Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Christ entered into humanity to defeat the Dark Power that oppressed us and to set us free from the corruption within .
2 Figure 2 clearly shows that a phenomenon of adaptive cytoprotection occurred in animsl fed the oleic diet at the various levels of acid injury tested , since pretreatment with a 100 µmol pulse of HCl induced a significant shift of the curve to the right ( p<0.01 ) .
3 Cadets from military schools and a force of 1000 cossacks from outside the capital tried without success to overthrow the new government .
4 Last night police appealed for help to catch the hit-and-run riders .
5 There is little understanding about how animal behaviour evolved through time to produce the human ‘ mind ’ .
6 If Jesus died in order to make the unjust justified , he also endowed them with his Spirit in order to make them just .
7 The ruthless punishment meted out to senior officials who fell from favour reflected the general lack of legal safeguards for life and property .
8 Almost perfect , but not quite : the emotional freighting which it acquired in transmission deprived the Arnoldian message of any remaining austerity .
9 She was a pretty young widow with a small son , and Thomas went to law to give the little boy his own surname .
10 SAVE FIRST WENT to court to protect the magnificent park at Highclere in Hampshire .
11 I learned about trailer driving the hard way during a competition retrieve , when an enthusiastic crew member took us off the road with an Eagle two-seater in the trailer .
12 There is his Author 's Note to Victorious Troy to assure us that he has spoken with a boy whose experience had been similar to that of Dick Pomfret and that cases where dismasted sailing ships without officers had been brought to port by boys were not unknown , but we hardly need this assurance in order to believe that Dick , not unaided but with a responsibility beyond his years , did in fact bring the Hurrying Angel home in the end .
13 He said that ministers had in addition addressed the internal situation in Iraq ; the problems of Afghanistan and Lebanon were also reportedly discussed .
14 The Lords of the Congregation could rightly assert the duty and responsibility of the nobility to act for the good of the commonweal , and indeed experience of minorities over two centuries had in practice underwritten the theoretical position to an unusual extent .
15 The Church 's Director of Communication , Rev Siteke Ubial Susey , wrote to Action describing the impossible conditions facing his country 's communicators :
16 First , came that Sunday when members of the congregation , with the help of friends from all over the City and beyond , even via Tiberias , on Lake Galilee , set to work to prepare the whole church for Christian Aid .
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