Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when the portents continued to gather that autumn , and ruling the kingdom grew further and further from the planned exercise it had been and more like taking a fleet out in freakish , untoward weather , there was a change in Thorfinn as well : the extra swiftness , the finer edge , the sharper zest created by danger . |
| 2 | The clubs had experienced this violence since the early sixties . |
| 3 | The Scouts had hellfired crowded transport sledges that slid at speed down glossy oiled vitrodur channels , diving from transit stations , canting along branch-lines , corkscrewing , swooping up to come to rest at other destinations … |
| 4 | The Scouts had skragged many gaiety pods . |
| 5 | On the following day , however , both Soviet and Japanese diplomatic sources denied that the discussions had included any degree of Soviet acceptance of Japan 's claim on the territory . |
| 6 | This gave a measure of protection since the Pharaohs wanted to preserve some animals to hunt . |
| 7 | By 08.00 , fighting with great bravery , the Canadians had taken both villages for the loss of 2,238 men . |
| 8 | The deregulation effort eventually petered out , but the Reaganites continued to use administrative discretion in their efforts to lighten the burden of regulation on industry and business . |
| 9 | The defenders decided to place several artillery places on the river-banks to overlook the road down which the enemy would have to attack in order to get across the liver to lay siege to their objective . |
| 10 | The police began giving higher priority to investigating attacks on foreigners , and the courts began to impose harsher sentences ; the prison term of two years and eight months imposed on Dec. 9 on a prominent neo-Nazi leader in eastern Germany , Thomas Dienel , was the longest sentence imposed thus far for the offence of inciting racial hatred . |
| 11 | Verbal abuse was traditionally a crime among the Sinhalese , but the courts stopped trying this offence in the 1820s in the Low Country and a decade later in Kandyan districts . |
| 12 | Elementary description had a natural place particularly where " errors of description " had been excepted and the courts tended to discover some measure of description by which the goods had been sold ( see for example Taylor v Bullen ( 1850 ) 5 Ex 779 ) . |
| 13 | If the courts did give this construction to the term law they would be applying a very different thesis from that originally conceived by Gould . |
| 14 | Between Armentieres and the North Sea the Germans had massed 402 battalions , against which the Allies had only 267 . |
| 15 | However , the Germans had foreseen that possibility and they quickly extended their occupation of Italy . |
| 16 | In addition the Germans had listed many Croats in the Wehrmacht as members of three so-called German-Croat divisions . |
| 17 | I had heard stories about a failed invasion attempt in 1940 , but a Russian NCO insisted that the Germans had planned some sort of operation against Churchill in a remote part of Norfolk in the autumn of 1943 . |
| 18 | For this latest effort , the greatest since February 21st , the Germans had expended seventeen trainloads of ammunition and many thousands more men . |
| 19 | He added that the exports had ceased some time previously . |
| 20 | When we published our reports on country houses at risk ( Tomorrow 's Ruins , Silent Mansions and Endangered Domains ) we found that within two years up to two-thirds of the houses had found new owners or new uses . |
| 21 | When the guardians proposed moving some families to Henfield , a few miles away , a fight broke out which could only be stopped by troops from Brighton . |
| 22 | Thereafter , although the Florentines continued to import English wool , they did not carry it in their own ships , and in the 1480s proposals were made for a wool staple at Pisa , with English ships having the monopoly of the carrying . |
| 23 | The Russians had undertaken little bombing during the war . |
| 24 | The Russians learnt to adapt this system to their climate as they adapted roof and dome pitches for the same reason . |
| 25 | Yet the times continued to breed strange bedfellows . |
| 26 | The times seemed to sanction important films that would be artistic and socially relevant but America was given films made by a self-made showman with artistic and intellectual pretensions and whose thinking was essentially homespun . |
| 27 | British Aerospace was amongst the features today when it lost 12 pence to four hundred and fif , five hundred and forty one pence on rumours that the Saudis had cancelled some Tornado options . |
| 28 | D. When ships became larger , the merchants had to have new docks for them . |
| 29 | Experts said that if the bombs had penetrated any part of the cigar-shaped cylinders they would have gone off like a rocket , smashing into nearby homes . |
| 30 | The hunt for those responsible for the bombs appeared to link criminal gangs in the city with an overseas mastermind . |