Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government 's plans effectively met the demands of the African National Congress ( ANC ) and other opposition groups for a transitional constitution to be devised by a constituent assembly chosen on a representative basis . |
| 2 | The Australian Board eventually withdrew the stigma of ‘ unsportsmanlike ’ and the tour continued . |
| 3 | Melanie nervously clattered the animals back into the box . |
| 4 | In other words , the information as experienced by the user rarely took the forms in which it was held in the memories of the system or network . |
| 5 | If the West eventually gave the world the Enlightenment , it was Greeks who had provided much of the light . |
| 6 | The Tenant paying the rent hereby reserved and performing and observing the covenants on the Tenant 's part herein contained the Landlord hereby covenants with the Tenant as follows : |
| 7 | When I took over , it was evident that the need for new roads vastly outstripped the likely supply . |
| 8 | If contestants successfully remembered the prizes they won them . |
| 9 | But the peasant plaintiffs in the Mitry case presumably made the journey to Compiègne believing they might win . |
| 10 | The demands of the barren Breckland effectively squeezed the more affluent sort of peasant out of Lackford hundred , where nine out of ten taxpayers were worth less than £5 , and with scarcely anybody in the £5-£19 range , it was almost entirely peopled by big farmers and swarms of poor labourers . |
| 11 | Willie picked up a soft brown-paper package and with trembling fingers slowly untied the string . |
| 12 | Such questions are worth distinguishing , however , because there are moral philosophers today who think that Kant effectively answered the third correctly , but that he offers no sufficient answer to the second . |
| 13 | Have new television channels , satellite cable etc. made the film critic redundant and fit for an academic existence only ? |
| 14 | By their greater numbers in this sector — seven divisions to half that number of German — the Russians slowly drove the German centre back . |
| 15 | The provision of floating timber fenders in the Entrance Lock effectively reduced the width to 31.6 metres but gave added protection to ships using the facility . |
| 16 | Both houses of Germany 's parliament overwhelmingly approved the treaty last December . |
| 17 | Soviet relations with Tehran , apart from the general benevolence with which Moscow instinctively viewed the revolution , were more complex . |
| 18 | Guildford duly collected the crown with a 12–6 win on the Isle of Wight , but Chelmsford coach Brad Doshan believes the final placings could actually work out in his team 's favour . |
| 19 | The framework slowly stretched the fabric apart . |
| 20 | A steady burning sensation gnawed at the Doctor 's joints as the steam yacht slowly churned the water . |
| 21 | ‘ The girls can do the cleaning , ’ she told Mrs Dyson , and Anne and Sarah rarely left the shop before eight o'clock at night . |
| 22 | And so it was , in 1950 , that Edouard effectively became the baron de Chavigny . |
| 23 | We happen to know from the historian Livy that a city called Morgantina was settled by the Romans with a group of Spaniards who were fighting on their side in Sicily , after they had captured it from the Carthaginians in 211BC , and the coins thereby enabled the site to be identified as that of Morgantina . |
| 24 | Sydney Newman duly filled the hole by granting Doctor Who an extra episode to replace the one lost . |
| 25 | DEC perhaps captured the expectation best : ‘ Do you think he could buy himself a plane ticket and go on a personal tour of all of us — IBM , Hewlett-Packard , Sun Microsystems Inc , DEC — and bring us together in kind of an Open Software Foundation II with all of the chief executives on the same dais saying the past is behind us ? ’ |
| 26 | But Kelly only completed the seventh three-timer of his career after a battle with Gavin Peacock , Newcastle 's regular penalty-taker . |
| 27 | She should try to forget him , but the memory of their afternoon together had the power to make her cheeks rosy , and so they stayed while she put on the plainest gown which she could find in the wardrobe which she had left behind , with her personal maid , when she had pretended to go with the Parslows . |
| 28 | Morley 's hypothesis obviously worried the anti-drug establishment . |
| 29 | He was merely quoting his old textbook from the Ecole de Viticulture et d'Oenologie at Avize which examines the practices of Champagne in the 1940s ; no doubt , the breakdown of cuvée and taille merely indicated the number of press operations it took , in less sophisticated times , to squeeze out these two parts of extraction . |
| 30 | The street below was in darkness but the houses opposite caught the moon 's light in their tiles and curtained windows and their shine cast it back upon his troubled face . |