Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After we 'd agreed the itinerary I got on with the detailed flying planning , using the new French VFR maps and the American TPC ( Tactical Pilotage Charts ) which we bought from Stamfords in London . |
| 2 | A team of researchers from Bristol University was commissioned to examine what the YTS had to offer young black people and to indicate how they got on during the first six months of the scheme ( S. Fenton , Ethnic Minorities and the Youth Training Scheme Research and Development Series , no. 20 , MSC , 1984 ) . |
| 3 | It was sewn with coarse grass and carefully mended with leather patches stitched on with the same coarse grass . |
| 4 | Thick golden bars of sunlight slanted down from the tall narrow windows . |
| 5 | This is not true of Cramlington , where the basic development programme laid down in the early 1960s has continued , with only two significant changes relating to the use of industrial land and the role of the shopping centre development . |
| 6 | However , the present author is one of those who has doubts as to how far this possibility would be used : the protocol on Social policy refers to continuing ‘ along the path laid down in the 1989 Social Charter ’ ( also signed by eleven Member States ) . |
| 7 | The survey was based on the cleanliness grades laid down in the 1990 Environmental Protection Act . |
| 8 | South Africa was readmitted to the Olympic Games on March 27 , subject to its being able to satisfy within 30 days conditions laid down by the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) . |
| 9 | The rates are ultimately set by the individual authority , but usually within the bands laid down by the National Joint Council for Local Authorities ' Administrative , Professional , Technical and Clerical Services ( LAAPTAC ) . |
| 10 | First , a calculation based on the wage rates laid down by the National joint Council for the Building Industry ( NJCBI ) in the national working rules . |
| 11 | The British attitude had long been clear : the 1951 Conservative government had continued to follow the line laid down by the previous Labour foreign minister , Ernest Bevin , who said in the House of Commons in November 1950 that Britain preferred an expansion of the Treaty of Brussels to serve as the basis of military cooperation within NATO , but would not object to the EDC were it to be established . |
| 12 | It will not , however , come into effect until 1 July 1994 , eighteen months after the deadline laid down by the Single European Act . |
| 13 | The main forces that work against trade union interest , according to Beaumont , are the difficulties experienced by unions in using the favourable industrial relations procedures laid down by the last Labour Government ; moves in the public sector that have made trade union organization difficult , and , in the case of GCHO , unlawful ; and the Conservative Government 's continuing drive against the closed shop . |
| 14 | As she taxied in to the small civilian terminal , Adam watched the three fighter planes ease their pointed noses skyward and climb at over thirty thousand feet a minute . |
| 15 | A gentle stroll through the gardens led down to the beautiful long , wide beach . |
| 16 | Allowing herself a moment of pity , Theodora gazed down at the vulnerable sleeping figure . |
| 17 | Her tattered shirt and ancient denims in no way detracted from her tall decorum as she gazed down upon the squat clerical figure . |
| 18 | They meandered along under the old overhanging house fronts and Jack had to duck his head to avoid cracking it on a lamp in an iron cage . |
| 19 | A Democrat , unlike his famous cousin , the Republican ex-President Theodore Roosevelt , Franklin moved on to the national political scene as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in Woodrow Wilson 's administration in 1913 . |
| 20 | They left me and moved on to the little Jewish family . |
| 21 | The Caribbean lapped on to the deserted palm-fringed beach just beyond . |
| 22 | The trial ground on through the long hot summer in Pretoria . |
| 23 | I told the stationer I 'd be back for my parcel , and wandered on through the cold sunny streets . |
| 24 | The favourite still seemed to be going well enough , however , and the adoring masses were not particularly worried as the leading group — Ten of Spades and Desert Orchid , with Toby Tobias and Norton 's Coin close behind — thundered down towards the third last fence . |
| 25 | Jonathan gaped down at the neat little hole in his chest . |
| 26 | Dot peered in through the tiny curtained windows of the dolls ' house and saw quiet furnished rooms , the playroom , kitchen , parlour , waiting to be lived in , a table set for tea , beds to be slept in , armchairs to be sat on . |
| 27 | Ella and Linda bounced in through the open front door . |
| 28 | Outside , the sun beat down on the red baked earth of Provence , but the summer salon was cool . |
| 29 | It all started when Sharon moved in to the flat next door to Tony and asked to borrow some coffee . |
| 30 | The police moved in as the three loaded part of a haul of 200 kilos of hashish into a warehouse near Madrid . |