Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , if you put it that way … ’ the porter said with a nervous chuckle . |
| 2 | ‘ I shall be with His Grace anon , ’ the prince replied on a small note of displeasure , before again turning to Joan . |
| 3 | When the Prince moved to a small lodge on the edge of the Steine in the 1780s fashion followed , and Brighton over the next fifty years provided perhaps the ultimate example of the marked contrast between attempts at a classical social order and a barely restrained chaos whose uneasy juxtaposition opened wider chasms in late Georgian society . |
| 4 | These intermediate times show very clearly that all modes apart from the cycle had periods of fast or slow movement , whereas the bike continued at a consistent pace . |
| 5 | The court heard one of the burglaries occurred at an old people 's home . |
| 6 | The Orient redisplayed in a great , gilded gallery |
| 7 | William 's attempt to achieve a pacification of the Highlands turned into a disastrous tragedy , when the dreadful massacre at Glencoe was carried out in February 1692 because MacDonald of Glencoe accidentally missed the deadline imposed by the government for swearing the oath of allegiance to William by five days . |
| 8 | The award came as a big surprise for Sam but an even bigger surprise for the Joe Borrows Agency who already had the Bradford-based singer booked at the Great Ayton Social Club on the night of the awards show . |
| 9 | The result was that the Seayak went for an unscheduled underwater swim round campsite bay . |
| 10 | For a second the shell lay with a smoking fuse amidst the wreckage of the wheel , then it crashed apart in a deafening explosion . |
| 11 | After we 'd finished with it , the heart lay on a stained bed of newspaper for the rest of the day , reduced to an unpromising dinner . |
| 12 | Stopes 's fundamental conception of the role of the clinics led to a heated political debate during the inter-war years as the issue was fought within political parties and in parliament . |
| 13 | As the afternoon drew to a close , Mildred crept downstairs and out into the darkening yard . |
| 14 | The motorspeeder came to a sudden halt . |
| 15 | In this case the money came from a single , wealthy shipowner who attended his chapel . |
| 16 | The prosecution claims the money came from an armed robbery by four masked men at a sub post office in Berkshire . |
| 17 | Again the try came from a concerted attack involving forwards and backs , Guscott and Brendan Mullin barely managing to squeeze the last two passes away . |
| 18 | Last week , the case came to a sudden end . |
| 19 | Deposits would be returned to the payee unless the case went to a full hearing and the party which had paid the deposit lost and had an order for costs made against them , in which case the deposit would be forfeit as part of the costs payable . |
| 20 | In his study of abolition , Williams was effectively challenging the views perpetrated by an august body of imperial historians and in so doing was bringing into question the ‘ moral legitimacy ’ of the British anti-slavery movement . |
| 21 | It had been discovered that the atom consisted of a small , positively charged nucleus surrounded by a cloud of negatively charged electrons . |
| 22 | Dawn broke as the field passed through a shuttered Bridgetown , and I began to pass through the field . |
| 23 | At Maastricht , the Germans argued for a common foreign policy for the European Community . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'll just bet it is , kid , ’ the clerk said with a fake smile . |
| 25 | When the rooftop vanished behind a yellow bluff of gorse , you followed your nose . |
| 26 | One of the birds flapped towards a tall , dead elm , whose limbs had been stripped by fierce winds until only two remained , like gnarled horns , rising from the top of the trunk . |
| 27 | The £11 million fetched by the Turner trumps the previous highest price for a work by British artist : in 1990 Constable 's The Lock went to a Swiss collector for £10.78 million . |
| 28 | In the continuing civil war a series of incidents reported on April 10 coincided with the presence of a delegation of Buddhist monks in the northern Tamil-held town of Jaffna , and effectively underlined the lack of prospects for a Buddhist government-backed " peace initiative " ( which the LTTE rejected after a further round of talks on April 24 ) . |
| 29 | He was then escorted to the dais , where the Chairman launched into a brief introduction . |
| 30 | The election coincided with a precipitous slide in the popularity of a Conservative government struggling with a severe balance of payments deficit . |