Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But by then he had already come to doubt whether Parliament shared the commitment he felt , with Harrison , to the kingdom of Christ on earth . |
| 2 | In most countries north of the Alps wine was the luxury of the rich , even though most of the wine drunk at this time was what we should call ‘ vin ordinaire ’ ; and even communion wine ( which had done so much to foster the growth of the northern vineyards ) was drunk less and less by the laity in these centuries , until communion in one kind became the rule . |
| 3 | The new catchment boards ' first decade of river clearance was followed by the outbreak of war , during which Parliament empowered the boards to carry out even more extensive work at the request of county war agricultural executive committees . |
| 4 | After Charibert 's death Leudast made the mistake of wishing to see Tours transferred to the kingdom of Chilperic . |
| 5 | The taxpayer transmitted the case stated to the High Court out of time and the Court was thus deprived of its jurisdiction to hear the appeal . |
| 6 | These repeated the proposals of the earlier memorandum and in addition recommended the disbanding of the National Advisory Committee , the suspension of the 1937 League conference and the replacement of the New Nation by a bulletin for League branches prepared by the National Organizer 's office . |
| 7 | Few of the specifics of the James proposals were implemented in the forms envisaged , but government acceptance of the principle of a degree structure to replace the certificate became the focus of debate and planning in the colleges and departments of education . |
| 8 | The driver led the way , turning around periodically to check that the others were with him . |
| 9 | When we were about twenty yards away from them an old woman turned and saw us. I just had time to see the panic on her face before the driver applied the brakes . |
| 10 | How is it that Television South West passed the quality threshold , offered by far the most money but still lost ? |
| 11 | Value for money became the watchword , explains Derek Kelly , a turkey breeder for over 40 years : ‘ It was all a matter of price per pound . ’ |
| 12 | Here , though , the procedure of the auctioneer was somewhat different , for at first the most attractive girls were auctioned to the highest bidders and then a sort of reverse auction took place in which the unattractive ones were distributed : instead of ascending , the bidding descended until the man prepared to accept the least payment got the girl . |
| 13 | Before the collapse of the Soviet Union , the central Soviet budget met the cost of the decontamination , medical treatment and checkups of the several hundred thousand victims and liquidators , as well as the compensation payments to those still living in contaminated areas . |
| 14 | A CHEEKY vicar got the sack — for demanding a poll tax rebate during council prayers . |
| 15 | Much as she would have liked to stay , Penny had to hurry home with her budgie , but she learned later that Brownie Owl got the puppy out of the tree and took it home and gave it food . |
| 16 | Of the 26 legal parties , 17 ( including the PDCI ) fielded candidates , but the opposition parties for the most part lacked the finance and organization to launch national campaigns , so that in more than 40 constituencies there was no opposition challenger to the PDCI . |
| 17 | This experience laid the foundations for his application of compounds of mercury and other metals for therapeutic purposes . |
| 18 | In mid-1988 the PTT Ministry became the PTE ( 'E' for space — ‘ espace ’ ) Ministry and its Minister , Paul Quiles , announced that France Télécom would become the majority shareholder in TDF . |
| 19 | The permanent secretary in each ministry became the accounting officer responsible to the Treasury for the expenditure of the money allocated to his ministry . |
| 20 | Not until October 14 , when a U-boat penetrated the defences of Britain 's ‘ safest harbour ’ at Scapa Flow and killed the Royal Oak and more than eight hundred of her sailors , did the chill of autumn begin to bite . |
| 21 | Until New Scientist asked the NRPB to reexamine its assessment of the fire last week , to take account of the polonium , no official body had tried to calculate the effect of its release . |
| 22 | Officers from A division led the raids assisted by colleagues from the Drugs Squad and C division . |
| 23 | Assessment became the field in which there were the largest number of changes and retractions in government policy . |
| 24 | But the general satisfaction with close and successful cooperation evident through the easy , harmonious transfer of responsibility from the District to the Cambridge Board of the Bedfordshire scheme in 1930 began to evaporate when in the following year , the Cambridge Board asked the District to cede its Chapter III providing powers in rural Cambridgeshire to the Board . |
| 25 | The Board asked the applicants questions arising from information possessed by the Board , but did not disclose the source of the information . |
| 26 | The Act of Parliament received Royal Assent and from I January 1948 , the London Passenger Transport Board became the London Transport Executive as one of the integral parts of the British Transport Commission . |
| 27 | This set is a comprehensive history of Zeppelin , the ten years when the dinosaur ruled the Earth . |
| 28 | This set is a comprehensive history of Zeppelin , the ten years when the dinosaur ruled the Earth . |
| 29 | The Division sold the balance of its homes in Victoria Faire , Las Hadas , Almondwood and Amberwood , thus completing a number of subdivisions which had marked the success of the pre-recession period . |
| 30 | Our driver got the mail bags stowed away , and made his horses strike out in good style . |