Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However corporacy became strained when the acute unit wanted to apply for self-governing status . |
| 2 | Industrial relations became strained when the post office abolished a flexible shift system at the SWindon branch . |
| 3 | It seemed like only moments after Shiona had fallen asleep that the light snapped on in the compartment and a strong hand was dragging her from her bunk . |
| 4 | Suddenly he gave a frightened start , for he had nearly fallen asleep and the ground below seemed a long distance away . |
| 5 | Rangers nevertheless extended their lead over Aberdeen in the championship to ten points after a performance which had seemed destined to go unrewarded before the floodgates opened . |
| 6 | The scramble to partition Africa into colonies — made possible once the wide availability of quinine solved the problem of fever — typified this more militaristic phase of imperialism . |
| 7 | The power to negotiate , which is central to compliance systems , is one which exists by implication only but one made possible because the law is not made concrete or specific . |
| 8 | Bank lending and consumer credit remain depressed and the analysts are still hopefully waiting for today 's figures on retail sales in January to provide some conclusive evidence that demand is poised to recover . |
| 9 | Where at that date , any payment was accruing due , ie where payment in arrears was stipulated , the creditor may prove for the amount which would have fallen due if the debt had accrued from day to day ( r 6.112(2) ) . |
| 10 | Previously people were as likely to talk of a ‘ public broadcasting system ’ ; , but this became confusing when the distinctive US Tv network with that name was established , often using British programmes . |
| 11 | If patients are forced to go private because the local dentists opt out of the National Health Service , fees will triple . |
| 12 | If patients are forced to go private because the local dentists opt out of the National Health Service , fees will triple . |
| 13 | On those figures , neither the Liberal Democrats or any other single party would be able to sustain Labour or the Conservatives in office . |
| 14 | The majority of the workforces in the Middle East remain multinational and the vast labour forces of the Subcontinent and far East are readily available and accessible to companies operating in the Middle East . |
| 15 | After a brief , acid interval , the terms became right and the bargain was struck . |
| 16 | The stamps got intercepted but the watch |
| 17 | When it became possible that the assailants might be other children , the fiend could only be collectivised : an anti-society of the dispossessed , those beneath Christian morality whose drugged souls are already forfeit . |
| 18 | The glass canopy , dating from when the property was used as a garage , and the existing facade would remain intact but the building behind would be demolished and rebuilt . |
| 19 | Could that remain intact as the channel strives to keep advertisers happy ? |
| 20 | The 14th Army issued an ultimatum on April 2 that it would order troops to combat alert if the fighting in the area did not subside . |
| 21 | Worst of all was the four-year reign of terror when a female chimp , Passion , turned killer ; during this gruesome time only one infant survived Passion and her daughter 's cannibalistic attacks , until they both became pregnant and the deaths stopped . |
| 22 | Happily , I became pregnant and the hair disappeared . |
| 23 | At age 20 she became pregnant and the pregnancy was complicated by episodes of small and large bowel obstruction . |
| 24 | They then remain seated while the rest leave for the next trip . |
| 25 | The separate Norfolk Red and Suffolk Dun gradually became extinct and the Red Poll was East Anglia 's dominant breed for many years . |
| 26 | Jitters knew she was doing two people a favour , because Fat Juanita got depressed when the johnny-passing-throughs left her downstairs in the parlour with her knitting and gave all the custom to Gretchen , Connie Calzone , Margaret Running Deer and the Games Mistress . |
| 27 | ‘ But the smiles and the applause became prolonged when the familiar face stood up to acknowledge his reception like a conquering hero . |
| 28 | On 4 January 1576 , for instance , Francis Talbot told his father , the Earl of Shrewsbury , that ‘ the Council be all at the court ; they sit daily and the ambassadors [ of France ] come to them ’ . |
| 29 | More people became interested and the field expanded rapidly once the exact composition of the prostaglandins was known . |
| 30 | Mr Ashdown made clear that the Liberal Democrats would prefer to be ‘ locked together in a partnership ’ with a minority government . |