Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opportunity arose in the close season when the FA decided to form the Mid-Counties Combination . |
| 2 | Of the 40 members , nine were chiefs ; the remainder belonged to the old intelligentsia . |
| 3 | The remainder went to the Georgian Popular Front , other party blocs , and independents . |
| 4 | The remainder went to the Socialist Party ( four seats ) , the Party of Yugoslavs ( one ) and independents ( three ) ; one seat remained vacant . |
| 5 | Most of the reduction came from the limited move away from the smaller sets towards the more advanced 60MW and 100MW designs which was possible within the conservative framework . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , the complexity imparted by the faithful physicalist version should not blind us to the features that distinguish the causal processes in the bees ' brains or whatever from those involved in the swelling after the swipe . |
| 7 | The Prince galloped past the deserted Gemioncourt farm , through a bivouacked Dutch brigade , and did not rein in till he had passed the forward Dutch picquets and could see clear down the paved highway into the village of Frasnes . |
| 8 | The Prince cantered towards the Dutch-Belgian battalions on the right-hand side of the road . |
| 9 | By 1941 Spitfires arrived at Benson and the base became to the top secret photo reconnaissance unit . |
| 10 | The base cost of the qualifying investment can not be reduced to less than zero by the rolled-over chargeable gain . |
| 11 | But when they cast off Penry seemed reassuringly unconcerned , and sang under his breath as the Angharad headed for the turbulent stretch of sea separating Gullholm from the coast . |
| 12 | In Franklin 's draft , she had deduced that the phosphate groups of the backbone lay on the outside , and the bases on the inside , of the double helix ; and her notebooks show that she had already formed the notion of base interchangeability . |
| 13 | The front of the hurricane tore at the lower flanks of the mountains , rending great trees from the rain forest and tossing them aside as if they were little more than sticks . |
| 14 | The change began with the anguished division of the old Solidarity opposition into warring factions last year . |
| 15 | Following this last point it is significant that the birthrate tended throughout the nineteenth century to be highest in areas where employment opportunities for women were lowest , for it is likely that knowledge was more easily acquired by factory workers than by those in service or those who stayed at home . |
| 16 | The punishment for grave crimes should adequately reflect the revulsion felt by the great majority of citizens for them . |
| 17 | In the event , the award went to the veteran midday cowboy John Wayne for his performance in True Grit and/or for never having won an Oscar before . |
| 18 | Ironically , the award came in the same week that an article in Time Out magazine revealed an ongoing private dispute between Sellafield and the Central Electricity Generating Board ( CEGB ) about the efficiency and safety of reprocessing . |
| 19 | The creditor appealed to the High Court of Australia . |
| 20 | Tabitha watched in diminishing triumph and mounting dismay as the Perk fell through the smoky air and struck one of the huge statues directly on the head . |
| 21 | ‘ The blow fell with the merciless swiftness of all misfortune ’ it was someone else 's line , a client 's presumably . |
| 22 | The blow fell on the 7th Division and on Allenby 's cavalry , which connected Haig 's Corps with the 3rd Corps to its south . |
| 23 | The winner came in the 64th minute thanks to a combination of fine attacking play from Jason Soloman and inept defending by Boro . |
| 24 | ‘ Once the Springboks tired , the tide turned in the second half . |
| 25 | But the tide turned in the second game of the second set when Graf finally broke serve on her fourth break point . |
| 26 | The tide turned against the Labour government in its marginal defeat in 1951 because of what was seen to be its still strong commitment to state regulation and control and because of the new-found attractiveness of the free-market ideology offered by the Conservatives . |
| 27 | Strong opposition against the measure came from the Hindu communalist Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) and other Hindu groups . |
| 28 | We paid for tea , but the money went to the Red Cross . |
| 29 | Or was that where all the money went in the first place ? |
| 30 | Held , ( 1 ) refusing to join B. as a party , that , since B. claimed no personal interest in the money in court and it was not suggested that the money belonged to the ousted regime , her only locus standi would be as a person entitled to represent the Republic of Somalia ; but that , on the evidence , B. had no recognition as a representative of the Republic in the United Kingdom ( post , pp. 749H — 750B ) . |