Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] a [adj] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The demure Lily in her straw hat , a hat I could describe to you now , still , as well as if I had it here in front of me , the crown swathed in a pale tulle the colour of a summer haze … in a long-sleeved , high-necked , pink-and-white striped blouse … a dark-blue hobble skirt , beside whom I walked across Regent 's Park in the spring of 1914 . |
| 2 | On 1 April 1959 he presided over a lavish ceremony the purpose of which was the inauguration of an extraordinary church , built , in Franco 's own words , " in memory of my victory over communism , which was trying to dominate Spain " . |
| 3 | In particular , it proposed the ending of detention without trial as soon as was politically possible , and it condemned as a serious mistake the establishment of a ‘ special category ’ for convicted prisoners claiming political motivation . |
| 4 | For a moment I thought the heat from the bung-hole might incinerate my brows , but when I squinted beneath an outstretched palm the sight stole my breath . |
| 5 | The name of the local pub , Live and Let Live , seemed like a good omen the first time she drove past it . |
| 6 | If you came from a poor family the only way you could get secondary education was by gaining a scholarship . |
| 7 | The new apartment consisted of a single room the size of a small warehouse : wholewood desk and table , low-slung black leather chairs , filing cabinets , the playpen of the bed . |
| 8 | This transaction ‘ exposed the myth of the Fourth Estate ’ because it confirmed in a stark fashion the well established close connections between the press and politics . |
| 9 | TODAY has learned that on the following day , November 17 , the Pounds 160-a-week assistant boasted to a female colleague the Chancellor had been a customer the previous evening . |
| 10 | Justin 's pupil Tatian from Mesopotamia developed with a sarcastic pen the philosophers ' dependence on Moses , which he argued with elaborate synchronisms from ancient chroniclers proving the priority of Moses . |
| 11 | Essays in Criticism was edited principally by F. W. Bateson , who announced in a preliminary circular the intention to tread midway between Scrutiny and The Review of English Studies . |
| 12 | The agenda of a National Security Council meeting as early as 10 March 1959 included as a main item the possibility of bringing ‘ another government to power in Cuba ’ ( Szulc : 1986 , p. 384 ) . |
| 13 | For December 14th 1804 he writes : ‘ finished the three drawings for Mr. Knowlys — Mrs. Green delivered of a dead daughter the child full grown ’ , and on January 23rd 1808 he wrote tersely ‘ My wife was delivered about one in the day of a daughter . ’ |
| 14 | This overlapped to a considerable degree the Roman bath concept and adaptations had to be made in the Imperial Roman period . |
| 15 | For a small minority , success led to A level courses the following year , but for the great majority the goal was employment either during or at the end of the year . |
| 16 | The regionalist novel represented a kind of literary discovery of America , in that it revealed to an urban public the conditions of life in the remote , underdeveloped areas of the continent 's interior : the plains ; the jungle ; the Andes . |
| 17 | That lady successfully went into a glass-fronted lift the next week armed with instructions on relaxation , deep breathing , and an index card with positive self-statements in her pocket . |
| 18 | The second prejudice against dissection was held by religious people who took in a literal sense the resurrection of the body , and had an emotional commitment to this doctrine , even if intellect told them that an incomplete body could be no bar to the miracle of rising from the grave with the sounding of the last trump . |
| 19 | Britain won the enclave , and , in 1860 , also acquired on a perpetual lease the Kowloon peninsula , adding in 1898 more islands and the New Territories of mainland China on a 99-year lease . |
| 20 | He possessed in an extraordinary degree the gift of conciliation and could say the happy words which quell the rising storm ’ , wrote one of them . |
| 21 | In his early works Richards outlined in a general way the different textual factors contributing to the effect of poetry ; he distinguished , for instance , between the sense , feeling , tone and intention of a text in Practical Criticism ( pp. 180–3 ) , and in Principles of Literary Criticism ( pp. 103–12 ) he offered some discussion of rhythm and metre . |
| 22 | They were not , by modern standards , especially radical in tone ; but they introduced to a wider public the new approaches to the critical study of the Bible which up till then had developed more on the Continent , and only to some extent in the cloistered world of the English universities . |
| 23 | The 1980 Green Paper , The Taxation of Husband and Wife , had as a central proposal the scrapping of the married man 's allowance to be replaced by a single person 's allowance each for husband and wife . |
| 24 | When the ratio strayed above a certain value the cortical activity became unstable and patterns were formed . |
| 25 | When I was in Stanley last year , even though I was only in my second year , I knew as well as all the other Stanley staff that if we had in a dodgy case the S.S.O. would fix things so that someone else operated on him . |
| 26 | Again , in 1981–7 the Volkswagenstiftung funded on a large scale the ARCOS project , a system which photographs a three-dimensional archaeological object , provides a drawing and converts it into data which lend themselves easily to methods like Cluster Analysis . |
| 27 | In addition , there were stories of a ‘ factual ’ nature , which mirrored in a different context the tone and content of the speaker 's talk . |
| 28 | In 1986 , he destroyed at a single stroke the stranglehold of the unions over the British newspaper industry by removing his operation overnight to non-union Wapping . |