Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In each case I pressed the national authorities concerned to allow me to send a UK ‘ observer ’ to their investigation and I am happy to say that our request was agreed to on each occasion . |
| 2 | With a prayer of thankfulness I rowed the few yards to her , made fast the dinghy to a cleat on her transom , and climbed on board . |
| 3 | Far out to sea to the west I saw the bright lights of the Athens boat . |
| 4 | Erhard was succeeded in 1966 by Kurt Kiesinger in a coalition which included the Social Democrats . |
| 5 | On arrival at a solitary farm we stopped at a simple stone monument which marked the nearby crash-sites for F/L Mackid 's Lancaster , : 7572 ‘ L ’ and F/L Poole 's Halifax , W1020 ‘ K ’ . |
| 6 | Drawing her to her feet , he led her up the wide staircase to a comfortable oak-panelled bedroom which overlooked the eucalyptus trees in the garden . |
| 7 | But there was also an exhilaration in the atmosphere of conspiracy and violence which characterised the last years of his childhood . |
| 8 | A wind such as East Anglia only knows , cruel , ‘ lazy ’ ( too lazy to go round you , going through you instead ) , a wind which made the old ladies in the town say : ‘ Oi 've got me thermals on ’ . |
| 9 | In the absence of any inter-party consensus on who should fill the office of President , no candidate secured a sufficient majority in 15 rounds of voting between May 13 and May 23 in the 1,014-member electoral college which comprised the 630 deputies , the 315 elected senators , the 11 life senators and 58 delegates from regional councils . |
| 10 | I just wanted to s erm congratulate er whoever it was and put together the curriculum er programme which secured the three quarters of a million pound for all those which will I , I think I can understand extremely competitive and I would like to erm give credit to there because that will be enormously for the business which will give proper jobs er which is er very useful to the environment and , and , and really just to record erm that , that particular er success . |
| 11 | Voltaire praised our attitude to commerce , and the lack of snobbery which allowed the younger sons of the gentry to become businessmen . |
| 12 | Weinrich-Haste ( 1984 ) , for example , in a study which examined the political values of undergraduates , found that sociologists , at one extreme , tended towards liberalism and radicalism , while engineers were the most politically and socially conservative of the groups she looked at . |
| 13 | Public cynicism about obscenity control was confirmed when twelve members of Scotland Yard 's " dirty squad " were jailed after conviction for involvement in what their judge described as " an evil conspiracy which turned the Obscene Publications Act into a vast protection racket " . |
| 14 | The report claimed that the Code of Guidance which accompanied the Registered Homes Act of 1984 was not being applied , partly because of lack of resources and partly because of the restricted power of local authorities . |
| 15 | The two men continued to stroll leisurely around the perimeter fence which separated the living quarters and parade grounds of the air-base from the restricted areas of the hangars and control tower . |
| 16 | In October 1919 , at the age of forty-three , she moved into Ivy 's flat , thereby establishing a friendship which brought the two ladies considerable renown . |
| 17 | Inge was important as the type of agent who linked the disparate cultures and intellectual milieus which formed the backbone of the social hygiene movement . |
| 18 | This fear was shared by Ms Gladys Li , a lawyer who dazzled the parliamentary foreign-affairs committee with her presentation of the case advanced by the Lobby Group , representing liberal-minded professionals in the territory . |
| 19 | With her heart in her mouth she entered the imposing portals of Mon Ré , and rang the bell . |
| 20 | When we finished our chat and tried to re-enter the auditorium we found the double doors were tight shut and we were locked out . |
| 21 | In the previous chapter we identified the major variables which influence the current account of the balance of payments and examined how automatic and discretionary adjustments operate to rectify payments imbalances . |
| 22 | Earlier in the chapter we outlined the various views on the relationship of gospel to culture . |
| 23 | Pushing their way up through the soil with force they pierced the fallen leaves . |
| 24 | Mr McNally : ‘ Is it correct that on each and every interview he denied the two charges ? ’ |
| 25 | In effect he adopted the same methods to deal with worsening financial crises over the 1960s . |
| 26 | Cutting across country in the morning light he saw the Japanese transports moored peacefully in Dili harbour . |
| 27 | Before that he had worked as GM in Brazil , exploring a portfolio of acreage which included the great tracts of land in which BP was an interest holder in the middle Amazon basin as well as onshore blocks in the Parana Basin and offshore in the Sergipe Alagoas Basin . |
| 28 | In May 1991 , the Secretary of State for Transport issued a revised direction to the BR Board which included the following provisions . |
| 29 | But no new facilites have been built for children and some fear boredom will once more spawn the vandalism which blighted the original buildings . |
| 30 | It was the most important of these groupings as it was directly responsible for bringing NIGRA to Derry for the 5 October 1968 march and thus was the catalyst which turned the civil rights movement into a mass campaign . |