Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a time when important people wore swords as a matter of course , the assumption that the strong ruled the weak was natural enough . |
| 2 | ‘ The strong helped the weak , then the weak helped the strong , ’ said Noel and Sylvia Dunne . |
| 3 | ‘ The strong helped the weak , then the weak helped the strong , ’ said Noel and Sylvia Dunne . |
| 4 | It was certainly far being in evidence in 1992 , the season that the Fighting Irish of old became the Docile Irish . |
| 5 | The more he thought about schoolgirls , the more distasteful became the forty-year-old debs that his mother had lined up for him . |
| 6 | The British confiscated the entire German merchant fleet and then imposed a 33 per cent tax on all German goods imported to the Empire . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , by 1935 , the definitively Stalinised Comintern and its network of party faithful comprised the main organisational basis of Marxism in Latin America , and therefore provided a vital touchstone for all other sectors of the Left , which were forced to define themselves in relation to its characterisation of the Latin American revolution . |
| 8 | For just as the British rejected the multimillion-pound blandishments by Suchard three years ago on behalf of richer , more bitter European chocolate , so Continental consumers are largely unimpressed by UK products . |
| 9 | In November 1946 the French bombarded the Vietnamese part of Haiphong after unrest there . |
| 10 | The Bayeux tapestry gives a magnificent cartoon report of the action , but it needs to be seen as a piece of victorious Norman propaganda ; it is to be doubted that the English spent the previous night in carousing whilst the Normans engaged in earnest prayer . |
| 11 | This was inevitable : partisan warfare is confined to rough country and the French governed the great towns with little difficulty . |
| 12 | When the British took the Old City after the Siege of Delhi , the child had been smuggled out of the fort and hidden in the jungle around Mehrauli . |
| 13 | However , as in India , the British preferred the traditional leaders of society and emphasised the importance of the chiefs . |
| 14 | The Cabinet might also have looked different had the Tory majority been smaller . |
| 15 | The British ousted the Dutch in 1796 , and two decades later , in 1815 , assumed control over the entire island . |
| 16 | You can spot the modern first edition collector : it is he who sifts assiduously through a pile of the new Martin Amis searching for the copy whose corner is not bumped , only to reject it because the alignment of the dust-wrapper ( not jacket ) on the spine is very slightly askew — but he does n't want that copy either because of the biro indentation on the lamination , and the nineteenth copy would have been OK had the rear cover not been soiled . |
| 17 | The British ran the Indian subcontinent for 200 years , from the middle of the eighteenth century through World War II without making any fundamental changes in organization structure or administrative policy . |
| 18 | In July 1830 the French overthrew the main line of the Bourbon dynasty and replaced it with a cadet branch represented by King Louis Philippe . |
| 19 | The English held the principal castles , especially in the south-east , but they could not control the countryside and by May 1337 English power was limited to Lothian , the Borders and Dumfriesshire . |
| 20 | The first effective English settlement in the West Indies , founded in 1624 , was on the island of St. Christopher ( later called St. Kitts ) which was shared with the French , informally at first and then by a formal partition worked out a couple of years later which lasted until the British gained the whole island in 1713 . |
| 21 | Before the British destroyed the surrounding buildings in 1857 , the Naqqar Khana gave on to an enclosed courtyard leading up to the Diwan-i-am , the forty-pillared Hall of Public Audience , the site of the Imperial Durbars . |
| 22 | At Bouvines in 1214 , the French overcame the joint Anglo-Welf forces : the old Angevin empire was never to be restored and Otto died almost landless in 1218 . |
| 23 | Uneasy , because during those hours so often the dying became the dead . |
| 24 | If no lease was in existence at the time when the accused made the false representation , it is believed that the accused would not be guilty under s.15 of obtaining possession of the land by deception because he would not have the intention permanently to deprive . |
| 25 | The Japanese studied the British motor cycle industry carefully , learned their lessons and became world beaters . |
| 26 | Ironically , it was just as such images of contentment began to vanish that the taste for the picturesque caused the upper classes to fall in love with the idea of the cottage . |
| 27 | Sabine opened the front door with her latch-key and walked into the hall . |
| 28 | In New York the Baths of Caracalla served as the model for Pennsylvania Station and Alexandre Marcel 's designs for Bucharest Central evoked the architectural flights of fancy of Piranesi . |
| 29 | After the next corner , the road divided , and Sabine took the right-hand fork . |
| 30 | Again a number of points were made and the following represented the main points . |