Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it was that the most innovative proposal in the Criminal Justice Bill presented to Parliament on 10 November 1971 stemmed not from the Tory manifesto , nor from Crime Has No Boundaries , but from an official committee chaired by a Labour life-peer . |
| 2 | Use of mundic tailed off in the Fifties . |
| 3 | This expanded dramatically in the 1980s . |
| 4 | This centred originally on the right-wing Nation Party and the sentiment has persisted , with clashes between rival fundamentalist groups common before the 1980 military coup . |
| 5 | The former believed that it was possible to regenerate people ( this applied emphatically to the young ) and , therefore , progress could be assumed . |
| 6 | This applied particularly to the employed-as-required surface or day-workers . |
| 7 | Some of them started to run towards the airport building , and a few knelt down on the wet tarmac . |
| 8 | This referred less to the irreligious habits of the people than the fact that the village as yet contained no place of worship , for Wesley went on to say that when he began his service ( probably at a spot near the present Ulster Bank and using a mounting block as his pulpit ) ‘ the people gathered form all sides and , when I prayed , kneeled down upon the stones , rich and poor , all round me ’ . |
| 9 | This stemmed partly from the plain fact that the Plantagenet king-duke owed homage to the Capetian crown for his south-western French possessions . |
| 10 | An ordinary member of parliament who attempted to gratify constituents by pressing for a senior appointment was likely to be put firmly in his place by the Treasury , for this happened even to the well-connected David Scott , when representing the Dundee burghs in 1796 . |
| 11 | This happened only for the deeper intervals and also had the effect of nearly destroying the core . |
| 12 | She turned up ten days later , stranded on a coral reef in the Bahamas with most of her gear missing and her starboard bilges half ripped out by the savage coral heads . |
| 13 | Most of the true species are single-flowers , and seldom bloom beyond the one initial burst — this showed out in the early English crosses . |
| 14 | Some developed differently in the American context . |
| 15 | This fed directly into the large 40 foot high chimney that formerly graced the mill and of which the lower dressed masonry section remains . |
| 16 | This merged quickly with the rolling creamy wake . |
| 17 | A few of these papers became firmly established ( and the latter helped kill the London evenings ) , but more , including some founded later in the 1970s ( such as the Chelmsford Evening Herald and the Guildford Daily Advertiser ) , did not survive long into the 1980s . |
| 18 | Unfortunately this fell out on the third ascent . |
| 19 | stop it , so so he had to erm just talk to our solicitors this morning and try and get this sorted out between the two solicitors . |
| 20 | Three or four dropped into the darkness and choc ice wrappers , dead ; a few fluttered aimlessly to rest around us ; some took off into the vast space above . |
| 21 | The combined effect of federal , state and local taxes in the United States in 1985 fell heavily on the poorest . |
| 22 | Er , thank you , Mr Chairman , to me erm , this went on from the first paper that chose the effects of the food and management of the er , the fire local services , whereas carried through and it will be interesting to see next year er what the situation is , in order to the position of the as it were , this year , benefit of everything that has previous administration . |
| 23 | This went on until the sixteenth century when Henry VIII ordered his chief fruiterer , Richard Harris , to visit France and learn about apple cultivation . |
| 24 | The passionate concern for their fellow countrymen shown by the French contrasted sharply with the stiff upper lip of the British . |
| 25 | This looked forward to the main role of the Bank as the bankers ' bank and , eventually , to the normal settling of inter-bank debts through it . |
| 26 | This emerged clearly from the recent , and as yet , most comprehensive survey of corporate crime in the US . |
| 27 | This emerged yesterday as the two companies finally confirmed they were discussing a deal to thwart the rival US car giant Ford , which intends to build a 15 per cent stake in Jaguar in preparation for a full bid . |
| 28 | The recession in the early 1970s caused the highest unemployment since the ‘ Great Depression ’ of the 1930s , and this increased dramatically from the late 1970s onwards . |
| 29 | From their Edwardian dominance of golf and tennis , the British slipped back to the second rank . |
| 30 | But she did , and was another won over by the famous charm . |