Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [pron] [vb past] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Central Gilts Office ( CGO ) provided marketmakers with computerized accounts which facilitated the transfer of stock before the change of ownership was recorded at the Bank . |
| 2 | In the middle decades of the century , it was increasingly the German-speaking biologists who led the way . |
| 3 | They claimed that the ASEAN states which initiated the Zone plan intended it also to embrace other states located in the region . |
| 4 | The team identified the main cause as fluctuating caustic concentrations which affected the type and size of salt crystals . |
| 5 | In the 1290s and again in the 1330s the pressure of taxation and resistance to the crown 's recruiting methods led to political crises which undermined the king 's ability to wage war successfully . |
| 6 | In the old days the subtle relationships which constituted the Establishment at work would have prevented any such developments taking place . |
| 7 | In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries it became the custom to bind a number of small books and , especially , pamphlets up together in calf or morocco , often suitably labelled on the spine . |
| 8 | For their trireme warships they used the steering technique of an external oar and this copied in today 's dragon boats . |
| 9 | European nations which sponsored the resolution refused to accept the Islamic amendment . |
| 10 | Although outwardly a man of the Establishment , Bill McEwan Younger had the self-confidence to adopt unorthodox views which stood the test of time . |
| 11 | I mean , when our Bon was learning I went with her a few times she frightened the life out of me ! |
| 12 | The first few times I lit the stove , up popped yellow flames and I turned it off . |
| 13 | Ejecting a few birds we inspected the inside of the crude habitation where the men would live for the next ten days or more . |
| 14 | Little is still known of the designers and speculators of this part of the town 's growth , save that they were often little more than smallholders or jobbing builders who saw the possibility of some quick profits on their small capital . |
| 15 | The history of the " extension movement " illustrates many of the cultural patterns which influenced the emergence of the new English . |
| 16 | Moran was unassertive and attentive in the few minutes they discussed the game afterwards . |
| 17 | But after a few minutes I saw the creature 's body begin to move . |
| 18 | For a few minutes she explained the system on which the cards were arranged , then let him try to select some for a bibliography she was compiling on nutrition in underdeveloped countries . |
| 19 | Shoreditch 's theory is that MI5 agents were trying to cast proxy votes on behalf of dead people still on the electoral register , but that in some cases they jumped the gun . |
| 20 | When she placed Morndun across her face and peered through its ghostly eyes she saw the air shimmering with elementals , sharp-faced , wraith-like , coiling and twisting above the river , streaming out of the mouths and eyes of the men by the water and from the piles of skulls by the trees . |
| 21 | It was the lesser clergy who frustrated the king 's attempt to smudge the distinctions to his own advantage , so that by 1322 parliament was virtually eliminated as the place to raise clerical subsidies , and convocation was no longer summoned by the offending writ . |
| 22 | The peace sign itself was devised by British pacifists who combined the semaphore signs for N ( nuclear ) and D ( disarmament ) . |
| 23 | Of the 500-plus inspectors who attended the college each year on the course , a handful were awarded what is known as a Home Office Bramshill Scholarship . |
| 24 | It was the last few words which tipped the balance . |
| 25 | Within a few months she expanded the business and took over a computer firm from Hertfordshire employing about 120 people . |
| 26 | Unlike the economic and social controversies which dominated the election campaigns of the period , and the policy-making preliminaries which preceded them , in penal matters the underlying objectives were accepted by each of the two main parties . |
| 27 | It makes fascinating reading , commencing with the work of British businessmen who pioneered the game in their adopted country . |
| 28 | Over the next few decades he developed the study of plant communities in Britain , using methods similar to those of Clements . |
| 29 | The social reformers who staffed the think tanks that fed into the right wing of the Conservative Party and who advocated the restructuring of education , the dismantling of the welfare state and the restriction of local government power , needed a theme through which to proselytise their views . |
| 30 | Over the next 2 weeks she telephoned the therapist two or three times a week complaining of a variety of physical symptoms and demanding to be seen straight away . |