Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stress applied to a migrating epidermal cell at right angles to its direction of movement ( tangential to the leading edge of its lamellipodium ) causes the lamellipodium to retract and brings about a reorganization of the cell 's actin into a cable oriented along the major axis of stress . |
| 2 | ‘ A runner came from the front trenches , down the communicating trench . |
| 3 | Then in 1958 a split opened in the ruling AFPFL . |
| 4 | Rumours of a split surfaced during the new album sessions , produced by Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth at Blue Wave Studios in Barbados earlier this year . |
| 5 | The mere wear-and-tear of the prolonged firing contributed to German losses ; after superhuman efforts , one of the monster 420s had been moved up to the Bois des Fosses in order to knock out Fort Souville , but on the third shot a shell exploded in the worn barrel , killing almost the entire crew . |
| 6 | A year and a half earlier , she had lost her previous camp home when a shell fired from the Israeli-armed Lebanese Christian enclave to the south hit the roof . |
| 7 | They fell victims , along with others , to the belief that if a building complied with the existing building regulations and Codes of Practice it must be deemed to be safe . |
| 8 | His opportunity to bring the two threads together as a writer came in the early 1980s through the radical London magazine City Limits — which also gave WCM regular Rob Steen his first break as a cricket-writer . |
| 9 | It required but a single coincidence , whereby an apparent answer to a prayer arrived at the appropriate time , to make him believe that his objects of supplication had powers beyond himself , and had brought him relief . |
| 10 | He adds that ‘ There is little doubt that here existed a town in the time of the Britons ’ and a settlement grew around the Druidic university which according to Peck was the ancient British city of Doorebriff , meaning ‘ sharp stream ’ . |
| 11 | He was also asleep when a gramophone blared from the open window of a flat in the block across the way . |
| 12 | A change came in the second half of the 1370s , when there was a sharp drop in prices at a time when wages continued to rise , and from 1377 until the middle of the 1390s the Phelps Brown index shows a markedly higher level of real wages . |
| 13 | A murmur ran around the unwilling audience . |
| 14 | Louisa had been skidding unsteadily about the ice for the best part of an hour when a carriage came round the rear drive of the Hall and , after a moment 's debate , Edwin Frere sprang down to give a helping hand to his well-muffled wife . |
| 15 | One day a figure appeared on the far shore . |
| 16 | His first book , the collection of stories entitled Goodbye , Columbus , fixed him in the popular mind , from 1959 , as an ‘ enemy of the Jews ’ — a condition aggravated by the onanistic bravura and scandalous mad success of the grotesquely imaginative Portnoy 's Complaint ( 1969 ) , and not much improved in recent years by The Counterlife ( 1987 ) , in which various escapes from Jewish America , including an escape to Israel , are projected , and in which Zuckerman and his dentist brother Henry are both imagined to have ailing hearts and to undertake gruesome surgery in order to restore the sexual potency suspended by their medication . |
| 17 | A light flashed on the ship-to-shore radio and he replaced his headset . |
| 18 | A hare appeared on the opposite verge , quivered for a second , then ran swiftly up the road only to leap sideways out of the path of the approaching French infantry . |
| 19 | A heron scraiked below the steep slabs of stone that chuted down into the sea . |
| 20 | Not a trace remained of the cold rage that had set his face like granite . |
| 21 | Ronni was still fizzing with indignation — how dared he make fun of her ? — when , sure enough , a car arrived at the front door , laden with dishes dovered in tin foil . |
| 22 | First , a rift grew between the royal council in England and those whose daily task it was to face the French in France . |
| 23 | But it was over a year before the enormous propaganda potential of such a formation dawned upon the reluctant French authorities . |
| 24 | A separation appeared for the first time between design and production . |
| 25 | A hound spoke at the far end of the wood . |
| 26 | A girl appeared from the next room . |
| 27 | A cartoon appeared in the 1910 edition of The Yearbook of the Ski Club of Great Britain with a paragraph as follows : |
| 28 | Re-immersion in the Ministry followed this prolonged servility , but a breakthrough came with the Fifties publication of An Asiatic Romance , a satirical fantasy explosively pointing up bureaucracy 's absurdity and irrelevance in a world reduced to violence and cannibalism . |
| 29 | A silhouette showed behind the net curtains , a silhouette aiming a pair of field glasses . |
| 30 | A cat lay outside the front door , one of its eyes protruding in a grotesque bubble with the iris leering darkly from its rim . |