Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [adv] [vb past] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ensuing chaos was almost life-threatening and the timid always ran the risk of reboarding without food or being left behind when the train steamed out . |
| 2 | The 80860 also formed the basis of Oki Electric 's server line until it folded last month . |
| 3 | The British successfully tested the H-bomb in May 1957 , while Bomber Command was gradually acquiring aircraft which could strike at key Soviet cities . |
| 4 | This fear of American inroads into areas that Britain used to control effortlessly was not confined to civil aviation ; the British also resented the activity of US oil companies in the Middle East , and US attempts to break into the British-dominated international rubber market and the sterling bloc . |
| 5 | The British also conquered the island of Newfoundland , and were not faced by any such problems there . |
| 6 | The British never made the mistake of trying Gandhi again . |
| 7 | The countries of the Six geographically formed the core of Western Europe . |
| 8 | The Japanese also viewed the alliance as a considerable accolade . |
| 9 | On either account , of course , a judicial tendency will remain to pre-empt jury decision on the question whether the accused actually held the belief claimed . |
| 10 | The second just touched the glass and fell away . |
| 11 | The good always overcame the evil . |
| 12 | But the good far outweighed the bad . |
| 13 | The 18 later left the building after being assured they would be considered for emigration . |
| 14 | I say ‘ in theory ’ because the 1970s also saw the introduction of the ‘ Special Procedure ’ under which undefended divorces are dealt with on the basis of written evidence , without the parties even having to attend court . |
| 15 | In the study of voting behaviour during a presidential campaign , it was found that while wives frequently referred to discussions with their husbands , the latter rarely returned the compliment . |
| 16 | The latter then sold the reversion to the defendant at an auction . |
| 17 | The determination with which , against the odds , British Governments attempted to restore economic liberalism in the 1920s partly reflected the influence wielded by the City of London . |
| 18 | Er we were married three years , no children and I began to get desperate again and an anyway along came the first then came the second . |
| 19 | The hurt never left the depth of his eyes and each day of his life he knotted a black tie . |
| 20 | But the theories of urban degeneracy put forward by Charles Booth and Llewellyn-Smith in the 1880s still followed the principle set by Lamarck — that acquired characteristics could be inherited . |
| 21 | The introduction of cash crops in the 1930s further reduced the amount of land available for food production . |
| 22 | The 1850s also saw the establishment of schools for the physically handicapped and the ‘ mentally defective ’ . |
| 23 | First one , then the other gingerly descended and as the one with the keys circled the car , checking each orifice and lock , the other brazenly mounted the bonnet and cast his arms and gaze further , far across to the disappearing outline of the receding crag of hill . |
| 24 | Indeed the gradual incorporation of the eastern Ukraine into Muscovy between the 1640s and the 1670s actually aggravated the problem . |
| 25 | The Mercantile also hosted the launch of the Guinness Celebration of Irish Music recently . |
| 26 | The Swiss arrogantly ignored the advent of new electronic watch technology until it became obvious that markets for their mechanical products , believed to be the best in the world , had all but disappeared . |
| 27 | If the spiritual foundations of the drug culture ever needed to be proved again in the twentieth century , its great introductory fanfare in the 1960s surely did the trick . |
| 28 | Although born mainly out of an attempt by the British government to gain control of the curriculum , the 1960s also saw the establishment of the Schools Council , a quango whose role was to advise the government on curriculum and examinations . |
| 29 | But as they fell , one of the four convulsively jerked the trigger of his gun . |
| 30 | ‘ Scotty ’ Gilmour , who formerly worked for Tony Jacklin , duly performed the aiming function , and a birdie from 15ft at the seventeenth partially repaired the damage . |