Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If that bedroom painted the wall there . |
| 32 | It soon became disappointingly clear to the NVA that what had been conceived as a two-way process between voluntary bodies and the state , in practice placed the burden of day-to-day regulation on private initiatives . |
| 33 | Common Law treated the mortgagee as the owner of the land in case of the ordinary legal mortgage ; Equity treated the mortgagor as still being in a sense owner . |
| 34 | Our overall consumption of 26.6mpg is a fine result given the zest with which the 325i performs and its relatively short intermediate gearing , though the best return of 27.9mpg suggests that some feather-footed tactics are n't as effective as some might expect . |
| 35 | Whereas Muskie was convinced that industry could comply with this ‘ technology-forcing challenge ’ ( had not industry developed the technology to place a man on the moon following the challenge by President Kennedy ? ) — and the strong anti-pollution public opinion of 1970 added weight to this claim — counterclaims gained increasing attention during the 1970s . |
| 36 | Regrettably this has resulted in a number of job losses but there was no alternative given the length and depth of the recession . |
| 37 | In 1801 a British force occupied the island to safeguard the port as a vital revictualling point for the Navy . |
| 38 | The Protestant Prayer Books of 1552 and 1559 divested the parish clergy of their sacramental powers ; the new communion service bore no resemblance to the central , sacramental miracle of the mass , and the reformed baptismal ceremony omitted the exorcism and the anointing with chrism . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | The Bush administration deemed the bill " totally unacceptable " , and called for sterner punishment as the best antidote for gun crimes , notably an expansion of the death penalty to cover some 50 murder categories including drug-related killings and " drive-by " shootings . |
| 41 | Post-war lateral thinking solved the problem by abolishing the school , but the building survived that , too . |
| 42 | The river wind chilled the brightness of squares |
| 43 | The vendor 's agent disclosed the amount of an offer made by one potential purchaser to another . |
| 44 | Defeat followed by foreign rule paved the way for a new receptivity to foreign influences in general . |
| 45 | Though wind disturbed the tent , no one emerged . |
| 46 | There was complete silence and not even a breath of wind disturbed the peace . |
| 47 | If the namecode was entered then either the Personnel Data screen would be displayed , if only one employee matched the namecode , or a selection screen showing the name , department , date of joining and staff number of those employees with that particular namecode . |
| 48 | While Lee declared that Taiwan had not abandoned its " one-China policy " , his action paved the way for further significant progress in relations between Taiwan and the mainland [ see pp. 38146-47 ] . |
| 49 | In every case , dried blood caked the mesh cages and the thick iron bars which they used for the momentum of walking . |
| 50 | He had in those days of innocence seen the Edition as a finite task that would lead on to other things . |
| 51 | Blufton 's study matched the rest of the castle in its eclecticism — an enormous library desk strewn with papers , tin soldiers and teddy bears propped up on shelves , the walls lined with Victorian prints and paintings . |
| 52 | I had nowhere on our journey to and from the horse car seen the man with the gaunt face . |
| 53 | The architect of the college built the hotel , a bar and stuck a couple of classrooms on the end . |
| 54 | A surge of adrenaline which in the primeval swamp prepared the body to fight or flee . |
| 55 | Although the C-in-C had initially resisted the formation of the PFF , he gave the Commandant virtual carte blanche in the selection of airfields and staff ; the Command however , insisted that the Force operated the night it was formed , despite an adverse weather forecast . |
| 56 | By Friday afternoon the results of the gas sample analysis were in and Reno Air Race Executive Director Thorton Audrain proclaimed the fuel ‘ clean ’ and promised to monitor the fuel . |
| 57 | First of all you will notice that the erm consumer adviser used the word contract which is an important word to remember . |
| 58 | The personnel car accommodated the day and night orderlies , providing 56 seats by day and sleeping berths for 28 . |
| 59 | Holding that the defence was not available the court in effect classified the defendant 's belief that the arrest was unlawful as a mistake of law , which could not avail him for these purposes . |
| 60 | Nothing raises the football passions in an area quite like an FA Cup run ; though not since 1936 has the North-East had the luxury of a Football League championship success for comparison . |