Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [vb past] the " in BNC.

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1 The main hills were in the south , where Saxony included the outriders of the Hartz mountains .
2 The gist of it was summed up in the formula cuius regio , eius religio which meant that each king or prince had the right to choose the religion of his subjects .
3 Artaria & Co published the six ‘ Haydn ’ quartets , of which the last three were K.458 in B flat , known as the ‘ Hunt ’ because of its ‘ hunting-style finale ; K.464 in A , and K.465 in C , the remarkable ‘ Dissonance ’ Quartet , so-called because of its intensely chromatic slow introduction .
4 Cassell & Co published the book .
5 Its auditor , Arthur Andersen & Co informed the company that it is withdrawing its audit reports dated August 19 on the company 's financial statements included in the 10K , Sequoia added .
6 The boot-and-brushing room , where Twomey did the hunting clothes and Dada 's clothes and boots and shoes ; a lesser room for lamps and other people 's boots and shoes .
7 The old order changeth , and how — back at the end of the 1970s , Ted Dexter and Honeywell Information Systems Ltd got together to propose to the British Broadcasting Corporation that television coverage of cricket could be enhanced with a little judicious computer intervention and the age of computer-aided sports broadcasting was born : for a decade and more a Level 6 minicomputer or successor followed the cameras and trundled around the cricket grounds of England and Wales in the back of a truck as Honeywell and successor company Bull HN Information Systems Ltd maintained the tradition — but with the first one-day match of the current series against Australia at Old Trafford yesterday , what was the legend at the bottom of the caption but ‘ Intel processing ’ .
8 S & N dropped the bid .
9 S & N bought the right to make and sell Nivea in Commonwealth countries for a minimal sum in 1950 .
10 For those who argue that the 1925 legislation represents a series of reforms in order to facilitate conveyancing the foundation of the legislation lies in s. 1 , Law of Property Act , where Parliament reduced the number of estates and interests capable of existing at law :
11 The danger of the approach is that it allows the courts to intervene even where Parliament intended the tribunal 's decision to be final .
12 There was a time when a racing driver 's wife or girlfriend clicked the stopwatch in between making the tea .
13 In the second session of the morning Gordon Burnett and Alan Robertson from O & M described the recent branch survey .
14 The recipient could also give evidence that she recognised the voice or tape recorded the offender .
15 Even where informants invoked the ‘ rule ’ of parallel cousin marriage it was mostly as a ‘ second order strategy ’ .
16 Boat-haling demanded enormous cooperative effort and trips down the river to London could take anything from nearly two to eight weeks when drought , flood , frost or wind made the going difficult or impossible .
17 The waiting room at the Moscow station where Newby caught the Trans-Siberian was like waiting-rooms in all communist countries , the ‘ preserve of the lumpen proletariat , the hoi polloi ’ , with not a member of the administrative or managerial class to be seen .
18 They walked back to the forest track where Corbett dismissed the porter .
19 In Johnson 's report , the education offered by the city takes precedence over any popular descriptions or concerns , beginning with an interest in the fact that Hector Boece or Boethius became the first President of the King 's College , in 1494 , at the instigation of Bishop William Elphinstone , effectively the founder of Aberdeen University — whose tomb may still be seen .
20 Where equity supplemented the common law , as by the recognition of uses and the grant of equitable remedies for the infringement of legal rights , it was not particularly repugnant to common lawyers because it did not countermand their authority .
21 Enough is known from archaeology to realise that in many cases chance finds of flint nodules or fragments provided the raw material for small tools .
22 The case went to the House of Lords , where Hill won the £1 damages for which he had asked , with costs .
23 Moreover , it should not be forgotten that in 1823 Moët & Chandon purchased the Abbey of Hautvillers , along with its vineyards , and they certainly ( to their credit ) can not be accused of allowing the legend of Dom Pérignon to die .
24 It hardly matters whether either of these stories is true , we know that cork was available , although not in France , and that Dom Pérignon did eventually use cork-stoppers for his wines , as corked bottles were dug up at Hautvillers when Moët & Chandon renovated the abbey in the late 1970s during its operations to turn it into a museum .
25 How MARSTON & LANGINGER created the perfect conservatory for this Norfolk rectory
26 Harpers & Queen met the maestro in his own home , a chic but highly individual apartment in the smart seizième district of Paris .
27 At the end of the match Comte Ghislain de Vogüé of Moët et Chandon , who had come over from France especially for the match and the luncheon that preceded it ; and Viscountess Marchwood , wife of the managing director of Moët et Chandon UK , presented the Moët et Chandon prizes , and Miss Liz Kershaw the publisher of Harpers & Queen presented the Harpers & Queen trophy .
28 ( It is presumed that either Galt or Gilkison named the River Irvine ) William had a mill and a general store built , sold off plots of land to settlers , and established a community which he named Elora after a sailing ship which his youngest brother , Captain John Gilkison of Irvine , had just had built for the trade with India .
29 Where poetry involved the distinction between ordinary and poetic language , and narrative that between what one might call literary form and its non-literary content , literary history as conceived by the Formalists entails a distinction between automatized and perceptible form within literature itself .
30 They had gone all over the place ; peeking into the Oval Office ( but the little rope was across , Hakim said ) ; stopping on the stairs to look at a picture called The Canine Cabinet , in which North pointed out a drowsing member and said it was Casey ; and into the Roosevelt Room , where North showed the young Iranian the Nobel Prize won by Theodore Roosevelt for negotiating peace between the Russians and the Japanese .
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