Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [prep] [art] past " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strong version of the cosmic censorship hypothesis states that in a realistic solution , the singularities would always lie either entirely in the future ( like the singularities of gravitational collapse ) or entirely in the past ( like the big bang ) . |
| 2 | Stanislav is a difficult old man who believes that the current year is 2464 , a half-century or so in the past . |
| 3 | Once or twice in the past . |
| 4 | I have no doubt that the hon. Gentleman accepts them — although it is true that he has surprised me more than once in the past by failing to agree with the most obvious proposition . |
| 5 | The web of diplomatic contacts which had developed in western and central Europe over the last 200 or more years was now being extended further east by the full incorporation in it for the first time of the great new emerging state of Russia : henceforth events in eastern Europe were to be far more significant in the calculations of statesmen in the west than ever in the past . |
| 6 | From the literature of earlier periods Sir Walter Scott is inevitably represented , though to a lesser extent than frequently in the past . |
| 7 | But the development of trusts and the final disappearance of common law dower rights in 1833 meant that until the late nineteenth-century reassertion of women 's independent property rights , a wealthy widow was much more dependent on her male kin than either in the past or today . |
| 8 | Labourism emerged as the ‘ natural , effective instrument of adaptation of a working-class movement to a society which itself … leaned instinctively and wholeheartedly toward the past ’ ( Nairn p 160 ) . |
| 9 | Peasants were much less differentiated , and thus in the past always less engaged in nationalist alignments . |
| 10 | The most crucial change in emphasis over the past twenty years , and particularly over the past ten , has been the common rejection of any suggestion that poverty alone warranted social policy intervention based on state amelioration . |
| 11 | You know , and I feel , I do feel very angry , I mean th th the family that she 's referring to who ca n't , who have difficulty hav getting transport for Sunday morning , they 're not parishioners , but are actually in the parish , and they know perfectly well that if they ask they will get transport , and indeed in the past they have asked , and they have got transport . |
| 12 | And yet in the past |
| 13 | To get anywhere you have to master a bagful of verbs — ‘ to go somewhere , on foot , in one direction ’ ; ‘ to fly , generally speaking ’ ; ‘ to arrive , by means of transport , but only in the past or future ’ ; and so on . |
| 14 | Kosovo and Metohija is a region inhabited mainly by Šiptars [ Albanians ] , and today , as always in the past , it wants to be united with Šipnija [ Albania ] . |