Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baldwin 's declaration for Protection had the immediate effect of reuniting the two sections of the Liberal Party around the historic cause of Free Trade , and Asquith and Lloyd George came together at public meetings to exchange insincere pleasantries . |
| 2 | A few weeks later when the Prime Minister informed the House of the name of the chairman and the terms of reference , it became clear that the remit to consider ways of ‘ limiting ’ or ‘ modifying ’ capital punishment for murder excluded the outright abolition of the death penalty . |
| 3 | Little beads of moisture dotted the upper lip . |
| 4 | They found that even small amounts of capsaicin increased the perceived strength of the solutions . |
| 5 | The wave of change buckled the hated wall and rolled all the way across the continent to the Kremlin 's front door . |
| 6 | But slowly and surely the followers of Chaos gained the upper hand . |
| 7 | The following season he was Celtic 's star player in a memorable cup final when his heroic saves and faultless display of goalkeeping held the great Rangers side of the early ‘ 60s to a 1–1 draw . |
| 8 | From vitality of faith sprang the great cathedrals of France and England . |
| 9 | The two men of faith put the true interpretation on the facts ( Numbers 13:30 ) , but the people listened to the ten prophets of doom , with their tales of giants and grasshoppers , God , and the good land , was forgotten . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , the Chicago School of course recognised the various forms of conscious and institutional forms of control which only conceptualising human beings could achieve . |
| 11 | By missing the first flight we of course missed the connecting flight to the USA . |
| 12 | In particular , recourse to the quantity theory of money enabled the classical writers to pin down the absolute price level and this , together with a knowledge of the full-employment real wage rate , w * ; , made the money wage rate a determinate variable . |
| 13 | Precisely the same fear of revaluation underlay the continual reluctance of the German and Japanese authorities to see their currencies held as reserves by other countries . |
| 14 | Other sources of funding included the Derelict Land Grant and MSC resources . |
| 15 | On April 7 a 36-member joint delegation of the standing committee of the National Integration Council ( NIC ) and members of parliament visited the disputed site of the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid ( temple-mosque ) in Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh [ see pp. 37964 ; 38391 ; 38532 ; 38682 ] . |
| 16 | On June 18 , a Senate commission of inquiry issued its report on the transfusion system , noting delay in implementing a screening process , a fragmented decision-making process and a system in which " the logic of industry allowed the professional code of ethics to be disregarded " . |
| 17 | In Italy the technological renovation of industry altered the basic conditions of employment in different ways across various firms and sectors , resulting in the general clauses of national agreements becoming obsolete and moving the centre of industrial conflict towards the enterprise itself ( Treu , 1981 ) . |
| 18 | It may be wondered whether the risk of harm outweighed the public policy behind horseplay — boys will be boys . |
| 19 | A sharp gust of wind set the whole tree in motion and he dung on desperately like a sailor in the rigging , remembering Dalziel 's jocular injunction to ‘ watch himself ’ . |
| 20 | How each evening his thoughts festered and multiplied , decimating chasms of grief littered the shining path of sleep . |
| 21 | In that case the defendant pleaded the defence of mistake , the mistake being that of a shop assistant who in a lapse of concentration put the wrong label on a piece of meat . |
| 22 | The Guinness Articles of Association relaxed the general rule of equity , which forbids a trustee to profit from his trust , to the extent of enabling a director to make such a profit provided the Board of Directors of the company approved any special remuneration . |
| 23 | Other erupted on it , while hostile lances of light sought the gaping wounds those explosions had opened … |
| 24 | Although the sun was bright overhead , here in the bog , a scrubby area of marsh and pools on one side of a stream , and a wood on the bank where they walked , only small shafts of light penetrated the green gloom . |
| 25 | From then on an element of tragi-comedy gripped the entire enterprise . |
| 26 | Professor Charles Robertson of Strathclyde University 's department of architecture confirmed the gloomy prognosis . |
| 27 | So it was advisedly that the terms of reference excluded the public sector . |
| 28 | This item of equipment enabled the rapid assembly features of the whole range of equipment to be fully exploited , and reduced the erection times for some major bridging operations , from what would normally be months to merely a matter of days . |
| 29 | Against these regions of contraction stood the prosperous secanos of the centre and the irrigated lands of the Ebro valley . |
| 30 | The last gleam of sun touched the ruined battlements as they watched , hung there for a moment like a tattered cloth caught on a briar , and was gone . |