Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite all her caution , her wriggling movements made Water Gypsy sway a little at her moorings , and once or twice she stopped and held her breath , but no movement or challenge came from the narrow boat 's main cabin . |
| 2 | In fact , the area would increase whenever matter or radiation fell into the black hole ( Fig. 7.2 ) . |
| 3 | Most of this capacity was in the Khuzestan area , where prospecting began in the early years of this century , culminating in the discovery in 1908 of the first of a cluster of oil-bearing structures identified in a northwest-southeast trend on a flank of the Zagros mountain range . |
| 4 | To a large extent that ideology looked to the Roman past . |
| 5 | The research now available shows that crime tripled between the two world wars , particularly at the time of the great depression . |
| 6 | The center of gravity in employment is moving fast from manual and clerical workers to knowledge workers who resist the command-and-control model that business took from the military 100 years ago . |
| 7 | It was in this atmosphere of crisis that debate began on the pastoral office of bishops on 5 November . |
| 8 | Professor Smith , Chairman of BAe , claimed that synergy existed between the two companies in terms of ‘ engineering technology , marketing , purchasing and quality standards ’ . |
| 9 | Thanks to this act , Churchward was able to tell the world that Mu sank into the chilly waters of the Pacific 12,000 years ago , that almost all of its 64 million inhabitants perished , that a few survived on Pacific islands , that these survivors gave birth to Homo sapiens , that white people are nicer than black because they 're closer to the original folk of Mu , and all the other nonsense you might expect . |
| 10 | Canon Mackenzie by upbringing and temperament belonged to the paternal age , which was drawing to a close , and " politics " was alien to him . |
| 11 | Gloom and despondency hung over the royal party and Anne was more than a little resentful of having been required to join them in sanctuary . |
| 12 | Dawn had begun to break , and daylight crept over the barren countryside . |
| 13 | Gusts of rain and snow flurried through the opened door as the shape scrabbled on the floor . |
| 14 | His position had torn Danjit 's knife-cut again and blood spiralled through the labyrinthine folds of his collar . |
| 15 | The white Straker family had long disappeared , their genes and blood melded into the vigorous bodies of their freed slaves , and only the Straker name lived on to be given new dignity by Bonefish and his family . |
| 16 | He started coughing , and blood spatted across the note-dotted creaminess of his score . |
| 17 | The first hint that there might be a connection between black holes and thermodynamics came with the mathematical discovery in 1970 that the surface area of the event horizon , the boundary of a black hole , has the property that it always increases when additional matter or radiation falls into the black hole . |
| 18 | Each member country presented a report to the summit , from which desertification , soil erosion and deforestation emerged as the main problems . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , IBM Corp shares plunged $5.50 to $72.50 on the day the company reported a stunning net loss after charges for the third quarter of $2,778m last week and scepticism rose over the prompt promise in the analysts ' call after the announcement that the dividend is safe . |
| 20 | The curtains parted , and light gushed into the dark space . |
| 21 | ‘ To put it bluntly ’ , she wrote , ‘ sexual promiscuity , and even sexual perversion , are almost unavoidable among men and women of average character and intelligence crowded into the one-room tenement of slum areas . ’ |
| 22 | However , as he gazed lovingly over at his beautiful Laura , gently rocking the tiny babies in her arms , he knew that the true definition of his deep joy and delight lay in the collective noun : a pride of lions ! |
| 23 | The ban complied with a request by the head of a judicial commission set up to investigate instances of corruption and abuse perpetrated by the 29-year Duvalier family dictatorship and by successor governments . |
| 24 | Any assessment of the significance of the Glorious Revolution , therefore , must give due weight to the ways in which the tensions between the Church and Dissent interacted with the constitutional conflicts that shaped Restoration politics , and once we do this , the Revolution appears in a fundamentally different light . |
| 25 | His main point was that the marked differences in income and wealth persisted between the social classes throughout the inter-war years had provoked little animus and a remarkably timid response from the working class . |
| 26 | Tess and Angel arrived at the old d'Urberville farmhouse . |
| 27 | It depicts the Virgin and Child enthroned with the young Tobias and the Archangel Raphael on their right and St Jerome on their left and is a preparatory study for the altarpiece of around 1514 , painted in Rome for the church of San Domenico , Naples . |
| 28 | Self-government and independence came to the British colonial territories in Africa in the late 'fifties and early 'sixties — with them all the internal pressures towards reshaping a school system and its curriculum towards new national goals and aspirations . |
| 29 | This antagonism and rivalry existed between the large towns : to take one example , the rivalry of Santiago , the cathedral city , and Corunna , the seaport , was to have a decisive influence on the fate of liberal revolutionary movements in nineteenth-century Galicia . |
| 30 | But the main source of money for releasing the poor and insolvent came from the rich and solvent ; Neild placed advertisements in the newspapers appealing for donations . |