Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither side had publicly acknowledged the reported existence of a secret UN document proposing a post-ceasefire division of the country into two zones , one guerrilla-controlled and the other army-controlled . |
| 2 | The US side had hitherto accused the Soviet military of evading the impact of CFE force reductions , in particular by transferring tank units east of the Urals ( i.e. simply removing them from the area covered by the treaty , rather than destroying them — see pp. 38027 ; 38122 ; 38217 ) . |
| 3 | His fellow judges , however , pointed out that Goldsmith had merely used the legal process according to his rights . |
| 4 | An FA investigation revealed that the club had regularly breached the maximum wage restrictions in the season 1904–5 . |
| 5 | Whereupon , declaring that no less precious food should thereafter pass her lips , the lady had , variously , starved herself to death or flung herself from the window , in which case her blood had forever coloured the ruddy rocks of Roussillon . |
| 6 | By the time Henley was opened Braid had already won the Open Championship four times and went on to win again in 1910 so becoming the first golfer to win five times . |
| 7 | Surgeons used long syringes to extract marrow from her pelvic bones , while a motorcycle courier waited outside to rush the refrigerated marrow to the plane that would carry it to a Dutch hospital . |
| 8 | On June 8 , 18 political organizations including the OLF had unsuccessfully petitioned the electoral commission for a postponement until irregularities and " discriminatory activities " had been resolved and all armed forces had withdrawn to their camps as agreed [ see pp. 38660 ; 38855 ] . |
| 9 | By that time , however , the President had already ordered the anti-terrorist Delta Force based at Fort Bragg on full alert , amid clear hints of full-scale US military intervention . |
| 10 | The only way they can market their products is to produce literature detailed enough to convince the prospective buyer . |
| 11 | Thousands of Taiwanese rallied yesterday to mark the 10th anniversary of an anti-government riot and demand the release of dissidents involved in the 1979 incident . |
| 12 | The site was secured towards the end of 1858 , and work began immediately to adapt the existing buildings to accommodate the rows of big glass bolthead flasks that Nicholson favoured for the preparations . |
| 13 | In the shorter run , however , the property qualifications for the franchise set down in the act did effectively exclude the working class from political participation through the ballot box , although the franchise itself was only increased by some 220000 in England and Wales . |
| 14 | He implied , in other words , that the BFASS had been brought a long way since its restrictive outlook had so divided the 1840 World Convention . |
| 15 | An acute shortage of cotton had already reduced the civil hospitals to using bandages made of paper , and it was hardly surprising that there was also a human shortage in the country , so that soon after the Somme conscription of labour was decreed for the ages of seventeen to sixty . |
| 16 | When his trial opened on May 26 he had been charged with complicity in genocide , and the presiding judge had only substituted the lesser charge of instigating murder at the moment of reaching a verdict . |
| 17 | Over ten years the market philosophy had undoubtedly penetrated the social services , education , the professions , and a whole range of public institutions . |
| 18 | Whitlock scrambled to his feet but by the time he reached the fence the gunman had already crossed the twenty-yard clearing and disappeared into a derelict warehouse . |
| 19 | After the 1988 Education Reform Act , the primary team expanded further to accommodate the additional responsibilities placed on LEAs by the Act . |
| 20 | For each type of hard copy device proposed please answer the following questions . |
| 21 | The usury paid merely to hold the conguered ground became daily more prohibitive . |
| 22 | The outcome was , however , a foregone conclusion ; at no point did there exist the slightest possibility that the Law would not be approved . |
| 23 | By 31 August , all Russian troops emerging from the forest did so carrying the white flag of surrender on poles and rifles . |
| 24 | The New Zealand Press Association reported police dropped the charges because the team had openly declared the performance-enhancing drugs , making it difficult to prove they intended to commit an offence . |
| 25 | The Australian team had just played the first ‘ Test ’ at Carisbrook , in which Crawford had done nothing to harm his reputation , taking 3 for 64 of 0 to 18 , as well as knocking up 53 in his only innings . |
| 26 | European Minister Tristan Garel-Jones embraced Mr Ryder as though his team had just scored the winning goal in a Wembley Cup Final . |
| 27 | Until they came to Overclyst , Susan and Breeze had never experienced the endless joy of watching the seasons come and go . |
| 28 | Writing on ‘ The Fall of the Roman Empire and Its Lessons for Us ’ one author had already struck the easy notes of comparison in 1898 — the decline of the arts of soldiery and manliness , the financial oppression of the middle classes , subsidised food prices , bread and circuses ( that is , football ) and the recruitment of the barbarian ‘ lower races ’ into the imperial armies were all listed as forces ‘ which may tend to enervate and degrade us , to destroy our love of truth , to poison the fountains of family life ’ . |
| 29 | The Workers ' Party conference had also confirmed the continued existence of the Official Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) , which ceased its campaign in Northern Ireland in 1972 , at which time its political wing , Official Sinn Féin , changed its name to the Workers ' Party . |
| 30 | But if rising construction and running costs were already casting a shadow over the economics of the British PWR programme , then a parallel process had significantly benefited the comparative advantage of coal-fired generation . |