Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The upmarket London furniture store Heals , fashion chain Richard Shops and finally British Home Stores were absorbed into the group , which eventually became known as the Storehouse group . |
| 2 | Car 68 was withdrawn and replaced in the following year by a modernistic design , which eventually became known as the Bandwagon . |
| 3 | Six hundred people in the business coughed up £2 10s 0d each , thereby becoming known as the Noble Six Hundred ; subsequent donations and the proceeds of Royal Variety performances meant that a nursing wing was added two years ago , and today there are 36 residents with a staff of 60 to look after them . |
| 4 | women are not sexy skinny women are not sexy , really skinny women we have to be like the Madonna type woman and I think that the , the , its about money and its about co , its about the consumer and about money and about making money from an image that somebody somewhere has seen as the normal perfect woman and the norm can be any thing it could be whatever you want it to be . |
| 5 | Some bastard cheated , they say there was not enough binding put around the joins , again the pipe leaks . |
| 6 | The blades , twisted like tentacles , were then dumped in the corner of the field , near a hangar , which of course swiftly became known as the Octopus Den . |
| 7 | It only became connected with the miracle because both events took place in the same village . |
| 8 | They wilt readily learn to distinguish light from dark and there is some evidence that they can also distinguish patterns and colours , although it must be said that this capacity is extremely limited compared with the normal capacities of the animals concerned ( Pasik and Pasik 1982 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ Anyway , the first time we did the scene , the catch did n't unhook and I literally got dragged through the mud by my boobs . |
| 10 | Lennie Lawrence , like Malcolm Crosby , has been a breath of fresh air to North-East football , which for too long has clung to the misguided belief that only the big name managers ( Big Lawrie , Big Jack and co. ) can bring big time success . |
| 11 | He is the real man as none other ; for he alone is man as God intends man to be ; he alone has travelled to the uttermost limits of the ‘ far country ’ of man 's estrangement ; and in him alone has the judgement been passed , carried out , and overcome to issue in reconciliation . |
| 12 | Thus , for example , Eusebius , Bishop of Caesarea , one of the leading theological figures of his day and a close personal associate of the Emperor , says : ‘ He grows strong in his model of monarchic rule , which the ruler of All has given to the race of man alone of those on earth ’ . |
| 13 | The Royal Family has thus judiciously assented to this and so has participated in the creation of its own image ; in the process , it has ensured that the monarchy , as an institution and as a symbol , retains a cultural past , present , and ( crucially ) future . |
| 14 | At least no trace of an attempt to do so has survived among the voluminous Cossack and British sources . |
| 15 | Much RE writing in the past 20 years or so has centred on the raising of ultimate questions , and there has also been an insistence on developing in pupils skills of understanding and of handling these questions . |
| 16 | But why does it suddenly feel threatened by the contact of its peaceful owner ? |
| 17 | They had all grown used to the sounds of the camp : the low open-air roar of many voices , the lowing of cattle , the chiming of harness and smith-work , the continual creak of John 's waterpumps ; the intermittent discharge of either cannon or handguns . |
| 18 | Abie Klugman had long grown used to the taunt — it was Aronson 's stock joke for all of the ten years they had been lodging with Mrs Neumann , and he no longer minded it . |
| 19 | This was done by cross-tabulating the answer to the question : ‘ To what extent did you personally feel threatened by the review ? ’ against all the other items in the questionnaire . |
| 20 | Now , in a bit of a rush : the asparagus was excellent , but its finger-bowls arrived late , so that buttery fingers only got rinsed at the last bite . |
| 21 | The ad-man opposite had been casting meaningful glances at her all evening , and the likeliest explanation seemed to be that she and Roger were doing a number together and I 'd inadvertently got caught in the crossfire . |
| 22 | The Directors may , after that period , allot any shares or grant any such rights under this authority in pursuance of an offer or agreement so to do made by the Company within that period . |
| 23 | The Directors may , after that period , allot any shares or grant any such rights under this authority in pursuance of an offer or agreement so to do made by the Company within that period . |
| 24 | To some , a portable is a machine that only gets moved between the office and home , and is used with a proper external monitor and keyboard in both locations . |
| 25 | Oh do n't worry about putting them in piles , they only get chucked in the bottom of the box |
| 26 | This may perhaps have corresponded to the last creation of the world , for the Maya believed that the world had been created and destroyed several times . |
| 27 | Had she not met Flynn , she would merely have asked for the farms to be restored to Maran Hill ; but the news from London made her too bold . |
| 28 | Even if this outcome had not occurred , and by some miracle the world economy had continued to grow after 1918 , it is not possible that States would merely have accommodated to the requirements of growing world trade . |
| 29 | Kirkman and Hendy , the Earl of Camden 's agents , may merely have responded to the College 's advertisement , but another explanation for their involvement seems possible . |
| 30 | Nothing traumatic happened ; there were just the ordinary ups and downs which would naturally have occurred in the life of a humble family striving to make a reasonable living in a somewhat precarious way . |