Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [adv] [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We talked of the tremendous impression that our century 's two great conflicts had made upon Finzi , a widely-read intellectual , who paradoxically shunned the public life of the composer , finding his personal outlet in terms of an insular , and yet highly individual musical style . |
| 2 | As well as being deficient in mass support , the Republican politicians who numerically dominated the Provisional Government lacked unity amongst themselves . |
| 3 | The rest were helpers or hands , who mostly did the same work and did as they were told . |
| 4 | Thomas Edison , the man who eventually invented the electric light bulb , said ‘ failure is essential to success … you can not succeed without failing … double your failure rate if you want to succeed . ’ |
| 5 | Meridian B came close to winning several times but it was Forest who eventually scored the crucial goal in the last minute of sudden death extra time . |
| 6 | Despite 300 years of conflict , the Merovingian kings and their Mayors ( who eventually became the Frankish kings in their own right ) had found it impossible to subdue the Saxons on any permanent basis . |
| 7 | It was Switchboard volunteers who eventually organized the first London public conference on AIDS . |
| 8 | At the south-western corner of the city walls two smaller castles were built , Baynard 's and Mountfichet , but never allowed to become great fortresses ; and they were finally removed from this strategic place by Edward I in the late thirteenth century : by a king whose mighty works at the Tower mirrored his determination to keep the Londoners under firm control ; but who greatly expanded the western end and formed a large new enclosure there for the Dominican friars , who could help him to ensure that no hostile presence met him when he came from Westminster to the City . |
| 9 | There was colossal opposition to these developments at the planning stage , but local people 's views were generally ignored by the Tory administration of the day , who basically held the same values as the developers and permitted the schemes . |
| 10 | Britain 's Jeremy Bates , who memorably reached the fourth round 12 months ago , has an encouraging first round match against another clay court specialist , Javier Frana , Argentina 's world No 87 . |
| 11 | He even looked up at Magee , who merely ignored the little man and walked on , hands still dug deep into his pockets . |
| 12 | Before the stone had come to a halt it was pounced upon by the entire family who gleefully heaved the unfortunate lump of granite out through the back door and out of their lives ! |
| 13 | Karadjordje had to contend with a group of strong-willed oligarchs who enjoyed considerable power within their own territories and who jealously guarded the various perquisites which they had acquired , such as the levying of ferry tolls and local taxes . |
| 14 | Who all chose the same colour . |
| 15 | When asked to describe auditory sensations , McKellar 's subjects frequently reported hearing snatches of music which could be recurrent … as is illustrated by a subject who recurrently imaged the last movement of Rachmaninov 's Second Piano Concerto . |
| 16 | John Ford ( 67 ) , Tony Sullivan ( 42 ) , and Lee Roberts ( 4–21 ) , were key men for Birkenhead St Mary 's who easily won the local derby at Bromborough Pool by 116 runs . |
| 17 | In the pre-civil war period , one group of clerics and laymen who shared this approach and who thus opposed the confrontational policies of Laud and his followers , began to meet at the house of Lucius Cary , Lord Falkland , at Great Tew in Oxfordshire . |
| 18 | Constantine 's death in November 1028 , and the marriage of the fifty-year-old Zoe to Romanus Argyrus , who thus gained the Byzantine throne , brought this to nothing , and it was probably in 1029 or later that a stronger link with Cnut became attractive . |
| 19 | Their origin was explained by the German physicist Gustav Magnus in 1852 , who thus solved the vexing problem of why spinning projectiles veer off course . |
| 20 | The client , who generally accepted the traditional process , also accepted the form of contract for what it was : a formal document encapsulating the procedures which seemed to work well and produced few disputes . |
| 21 | What if there were Protestants campaigning vigorously for the empirical sciences who nevertheless rejected the Copernican theory ? |
| 22 | The recruitment of migrant labour has also had what one might refer to as a series of indirect benefits , especially in the earlier phase of immigration , because Britain and the other importing countries were able to avoid the costs involved in actually producing the immigrant labour power , from the birth to the maturation of the workers concerned , and because of the lower demands on the welfare state of economically active , healthy , single , young men and women who nevertheless paid the same rate of taxation as other workers ( Gorz , 1970 ) . |
| 23 | Add to that a lot of nervousness which led to two false starts , and nobody was too happy , except perhaps Ernie Obeng who just pipped the American Darwin Cook to win . |
| 24 | These call-slips , as submitted , already contained much of the information required , but for the purposes of the Survey additional information was added to them both by the members of staff to whom they were submitted , and by fieldwork students from the College of Librarianship Wales who physically examined the requested items before their delivery to readers . |
| 25 | After a succession of jobs as bellhop , waiter , car-park attendant , like a bit-part actor who finally made the big time in this aquatic Hollywood , he has built a career out of surfing big waves . |
| 26 | The only person with whom she spoke at all easily was Mrs Beeley , the General 's widow , who somehow struck the right note — chaffing her about learning French , to which Alice responded with spirit . |
| 27 | Flynn 's great progress with the GS&W ; line astonished even John , who already had the highest opinion of the man . |
| 28 | The award came as a big surprise for Sam but an even bigger surprise for the Joe Borrows Agency who already had the Bradford-based singer booked at the Great Ayton Social Club on the night of the awards show . |
| 29 | It is also curious that an interpreter who normally respected the printed score should have edited Manfred so thoroughly . |
| 30 | Zarathustra 's monotheistic religion can be regarded as a response to the social conditions of his time , an age of transition when a settled agricultural and pastoral community was being threatened by predatory tribes who still followed the nomadic way of life . |