Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ This is him , Fagin , ’ the Dodger said to the old man . |
2 | They watched with detachment , and even with satisfaction , as the Masai began at the eleventh hour to organize themselves to resist what they feared would be the encroachment of agricultural peoples on their land , not as traditional appendages of the Masai way of life , but as conquerors armed with all the power of the modern state . |
3 | The Masai moved from the great river of the north , freely interpreted as the Nile , says the professor in a note , down towards their present location . |
4 | ‘ One ’ was a word of the Chelsea set for the first person singular , and one might perhaps venture the thought of a pun in the words of the inscription . |
5 | ( 1988 b ) support this interpretation by demonstrating that the VS pre-exposure treatment will produce perfectly good latent inhibition when the CS used in the conditioning phase is itself vinegar followed by sucrose , an arrangement that should ensure that the same representation of vinegar is activated on both occasions . |
6 | George Duddy of the UUP ran in the Rural ward and his place in Waterside has been taken by party leader John Adams . |
7 | From the airport the Sadats and the Pahlavis drove to the Oberoi Hotel , which is secluded in a man-made island in the Nile . |
8 | Thus it is argued that , in order to provide protection for the UK car industry , the VER negotiated with the Japanese to limit car imports into the UK should be tightened and the Japanese should certainly not be allowed to establish production facilities in Britain , whereby the VER might be avoided . |
9 | The Summerchilds lived in the third one along , with the peeling woodwork and the neglected grey rendering . |
10 | The Volvo hissed along the dark road ; a couple of cars went past , holes of white light in the night , scattering spray which the water jets and wipers of the Volvo swept away again . |
11 | As his principal example ( to which the effacement of the jongleur persona could be added ) he noted the removal of deliberate and witty echoes of the characteristic diction of the Breton lay from the French version of Le Chevalier qui fist parler les cons : the fairy lande disappears in the Anglo-Norman version , the magic don , " gift " , becomes a mundane guerdon , " reward " , and the fées , " fairies " , become desmoisselles . |
12 | The PPD merged with the small Party for New Democratic Alliance in April , and became the New Democratic Party [ see p. 38147 ] . |
13 | At least that was the diagnosis that the MO gave in the listless heat of the monsoon . |
14 | ‘ Mani manent cum nostris semper in aeternum , Primarche ! ’ the Reclusiarch chanted in the hieratic religious tongue , which his listeners only comprehended to be a blend of sacred plainsong and occult invocation . |
15 | The LEAs created by the 1944 Act could set up new schools themselves ; these are called county schools . |
16 | On the other hand , economic interdependence was great — the Ukraine depended upon the Russian market , and Russia depended upon Ukrainian raw materials ( especially grain , but also coal and iron ) and manufactured goods . |
17 | The oil ministers of Iraq , Saudi Arabia , Kuwait , Qatar and the UAE met in the Saudi city of Jeddah on July 10-11 and an agreement was reached on curbing over-production . |
18 | In elections to the National Assembly on April 26 [ see p. 36019 ] , the DJP emerged as the largest single party but failed to retain an overall majority for the first time since its formation in 1981 . |
19 | In elections to the National Assembly on April 26 , 1988 , the DJP emerged as the largest single party but failed to retain an overall majority for the first time since its formation in 1981 [ see pp. 36019-22 ] . |
20 | The CNAA knew from the first meeting of its sub-committee to discuss courses in education , in July 1965 , that the DES was moving towards a policy of teacher education in some technical colleges , and that the DES thought it reasonable that they should come to the CNAA for validation . |
21 | In addition to the 15 years of dialogue with the CNAA recorded above the Modular Course has been required to negotiate with a series of professional bodies about the appropriateness for professional recognition of study on various of its fields . |
22 | The quiescence of the Jurassic culminated in the widespread Tithonian limestones of southern Europe . |
23 | If you decide to do this , Azhag is the Warlord of your army and therefore replaces the Warlord described in the main army list . |
24 | If you decide to do this , Grom is the Warlord of your army and therefore replaces the Warlord described in the main army list . |
25 | This was the procedure the CDP adopted in the 1970s and it will be repeated here . |
26 | He argued that the NHS suffered from the following : |
27 | A two-year full-time professional training course leading to the degree of Master of Social Work and the Dip.SW awarded by the Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work . |
28 | It belonged to my grandfather , but he lost it when the Creditanstalt crashed in the twenties . |
29 | The CEGB dealt with the early complaints by talking-down the problem and querying the evidence . |
30 | ‘ The Rosenblooms came from the opposite end of Eastern Europe . |