Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] marked the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thick black curves of dry seaweed marked the reach of the tides . |
| 2 | Paternal authority was basic to the Zuwaya image , for loyalties depended on ancient domesticities : it was because your ancestors and his ancestors lived in the same household , under the same authority , that you owed another loyalty ( unless , as happened , you were in dispute with him , in which case those old fraternities marked the division between the two of you ) . |
| 3 | Furthermore this match marked the end of an era in English rugby for a record-breaking team which will never play together again . |
| 4 | For Marx and Engels the French Revolution marked the violent transition from feudalism to capitalism , which had occurred over a century earlier in England during the civil war . |
| 5 | On board the same early morning express yesterday from Poole — via Bournemouth , Southampton and Basingstoke — few passengers marked the anniversary of the disaster . |
| 6 | This summer marked the retirement of two of our teachers : Anna Koller , who qualified in 1966 and has taught in West London and Buckinghamshire , and Mabel Io Smith , who qualified in 1971 and has always taught in Surrey . |
| 7 | This year marked the tenth anniversary of THE FACE , but whereas parties have been thrown to commemorate this occasion , nobody has bothered to hold a ‘ do ’ for the tenth anniversary of the training shoe . |
| 8 | This year marked the completion and opening of an £85,000 aircraft display hall and with it , TMAM took a quantum leap forward with a durable ‘ crown ’ for their collection . |
| 9 | She welcomes discomfort , counts hostile situations and relishes third world countries , for she is driven by her life long ambition to be a travel photographer and this trip marked the first rung on the ladder . |
| 10 | She welcomes discomfort , counts hostile situations and relishes third world countries , for she is drive by her life long ambition to be a travel photographer and this trip marked the first rung on the ladder . |
| 11 | Royal Marine buglers marked the end of the silence by sounding the Last Post . |
| 12 | A group representing families of the British victims marked the anniversary by handing in a petition to 10 Downing Street calling for a public inquiry . |
| 13 | Such presents marked the passing from girlhood to accessible maidenhood ; this state was made manifest on the day when Nicandra 's striking blonde hair was pinned , a pale hillock , low on the back of her neck . |
| 14 | Their personal reconciliation marked the beginning of a remarkable rapprochement between the monarchy and the administration headed by Hun Sen , which had been installed in Phnom Penh by the Vietnamese when they expelled the Khmers Rouges in 1979 . |
| 15 | Uneven development marked the geography of inter-war Britain ( Ward , 1988 ) . |
| 16 | Nicandra pounded down the second flight of the back staircase leading to the ground floor — here one imposing door marked the entrance to the hall , another was the service door into the dining room . |
| 17 | But such occasions marked the limits of our intimacy . |
| 18 | The Korean War marked the spread of the Cold War beyond Europe and the Atlantic : henceforward the US government saw the containment of communism as a global task . |
| 19 | On Dec. 2 Federal Secretary for National Defence Gen. Veljko Kadijevic had declared that republican control of these units marked the beginning of republican armies , and he had threatened that the JNA would intervene to disarm them . |
| 20 | The girls ' brief encounter marked the mail-order launch of erotic clothes and sex aids by Germany 's Beate Uhse , 73 , who already has a string of sexy shops across Europe . |
| 21 | White stones marked the path through the yew trees and in the steep places there were steps cut in the earth and shored up with wood . |
| 22 | These outbursts marked the end of the entire eruption , for at 2.30 p.m. on the twenty-eighth , after being active for a hundred days , the last , mild explosion echoed out over Krakatoa , and silence returned . |
| 23 | The wall was built by the water authorities to secure the catchment area of the splendid Silent Valley and Ben Crom reservoirs , and for many years marked the route of the annual Mourne Wall Walk , which followed the wall for much of its 22 mile circuit and was the only occasion when walkers could be seen on the hills en masse . |
| 24 | The Great War marked the beginning of the end of the era of liberal capitalism . |
| 25 | The final stages of creative eclecticism and the power of the office-block station marked the end of the elaborate experimentation with revivalist styles . |
| 26 | HONG KONG — More than 3,000 people marked the 40th anniversary of Communist rule in China yesterday by rallying to protest against the suppression of the pro-democracy movement in Peking , AP reports . |
| 27 | Rising levels of output , high employment , rising living standards and expanded trade within a relatively stable framework of international finance marked the ‘ long post-war boom ’ that stretched from the mid-1940s through the 1950s , 1960s and part of the 1970s . |
| 28 | This important change marked the introduction of the purchaser/provider split in social services practice , with the care manager clearly identified as a purchaser but not as a provider of services . |
| 29 | The shift from family ownership to full stockmarket-listings marked the first time when the owners of American firms ceased to manage them . |
| 30 | The Chinese press marked the occasion by scrupulously avoiding any mention of the one subject that has preoccupied the rest of the world 's news media : why people keep leaving East Germany . |