Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , the endorsement of penal as distinct from prison reform implied that the target for change had shifted from the prison to the criminal justice process as a whole . |
| 2 | In some instances proposals for action had lain on the table of the Council of Ministers ( the body which makes Community law ) since the early 1970s ! |
| 3 | While the Sussex gentry who had gone to war for religion had to adjust to the need to maintain stability , many of the Puritan clergy could and would not . |
| 4 | Below him he could hear the passing wail of sirens , a familiar sound after dark had fallen over the city . |
| 5 | Created by the Soka Gakkai lay Buddhist movement in 1964 , in recent years Komeito 's level of support had fallen in the aftermath of a series of financial scandals involving the LDP . |
| 6 | The collapse of communism had led to the arrest of several RAF members in mid-1990 [ see p. 38476 ] , and the RAF hard core was thought to number only 20-30 people . |
| 7 | they of course tended to believe in the country . |
| 8 | Sir Wilfred Grenfell of Labrador came to speak at the White Rock Pavilion , Hastings , at his request . |
| 9 | The office of president ceased to exist upon the death in 1980 of Marshal Josip Broz Tito [ for which see pp. 30472-73 ] , being replaced by a Collective State Presidency whose eight members ( one from each republic and province ) are elected for five years ( most recently in May 1989 — see pp. 36662-63 ) by the bicameral Federal Assembly ( Parliament ) . |
| 10 | The nature and quantity of protein adsorbed depends upon the fluid in question , and varies according to the type of surface . |
| 11 | The crisis of modernism had arisen at the beginning of the century as a consequence of the profound , perhaps too rapid , infiltration of Catholic institutions and consciousness by the scholarly methods and intellectual attitudes and presuppositions which had developed earlier in predominantly Protestant and liberal milieus . |
| 12 | ’ A note of uncertainty had crept into the wolves ' voices . |
| 13 | A fresh sheet of snow had fallen in the night which now lay two or three inches thick , the cold wind freezing it hard . |
| 14 | As he spoke a dark pool of blood began to gather under the luxuriant mane of Harriet 's auburn hair which had escaped from the loosened snood and spread slowly over the ground . |
| 15 | News had spread that some kind of scene had occurred at the Burgermeister 's pre-production party . |
| 16 | Such a thing not having happened for many centuries , the idea , even though the smell of cordite had spread across the Channel and could be picked up in the Charing Cross Road , seemed difficult to envisage . |
| 17 | On the allied left the course of battle had fluctuated throughout the day . |
| 18 | Larky jaunts to the back of beyond returned to fashion with the 1980s boom in travel writing . |
| 19 | The black and white wooden pole used as the cordon had been completely shattered ; shreds of wood lay scattered in the rain . |
| 20 | In the later work , The Ego and the Id , the instinct theory of psychoanalysis had changed from the two instincts — sexual instincts and ego instincts — which were used in the paper ‘ On Narcissism ’ . |
| 21 | A shriek of laughter had come from the bedroom . |
| 22 | His harsh bark of laughter seemed to echo around the room . |
| 23 | A wave of cold seemed to emanate through the funereal drapery . |
| 24 | As the Navigator nudged Tormentum Malorum slowly nearer to the indicated zone , using only attitude jets , for Jaq a strange intuition of security began to percolate through the dread engendered by hulk and warp alike . |
| 25 | A parliamentary commission of inquiry had concluded on the previous day that Bogdanovic had lost control of riot police , who had exceeded their authority . |
| 26 | As the gloom of evening began to settle over the leafy canopy Paige carried her last bundle of kindling back to their campsite . |
| 27 | Outside , the thunder rolled more loudly , and a few drops of rain began to plop against the thatch above their heads . |
| 28 | B. Layers of peat had formed in the marshes and between them there were layers of mud or silt . |
| 29 | But the Coastguard spokesman said that about five tonnes of diesel had escaped into the sea . |
| 30 | Some kind of crisis had developed in the last few minutes , and she did n't know why she felt afraid . |