Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 5 June one of two Iranian F-4s that had come over from Bushehr , looking for another kill off the Saudi coast , was shot down by the Saudis ' more advanced F-15s , armed with the Raytheon Sparrow missile and guided on to their targets by AWACS surveillance craft . |
| 2 | The stockmarket rally that started in the last quarter of 1992 pushed up the composite share index from a low point of 459 on August 21st to 678 at the end of the year , up 11% from 12 months earlier . |
| 3 | It is sufficient to contravene this regulation where the patch is more than a quarter of the breadth of the tread , because there can not be at least three-quarters of good tread around the whole circumference of the tyre in such a case . |
| 4 | Some Italian papers publish lists of those rounded up the previous day together with little maps marking the cities where the companies implicated have their factories . |
| 5 | When the revolutions of 1989 brought down the eastern bloc dictatorships , they swept away the façade of historical half-truths , distortions and lies on which the ruling élites grounded their legitimacy . |
| 6 | The need for national qualifications for those carrying out the main functions in the assessment process has become increasingly pressing . |
| 7 | In 1967 he was appointed deputy chairman of the nationalised British Steel Corporation and in 1971 took on the additional responsibility of chief executive . |
| 8 | In 1873 he returned to England to take up the post of electrician to the Highton Battery Company , and in 1877 set up the first experimental overhead telephone line in England , only two years after the invention of the telephone in the United States by Alexander Graham Bell [ q.v . ] . |
| 9 | A typical letter in the correspondence columns of The Daily Mail in 1977 summed up the commonplace fears and aspirations which are arranged around this slogan : This kind of commonsense reasoning , invariably linked to the perceived upsurge in crime and mischief , has become such a day-to-day feature of life in contemporary Britain that one hears complaints phrased in the idiom of ‘ Twenty Years Ago ’ amidst the gossip of bus queues , pubs and launderettes . |
| 10 | But what was the nature of the opposition , in particular from the Municipal Alliance , which had in 1900 brought down the first labour council in West Ham ? |
| 11 | They moved there in 1965 to take on the joint roles of warden and matron at the then residential and day training centre for the mentally handicapped . |
| 12 | Contestants who have finished relax with a drink or cheer on those struggling up the last stretch , some of them grasping frantically at disintegrating bales of straw . |
| 13 | It was decided to first try out the simplest possible computational technique . |
| 14 | About then , word came from Salines , three hours away , to inform Nicholas that the Venetian sugar ship had reached Alexandria and would be leaving soon for Episkopi to pick up the combined Cypriot cargo . |
| 15 | He remembered the lights of the car at last picking out the yearned-for shape of the cottage . |
| 16 | Researchers at the Salk Institute in California have at last tracked down the last of the ‘ releasing factors ’ secreted by cells in the hypothalamus that have long been assumed to regulate the release of hormones from the pituitary gland ( Trends in Neurosciences . |