Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [adv] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gastric pits become progressively deeper and more convoluted from the proximal cardia to the distal pyloric region . |
| 2 | The UN Security Council on Nov. 29 approved Resolution 678 authorizing member governments to use " all necessary means " to ensure Iraq 's complete withdrawal from Kuwait , if by a deadline of Jan. 15 , 1991 , the Iraqis had not already done so and thereby complied with the UN 's previous resolutions . |
| 3 | The Queen disliked the service , which was hidden away and only re-emerged in the early 1980s when included in a Dutch television programme on royal gifts . |
| 4 | As McFarlane so aptly and untruthfully said of the Saudi contribution , ‘ the concrete character of that is beyond my ken . ’ |
| 5 | At the comparative safety of a deserted road we collected ourselves a little and then headed for the station , trying hard to chuckle about it all , though obviously we had both been deeply affected . |
| 6 | I drove away slowly and then came to the corner of Union and Gloucester . |
| 7 | By chance the introduction of better rigging more or less coincided with the gold discoveries in California . |
| 8 | ‘ We come to what we more or less knew in the first place . |
| 9 | The reference call to the hotel , The Randolph — that 's what he 'd remembered clearest of all , really : he 'd looked up the telephone number and then been put through , on the extension given to him by his client , to the Deputy Manageress , who had promptly and effusively vouched for the bona fides of Rent-a-Car 's prospective customer . |
| 10 | Women themselves are more and more socialized into the male interpretation of these female blood mysteries . |
| 11 | Yates was questioned by police soon after and immediately confessed to the killing . |
| 12 | The chair of the US House of Representatives banking committee stated on Feb. 3 that investigations revealed that 13 US firms had knowingly or unknowingly participated in the Iraqi nuclear weapons programme prior to the invasion of Kuwait , despite an administration report in autumn 1991 to the contrary . |
| 13 | Accompanying this shift is the introduction of a uniform business rate whose level is to be centrally determined , with the income also collected centrally and then redistributed in the form of government grant according to a centrally determined formula . |
| 14 | In a statement issued on Nov. 23 , during a meeting with a high-level Iraqi delegation headed by Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz and Foreign Minister Muhammad Said Kazim al-Sahhaf , the Security Council had maintained that " Iraq has up to now only selectively and partially complied with the obligations placed upon it " . |
| 15 | Bolton , still smarting from a controversial refereeing decision that denied them a penalty and , they believe , victory at the County Ground at Swindon , had their opponents well and truly cornered at the start . |
| 16 | The argument that converted barns provide housing for rural communities is well and truly scotched by the average price of conversions — well beyond the means of local people . |
| 17 | The result was that it had been increased only twice and now stood at the princely sum of £30 . |
| 18 | The cold plunge was in the adjoining massage room , and on surprisingly weak legs he made his way there and gratefully dived into the plunge . |
| 19 | It must be something of the sentiment that inspired the war poets , enduring indescribable ugliness — the mutilation and destruction of people and places amongst the fragile flowers that nature silently but abundantly proffered in the stench , decay and squalor of the trenches . |
| 20 | However , such a position is untenable ; as Rose and Rose have argued , science today is so ‘ closely and directly enmeshed in the machinery of state and government ’ , that it is impossible to disentangle the practice of science from its context in modern industrial capitalism . |
| 21 | The Holy Roman Empire , of Charlemagne , of the Ottonian emperors , through to the Hohenstaufens , was to be seen in all seriousness as the legitimate heir of ‘ the Augustan peace ’ : a dispensation which , though seldom or never actualized through the last five centuries , must be held in mind as the one and only imaginable harmonizing of Church and State , of religion and politics , at least throughout Europe . |
| 22 | There was another face then , which did n't have to be invented : a moustached face that had recently and endlessly appeared on the television news , the face of a man who was accused of battering to death the nanny of his children , of attempting to do the same to his wife . |