Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strong fingers snapped the catch at his waist , pulled the zip , tightened the leather belt above the sculpted curve of masculine hip . |
| 2 | Twenty pleasant minutes retraced the morning 's steps and I stood beside the Land Rover waving goodbye and listening to the blue van 's familiar toots as it continued north . |
| 3 | The growth of private estates increased the burdens for the Christian peasants of the raya and , increasingly during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , protests against the extortion and virtual peonage which the çiftlik system imposed on them provided fuel for the fires of peasant revolts . |
| 4 | Thus , if the monetary authorities increased the money supply , the whole of the increase would be added to speculative balances and the interest rate would remain unchanged . |
| 5 | Combined operations became the commando 's métier and he would become as accustomed to calling up a battleship 's gunnery officer or the leader of a flight of rocket firing Typhoon aircraft as he might be radioing for mortar fire from his own Heavy Weapons Troop . |
| 6 | The Palestinian intifada resumed in early March as the Israeli authorities relaxed the strict curfews imposed on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip during the Gulf war . |
| 7 | On Dec. 15 the Israeli authorities ordered the expulsion of four middle-ranking members of Hamas from the Gaza Strip . |
| 8 | A left-of-centre coalition of eight political groups formed the National Democratic Alliance ( NDA ) on Aug. 21 . |
| 9 | Thereafter , the growing concern over inflation , steep rises in household rates , growth of public spending , and the activities of left-wing Labour authorities led the Conservatives to search for economy . |
| 10 | A number of Labour authorities did the same , believing it could help them plan service development more effectively . |
| 11 | Pomeshchiks on small and medium-sized estates resented the privileges enjoyed by monasteries and looked hungrily at their lands , while the swelling needs of the Treasury drew the Tsar 's attention to the resources of the Church . |
| 12 | His gentler indoor pursuits included the Choir , the Bridge Club , the Change-Ringing Society , and School Tennis after Mr. Avery 's retirement . |
| 13 | The opposition 's economic proposals involved the reversal of current reform policies and the implementation of " emergency anti-crisis measures " . |
| 14 | In the East Midlands region , National Power applied to build a gas-fired power station , all the regional authorities rejected the planning application . |
| 15 | The decree on regional authorities defined the duties of the Amir of each of Saudi Arabia 's regions . |
| 16 | Tall reeds fringed the bank . |
| 17 | The UK 's growth of total exports showed the slowest growth of any of 19 Industrial Market Economies for much of the last 25 years ( World Bank , 1989 ) ; however , through the mid 1980s the decline of the UK 's share of world trade was arrested at the level of about 8 per cent . |
| 18 | A short row of tall elegant Georgian houses overlooked the grounds of a lawn tennis club . |
| 19 | The Pakistani authorities banned the proposed protest on Feb. 6 , and on Feb. 7 deployed 40,000 security personnel along the border and blockaded roads in and out of the Azad Kashmir capital of Muzaffarabad ; nevertheless , 7,000 JKLF supporters set off from the city on Feb. 11 . |
| 20 | Even the medically more advanced Germans noted the frequency of quite minor wounds becoming fatal . |
| 21 | A report published at the end of January by the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances highlighted the killing of civilians in Sri Lanka , particularly in connection with the security forces ' campaign ( which peaked in late 1989 and early 1990 ) to eliminate the Sinhala insurgent Janatha Vimukti Peramuna ( JVP ) in the south of the country [ see pp. 37042 ; 37353 ] . |
| 22 | The result of one limited survey of penis lengths carried out by Dr Robert Charturn showed that of the five European groups measured the longest in each group ( as classified ) was : |
| 23 | Many rural authorities followed the example of Cambridgeshire village colleges inspired by Henry Morris , the chief education officer , so that Devon , Somerset and Leicestershire all wrote the notion into their development plans and did actually build some , which would support the argument that the major move towards equality that was achieved by the 1944 Education Act was the diminution of the gap between rural and urban children — this was not Butler 's two nations becoming one but it was a step towards it . |
| 24 | Afterwards , the surviving knights established the Order of the Blazing Sun with Myrmidia as its patron and protector . |
| 25 | Disenchantment with exchange rate flexibility and the recognition that inflation can not be controlled through uncoordinated monetary policies generated the political will in France and Germany to press for the formation of a regional monetary system . |
| 26 | Indeed the implication of the Phillips curve relationship was taken to be that control of demand via fiscal and monetary policies allowed the government to operate the economy at full capacity , yielding high employment but rising prices ; or at lower levels of demand , producing more stable prices but higher unemployment . |
| 27 | Good luck , a close fist , and administrative skills pushed the land revenues up to £42,000 per annum by 1509 , about four times their level in 1433 . |
| 28 | Georgian authorities announced the mobilization of a further 40,000 troops . |
| 29 | Islamic states interrupted the planned order of speeches and stood up one after the other to back his call for an immediate appeal to the Security Council . |
| 30 | What would happen if other advanced nations did the same ? |