Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ron lived to see the latter ambition fulfilled from the foundations he laid as Chairman of the racing section of the British Canoe Union and Olympic Team Manager . |
| 2 | On March 18 Finland applied for membership of the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 3 | Switzerland applied for membership of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and the World Bank on June 6 , 1990 . |
| 4 | Dogs charged about like lunatics , scattering the chickens and geese which pecked for food in the hard-packed soil . |
| 5 | Success rates were generally low for questions which asked for knowledge of the decimal equivalent of common fractions : The answer 1.2 is suggestive of the view that a fraction a/b is equivalent to the decimal a.b . |
| 6 | Applause and mock commiseration followed : George then followed with : The conceit carried through several verses which varied in pitch and volume as George fought for air against the unaccustomed alcohol . |
| 7 | Then he dropped to roof-top height and fled for home through the deepening dusk . |
| 8 | When Sussex gentlemen and townsmen began to question the practices of the church , they found new allies in the Flemings and Frenchmen who fled for asylum in the 1540s from persecution by Catholic monarchs abroad . |
| 9 | Non-attainment areas were given until July 1979 to have an approved SIP which provided for attainment of the primary NAAQSs by December 1982 . |
| 10 | The Committee did stress that there was ‘ a real desire for improvement ’ and prepared a draft Convention which provided for service via the consular channel , or by an agent appointed either by a party or by the Court whose process was involved . |
| 11 | The stories each picture told varied from the tragic to the hilarious : The expensive oil landscape which had had seagulls drawn on to the sky in ballpoint pen ; the ancient Highland cattle picture , swopped for food after the First World War by a travelling artist . |
| 12 | In 1946 he reported for duty in the English Department with another young lecturer , a modernist called Henry Gifford . |
| 13 | Unless we face up to that fact , moreover , any discussion of how we can safeguard certain democratic arrangements that we regarded as part of the British ‘ constitution ’ in the past ( e.g. the independence of local government ) or entrench others ( e.g. a Bill of Rights ) against an ‘ elective dictatorship ’ will run into the sand . |
| 14 | THE QUESTION of just who would even want to be a partner with the US was underlined last night as the American Administration headed for default for the first time in its history . |
| 15 | He had collected Heather from the Portesham turn-off on the Bridport road , not from Sabre Rise itself , which smacked of subterfuge from the very start . |
| 16 | Pain flickered like lightning across the broad , strong features of his face , and then he spoke , his voice curiously small , like a child 's . |
| 17 | Tommy Donnelly 's Campsie B moved into contention in the second half but their efforts were shortlived . |
| 18 | The palaces of meaning that she built with Friend in the endless night inside her — what were they for ? |
| 19 | He was not only widely respected as a critic but also regarded with affection for the genuine humility which made him always interested in others ' opinions . |
| 20 | Formerly associated with the more radical anti-French , pro-Libyan wing of the VP , Sope ( who was released on appeal following his conviction and imprisonment in March 1989 for incitement to mutiny and seditious conspiracy — see p. 36526 ) entered into alliance with the conservative UMP , the traditional francophone opposition to Lini 's anglophone government since independence in 1980 . |
| 21 | While the citizens of Amiens demonstrated in favour of the High Speed Line from Paris to the Channel Tunnel serving their city , the rural stockbrokers of Kent revolted against the idea of an equivalent new railway from the tunnel to London . |
| 22 | Special Forces men burst through the front door of The Anabaptist Reform Church , and gaped in horror at the unholy tableau spread out before them . |
| 23 | AN Aeroflot jet crashed in fog in the Russian city of Ivanovo , killing all 82 people on board , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 24 | As stated previously , Dunning and colleagues ( 1984 ) show how football crowd violence had a low level of incidence in the post-war years , but rose in frequency from the mid-sixties on . |
| 25 | ‘ Florian is a colleague ! ’ she flared , trying to contend with the wrenching anguish that rose in response to the sexual jealousy that seemed to mock her with its similarity to the emotional sort . |
| 26 | Crime rose in line with the golden curve of affluence . |
| 27 | Town and canton rose in importance after the early thirteenth century when the bridging of the Schollenen gorge opened up the Cotthard . |
| 28 | Barbed wire zigzagged in front of the small houses and large Alsatians snarled at strangers from behind steel fences . |
| 29 | Eighteen schools are participating in the three performances , and invention from the six gathered in St Edmundsbury Cathedral on Tuesday ranged from dialogue with the odd splash of singing and recorder-music to fully composed masques using all available resources . |
| 30 | Then there was just their sounds , mingled with the swish of the coarse grass as it moved in unison with the dark water . |