Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [subord] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Bartlett 's ideas on schemata became popular when the development of computers meant that theories of this type could be programmed ( e.g. Minsky , 1975 ; Rumelhart , 1975 ; Schank , 1976 ) . |
| 2 | Richard disputed this before the king in 1247 , and was still in pursuit of justice in July 1248 . |
| 3 | Lloyd 's List later cited a deal whereby the Pacific Valour was to shift a cargo of 240,000 tonnes from the Gulf to Japan at W37 , apparently a fairly durable rate , as the same publication reported W37-40 as the range over which discussion occurred for a voyage from Kharg to Japan in 1984 . |
| 4 | In Asia Minor about 110 the younger Pliny , the governor of Bithynia , asked Trajan whether the profession of Christianity was in itself culpable or ‘ the vices associated with the name ’ , especially since after investigation by torture he had discovered that there were no frightful vices : the accused said their custom was to meet before dawn on a particular day to sing a hymn to Christ as a god and to take an oath ( sacramentum ) to abstain from wrongdoing . |
| 5 | He preferred the slow , peaceful life of the Devon countryside to the frenetic bustle of the metropolis : playing for Exeter seemed better than the likelihood of being very small fish in the big Arsenal pool . |
| 6 | What has happened is a swings-and-roundabouts operation , whereby last year pensioners received more than the cost of living that they had incurred , whereas this year they will receive less . |
| 7 | We conclude that the CL100 gene and its mouse homologue represent a new subclass of mammalian PTPase in that they show no significant similarity to any human PTPase yet discovered other than the presence of the highly conserved active-site sequence . |
| 8 | With these decisions Darwin became more than the protégé of Lyell . |
| 9 | But the rise of the PLO made the whole issue more dangerous and complex , partly because it became unclear whether the majority of people in the West Bank wanted either Jordan or the PLO back , and partly because Jordan 's East Bank population was 40 per cent Palestinian . |
| 10 | Some then went off to the latrines behind the back of the hall , which Charlie thought smelled worse than the middle of Whitechapel Road on a steaming summer 's day . |
| 11 | Mr Wilson added that he was still pursuing the wider issues of the case until it became apparent whether the case of Ian X was unique . |
| 12 | But it never seemed right ; she would kiss him , for not very long , at the end of each meeting , and he could hold her , feel his arms around her narrow back , his body briefly against hers , but he could feel her tense if his hands went lower than the small of her back , and when he tried to kiss her more deeply , or hold her tighter , she would break away , shaking her head . |
| 13 | He drove in silence after that and I fell asleep until the roughness of the road made me open my eyes . |
| 14 | I stopped walking and stared wide-eyed as the rest of the senescent strollers proceeded out of this dimension . |
| 15 | But he was , and looked astounded when the housekeeper of the lodgings — a suspicious woman in greening black clothes , a dirty mob cap on her sparse hair — called him to the door of the gabled house . |
| 16 | This meant more than the elimination of exploitation , which had already been achieved in the Stalinist period : it meant the elimination of the oppression of man by man , which could be achieved only by the working class itself and not by a bureaucracy on its behalf . |
| 17 | Now , Harry was certain , Cornelius meant more than the length of time a middle-aged man should give himself to recover from influenza . |
| 18 | At stake lay more than the future of the English garrison in the town which the French were besieging and blockading by land and sea . |
| 19 | As a friend with three children at public school put it , ‘ My last term 's bills totalled more than the price of the wife 's new care ’ . |
| 20 | I 'm not the least bit religious so the idea of a priest having any influence on my life is ridiculous . |
| 21 | He fell silent while the voice at the other end said something . |
| 22 | He fell silent as the door to the dining room opened and one of the maids entered with the first course . |
| 23 | Everything in the apartment appeared normal until the door of the drawing room was opened . |
| 24 | First , the old system of raising funds for maintaining the sultan 's war machine proved inadequate when the technology of war changed and the spahi cavalry ceased to be the indispensable core of the army . |
| 25 | It 's difficult to escape the conclusion that a great many of those questioned spoke less than the truth in their answers . |
| 26 | This proved sufficient until the reign of Charles I. He was one of ‘ the sticklers in the last Parliament ’ pricked sheriff in 1625 to prevent their election to the next ( although he was able to secure that of his son for New Shoreham ) , and in the following summer he was removed from the Sussex commission of the peace , to which he had been appointed only in 1624 . |
| 27 | Now , after some shrewd scavving and a touch of inventive accountancy , she had more than the price of the pudding . |
| 28 | Urban communities gave place to rural ones and the Roman influence became attenuated though the language at least did not perish . |
| 29 | This ideology remained unchanged because the institution of the family remained substantially unchanged and the ideology was necessary for its legitimation and maintenance in that form . |
| 30 | It remained closed until the idea of a union was forgotten . |