Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | February 24 , 1977 The solicitors successfully appealed to Kerr J. and the third party notice was restored . |
| 2 | The capture of the huge East India contract signalled Williams 's market success over the cartel , just as Sir Nicholas Bayly 's successor , the second Earl of Uxbridge ( later first Marquis of Anglesey , q.v. ) , decided to mine the mines originally discovered with Williams as managing partner , thus giving the lawyer management of all the Anglesey mines . |
| 3 | The Germans certainly knew about Bawdsey : in 1938 they sent a Luftwaffe general over in a Zeppelin to cruise the Suffolk coastline , snooping into the manor 's electronic secrets . |
| 4 | Through the Double Cross Committee , usually known as the XX Committee , these turned spies sent back to Germany a steady stream of fictitious information garnished with sufficient truth to give it credibility , which the Germans apparently accepted without question . |
| 5 | The authorities then appeared to back down , accepting the students ' own nominees . |
| 6 | One at least , abandoned in Madrid at the end of a mission , was immediately engaged by the representative of one of the states then leagued against Louis . |
| 7 | The Tans immediately began to prance around him , laughing and howling . |
| 8 | The branches above murmured in supplication and let through a sudden , spiralling shaft of light . |
| 9 | The curtains grew greyer , the window panes misty with grime , the doorstep and path were spattered with bird droppings , and the docks and nettles rioted in the borders once tended by Lucy 's brother and kept trim and shipshape with pinks , pansies and geums neatly confined within immaculate box hedges . |
| 10 | A few of the songs here appeared on Setzer 's ‘ The Knife Feels Like Justice ’ records , but this new LP is still probably worth checking out for the rumbling ‘ ( Do n't Sell My Daddy ) No More Whiskey ’ . |
| 11 | And given the extensive fear of denunciation for critical or defeatist comment , it is hardly surprising that negative remarks about the speeches rarely came to light . |
| 12 | A new entrance capable of allowing these larger ships into Imperial Dock was completed in September while the fitting out quay at Victoria Shipyard incorporating new gates on the slipways also came into use during the year . |
| 13 | ‘ Pole is important , even if the statistics show that no more than 50 per cent of the winners here started from pole in the last 10 years , ’ he said . |
| 14 | The sessions largely consisted of assurances from DEC of its continued commitment to the OSF/1 operating system on the MIPS line , in the face of surprisingly strong customer reaction to the news of DEC 's recent pronouncements that it would only offer OSF/1 for Alpha ( UX No 386 ) . |
| 15 | The younger men amongst the Jews often roared with laughter when the older men , the original immigrants , talked of some experience or incident , for the young bucks were first generation British and educated . |
| 16 | The youngsters also dug for dinosaurs during the RockWATCH event on Saltburn beach , Cleveland . |
| 17 | But if the lizards ever took to forest or crag life , the fringes would be a preadaptation to leaping and parachuting , and — perhaps — a nudge towards the evolution of gliding , independently of the modern flying lizard draco volans . |
| 18 | These three ingredients collectively formed the background in which natural hazards research crystallized , although as noted earlier the origins clearly arose in North America and particularly derived from the work of Gilbert White at the University of Chicago , later at the University of Colorado , and leader of the Commission on Man and Environment ( 1968- ) of the International Geographical Union . |
| 19 | So it was that the companies gradually came to terms with the increasing traffic and provided it with a further impetus . |
| 20 | The offences only came to light because of an attempt to inflate profits at Alexander Howden , which was discovered by the American company Alexander and Alexander after it bought the company . |
| 21 | The parents then appealed to Robert Bloet [ q.v. ] , bishop of Lincoln , who also declared in her favour . |
| 22 | That same year ( 1912 ) the Cubists also exhibited in Rouen at the Salon de Juin , and the movement was rapidly becoming known outside France as well . |
| 23 | We used to treat our coral cuts with iodine , unaware that the coral polyps which had entered the wounds normally thrived on iodine which they extracted from seawater — and were now extracting from our blood . |
| 24 | Now , these er , Samaritans , they received the Holy Spirit , now how do we know that the Samaritans actually spoke in tongues ? |
| 25 | The planes also flew over Syria , Saudi Arabia , Lebanon and Jordan . |
| 26 | In Re Peachdart ( 1983 Ch.D. ) the sellers of leather which the buyers then made into handbags could reserve title in the leather which they supplied but could not reserve title in the handbags which were newly created goods . |
| 27 | Really going for it , but the advances also led to weaknesses around his king and if the kingside files become open , then it is far from clear who benefits most , as the game shows . |
| 28 | The nostrils just looked like nostrils . |
| 29 | She argued , therefore , that since a good proportion of the non-words actually looked like words and could be pronounced without difficulty , the RVF superiority obtained with real words was related to their semantic aspect . |
| 30 | The first group consists of what is sometimes known as the exceptions to the rule nemo dat quod non habet whereby a bona fide purchaser of goods from A commits no conversion but actually obtains a good title to them even though the goods really belonged to B and B never intended to allow A to sell them . |