Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [Wh det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both volumes of the Dictionary passed the censorship ( in 1845 and 1846 respectively ) , but Volume Two was proscribed a month after publication when the authorities grasped what the circle was up to . |
| 2 | An interesting insight into the kind of restructuring which had occurred in memory when subjects discovered what the theme of the passage was in Thorndyke 's experiment comes from recall in the narrative after-theme condition . |
| 3 | In effect the proposal for future review which emerged from the 1983–84 visits anticipated what the Polytechnic achieved through accreditation by the Council from 1 April 1988 . |
| 4 | However , as shopping still had to be done , schools reached and roads crossed whatever the road width or traffic volume , accident levels continued to rise and living environments to deteriorate . |
| 5 | Mistaking articulacy for intelligence and plummy accent for acumen , the lawyers forgot what the public knows : that insincerity is what theytdo for a living . |
| 6 | The merchants had a problem , claims Marglin , because the spinners and weavers had what the economists term a ‘ leisure preference ’ . |