Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a continuation , in effect , of the 1930s Special Areas policy ( which had received further impetus from the Barlow Report on industrial location ) and from the carry-over of wartime controls which gave the government far more effective power in its sphere than it had ever possessed [ Brown , 1972 ] . |
| 2 | Prior to Haibara 's testimony , Noboru Takeshita had given further evidence to the Diet concerning his role in the affair . |
| 3 | If the practice had not done the efficient thing and had installed only part of the structure , to a value of £8,000 , it would have received 50 per cent . |
| 4 | Chairman John Craig said the group had performed particularly well in the US , had built up its market in continental Europe and had seen further growth in the Far East . |
| 5 | Queen Elizabeth 's vault in Westminster Abbey was examined in 1868 by Dean Stanley : ‘ There was no disorder or decay , except that the centring wood had fallen over the head of Elizabeth 's coffin , and that the wood case had crumbled away at the sides , and had drawn away part of the decaying lid . ’ |
| 6 | She had drunk only perrier at the party , and eaten nothing . |
| 7 | To enter the rally was Faith 's idea , and at the start I intended to fly only part of the trip — home from Egypt in two weeks . |