Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The environmental impact of precolonial agriculture in the subhumid highlands of central México equalled that of the Classic Maya cities in the lowland rainforests of Guatemala , and was even more severe than that of the indigenous cultivators in New Guinea . |
| 2 | For various reasons , we expected little of the sitting hen . |
| 3 | we got neither of the free press this week |
| 4 | The other bad news is that not only did John Fullard get a letter for the wrong house in The Grove , he also got another on the same day intended for 27 The Oval . |
| 5 | Wallace got another in the second half to make the final score 2–0 , bring the car in future boys . |
| 6 | LOUISE BOWEN asked some of the other conference speakers to cast modesty aside and reveal the reasons for their success . |
| 7 | It also produced some of the best journalism on the underground and the above ground — written in the 1960s . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , punk served to obscure the fact that they made some of the greatest rock ever . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , punk served to obscure the fact that they made some of the greatest rock ever . |
| 10 | I actually first realised this at the second year , that when I was looking for the , the previous year , I noticed that in July the business went and I thought , because everybody 's gone on holiday . |
| 11 | I made sure I got some of the white powder on my fingertips and not making a big deal of it , brought them up to my tongue . |
| 12 | In December 1724 Wade reported that of the 22,000 fighting men who , he estimated , might be raised in the Highlands , 12,000 were active or potential Jacobites , some with hidden weapons , and that the best way to keep them in check was with independent companies of loyal Highlanders , under their own Whig but Gaelic-speaking officers . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , I found this in the locked room , ’ said John Openshaw . |
| 14 | She dabbed her lips with salt water again and crumbled some of the roasted chicken neck into her mouth . |
| 15 | We phoned some of the major insurance companies to see what their policies were concerning fish tanks . |
| 16 | I regarded this with the usual scepticism . |
| 17 | Our experience of sponsorship in Scotland was invaluable and , because of the success we enjoyed there with volleyball , we chose to support the National Leagues and Cup competitions in England and we recently sponsored a four-nations international event which provided some of the finest volleyball ever seen in Britain ; thanks to television coverage , nationwide audiences were able to share in the excitement . |
| 18 | It also provided some of the strongest evidence to date that Sellafield did directly and routinely harm people 's health . |
| 19 | The kind of traditionalist defence against a sufficiently close approach of modernity , which once provided much of the social base for the nationalism of Hroch 's ‘ phase B ’ , hardly survived the European decades since 1950 , the most revolutionary in the world 's economic history . |
| 20 | BGS provided much of the logistical support for the first international conference arranged under the auspices of IGCP Project 294 , Very Low Grade Metamorphism , which was held at the University of Manchester , 5–6 July 1990 . |
| 21 | With the river , the hemmed-in churches , and certain pubs , it provided much of the raw material of The Waste Land . |
| 22 | From such ideas he formed dances which did away with pointes but retained much of the classical footwork which he co-ordinated with the less familiar action of the arms and hands . |
| 23 | The Criminal Law Revision Committee , which found much of the English law of manslaughter unsupportable , argued that there is a need for a homicide offence beneath murder to encompass those who cause death when reckless as to death or serious injury . |
| 24 | Second , in the case of the other seven indicator agencies , which did have central recording systems , visits were made by members of the research team who transcribed all of the required information on to prestructured forms . |
| 25 | The conversion into owner-farmers of those who had hitherto been tenants or agricultural labourers provided many for the first time with genuine prospects of making a decent living , unburdened by debts , high rents or heavy taxes . |
| 26 | In the mid-1970s Britain faced a more severe crisis , in which very high inflation , a balance of payments problem and continuing high unemployment occurred all at the same time . |
| 27 | Its forceful statement of British sovereignty offended many in the Foreign Office , which is more communautaire . |
| 28 | During the final canoe-position recces for Torch , a sudden storm caught those of the eastern reconnaissance , and Lieutenant L.G. ( Geoff ) Lyne RN with Commando Thomas as paddler were in its teeth . |
| 29 | He shook his head and sank more of the strong beer . |
| 30 | ( As announced on May 22 , this formula involved most of the second phase meetings taking place at Stormont , but with an initial second-phase meeting in London and an end-of-phase meeting in Dublin . ) |