Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [subord] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a developing awareness that politics went beyond the institutions of government , and that the connections between state and society involved more than attending to the formal implications of regular general elections and the play of party politics . |
| 2 | The same meeting , albeit the first recorded , approved the Constitution mentioned earlier as prepared by the ‘ Sub Committee ’ . |
| 3 | It accelerated more than anticipated with the result that the capsule landed in the Atlantic over a hundred miles away from the target area . |
| 4 | Law and order seemed fragile when opposed to the growing danger of the huge new slums whose populations were feared as classes dangereuses . |
| 5 | The litmus paper turned red when immersed in the liquid . |
| 6 | Sabrina 5 was last used in the early 1970s and lay derelict until restored by the Museum in 1987 . |
| 7 | Capt Goebel looked annoyed when asked about the gun . |
| 8 | The urine sample taken from the colt after he had trailed in 10th , 23 lengths behind stable-mate Commander In Chief , proved negative when analysed by the Horseracing Forensic Laboratory . |
| 9 | For although purporting to provide a degree of public participation in the making of a major policy decision , detailed examination of the institutional machinery provided by the government revealed that it was far from being a neutral forum in which the choice of options remained open until determined by the Inquiry . |