Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [pron] [vb past] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 The Central Gilts Office ( CGO ) provided marketmakers with computerized accounts which facilitated the transfer of stock before the change of ownership was recorded at the Bank .
2 In the middle decades of the century , it was increasingly the German-speaking biologists who led the way .
3 They claimed that the ASEAN states which initiated the Zone plan intended it also to embrace other states located in the region .
4 The team identified the main cause as fluctuating caustic concentrations which affected the type and size of salt crystals .
5 In the 1290s and again in the 1330s the pressure of taxation and resistance to the crown 's recruiting methods led to political crises which undermined the king 's ability to wage war successfully .
6 In the old days the subtle relationships which constituted the Establishment at work would have prevented any such developments taking place .
7 For their trireme warships they used the steering technique of an external oar and this copied in today 's dragon boats .
8 European nations which sponsored the resolution refused to accept the Islamic amendment .
9 Although outwardly a man of the Establishment , Bill McEwan Younger had the self-confidence to adopt unorthodox views which stood the test of time .
10 Little is still known of the designers and speculators of this part of the town 's growth , save that they were often little more than smallholders or jobbing builders who saw the possibility of some quick profits on their small capital .
11 The history of the " extension movement " illustrates many of the cultural patterns which influenced the emergence of the new English .
12 When she placed Morndun across her face and peered through its ghostly eyes she saw the air shimmering with elementals , sharp-faced , wraith-like , coiling and twisting above the river , streaming out of the mouths and eyes of the men by the water and from the piles of skulls by the trees .
13 It was the lesser clergy who frustrated the king 's attempt to smudge the distinctions to his own advantage , so that by 1322 parliament was virtually eliminated as the place to raise clerical subsidies , and convocation was no longer summoned by the offending writ .
14 The peace sign itself was devised by British pacifists who combined the semaphore signs for N ( nuclear ) and D ( disarmament ) .
15 Of the 500-plus inspectors who attended the college each year on the course , a handful were awarded what is known as a Home Office Bramshill Scholarship .
16 Unlike the economic and social controversies which dominated the election campaigns of the period , and the policy-making preliminaries which preceded them , in penal matters the underlying objectives were accepted by each of the two main parties .
17 It makes fascinating reading , commencing with the work of British businessmen who pioneered the game in their adopted country .
18 The social reformers who staffed the think tanks that fed into the right wing of the Conservative Party and who advocated the restructuring of education , the dismantling of the welfare state and the restriction of local government power , needed a theme through which to proselytise their views .
19 The social convulsions which followed the transfer of agriculture to a capitalist , or at least a large-scale commercialised pattern , loosened the traditional ties of men to the land of their forefathers , especially when they found they owned none of it , or too little to maintain their family .
20 In the 1650s the Venetian representative in London maintained more than twenty Catholic priests who ministered to the numerous English Catholics who filled the embassy chapel to overflowing .
21 Before his eyes dull muddy grass turned into soft reflective banks which caught the sun a thousand ways .
22 But the child protection system had broken down in this instance , not because of the excessive timidity or woolliness of social workers who missed the warning signs and failed to act , but because of their over confidence in medical diagnoses and their ready reliance on compulsory measures to remove the children .
23 Chartered accountants who passed the IoT examination would be entitled to join the Faculty , or the IoT , or both .
24 Equally important were social changes which accompanied the introduction of coconut plantations .
25 The Quality Scotland Foundation , chaired by , was formed in late 1990 by a group of prominent Scottish Businesses who recognised the need for a survival strategy for Scotland for the nineties and beyond , focusing on the quality issue for economic , commercial , environmental and social development .
26 I blame it on medieval theologians who developed the system in order to confront and annihilate heresies that challenged the integrity of the Church .
27 In hostile territory a siege was not lightly undertaken ; if certain reasonable precautions had been taken , those who sought refuge inside a town or castle could reasonably hope to survive , in particular if their refuge were a town which , with its generally greater size and more generous ameneties which favoured the defender , presented a besieger with a greater challenge than did even the best defended castle .
28 But slaves in good households were far better fed , clothed , and housed than the free wage-labourers who formed the majority of the labour force .
29 The first beneficiaries of this new climate were two would-be moguls who seized the opportunity to considerably expand their existing film holdings .
30 With damp palms he opened the door that led up into the hallway .
  Next page