Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was this that led to the first hints of how the theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity might affect each other — a glimpse of the shape of a quantum theory of gravity yet to come . |
| 2 | During the summer , when Sirius rises heliacally , only twelve of these divisions of the sky can be seen rising during the hours of darkness , and it was this that led to the twelve-hour division of the night . |
| 3 | Israel did not want Sinai as such but insisted on the military security of its southern borders . |
| 4 | Develop a system whereby you make sure every sound in every new word is being checked against these and added to the appropriate established list . |
| 5 | But all that changed at the next , as the loose horses stopped and swerved broadside to the take-off side of the fence . |
| 6 | Apart from Brooke , an obscure little house , all that survived of the medieval foundations of Rutland was the hospital , or almshouse , at Oakham , which only had goods worth 40s. : clearly its income of 20 marks only just sufficed to maintain the twelve poor inmates : Warden Gunby was no Septimus Harding . |
| 7 | The thirty-nine works Brooklyn acquired nineteen paintings , nine works on paper and three sculptures ; the Met gained seven oils and one work on paper are all that remained of the hundreds of works the Lowenthals purchased between 1943 and 1958 . |
| 8 | We soon came upon a fascinating group of ancient dwellings , all that remained of the old village where the last inhabitants of Rona lived in primitive conditions and awful isolation until their final evacuation in 1844 . |
| 9 | A few miles away , in three directions , lay the crescent islands of Verlaten , Lang Eiland and Rakata , which were all that remained of the original mother volcano 's metamorphosis . |
| 10 | In the centre of the carbonaceous ball I could discern a small whitish marble which seemed to be all that remained of the original vegetable . |
| 11 | To the east was a thin strip of coast , all that remained of the sweeping plains of Tiranoc . |
| 12 | All that remained on the barren expanse was a deafening silence . |
| 13 | Well they did a lot of them are actually country songs that were like Old Flames and and even the Black Sheep was was an American song which we you know and yes you know if you send them back to America , Old Flames for instance is often back on the American those that played on the Irish programme . |
| 14 | Many of the victims , of course , were badly burned after death by the fires that swept the town , but even those that died in the open showed severe burns on their bodies , even though in many cases their clothes were not even singed . |
| 15 | The press is far older in Africa than is generally supposed , the first newspapers probably being those that appeared during the Napoleonic occupation of Egypt in 1797 . |
| 16 | Those that evolved in the southern hemisphere , the marsupials , start to do this when their babies are very young indeed . |
| 17 | I am afraid he 's the laughing-stock of the court , despised by most and pitied by the few who listen to his constant pleas of innocence . |
| 18 | Men poured from both and raced through the cheering crowd , up the steps , to hammer at the door . |