Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They demolished New Zealand 22–6 in the final for their third win in successive years and they effectively became the second underwater sevens champions since Australia in 1983 , the previous ‘ monsoon ’ tournament . |
| 2 | This process implies that forecasts effectively became the annual budgets . |
| 3 | In the second Test at Port-of-Spain , he duly became the third ‘ W ’ , Weekes and Walcott having already made their debuts , and scored 97 and 28 not out . |
| 4 | His rebuke to the Congress , that " if this leadership is to succeed , it must have the men it wants " , effectively made the second vote on Yanayev a vote of confidence in Gorbachev , and Yanayev was then elected by 1,237 votes to 563 . |
| 5 | Virgin duly made the appropriate rerelease but nothing happened . |
| 6 | Secondly , they gave a deterrent theory : the massive support which a man could call on deterred the would-be criminal ( unless his offence was unwitting ) . |
| 7 | ‘ Did you order the bourbon and water , sir ? ’ she politely asked the empty high-backed chair in the living-room . |
| 8 | After moving to Willesden in north-west London he became the scourge of local boxers and eventually became the first black man to hold a British title when , in 1907 , he beat Curly Watson in the fourth of a scheduled twenty rounds to take the welterweight championship at the ‘ Wonderland ’ venue in the East End of London . |
| 9 | Only after he had set to work , at Halley 's urging , on the tract that eventually became the first book of the Principia did Newton abandon vortices and envisage attractive — and repulsive — forces in central bodies . |
| 10 | The school later moved to Gower St , was granted a royal patent , and eventually became the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art . |
| 11 | Despite 300 years of conflict , the Merovingian kings and their Mayors ( who eventually became the Frankish kings in their own right ) had found it impossible to subdue the Saxons on any permanent basis . |
| 12 | It takes us into their homes , gives space for their voices ; and Townsend powerfully attacked the widespread myth that the family was no longer providing most of them with social support or practical help . |
| 13 | Hooker Phil Kearns , at only 24 , is undoubtedly going to be around for many years to come and successfully led the Australian under-21 team to victory over New Zealand under 21 's four years ago . |
| 14 | He duly produced the first work on natural history to use this new technique , Zoological Illustrations ( 6 volumes , 1820–33 ) and at the same time , Exotic Conchology ( 1821–2 ) . |
| 15 | I suppose I was defending a monarchy that had in the past seen some unsuitable sovereigns , while he somewhat deftly applied the same argument to unsatisfactory prime ministers . |
| 16 | Just being in the arms of this unique person , whom SHe 'd never been absolutely sure SHe could hook , effectively wiped the unpleasant memory from hir mind for the night . |
| 17 | It set the tone of the renewed debate which in the coming decade was to divide Western Europe even further , at the same time as setting in motion a groundswell that eventually produced the European Community . |
| 18 | Backbenchers mostly made the same points that they had made over a year earlier . |
| 19 | They were too eager for his hands , too ready to leap into a fierce throbbing as he groaned harshly in his throat with pleasure and delicately manipulated the rosy tips with his finger and thumb . |
| 20 | He then went on to describe the very considerable commercial and economic disadvantages experienced by peripheral industrial countries compared with the enormous advantages enjoyed by the privileged centrally placed Golden Triangle countries and called to question the entire concept of a European budget which incredibly penalised the poorer peripheral countries instead of applying the penalty the other way round . |
| 21 | ‘ Direct mail ’ ( often known as ‘ junk mail ’ ) , on the other hand , even though it came through the letter-box dressed up as a personal letter and not as a newspaper , arguably met the mass medium definition of reaching large numbers of people quickly and simultaneously . |
| 22 | Not only one but both his elder sons did so , and thereby became the first Jewish officers to be commissioned . |
| 23 | Carol Moseley Braun won in Illinois and thereby became the first black woman , and only the second black person , to serve in the Senate . |
| 24 | They soon progressed from Christmas to holidays … travel … world events … and then to food , as they laughingly divided the two plump triangles of cake and argued as to which was the nicer . |
| 25 | Trams and buses henceforward shared the same Body and Paint shops , while a new Fitting shop was created in an adjacent building fronting on to the Coliseum . |
| 26 | Viscous liquid oozed out like an alien blob and slowly enveloped the dented car . |
| 27 | Innocent did not associate Philip with the murder , but relentlessly sought the true murderers who were finally brought to justice in Rome in April 1203 and sent to the Holy Land . |
| 28 | The past approach — for instance , where they analysed statistics in terms of travel-to-work areas and lumped West Belfast and its massive levels of unemployment in with other areas and thereby diluted the whole thing down to 12 or 13% in the Belfast travel-to-work area which extended from Larne to Downpatrick — was n't helpful . |
| 29 | While Pius XII 's encyclical Mystici Corporis brought back the concept of the Church as the body of Christ to the centre of Catholic teaching , it most remarkably avoided the slightest reference in this to the relationship between the Eucharistic body and the ecclesial body , and omitted the slightest notice of the basic Pauline text for that relationship , 1 Corinthians 10.17 . |
| 30 | IBM Corp also duly announced the 2.1 release of OS/2 yesterday , describing it as an enhanced OS/2 32-bit operating system with support for Windows 3.1 applications , a new 32-bit graphics engine , 256-colour XGA and Super Video Graphics Adaptor device drivers , support for high-speed printers and some CD-ROM drives . |