Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [vb past] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the previous month the Bank of Indonesia had announced the partial deregulation of foreign exchange dealings . |
| 2 | William Lee of the Nottinghamshire parish of Calverton had invented the basic frame in 1589 but the craft first took hold in London and did not really spread to the Midlands until after the restoration of Charles II . |
| 3 | It was here that , at the Competition for the Crown forty-two years before , Edward the First of England had met the Scots magnates and set in motion the actions which ultimately led to the Wars of Independence . |
| 4 | Khrushchev 's denunciation of Stalin had angered the Chinese Communist leaders , as they believed in rigid adherence to the Stalin type government , and they disapproved of any form of ‘ co-existence ’ . |
| 5 | The Slovene League of Communists ( LC ) , which at the end of January had plunged the federal League of Communists of Yugoslavia ( LCY ) into crisis by abandoning the 14th extraordinary LCY congress [ see p. 37172 ] , on Feb. 4 held a party conference at which it renounced its links with the LCY . |
| 6 | North reported back that the line was working ; the Second Channel had noted to Cave ‘ that RR being a man of God had removed the only argument they had — that Allah was on their side . ’ |
| 7 | I was interested to read in a Northern Ireland newspaper today that the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam had considered the same proposal . |
| 8 | The subsequent growth of Teheran had made the previous royal quarters in town too cramped and after an attempt on the Shah life in 19965 , on of several that he survived , the family had moved to Niavaran . |
| 9 | Dr. Hicks of Baldock had given the same opinion ‘ in words of less meaning ’ , and Gibbon of Bedford had not felt qualified to give any opinion at all . |
| 10 | In the early thirteenth century Gerald of Wales had advocated the combined use of archers and knights ; it was precisely this combination which , as shown above , was to be employed to such good effect in defensive positions against the Scots in the first half of the fourteenth century , before being used , in broadly similar conditions , against the French at Crécy , Poitiers and , later , at Agincourt . |
| 11 | The long wars against France had left the British more confident about their position overseas than before , but not necessarily more interested in activity outside Europe . |
| 12 | Three secretaries who in March had taken the unprecedented step of tendering their resignations to the GPC [ see also p. 37333 ] were also affected : Izz al-Din Mohammad al-Hinshiri , hitherto Justice Secretary , was moved to the Secretariat of Transport and Communications while Mubarak al-Shamikh and Ahmed Mohammed Ibrahim , hitherto Secretaries for Transport and for Higher Education respectively , stood down . |
| 13 | On the 31st May this year Hilda Hyam , correctly dressed in a blue leotard and a pink rose , celebrated her ninetieth birthday in style , for her fellow teachers in Avon had organised the perfect day just for her : — classes morning and afternoon interspersed with coffee — a tasty lunch — and a delicious tea complete with a birthday cake . |
| 14 | On the 31st May this year Hilda Hyam , correctly dressed in a blue leotard and a pink rose , celebrated her ninetieth birthday in style , for her fellow teachers in Avon had organised the perfect day just for her : — classes morning and afternoon interspersed with coffee — a tasty lunch — and a delicious tea complete with a birthday cake . |
| 15 | Although a number of embassies in Kuwait had defied the Iraqi orders that they should close by Aug.24 [ see p. 37639 ] , all but a dozen ( including the USA , Canada and eight EC countries ) had abandoned them by Aug. 12 because of conditions there . |
| 16 | Within three months , the refugee from England had become the known and acknowledged assistant of two of the greatest powers in the land . |
| 17 | From Titron had come the first man who could withstand radiation , be it from a bomb , or in deep space . |
| 18 | Johnson volunteered some information about the size of the excise duty his friend Thrale the brewer in Streatham had paid the previous year and , says Boswell , ‘ after this there was little conversation that deserves to be remembered . ’ |
| 19 | As reported on pp. 37172-73 , ethnic Albanians in Kosovo had begun the current wave of strikes and protests on Jan. 24 , and by Jan. 30 at least 20 people had been killed , mostly in clashes with police . |
| 20 | The other participating parties were : the Kurdistan Socialist Party , led by Mahmud Othman , which in April had absorbed the Democratic Kurdistan Independence Party ; the Islamic Movement , led by Othman Abd al-Aziz ; the Kurdistan Popular Democratic Party , led by Sami Abdurrahman , the Communists , led by Rajim Ajina ; the Assyrian Democratic Movement ( allocated four assembly seats ) and the Christian Union ( allocated one assembly seat ) . |
| 21 | In 1870 the lay leaders of the Ashkenazi congregations in London had established the United Synagogue , over which ‘ the cousinhood ’ — and pre-eminently the Rothschilds — presided . |
| 22 | The campaign against the war in Vietnam had taken the orthodox routes of left-wing protest , in the left press , in Peace News , around the Campaign for Peace in Vietnam . |
| 23 | Hundreds of protesters on Saturday had forced the legislative session to be suspended for three hours as they shouted down ARENA deputies and screamed for justice . |
| 24 | Soldiers had since picked up the habit of wine-drinking in France during the war and upon returning to England had educated the middle classes , further increasing the popularity of Champagne in the immediate post-war years . |
| 25 | In the first practical sign of a cooling of passions , the old Soviet flag was restored as an interim measure to about 20 ships of the fleet , which on Wednesday had hoisted the Russian ensign of St Andrew . |
| 26 | The landlord in Tagro v Cafane had adopted the time-honoured tactic of changing the locks to the plaintiff 's bedsit in order to effect an eviction . |
| 27 | The seven-year-old started last season winning his first novice chase at Uttoxeter and by April had landed the Scottish Nationalan extraordinary performance for a first season steeplechaser . |