost of service beyond the county boundary , that the equipment required of troops should not go beyond that laid down in the Statute of Winchester , and that service overseas should not be required as an obligation of tenure . |
| 7 | The testator has not regulated the case of the death of the second son childless : the condition on the trust in favour of his brother ( or rather now that brother 's heir ) is not satisfied , since that applied only to the brother to die first , if childless ; nor , since the first did not die childless , is the condition on the trust in favour of the granddaughter satisfied . |
| 8 | That stopped obviously during the war ? |
| 9 | According to the Scottish Agriculture and Fisheries Department , the cadmium level was only slightly higher than that found naturally in the area . |
| 10 | Excavation beneath this mosaic has shown the mortar beneath the central -roundel to be of a different character to that used elsewhere in the pavement ( Goodburn pers. comm. ) : the overall picture , therefore , suggests two workmen , or ( less probably given the remarkable variety of the meander ) one workman using " acquired " sections of prefabricated mosaic . |
| 11 | It 's an insult to feminism and I 'd like to know how much that cost out of the rates . |
| 12 | This resolution was offered as a substitute for that reported out by the Budget Committee , and if accepted would give the president virtually all the cuts he had asked for . |
| 13 | According to witnesses two of the alleged assailants made their escape together via the Docklands Light Railway , while another made off across the park . |
| 14 | By the time that the Book of Isaiah was written however , things were being said about Israel 's God that could not be said of any other , and this led increasingly to the claim that the God of Israel is the only one that exists . |
| 15 | As this rose vertically into the air , the nuees rolled away sideways from its base , and down the flanks of the volcano . |
| 16 | During the war opinion polls in the United States implied that around 80 per cent of people supported Bush 's Gulf policy ; this rose further after the start of the land war on Feb. 24 . |
| 17 | There is a clock on the cooker ; another on the video ; another on the dashboard of the car ; another built in to the pocket-calculator ; yet another on the end of the pen she uses ; another on the device that switches the boiler on and off ; yet another on the outside of the tall building Steven passes in his car on the flyover . |
| 18 | And thinking of her gynaecologist , surely such a step could not be taken without his sanction and the idea of asking for this seemed out of the question . |
| 19 | The launch of the RSi model in April 1993 added further to the choice of engine types available with a more highly tuned version of the 8-valve 1.8-litre petrol engine . |
| 20 | Another came down near the Leprosy Hospital , St. Bartholomew 's , and pieces of wreckage from these two aircraft are still currently on display in the Malta War Museum . |
| 21 | In many ways the stimulus for this came not from the miners but from the wool and worsted textile workers who fought against further wage reductions in 1925 . |
| 22 | This came about through the fact that although Mondrian made use of the Cubist grid-system of Composition , he had already begun to develop a new form of painting which finally culminated during the war in the purely abstract idiom of De Stijl and Neo-Plasticism . |
| 23 | George Tinsley , of the Tap and Barrel 's owners the North Yorkshire Brewing Company , said : ‘ This came out of the blue , it was a total surprise . ’ |
| 24 | This came together with the permit for fish farmers to enclose part of the waters . |
| 25 | This came across in the interview because although the managers were under a lot of pressure they did not appear to be panicked or stressed by it . |
| 26 | A new style of official entertaining came in at the Palace and still survives . |
| 27 | Some played up to the queue even more than I did , and at times it was quite a pantomime as they expressed themselves in their broken English with much arm waving and competitive claims . |
| 28 | Again , signer 2 differed notably from the others in his inability to use two lexical items simultaneously . |
| 29 | Four days later a different camera team were up at Ramsbottom to film a spectacular incident involving a car and a diesel locomotive , and all this happened right in the middle of the ELR 's ‘ all diesel weekend ’ . |
| 30 | A total of 2,588 items were treated ; though in most cases this consisted only of the application of a backing material , work on badly degraded older material is much more labour-intensive . |