Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There is evidence of a religious enthusiasm more acceptable to the establishment among the nobility , some of whom appear to have either anticipated or eagerly embraced the official establishment of new liturgical feasts in devotional offices in their private chapels . |
| 2 | It was he who ended the war with Athens , or perhaps turned the hot war into a cold one ( because satraps continued to subvert Athenian-supported democracies in Anatolia ) : after the Persian recovery of Egypt in the 450s Athenian aggression against Persia was checked , except for a brief campaign in Cyprus at the end of the 450s . |
| 3 | Apart from the military and administrative functions of the town , which included offices for collecting taxes from native and Russian alike , there was the beginning of a perish structure established by Orthodox clergy who had accompanied or soon followed the first government forces . |
| 4 | Where once stood the two-storey Eagle Warehouse of 1854 there is now a 12-storey tower with an entrance foyer of sufficient height to engulf the surviving bays of the original building . |
| 5 | It was almost as if he had no body , because no part of it hurt , or itched , or shivered with cold , or even felt the wooden planking through the quilt . |
| 6 | He wondered how many people in all the mental hospitals in the country — or the world " , — come to that — were really fallen Warriors who had either cracked up from the strain of trying to live in this hell-hole , or simply made the wrong choice and thought that the test was just seeing through the whole thing and then having the courage to stand out and make that challenge . |
| 7 | Here they are , unisex and colour-supplement-magnetic in an Italian ‘ working-class ’ restaurant : ‘ Justin and Ursula , with their measured dignity and impeccable , interchangeable clothes — perhaps soft leather waistcoats over silk shirts and linen trousers in colours that rarely overstepped the narrow arc of the spectrum between cream and ochre — were immediately noticeable . ’ |
| 8 | It set the tone of the renewed debate which in the coming decade was to divide Western Europe even further , at the same time as setting in motion a groundswell that eventually produced the European Community . |
| 9 | Only after he had set to work , at Halley 's urging , on the tract that eventually became the first book of the Principia did Newton abandon vortices and envisage attractive — and repulsive — forces in central bodies . |
| 10 | It was also embodied in the Hours of the Virgin that daily reminded the devout laity as well as religious , of an archetypal pattern of suffering through which the nature of redemption was manifested and which established the means by which it would be experienced . |
| 11 | Thus the 1986 Social Security Act followed the so-called Fowler Reviews , which had a restricted membership , took only limited evidence ( which was not reproduced in the final report ) and resulted in a Green Paper that largely became the 1986 Act . |
| 12 | She lifted her chin in a gesture that deliberately exposed the vulnerable line of her throat . |
| 13 | Go up Rue de la Chancellerie , past Hecq Congo ( a shop that once clothed the Belgian empire builders ) and turn left into Rue Baron Horta . |
| 14 | This means that once installed the smaller chip is rotated 180 degrees with respect to the larger chip . |
| 15 | The remnant of a larger lake that once filled the surrounding valley , it has a superficial layer of fresh or slightly saline water down to 50 m deep , replenished seasonally by glacial streams , notably Onyx River , and stirred by their turbulence . |
| 16 | These majestic stones , flecked with orange and white lichen , are the last of thousands that once littered the prehistoric landscape . |
| 17 | The lower reaches of the Sevre Niortaise are swollen with the waters that once covered the whole area , until medieval monks started to dig a spider-web of ditches to drain it . |
| 18 | But , in a tremendous game that thoroughly entertained the big crowd , Garryowen played a storm . |
| 19 | The boy was pictured in a stilled movement that clearly represented the brief moment before he reached out and reached down to pluck the flower , a movement which would topple him over the edge to certain death . |
| 20 | Several companies that were quick off the mark — Barclays Bank , Salomon Brothers and Sotheby 's among them — have found princely quarters in the Palais am Festungsgraben , a baroque palace that formerly housed the German-Soviet Friendship Society . |
| 21 | Inside , a beam on the first floor is marked with the name ‘ Hayward ’ , a family that also ran the now-demolished mill at nearby Baunton . |
| 22 | But their most famous victory , over the black Conservative John Taylor in Cheltenham , was clouded by suggestions of racism , and as our Political Editor Peter Hayes reports it was racism that also overshadowed the first day of the conference . |
| 23 | After a low-key opening day , the Aberdeen tournament burst into life on finals night when Alison Bowie beat Emma Donaldson in a five-game women 's final , and then Peter Nicol inflicted defeat on Mark Maclean in the men 's decider that also went the full distance . |
| 24 | Ted resumed the operation of the cabin and tried to shake off the depressing atmosphere that now pervaded the small room . |
| 25 | This meant that the district officer became increasingly isolated from the activities that often had the greatest impact on — and the greatest importance for — his district . |
| 26 | Does the Minister understand that France , one of the countries that originally supplied the nuclear material to Iraq , has recognised its moral responsibility for dealing with this problem , but that the Soviet Union , which was also responsible for it , has refused to accept its responsibility ? |
| 27 | Among the many new and original talks personalities brought to Canadian listeners from the west coast were two that really caught the public imagination . |
| 28 | In his right hand he carried a long machete , but it was the crazed look in his eyes that really shook the young policeman . |
| 29 | Quota filmmaking also made the argument for narrative simplicity that sometimes escaped the more prolix mainstream filmmakers . |
| 30 | But if the public expected from the Berliners memorable Beethoven and even more memorable Brahms ( a Brahms cycle appeared in 1964 ) , they were perhaps less prepared for the miraculously fluid Debussy record that appeared in 1964 — La Mer and Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune coupled with the Second Suite from Ravel 's Daphnis et Chloé — or recordings of Sibelius 's Fourth or Fifth symphonies that quite eclipsed the earlier Philharmonia recording , and the Shostakovich Tenth . |