Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hitler 's remarks stressing the work of ‘ Providence ’ on Germany 's side prompted only shaking of the head among ‘ academics ’ and the ‘ higher circles ’ of society . |
| 2 | Last year the Automobile Association took over operation of the scheme , which puts police in touch with local duty solicitors . |
| 3 | Last year the Automobile Association took over operation of the scheme , which puts police in touch with local duty solicitors . |
| 4 | The influence of the Ravenna school of Byzantine architecture extended further east along the Adriatic coastline and included the Istrian peninsula in what is now Yugoslavia . |
| 5 | After the application of acetic acid , animals were allowed to recover from the anaesthesia andreceived only water on the day of operation ( day 0 ) . |
| 6 | The right of refugee return remained firmly part of the rhetoric but it was less clear whether it was still as firmly a part of policy . |
| 7 | However , the general cross-party consensus on the handling of the war collapsed once discussion of the post-war peace began in late February . |
| 8 | Urgent repair work is being carried out at Pickering 's 19th century memorial hall after heavy rain brought down part of the ceiling . |
| 9 | For example there were evident differences in lexical incidence between items which had been thought to belong to the same phonological set ; get and never in contemporary Belfast vernacular did not pattern in the same way as items such as wet and wedding , and so could not be considered as tokens of the variable ( Ε ) ( see further 6.7 ) . |
| 10 | The membership remained largely moribund until the First World War , although the title of the union had been somewhat pretentiously changed to the National Agricultural Labourers ' and Rural Workers ' Union ( N A L R W U ) in 1912 . |
| 11 | A large Roman settlement existed just north of the village and the great Iron Age hill-fort of Rainsborough lies a little to the south-east . |
| 12 | For a moment the porch shadowed her , then the moon came out form behind the dissipating clouds . |
| 13 | They were getting the best of it , too , for there were only serving-people left and a few armed men , since the rest went off north with the courier . |
| 14 | A total of 250 troops from France 's 4,200-strong local garrison took up position around the town of Dikhil in the south-west of the country , the scene of recent fighting between the government and the FRUD rebels [ see p. 38711 , where Dikhil is wrongly given as Kikhil ] . |
| 15 | They took the briefs and carried the tablets of stone back to their Branches , where this particular Manager gave out hell at the futility of it all . |
| 16 | In 1948 , the Bucks Water Board took over responsibility for the supply and water for the Urban District was obtained from Foxcote reservoir and the Thames Valley Water Table . |
| 17 | She stood still for a moment and looked up and down the street ; it seemed to shine ; the light the sun had poured onto the packed dirt of the road glowed back pewter under the stars ; there was no longer any moon , it had set earlier that night , and the dimensions of the scene had expanded , creating a vacancy which made Rosa feel her pulse quicken , as if she too were growing , becoming less stubby , less compact , stretching upwards and turning silvery herself like the leaf of an olive when the breeze lifts it and shows its metallic underside . |
| 18 | The government took over administration of the provinces of Tucumán and Tierra del Fuego which were affected by political unrest and economic problems . |
| 19 | When the state took over recruitment under the Military Service Acts , the party continued to be involved : many agents were transferred to the army , where they continued to do the same job , and many party offices were lent to the government as recruitment centres . |
| 20 | But Lloyd George underestimated the soundness of that edifice ; and the fact that the sinews of government did not atrophy after the British departure can largely be ascribed to the tradition of service personified by ‘ Rag ’ Pillai . |
| 21 | Finally , the Yugoslav government held up payment to the construction enterprises for several more months , and then paid them in dinars at the current rate of exchange , which was considerably worse than the rate applicable at the time when payment was originally due . |
| 22 | The cloud formed just north of the Soviet Kola Peninsula , where there are four nuclear power plants . |
| 23 | The Second Vice-President took over defence of the Bill in the House and turned the discussion away from considerations of press freedom to a critique of newspapers like the Standard , which were owned by capitalists . |
| 24 | In a further row , deputies from St Petersburg walked out of the chamber when Congress voted down ratification of the name change of Russia 's second city , formerly Leningrad . |
| 25 | The 32 members of Arras troop at the Royal Armoured Corps Training Regiment carried out drill on the parade square at Cambrai Barracks , Catterick Garrison , from 6pm on Saturday until 6pm last night . |
| 26 | The concern for the future of the Deutschmark within the EEC erupted belatedly in the Bundestag in early October 1992 ; at the insistence of an all-party committee , the Parliament pressed for a second opportunity to ratify stage 3 of the Maastricht Treaty before the Deutschmark became irrevocably part of the Single Currency . |
| 27 | The only other exclusion from the exemption is that it does not apply if at any time during the relevant accounting period the unlimited company carried on business as the promoter of a trading stamp scheme within the meaning of the Trading Stamps Act 1964 . |
| 28 | Like subjects were grouped together ; thus Dewey 's scheme grouped together material on the electron and located it with material on other sub-atomic particles , which was grouped together with material on molecular and atomic physics in general , which was grouped together with other aspects of physics ; physics itself was in the science section of the scheme , together with other sciences . |
| 29 | Their cottage at Spittalburn , midway between Forfar and Dundee , stands squarely in the path of a new section of dual carriageway and although the Scottish Office held up work on the section for a year , it was decided further delays could cost more than £100,000 a week . |
| 30 | The manor house stood immediately south of the church . |