Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Direct mail ’ ( often known as ‘ junk mail ’ ) , on the other hand , even though it came through the letter-box dressed up as a personal letter and not as a newspaper , arguably met the mass medium definition of reaching large numbers of people quickly and simultaneously . |
| 2 | It duly approached the Educational Research Centre of the Essex Institute of Higher Education with the suggestion that a proposal for funding be made to the British Library Research and Development Department ( BLR&DD ) . |
| 3 | She ogled the portrait of Beau Brummell , and intimately massaged the full-length marble statue of George IV . |
| 4 | He had taken his glasses off now and pulled his T-shirt up over his head , revealing that manly torso of perfect proportions , over which he deftly fastened the frilled silk shirt , and tucked it into his jeans . |
| 5 | The 1981 Transport Act enabled private investment to be introduced into the subsidiary companies of British Rail and effectively denationalized the British Transport Docks Board . |
| 6 | And MS-DOS swiftly became the standard operating system for PCs . |
| 7 | ( 25 ) If someone who has been instructed to construct a building is prepared to give the money to the town for it to do so itself , since the testator wished this to be done by that person himself , his plea will not be heard : so ruled the late emperor Marcus in a rescript . |
| 8 | Like thousands of students before him , Gedge merely adopted the clichéd student maxims of leftist rhetoric , irrational idealism and an Oxfam season ticket . |
| 9 | Furthermore , as soon as he did turn up , Maradona unwisely told the expectant press corps that he thought the World Cup draw had been fixed so that Italy would find itself in an easy group . |
| 10 | Furthermore , as soon as he did turn up , Maradona unwisely told the expectant press corps that he thought the World Cup draw had been fixed so that Argentina would be in a difficult group and Italy in an easy group . |
| 11 | Some of these gains were from replication of standard designs , though these were reckoned to be small , presumably because the large number of separate manufacturers and divisions involved in the work greatly reduced the potential cost reduction through learning effects . |
| 12 | A summit meeting took place on Feb. 24 in Amman , the Jordanian capital , of the heads of state of the four countries which together composed the Arab Co-operation Council ( ACC ) , the organization set up in February 1989 under an agreement between Egypt , Iraq , Jordan and North Yemen [ see p. 36474 ] . |
| 13 | Preincubation with staurosporine alone enhanced the cyclic AMP responses in HGT-1 cells incubated with 0.5 mmol/l histamine for five minutes at 20°C by 36 ( 7 ) % ( Table I ) . |
| 14 | The Director of ASH , David Pollock , warmly welcomed the new health warnings . |
| 15 | A week later he not only informed the National Security Council of " basic " Anglo-American differences , but also added that " it was essential the US take [ these ] into account in the future " . |
| 16 | Like Shawell school , St Peter 's was built in the 1860s and so preceded the Elementary Education Act of 1870 that called for large numbers of schools , mainly in crowded urban areas , to be built with public rather than private money . |
| 17 | This is what so fascinated the European Film Award Jury ( which included myself ) — that conventional thinking about the Provos , the Ascendancy , religion , prostitution and homosexuality were so confidently challenged within the film 's quite conventional framework . |
| 18 | Daisy was screwing up her courage to accost Ricky and ask him for a drink after church when the Vicar launched into the final prayer about being made flesh , and she suddenly remembered the vast ox heart cooking in the oven for Ethel , which would burn dry if it was n't taken out , so she belted home . |
| 19 | Not only did the sturdy lock crown a storming performance by bullocking over for a try in the final minute , he undoubtedly played himself into a Lions place . |
| 20 | So did the Canadian financier Conrad Black . |
| 21 | Not only had the various guerrilla movements cut all land means of communication ; the staff of the paper , including the reporters , had left to join one side or another in the hills . |
| 22 | Boro saw a 16-point lead cut in half as Long Eaton , outclassed in the opening races , won four of the last seven heats and the margin of defeat would have been less had the impressive Dane Jan Staechmann not slid into the safety boards in the final race when set for his fourth win of the night . |
| 23 | So said the Belgian poet Henri Michaux : it was pure form , like a poem , nothing in itself and yet containing everything . |
| 24 | In Liverpool William Rathbone extracted figures from the muster roles which Clarkson used as the basis for the statistics on mortality , disease and desertion amongst seamen engaged in the slave trade and which apparently impressed the Privy Council committee . |
| 25 | His position was at outside-right , although later he occasionally switched wings , and his place as a regular , though unpaid , member of our 1913–14 side tells us that he was a credit to his club and craft because Palace only conceded the Southern League championship to Swindon Town on goal average at the end of a thrilling season . |
| 26 | They championed measures for the relief of Quakers in 1696 and after 1710 , and vigorously opposed the Occasional Conformity Bills of 1702 – 4 and the Schism Bill of 1714 . |
| 27 | By their greater numbers in this sector — seven divisions to half that number of German — the Russians slowly drove the German centre back . |
| 28 | After the Second World War — during which time Fred served as a Special in the Metropolitan Police and later in the Royal Artillery — he put in another 111 League appearances and thus became the only Palace player to make a century of appearances on each side of the war . |
| 29 | Santa Anna lost so much time and so many men in a pyrrhic victory , for which he need never have fought in the first place , that when he finally met the full Texan force under General Sam Houston he was utterly defeated . |
| 30 | It thus overtook the National Liberation Front ( FLN ) , the ruling party since 1962 , which won only 15 seats ; it had won 23.5 per cent of the vote but many of its votes were cast in constituencies where the FLN lost narrowly to the FIS , which itself had won 47.5 per cent of the vote . |