Example sentences of "[vb past] the [adj] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the importance of the positive aspects in Roosevelt 's relationship with Churchill , he regarded the latter as a political anachronism once thoughts turned from the defeat of the Axis to the world of the future . |
| 2 | Mansell received the fine and a one-race ban , which FISA applied to the Spanish Grand Prix , after he illegally reversed his Ferrari in the pits and failed to stop at a black disqualification flag , waved three times during the race in Estoril on 24 September . |
| 3 | DNA typing showed the same or a similar strain to be present in at least two family members in three of the four family groups . |
| 4 | Previously they treated the latter as a special topic , now it is integrated into the chapters on alcohols and arenes . |
| 5 | She sighed ecstatically as they reached the cliff-top and a warm breeze caught her hair and whirled it high above her head . |
| 6 | For example , in Greene 's ( 1970a ) experiment subjects were asked to sort pairs of statements according to whether the statements in a pair had the same or a different meaning . |