Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor will those investors and depositors who in the mid-1970s found themselves caught in a hurricane sweeping throught the secondary banking system after the collapse of Gerald Caplan 's London and County Securities . |
| 2 | Jesus himself was a teacher and His teaching ministry embraced the whole of the person and the whole of society . |
| 3 | The Hammers striker cursed the official after being called off-side seven minutes from time . |
| 4 | In 1939 , Dr Paul Kosok of Long Island University discovered the enigmatic straight tracks on the pampa near Nazca , Peru , and in 1978 the zoologist Tony Morrison reported on the old straight tracks to be found in the remote altiplano region of western Bolivia . |
| 5 | The team at Osmania University investigated the possibility that fingertip and palmar patterns may somehow act as genetic markers of susceptibility to duodenal ulcers . |
| 6 | from purchase ledger tied the knot to on a beautiful summers day on . |
| 7 | The defence counsel said the defendant had admitted losing his temper on finding out that the girl was under age . |
| 8 | Defence counsel said the assault was ‘ a crime of passion ’ , which had arisen out of McAteer 's ongoing marital difficulties and was ‘ not assisted in any way by the philandering of the injured party ’ . |
| 9 | Defence counsel said the girls ' mother had no knowledge of what had been happening . |
| 10 | The severe budget deficit caused the UNHCR to close 19 of its approximately 100 regional offices and to freeze up to 300 posts . |
| 11 | Financial difficulties caused by the fall in the oil price in the late 1980s and by the increasing budget deficit forced the government to turn for the first time to the international financial markets . |
| 12 | Yesterday however , David Goodson of Loughborough University offered the team of biologists , naturalists and conservationists a set of underwater transducers which he said should be able to produce the right effect . |
| 13 | Last year The Mary Whitehouse Experience became the first TV programme to be reported to the Broadcasting Standards Council after a derogatory sketch about Going For Gold star Henry Kelly was shown . |
| 14 | For the first time in Japan , Suri Giken Co displayed the Streams products from Mentat Inc , Los Angeles , with which Suri has just concluded a licensing agreement . |
| 15 | ‘ I see here , ’ he said , tapping the paper lightly with the pince-nez , ‘ G division poached the ordinary detective branch for recruits . ’ |
| 16 | The Fulham chairman ignored the no-smoking signs around him in the predominantly wooden stand and puffed at his pipe throughout . |
| 17 | In addition to the reconciliation during 1988 of members of the Forces populaires revolutionnaires tchadiennes , the Forces armees populaires , the Frolinat originel and the Forces armees occidentales , Goukouni Guet of the Forces armees populaires announced on May 1 , 1989 , in Lagos , Nigeria , that he would return to Ndjamena ; and Abdoulgassin Gamar of the Premiere armee volcan announced the dissolution of that group in August 1989 ( see p. 36519 ) . |
| 18 | The Nottingham Trent University seized the opportunity and became sponsors of WISE VI , which , after a major refurbishment programme , was launched at the Royal Festival Hall in London in November 1991 . |
| 19 | Calcium supplementation increased the intestinal concentrations of insoluble phosphate , which indicates formation of insoluble calcium phosphate . |
| 20 | The ground floor of the Times Building housed the Business Office ( Circulation , Want-Ads , Accounts and the private office of Mr Thomas Miller ) at the front ; behind it was the Composing Room with its rows of eight linotype machines along the north wall and the fonts of type and form-tables . |
| 21 | At a press conference on Aug. 3 , the HSP chairman accused the ruling party of rigging the elections , and of manipulating the national media . |
| 22 | It could be argued that when publication of address lists reaches this scale they are so unselective as to be innocuous ; the Swedish Data Inspection Board took the opposite view when it objected to the Readers Digest organisation compiling its own register of all adult Swedes ( roughly 9 million ) . |
| 23 | In 1981 , a programming on a powerful Cray computer became the Mississippi State Champion . |
| 24 | Although for Aristotle physics meant the study of motion and change in nature , the main emphasis was placed by him on the states between which change takes place rather than on the actual course of the motion itself . |
| 25 | Chief Justice William Rehnquist explained the Supreme Court ruling on the basis that , while the abduction might be " shocking " and might have violated international law , it was not prohibited either by the extradition treaty or by the US constitution . |
| 26 | The recent Autumn Statement from the National Heritage Ministry included the announcement that none of the proposed restoration options will be taken up , and that the monument will remain under wraps for the foreseeable future . |
| 27 | Any movements of base level set the sea to work at a different level and the processes of subaerial erosion to grade to the new level . |
| 28 | The moves made by some LEAs to develop a curriculum framework followed the publication of Local Authority Arrangements for the School Curriculum ( DES/Welsh Office , 1979 ) . |
| 29 | Food from Britain , the Meat and Livestock Commission , Milk Marketing Board and Express Foodservice sponsored the competition . |
| 30 | Commenting on Storage Technology Corp 's proposed acquisition of Amperif Corp ( see front ) EMC Corp chairman said the development , and IBM Corp 's new storage products pose no threat to his company : ‘ We 're two years ahead of everybody , ’ Egan told Reuter in a telephone interview from his Hopkinton , Massachusetts headquarters ; he said that EMC has shipped 2,000 of its disk array storage devices over the past two years — and the Amperif deal means ‘ one fewer competitor . ’ |