Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All his probing to the roots of religion had discovered simply the bankruptcy of those roots , or at least their apparent irrelevance to the job of finding a meaning in modern life . |
| 2 | Dr Sasaki , who believed that the enemy had hit only the building he was in , got bandages and began to bind the wounds of those inside the hospital ; while outside , all over Hiroshima , maimed and dying citizens turned their unsteady steps toward the Red Cross Hospital to begin an invasion that was to make Dr Sasaki forget his own private nightmares for a long , long time … . |
| 3 | The vote will be seen as a victory for the local authorities , who put so much pressure on the clubs , and many of the delegates were relieved that the vote had taken away the threat of possible punitive action from their local councils . |
| 4 | His zest for living had to encompass even the risk of dying . |
| 5 | This was because if the business did perform well the instrument took on equity features , when in these circumstances straight debt would have been the desired financing to maximise shareholder value . |
| 6 | The North American economist , John Kenneth Galbraith , took a distinctly positive view , claiming that the crisis had shown both the revival of industrial technology and the reimposition of civic discipline as demonstrated by the pay pause , in the face of difficulties which might have led feebler nations to buckle under , or even lapse into military or other dictatorships . |
| 7 | One of her students , for instance , had told her that the class struggle was an obsolete concept , and an eminent academic had put forward the view that relations between capitalist and socialist states were devoid of class content ( he had previously maintained the opposite ) . |
| 8 | A return to work was negotiated under the conditions prevailing before the strike had begun so the union had prevented a further round of wage reductions ; but this was achieved at such a cost as to convince the leadership of the impossibility of organizing effective strike action in agriculture . |
| 9 | When the court sat we were told that the King had died then the court went out for a while . |
| 10 | No firewood could be chopped up until after the landlord had called so the room was clean and tidy , all except for the odd quarry tile Dad had broken during the wood-chopping . |
| 11 | In Thornett & fehr v. Beers ( 1919 K.B. ) the buyers of some barrels of glue had examined only the outside . |
| 12 | This repair and replacement necessitated breaking away the concrete into which the track had been set . |
| 13 | Here , instead of consulting as they were obliged to , the health authority had kept even the head of the unit , Prof John Hobbs , ignorant of what was happening . |
| 14 | It named the woman because NBC News had done so the day before . |
| 15 | The young woman had visited both the museum and the castle before and had looked down from their heights onto the epidemic of streets below , between the top of the hill and the broad curve of the Bay . |
| 16 | The message disappeared leaving only the galaxy of her own thoughts in the infinite night of meanings . |
| 17 | Before leaving for New Delhi , Bhattarai announced on June 6 that the Nepal government had deferred indefinitely the importation of a final consignment of Chinese weaponry " as a gesture of goodwill and to accommodate Indian susceptibilities on this issue " . |
| 18 | Barcelona only released Koeman after the Dutch Football Federation had threatened both the club and the Spanish FA with legal action over a clause which stipulates the number of matches for which their foreign-based players have to be released during the season . |
| 19 | It was confirmed on July 3 that the government intended to reduce dramatically the number of resident Palestinians . |
| 20 | He had been in Rhodes , and indeed his ship had transported home the body of the Portuguese whom Nicholas had said he had n't had murdered . |
| 21 | The floor of the North Sea was dry and peat was forming on it , as the Post-glacial rise in sea level had flooded neither the floor of the North Sea nor the Fens . |
| 22 | They had never faced charges and their detention had become increasingly the focus of international criticism [ see p. 37874 ] . |
| 23 | He said that the consumer electronics division intended to reduce sharply the range of products offered . |
| 24 | Baldwin at this stage appeared to contemplate neither the strife nor the prizes . |
| 25 | The result was that producers wishing to secure a reasonable return from the British market had to persuade either the Rank or the ABPC booker to take their film . |
| 26 | But whereas in the early 1920s , cheapie production had constituted almost the entirety of British filmmaking , in the 1930s there existed a more ambitious production sector running in parallel . |