Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [vb past] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The overemphasis on nuclear weapons and missiles at the expense of conventional forces was seen by many observers , both military and civilian , to have gone too far , too fast , and too soon ; but the political prize of ending National Service had been seized and that was all that mattered to the Macmillan Government in 1957 . |
| 2 | Lastly , all that Louis IX abandoned in favour of Henry III — his fiefs and domains in Limousin , Quercy , and Périgord ( the so-called ‘ three dioceses ’ ) and all that remained to the Plantagenets of the ancient duchy of Aquitaine — was to be held by the king of England as an hereditary fief . |
| 3 | Seconds later this was all that remained of the Fiat Tempra ; its body work smashed after rolling repeatedly and hitting a lamp-post . |
| 4 | Across the gill a rusting compressed air chamber and a few ruined walls were all that remained of the Sir Francis Level , one of the last and most mechanised mines driven in the dale . |
| 5 | Newman was overwhelmed by the latter and wrote in The Sunday Times : ‘ Strictly speaking no art is translatable into another , not even poetry into music . |