Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peace was alleged to have broken out in the civil war or scrum called the Labour Party , creationism was adjudged not acceptable in Little Rock , Arkansas , schools , the Advanced Passenger Train ran with no passengers aboard to prove how advanced it was in every way except actually working , and the Soviet mission to the UN sued New York for better protection . |
| 2 | The assumption that evolution solved the problem by showing that ‘ relationship ’ should be interpreted in a genetic sense oversimplifies the situation . |
| 3 | The Secretaries of State for the Environment and for Trade and Industry appointed the Advisory Committee on Business and the Environment in May . |
| 4 | He devised a special programme , teaching the girls a new song and dance called The Little Gypsies and this earned their usual encore . |
| 5 | In the Civil War Birmingham 's swords , pikes and armour equipped the parliamentarians , and the city 's fame spread . |
| 6 | Huw held out both hands , and Con unlaced the gloves expertly . |
| 7 | Marco Barbosa of the Sao Paulo Commission of Justice and Peace called the graveyard a " crime against human rights " . |
| 8 | If shape-perception required the application of high-level concepts , it would be implausible to say , for example , that a kingfisher can see the shape of a stickleback ( which I described earlier as ‘ a sort of narrow pointed ellipse with sharp projections on its upper surface ’ , and which we could describe in many other ways ) . |
| 9 | The unique features of the time and place structured the use of discretion . |
| 10 | As a further result women were subordinated sexually , because the change to patriliny and monogamy restricted the sexual freedom of the woman , in that it was essential for the man to know he was the father of her children . |
| 11 | I had eaten an orange and thrown the peel on the fire just as I lit it , and the smell of orange zest and smoke embittered the air while the peel lay , mock flame , amid the cold coals . |
| 12 | Moving on heels , fingertips and shoulder muscles , Rincewind wriggled sideways until foliage masked the oak and its occupants . |
| 13 | A nut and bolt fixed the handle shafts to the top section : the blade spanner incorporates a small spanner for the nut , so only a screwdriver was needed here . |
| 14 | The third series of P. G. Wodehouse 's immortal stories begins on ITV on Sunday March 29 , coinciding with the release of an album of incidental songs and music entitled The World of Jeeves and Wooster , performed by the stars themselves . |
| 15 | Around the corner from the flat was a roaring famous bar and house of fights and dope called the Nashville . |
| 16 | Comprehension and relief softened the hard set of Eddie 's features . |
| 17 | Brueghel , Michelangelo , Correggio , Rubens and Dali emblazoned the tale . |
| 18 | The times had called for a certain mood but it was the genius of American cinema that it could harness the talents of actors and actresses whose every word and gesture rooted the films in the society for which they had been produced . |
| 19 | A mixture of sorrow and jubilation punctuated the voices of those who addressed the crowds . |
| 20 | In the mid-fifteenth century , floods and silting doomed the old port of Pevensey ; and further along the coast , on Romney Marsh , a series of catastrophic storms culminating in 1287 obliterated the towns of Old Winchelsea and Broomhill . |
| 21 | Honeysuckle and lavender scented the air , espaliered coxes would , in time , delight the taste , a late flowering Variegata di Bologna crowded the eye with its opulence . |
| 22 | The symbiotic relationship between State and nobility limited the scope of state power and conditioned government policy . |
| 23 | Both emperor and pope protected the law students of Bologna from the avaricious citizens . |
| 24 | ‘ Tyrranopolis ’ was the period of moral decadence and a failure of governments , terminating in ‘ Nekropolis ’ where war , famine and disease racked the city . |
| 25 | In many other parts of the country , primary schools followed a curriculum in which formal activities in number and language occupied the bulk of children 's time in school . |
| 26 | Irises , poppies , caper and snapdragon coloured the verges below Judas and carob trees . |
| 27 | Other materials like ivory and bamboo achieved the same ends . |
| 28 | I fixed the brakes again while Faith prepared the flight-plan . |
| 29 | Landslides had claimed lives earlier ; chemicals used in leaching gold from earth threatened the health of the " garimpeiros " , while mercury contaminated the rivers . |
| 30 | Young and old sharing their lives the way they always had , before television shrunk the world … |