Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I took over , it was evident that the need for new roads vastly outstripped the likely supply . |
| 2 | By their greater numbers in this sector — seven divisions to half that number of German — the Russians slowly drove the German centre back . |
| 3 | Encouraged , David pushed aside the flimsy bra , and his sensitive fingers gently kneaded the soft flesh that swelled under his touch . |
| 4 | The Germans naturally played the major role in shaping the CIVC and its undoubted success , both immediate and since , must to some extent be credited to the Germans ' reputation for organisation , efficiency and detail . |
| 5 | His fingers idly stroked the oiled metal of his exposed weapon . |
| 6 | The daily dose of 20 mg was chosen on the basis of volunteer studies , where doses of 10 mg and 20 mg four times daily suppressed the hypothalamicpituitary axis , whereas 5 mg four times a day did not ( Glaxo Group Research Ltd , unpublished data ) . |
| 7 | In addition , because informants rarely knew the actual date of birth of their friends , it was not possible to obtain an accurate identity code . |
| 8 | The Scots thus faced the same challenge that Edward II had faced in 1314 , and the outcome was the same . |
| 9 | Some major parties quickly rejected the whole idea of the planned conference , regarding it as undemocratic , and called for a genuine national conference to draw up a new constitution . |
| 10 | Later designs further adapted the basilican plan with apses at both east and west ends and sometimes added short transepts . |
| 11 | For all her strange behaviour in rehearsals and in the office , she had held her position as director for eleven years and during that time the Tiller troupes still commanded the highest respect and dominated all other dance troupes . |
| 12 | But his eyes still held the old mockery and the remembered cynicism . |
| 13 | Each night as he lay in bed he would imagine himself catching the train from the local station — such reveries usually assumed the initial achievement of getting outside the camp — or stalking the frontier guards among the mountains with Switzerland a few hundred yards away across the snow … |
| 14 | Determined to break down chauvinism and confront the prejudice and suspicion of the unknown , the organizations also diminished the economic barrier to foreign travel by establishing the novel concept of the now standard , fixed price ‘ all-in ’ holiday which presented a defined objective to be budgeted for over a year . |
| 15 | American books often used the whole alphabet , but were not consistent , some printers being faithful to their origins , some insisting on independence . |
| 16 | These losses roughly equalled the total inflow into the Mediterranean before the dam was built . |
| 17 | Meanwhile the Society of Motor Manufacturers today said the immediate outlook is bleak . |
| 18 | The schools particularly appreciated the supportive feedback , which was almost unanimous in its expressions of surprise for the complex nature and weight of responsibility of schools , of admiration for the skill and commitment of staff , and of concern for the level of resourcing . |
| 19 | Subjects then ingested the radiolabelled meal . |
| 20 | Two more subjects then repeated the 90-hour vigil , and similarly became extremely sleepy , especially during the hours between midnight and noon , reviving somewhat during the afternoons . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , the progressively more complete operation of the system of pegged exchange rates between convertible currencies undoubtedly assisted the massive expansion of trade which occurred . |
| 22 | In contrast to the English Nonjurors , whose Jacobitism tended to be lukewarm at best , the Scottish episcopal clergy actively preached the divine right of the Stuarts to real power . |
| 23 | Following this confrontation , a succession of crises seriously undermined the Mercian position further . |
| 24 | Bats too criss-crossed the liquid air with a more deliberate motion , like water-beetles . |
| 25 | I 've got some quotes here that I 've taken from the book which shows not only how Dickens thought women ought to behave , but how the readers , since he was writing for a public market , the readers too thought the ideal woman ought to behave . |
| 26 | But although these advantages soon overcame the early handicap of Silesia 's remoteness from markets , in 1900 the Ruhr still produced nine-tenths of Germany 's coal . |
| 27 | The reality was that provincial reformers generally took the ideological initiative away from London on this important point . |
| 28 | Yet in reality neither they nor the manufacturers took the limits seriously , and Central Authority engineers deliberately ignored the agreed commissioning limits . |
| 29 | It is true that his criticisms further antagonized the American administration , but de Gaulle willingly took the gamble , believing that his survival now depended more on the French people than on Roosevelt . |
| 30 | The testimony of Fiers also undermined the longstanding declaration of former Attorney General Edwin Meese that the only government officials to have known of the Iran-contra operation prior to his revelation of it on Nov. 25 , 1986 , were three senior White House aides . |