Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [vb past] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not clear what view of the section the court would take in a case in which there was a clash between shareholder and employee interests , and there was evidence that the board had favoured the latter . |
| 2 | During the preceding years the hairpin had perforated the inner end of the vagina and eventually turned through 180° . |
| 3 | ‘ It would have been a different story if the brewery had done the earlier repairs . ’ |
| 4 | The case had made the front page ; eight column inches in the bottom right-hand corner : |
| 5 | The coin had found the central stem of the bolt , the rust shell was dispersed . |
| 6 | The largest thunderclap of the storm had followed the Prime Minister 's words ‘ Right , gentlemen , this means war ’ , and the subsequent flash of lightning , it was remembered later , had lit up the entire room , despite the blackout curtains . |
| 7 | By the time Johnstone was helped ashore , the manager Willie Ormond had been alerted and the story had taken the first few faltering steps into football mythology . |
| 8 | The driver had seen the green flag and had opened the regulator to ease forward , yelling at Albert to come on . |
| 9 | Those traders were relieved yesterday to see the Bundesbank had held the 8.25 per cent rate unchanged . |
| 10 | The nervous tension of the build-up to the wedding had left the royal couple absolutely drained . |
| 11 | In many ways , the tragedy had brought the three of them closer together . |
| 12 | The former seems to have written most of his Norman ducal history , the Gesta Normannorum Ducum , in the 1050s after Edward the Confessor had promised the English throne to Duke William in 1051 – 2 , and this is doubtless why he describes Anglo-Norman relations under Æthelred and Cnut , and comments on Edward 's exile in Normandy . |
| 13 | Furthermore , William of Jumièges was probably writing in the 1050s , after Edward the Confessor had promised the English throne to Robert 's son William , and it was fairly clearly this which led him to repeat Dudo of St Quentin 's story of the English king who entered into a pact with the Normans and later received Rollo 's assistance against rebels , to include accounts of Anglo-Norman relations in the days of Æthelred and Cnut , and to end his description of Cnut 's conquest of England and marriage to Emma by stating that he had wished to explain King Edward 's origins to those who were ignorant of them . |
| 14 | The heavily wooded area was criss-crossed with tracks , some leading to farm buildings , others leading to a barn in a clearing of corn , the whole scene , particularly at night , required vigilance as the enemy had mined the well-worn tracks . |
| 15 | The spinning streamers of fog trawled for sunlight that would n't be here for a while , and the snow had piled the purest of pillows at the foot of an ice-cliff . |
| 16 | The president had silenced the vociferous strike-leader by bringing him on to the ruling body . |
| 17 | But the fighting had left the British and French armies even weaker . |
| 18 | So , at the beginning of October , Susan saw a trichologist ( hair specialist ) , who said the salon had used the wrong chemicals . |
| 19 | When the car had left the front door and they had promised to behave , Michael was sent to check on Mrs Murphy , up to her sleeves in the sink . |
| 20 | The all-Ireland Catholic Primate , Dr Cahal Daly , said the shooting had shamed the national celebrations . |
| 21 | In Havering London Borough v. Stevenson ( 1970 D.C. ) the question was whether the defendant had applied the false trade description ‘ in the course of a trade or business . ’ |
| 22 | The trial judge directed the jury if at the time he collected the coins the defendant had formed the dishonest intention of keeping them for himself he was guilty of theft . |
| 23 | ( 2 ) That the court 's discretionary jurisdiction to stay criminal proceedings should be exercised very sparingly and only in exceptional circumstances ; that , while the longer the delay was the greater was the likelihood that the prosecution was at fault and that the defendant had suffered prejudice and the less the prosecution could explain the delay the easier it would be to infer fault , the question whether the defendant had discharged the heavy burden of demonstrating that it would be an abuse of the process of the court for the proceedings to continue , was to be considered in the light of all the circumstances without applying shifting burdens of proof ; and that , accordingly , since the district judge had correctly taken into account all the relevant factors , and had made no error as to the burden of proof , there were no grounds on which the High Court judge could have reversed the district judge 's decision not to grant a perpetual stay of the 1989 prosecution ( post , pp. 261B , 264E–F , G–H , 265A–B ) . |
| 24 | Political unrest and opposition-organized strikes in April had been provoked by economic hardship , for which the opposition had blamed the Nepali Congress Party . |
| 25 | Again no smell except for chrism where the priest had anointed the dead man . |
| 26 | The SLA had accused the other main guerrilla group , the Tucayana Amazonicas led by Thomas Sabajo , of furthering its own ambitions by accepting guns and ammunition from the army . |
| 27 | It was widely agreed that the episode had damaged the public image of Congress and had discredited the confirmation process . |
| 28 | Latterly , they have been reduced to boasting of the spectacles they organize — the Highland Games ( in Scotland in the summer ) , the Oxbridge boat race on the Thames and the horse raced called the Grand National , which should have taken place last Saturday . |
| 29 | The plan had led the nine trade union federations to call a general strike on Aug. 13-14 . |
| 30 | The Princess had spent the previous day reading Love and Pain , Sandra 's book on violent relationships , and was able to speak with some understanding about domestic violence . |