Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dissolution of CENTO left ASEAN as the primary multilateral body of states in Asia predominantly oriented towards the Western powers in its security outlook and ties . |
| 2 | And er we , we did n't do an awful lot on commercial later on , we gave up that er thing we , we mostly concentrated on the private cars . |
| 3 | In the late 1960s it only applied to the clearing banks . |
| 4 | The police officer personally listened to the complete tapes of the interviews and I am therefore not in a position to give a conclusive answer to the question . ’ |
| 5 | The answer , if one were to be found , quite obviously lay outside the restrictive confines of manly pursuit . |
| 6 | The road suddenly appeared through the thinning trees and Jenna had to scramble down a bank , cross a ditch and she was standing on the firm tarmac of the main highway . |
| 7 | Nor did he see another consequence , as his nephew Mauss confessed , shortly before going mad : ‘ how large modern societies which have more or less emerged from the Middle Ages in other respects , could be hypnotized as aborigines are by their dances and set in motion like a child 's carousel . |
| 8 | Further anecdotes on the fame of Champagne wines in the fourteenth century are told by Max Sutaine in his Essai sur l'histoire des vins de la Champagne ( 1845 ) ; in particular he relates how , when the German king Wenceslas arrived in Reims in 1397 to discuss with Charles VI the division within the church over the popes of Avignon ( a subject Henry Vizetelly describes in A History of Champagne ( 1882 ) as ‘ very fit for a drunkard and a madman to put their heads together about ’ ) he became so intoxicated on the local wines that he signed all the documents before him , departing without knowing what he had signed . |
| 9 | Some of the original brigadistas , the young literacy teachers , who mostly came from the urban areas , also continued to work in adult education , and others became teachers in the formal school system . |
| 10 | She could not have brought herself to do as some did , step in and squash her body against the bodies of those who formed the dense wad of people which already bulged from the open doors . |
| 11 | When Russian forces finally retreated from the Danubian Principalities in 1834 , Nicholas seemed to have achieved the final stabilization of his southern frontier . |
| 12 | Indeed it does , and it seems the job can not be left to the mere television reviewer either , for criticism soon leaked from the cultural pages to the overtly political ones , even reaching as far as the editorial sections of some newspapers . |
| 13 | From the First World War until the mid-Sixties , administrative — or ‘ public ’ — law scarcely existed beyond the pioneering textbooks of Stanley de Smith and Sir William Wade QC . |
| 14 | Racial theories fared best in policy areas already sensitized to the new conceptions of bodily health — motherhood , insanity and poverty , as well as birth-control and venereal disease . |
| 15 | This was another land ; the ruin , waste , excitement , wild beauty , sour barrens and unpredictability of the world outside disappeared beyond the stratosphere-scraping reaches of Arcady 's domes . |
| 16 | In 1566 it was still incomplete and easily fell to the French corsairs who attacked Funchal in that year . |
| 17 | People from Huaiwiri thus went to the funerary rites of the Kufra Chief of Police because he was a Hamdu , a member of a slave line attached to the Bu Matari . |
| 18 | She already knew from the sour expressions of the French wives among the gathering and the open admiration in the eyes of their sallow , perspiring spouses that she had achieved an outstanding success with her greatest extravagance , a simple couture gown of lilac organza . |
| 19 | The couturiers and mannequins of the fashion world breathed a perfumed sigh of relief as the thin wisps of white smoke finally emerged from the muscular chimneys of the plush Legover Square headquarters of publishers Condé Nast [ Can we have the article now please — Ed . ] |
| 20 | I chose my family , and just waited for the big boys to come up to the Birkdale area . |
| 21 | So too , the world 's greatest legendary hero , Robin Hood , once lived amongst the green glades of Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire . |
| 22 | Pat Watters , chairman of the personnel services committee which yesterday agreed to the early retirements , said that the council can base the payments on the salary Mr McNeill would have received from 1 April . |
| 23 | Observing her as a well-balanced and apparently fulfilled woman , it surprised me to discover that she still lived with the unexorcised ghosts of a disrupted childhood . |
| 24 | One librarian who still clung to the old ideals remarked : |
| 25 | To these reluctant Dutchmen the invasion was a liberation , and even the weather matched their joy ; the sun was climbing into a cloudless sky and beginning to burn of the mist which still clung in the leafy valleys . |
| 26 | And they still came to the famous dinners at his house , where the food , and the music , and the conversation were the best in London . |
| 27 | Thus while labour productivity in terms of gross domestic product per head grew at 1.5 per cent per annum between 1945 and 1951 ( and by 2.5 per cent per annum between 1948 and 1951 ) it will be shown that these gains hardly nibbled at the chronic problems of overmanning in British industry ( Chapters 3 and 5 below ) . |
| 28 | First the wild unconscious play when we hardly distinguished between the open fields and the neighbourhood of towns except that we preferred the fields . |
| 29 | Yet never did we instigate a fracas ; provocation always came from the other fellows , for various reasons ; maybe they did n't like Jews , or as often happened , they simply threw a challenge in order to test our ability to rule the roost . |
| 30 | But doctors did notice that the epidemics usually happened in the hot months of the year ; and that was when the miasmic smells from primitive or non-existent sewerage were at their worst . |