Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But while the views expressed in the current policy statement are still valid , such declarations , which have never been sufficient to deter censorship in libraries , are now patently inadequate , in spite of being updated to reflect perhaps the differing rationale for censorship .
2 But it hardly looked a bet as the Reds struggled in the first half in face of fluent football , much of which was inspired by Chelsea player manager Glenn Hoddle .
3 The Germans broke through the British line , but seemed unable , once again , to follow up their success , and were driven back by the last Allied reserves .
4 It is not quite the status of an accredited representative , but at least the door will not be shut in the face of any State which finds itself in the position that we and the Germans did in the early 1970s .
5 As the bikes bowled down the dark lane , so the circle of the sky seemed to wheel the other way .
6 The notes hovered in the still air as he played a lament then errupted into a dance rhythm .
7 Below , the prisoners sat at the far side of a rank of yellow-decked tables , with their little visitors — women , kids , the old — ranged opposite on kitchen chairs .
8 If " adornment " is to be identified in linguistic patterns which have no semantic utility , we can point to the alliterations clustered in the last few lines .
9 Mr Gummer said the proposals resulted from the agri-environment regulation agreed in last year 's Common Agricultural Policy reform package .
10 The Russians came among the Siberian peoples in the late sixteenth century from two directions , which subsequently became established as the main regular routes .
11 When we got on the plane , we appreciated the Chinese caution : it was a rather ancient Russian prop-driven machine , which must have been one of those the Russians bequeathed to the Chinese when they went home in the early 1960s , taking all their spare parts with them .
12 It was , as The Times observed in the following year , a sorry fact that there was ‘ a vague dread of a wholesome birching ’ and that nowadays ‘ the father of a scapegrace ’ no longer saw fit to ‘ save his son from the taint of gaol by loyally and soundly whipping him ’ .
13 The advice on bending the rules came from the then Defence Minister , Alan Clark .
14 While narrowing the old section 2 , the act is unlikely to give protection to a " whistleblower " who felt that the public should be told certain information as any defence depends on disclosure being considered to be in the public interest and that would still seem to mean " the interests of the state according to its recognised organs of government and the policies expounded by the particular government of the day " per McCowan I. in Ponting 's case .
15 The calls came as the British Medical Association in a new report stepped up its demands for a total ban on boxing .
16 The psychologists attempted to polarise various issues such as massed versus spaced learning , whole versus part learning and transfer of training which had some face validity in appearing to identify general principles , but in practice it always seemed that the generalities vanished into the enormous variety of specific issues .
17 On one island the macaques lived in the forested interior .
18 When the bailiffs broke into the second bedroom which was locked they discovered a pump action shotgun , sub-machine guns , pistols , German daggers and uniforms .
19 Two of the goals came in the last two minutes .
20 this match will go down in the records as a runaway victory for United but all the goals came in the last ten minutes …
21 The animals thrived in the rich grasslands , and by 1750 had become central to Nez Perce life .
22 Before I left Britain one of the best-kept secrets of the war had at last been revealed — the breaking by the Bletchley Park mathematicians of the ciphers encoded by the German Enigma machine : this priceless intelligence had enabled us to sink all the Bismarck 's supply ships , monitor the movements of Tirpitz so that attacks could be launched on her ( see page 144 ) and destroy many U-boats at the height of the Battle of the Atlantic .
23 Hoping to convince other pupils of the value of studying the language , the teenagers wrote to the famous and the not-so-famous to find out whether Latin lessons are any use in modern life .
24 It was from this starting-point that the structuralists arrived at the radical view that all meaning in every sphere of human activity consists of closed systems wholly independent of the material world .
25 The floodlights shone on the blotchy brown walls of the hangar , the filthy floor , the roof .
26 The rugs came from the antique department at Liberty in London . ’
27 Every balcony was full as the cars blasted around the 2 kilometre town centre circuit .
28 St. Clement Danes was an old-fashioned school which would have liked to have been more middle class than it was Unfortunately most of the kids came from the White City Estate which is about as working class as you can get
29 On the following 18 October , he was asked to consult with his staff colleagues and such other veterinarians as he might think fit , ‘ with regard to the terms upon which the funds bequeathed by the late Professor Coleman for the advancement of Veterinary Science can be best appropriated … ‘
30 A handful of the small nomenclatura of the Soviet cultural bureaucracy was gathering under the chandelier , the ladies in their beehive hairstyles and flowered frocks designed for slenderer frames , the gentlemen slimmed by the shiny French-tailored suits that signified access to the special clothing stores .
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