Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bridge was complete , the air blowers on each rig whined as the remaining air bags were inflated for additional buoyancy , and footwalk posts and ropes were installed . |
| 2 | Most social historians have tended to stick with Raymond Williams 's argument and have been reluctant to give up the notion that what was most lively and energetic in all that variety came from the working class . |
| 3 | Rain said , exasperated , that each route led to the same point and that meant back to the Tunisian . |
| 4 | ‘ There is no doubt , ’ Agrippa intervened silkily , ‘ that Ruthven died by the same hand and in the same way as Selkirk in the Tower . ’ |
| 5 | He 's always fore he 's forever contrasting er these these er centres in Highfields with his village halls and er small village halls and that and that 's very , the very truth , I 'd like to refer him and he knows as well as I do that what he should really be comparing with are the youth and community provision across the county which is an enormous amount in excess of the amount we put into old people 's homes and as Mr so rightly said , they 're problems were gon na have to grapple with in the future and so you then look at what has been suggested , what has been proposed and the point that Professor made about the Labour party having to make it work , is because it is they and everybody knows it 's they have been five membering this thing all the way through . |
| 6 | The 5-2 fav had drawn upsides The Vatman Cometh when that rival capsized at the final obstacle . |
| 7 | ‘ Nine players in that side appeared for the first team later . |
| 8 | For example , each side said about the other side : |
| 9 | This change came with the eighth in the Val Fajr series , launched in the south on 9 February in commemoration of the period seven years earlier when the Shah left and Khomeini returned from his sojourn in France . |
| 10 | Another male appeared over the ragged skyline . |
| 11 | Everyone got down very quickly as another shell exploded in the front garden of a cottage across the road . |
| 12 | This text appeared in The Sporting Chronicle on 4 June 1980 . |
| 13 | The impetus for this study came from the disastrous upsurge in the levels of these diseases , particularly gonorrhoea , which was increasing at 10 to 15 per cent . |
| 14 | An hour after the French Dragoon Sergeant and his horse had been broken and flensed by the canister another cavalryman rode into the bright midsummer sunshine . |
| 15 | This tragedy occurred in the last Grand Prix race on the old circuit and was won by James Hunt in a McLaren . |
| 16 | As Ramaphosa was beginning discussions with members of the National Peace Secretariat ( who had offered to act as intermediaries in talks with the Ciskei authorities ) , some marchers broke through the razor-wire border fencing and started moving towards Bisho . |
| 17 | Some jews went in the opposite direction by expropriating a territory in Palestine ( on the grounds of an historical occupation ) to substantiate their claim to being a nation . |
| 18 | I am well aware of the atrocities that some Croatians perpetrated during the second world war , and of the tensions between Serb and Croat that go back long before that , which left a legacy of hatred and fear . |
| 19 | This underthrusting began in the Early Miocene and contributed to the doubling of crustal thickness ( up to 80 km in places ) and the impressive subsequent uplift of the Higher Himalayas . |
| 20 | Another figure slipped down the other side . |
| 21 | Despite the complaints of Rousseau and many others , this practice continued into the 19th century . |
| 22 | Another Stapler lived in the tiny Buckinghamshire village of Hogshaw , but his assets , totalling £300 , were exceptional for a country district ; he ranked as a gentleman and was a justice of the peace . |
| 23 | Few writers deny that the bureaucracy is very influential , but most go on to suggest that this influence waned from the later 1960s as the Diet and the LDP cabinet took a more positive role . |
| 24 | Several officers set out when a car was stolen from Gloucester City centre when a pedestrian had his foot crushed by a police car , then another vehicle crashed into the stolen Rapier . |
| 25 | This Barth saw as the irreplaceable basis of Christian theology ; and , he insisted , once it had been recognised , there could be no possible reason for casting around in other directions , and certainly not for turning theology back into the contemplation of our own spiritual navels , or for blunting the challenge and promise of the gospel by seeking to reinterpret or ‘ improve ’ it in the terms of some alternative ( and therefore competing ) theological or philosophical frame of reference . |
| 26 | Being neurophysiologists rather than biochemists , the research group 's efforts to answer this question began with the electrical properties of the cells — that is , my sixth criterion . |
| 27 | For the most part the scribes who copied the Pentateuch were very careful , and it would seem that very few errors crept into the Hebrew text . |
| 28 | It was most probably of timber construction , and a building of this type continued until the Norman period . |
| 29 | This scene segued into the smoking wreckage of a fallen Warlord in Sagramoso City — now renamed Fidelis — up which an armoured Fist was climbing to plant a charred torn victory banner … |
| 30 | Table 6.3 shows how this sector grew during the 1960s and 1970s . |