Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the researchers re-imaged the same area , they found they had created small groups of three atoms , arranged in a triangle , which appeared higher than their neighbours . |
| 2 | While these authorities restated the general rule attention was focused upon attempts to formulate and analyse the exceptions , especially where rights were accepted as having been bestowed upon a third party . |
| 3 | All summer English cricket has been highly suspicious about how the Pakistanis made the old ball swing about so violently . |
| 4 | His fingers met the soft , masking texture of cloth , but beneath them he could feel her warmth , the firm softness of her sex . |
| 5 | It has been reported that the addition of minute amounts of phosphatidylcholines normalised the short nucleation time of bile from patients with cholesterol gall stones while having only a minimal effect on the cholesterol saturation index . |
| 6 | Their discussions produced the Linggajati Agreement , as it is called from the hill station where they met ( 12 November ) . |
| 7 | In terms of arguments about the Caucasian Albanians , a people which no longer exists but which in the Middle Ages inhabited the disputed region . |
| 8 | Then the pendulum swung too far in the other direction , towards an assertion that the Russians avoided the unpleasant aspects of colonialism as exemplified in Spanish , Portuguese or British experience . |
| 9 | The researchers met the social workers at the start of the study , and after each completion of the schedules , when they were also asked to fill in a brief checklist . |
| 10 | Overhead he could now hear the dull roar and crackle of fire , as the hungry flames devoured the old house above him . |
| 11 | Up to then Graham , 33 , had been mainly in control and had at times outclassed the 27-year-old Grant . |
| 12 | However , these were generally riskier and since many savers lacked the necessary information and confidence to invest overseas , it seemed a natural role for investment trusts that they should provide an indirect route into overseas markets for small investors who would benefit from the trust 's professional management . |
| 13 | ‘ Thus the groups countered the social alienation that often divides cancer patients from their well-meaning but anxious family and friends , ’ they write . |
| 14 | They were the classic forest hunters of Siberian whose family bands moved from place to place , camping in conical , deerskin-covered tents , the most common type of nomadic dwelling in the north , to which the Russians applied the Komi term chum . |
| 15 | The technique was further refined by Italian dancing masters employed by the french kings whose courts became the richest in Europe . |
| 16 | The following " rejectionist " groups boycotted the 19th PNC session : Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — General Command ( PFLP — GC — Ahmed Jabril l . ) ; |
| 17 | By a letter of 17 October 1991 those solicitors asked the local authority to keep them informed about the progress of the assessment that was being undertaken of the father and his partner . |
| 18 | This time the H.Q. was in the old offices of Hiltons , in Ferry Road , and again true to tradition the Five Bells became the unofficial H.Q. |
| 19 | Even though all authorities met the 31 December deadline , good intentions on effective hospital discharges must still be proved . |
| 20 | His fingers probed the matted blood-stained hair which obscured the injury . |
| 21 | Other states shared the British unease . |
| 22 | The Times made the suggested link their front-page headline — Porn videos turned ‘ Fox ’ into rapist — while the Daily Mail used this theme in their editorial of the day , as part of their continuing campaign against porn videos . |
| 23 | Chola reached up to the arch above the doorway add seven times made the same imprint with the pad of her thumb on to seven discs of semi-dried cow-dung . |
| 24 | Words came into my ears and my fingers made the appropriate movements . |
| 25 | The new merchants lacked the political power to prevail . |
| 26 | Other presentments concerned the unwarranted felling of trees and cutting of branches in the forest coppices , and the overburdening of the forest pastures with unauthorized numbers of cattle , sheep and pigs . |
| 27 | On Sept. 18 thousands of striking mineworkers and members of the CCOO and the SOMA-UGT set up barricades across roads and railways in the northern province of Asturias , protesting against plans announced the previous June which would entail the shedding of 6,000 jobs in the state mining company Hunosa by 1993 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In this way local authorities became the only publicly elected bodies for the area having accumulated all the powers of ad hoc bodies . |
| 30 | Young people approaching the age when they would no longer be the formal responsibility of the local authorities became the primary consumers of residential care for several reasons : first , many had been placed with a family and temporary readmission to residential care was needed when such placements broke down ; second , some did not wish to join a new family and preferred group living amongst other young people and appointed caregivers ; and third , some were admitted to a residential setting for help with specific problems or as part of a strategy to prepare them for independent living . |