Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This became for cognitio the standard form of execution where judgment had been given in a sum of money . |
| 2 | Employed first by Edward III , he rose under Edward the Black Prince [ q.v. ] , and became his secretary in 1375 and an executor of his will in 1376 . |
| 3 | This measure provided in part the financial discipline which was lacking in the budgets of earlier years . |
| 4 | She ventured upon deck the first morning , and was approached by not one but three potential beaux , each with his hair curled and exuding a powerful odour of bergamot . |
| 5 | He described in detail the amazing story of strange sightings of vast armies of people seen at Midsummer 's Eve at midnight often referred to as the Ghost Troops marching on Souter Fell . |
| 6 | He moved to Lotus the following season and enjoyed his first win at Estoril . |
| 7 | His League career was terminated by a particularly nasty injury sustained at Sheffield just before Christmas 1923 , as ten-men Palace went down 6–0 to The Wednesday and , after recovering , he moved to Folkestone the following summer . |
| 8 | I reapplied to Switchboard the next day . |
| 9 | One of the problems Brown and Iles discovered in their study of community constables ( what , in the RUC , would be called neighbourhood constables ) , which was based on 300 officers in five police forces in England , was the relatively small proportion of working time devoted to activities the primary purpose of which was improvement in relations between the police and the public through direct involvement of constables in the community ( Brown and Iles 1985 : 29 ) . |
| 10 | He invited to Scotland the English architect-author Robert William Billings whose Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland provided the source book for the Scottish baronial movement for the next 40 years . |
| 11 | While he condemned as pride the solitary life-style which arises from self-reliance rather than faith in God ( 14.87 ) he countered his opponents with another Scriptural quotation from Osee ( Hosea ) 2:14 interpreted as referring to the relationship between God and the soul : " I will lead her into solitude , and I will speak to her heart " ( 13.83 ) . |
| 12 | I noted with envy the gold-embossed timber mansions of the merchants , the stalls in front of them piled high with goods of every kind : rich cloth of gold , rolls of murrey , silks and satins , leather bottles , Spanish riding boots , gold cord and testers , blankets of pure wool , and tapestries heavy with silver needlework and gold filigree . |
| 13 | Came into work the next morning . |
| 14 | Three years ago when the new regulations came into force the then Secretary of State for Social Security said this means the end of the era of poverty . |
| 15 | Before the Act of 1989 came into force the inherent jurisdiction of the High Court with respect to children was usually exercised through the machinery of wardship . |
| 16 | Most of his contemporaries in Oxford and elsewhere assumed that the only appropriate approach to Jewish studies was through Semitic philology and biblical studies , and Roth never received in Britain the academic recognition that his publications and his international standing ( especially in America and Israel ) merited . |
| 17 | The party 's central executive council chose Kim as Roh 's successor , and conferred upon Roh the ceremonial title of honorary party president . |
| 18 | I explained that before I came to Arabia the only djinn or genie that I knew was Aladdin 's genie of the lamp . |
| 19 | We 'll stay put in old West Ken , ’ but Oliver had seen it all , and I came to America the first time on May 25th . |
| 20 | When Ika came to London the following year , he was to describe Buckingham Palace , by comparison , as ‘ a modest little house ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ It is a peculiar fact of life that since tourism came to España the average height of our nation has increased dramatically . |
| 22 | In the morning he picked up the van in Hilderbridge and drove to Jackley the long way round through Byss , having a newly upholstered chaise longue to deliver before he made the Jackley collection . |
| 23 | It was the last movement by the spider that recalled to Quinn the tiny detail that eluded him last night . |
| 24 | Apart from her anxiety over Jennifer 's meeting David again , Rachel had been looking forward to Family Day , but when she arrived for work the next morning the preparations were the furthest thing from her mind . |
| 25 | The new prosperity of ‘ industrious ’ Catalonia and ‘ opulent ’ Valencia threw into contrast the industrial decline that had left central Spain a backwater of artisan industry . |
| 26 | Because the truth was that this evidence of care and tenderness was harder to bear than any neglect , for it threw into question the whole basis of their lives together . |
| 27 | Moreover Bacon 's anti-humanism and emphasis on despair threw into question the very basis of Minton 's art . |
| 28 | The episode threw into chaos the normal wage bargaining consultations and only after several months of discussions was a new system of work organisation finally thrashed out . |
| 29 | The Presidents of Russia and Lithuania postponed until October the actual signature of a treaty on troop withdrawal , due to " technical " difficulties . |
| 30 | " Nowhere has the longing for Greece been revealed in purer tones " , proclaimed Nietzsche , and a feu lines earlier , in equally heartfelt terms , he spoke of Hölderlin 's " bitter truths to his countrymen on the subject of their cultural inadequacies : " In Hyperion he hurls sharp and cutting words at German " barbarism " " and , above all ; " he hated in Germans the mere specialist , the philistine " . |