Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This process implies that forecasts effectively became the annual budgets . |
| 2 | Despite 300 years of conflict , the Merovingian kings and their Mayors ( who eventually became the Frankish kings in their own right ) had found it impossible to subdue the Saxons on any permanent basis . |
| 3 | Backbenchers mostly made the same points that they had made over a year earlier . |
| 4 | They were too eager for his hands , too ready to leap into a fierce throbbing as he groaned harshly in his throat with pleasure and delicately manipulated the rosy tips with his finger and thumb . |
| 5 | Innocent did not associate Philip with the murder , but relentlessly sought the true murderers who were finally brought to justice in Rome in April 1203 and sent to the Holy Land . |
| 6 | He argues that the traditional forms of representative government , which effectively excluded the popular masses or isolated and controlled them through local notables , is ‘ no longer an adequate instrument ’ . |
| 7 | Local education officers and civil servants rarely used the biologised terms of debate common within the Eugenics Society or the wider , scientific community . |
| 8 | It thereby created the largest telecommunications company in Europe at the time . |
| 9 | But the Mesopotamian Jews had a firm tradition of loyalty to the Seleucids , whereas the Palestinian Jews had become part of the Syrian state only about 200 B.C. The Seleucids gladly used the Mesopotamian Jews as soldiers , and the contribution of the Babylonian Jews to the defence of their city during an enemy attack was regarded as being so famous by the author of II Maccabees that he did not think it necessary to specify the circumstances ( 8.20 ) . |
| 10 | When American diplomatic efforts included détente and co-operation with the Soviet Union , Israel skilfully used the human rights issue of Soviet Jewry as a jemmy to prise the superpowers apart in 1973 and 1977 . |
| 11 | He only made the two trips to the house . ’ |
| 12 | Perhaps only the Transylvanian Valentin Bakfark ( Greff ) ( 1507–76 ) , lutenist at the Polish court , who not only made the customary transcriptions but composed ten extended fantasias packed with imitative polyphony , can be ranked with Francisco de Milano , Gintzler , and the Spaniards . |
| 13 | The difficulty is that the sites which have been extensively excavated , and so produced the largest quantities of pottery , such as Corbridge and Newstead , are multi-period , and the stratification of the excavations early in the century , consequently suspect . |
| 14 | As the most informative booklet points out , he only avoided the later excesses of the Nazis by conveniently dying in July 1933 . |
| 15 | As leader of the militant Ulster Unionists he not only voiced the six counties ' wish to remain under the King and the Parliament at Westminster , but organised a large force of Ulster Volunteers , for whom arms were landed in 1913 . |
| 16 | I 'm afraid I only got the briefest details on you , " he said by way of explanation . |
| 17 | As she eagerly scanned the blank faces turned like sunflowers towards us , I felt almost faint for a moment , overwhelmed by her excitement and my own desire . |
| 18 | He not only subdued the local Britons but appears to have stamped his authority fairly firmly upon his neighbouring kings . |
| 19 | I believed at the time that I more or less grasped the metaphorical implications of this , but after I had put the phone down I found I was not as clear as I should have hoped to be about exactly what was required of me in concrete practical terms . |
| 20 | Moreover the reparations clauses of the Treaty , far from helping to restore the economic life of Europe , merely complicated the enormous problems of putting the world economy back together again . |
| 21 | Doyle reached the garage and gently moved the sliding doors , to follow Weaver inside … |
| 22 | This political murder only aggravated the political divisions within France . |
| 23 | The oriental did not flinch , but merely drew the two youngsters close together in front of him , effectively shielding himself by placing them between himself and the killing arc of the shotgun 's blast . |
| 24 | But Hannah did not move , merely studied the revolving doors with interest . |
| 25 | Mr Street provided neither attendance nor services and only reserved the limited rights of inspection and maintenance and the like set forth in clause 3 of the agreement . |
| 26 | In fact I have gone further and said a " mixed " crew was , in my view , infinitely better than , any " national " crew , one of the reasons , possibly , for the high proportion of Commonwealth crews was my established policy of spreading my selection net as widely as I could in view of the poor cooperation of the Groups ; to this end I literally plagued the various HQs in London — the Aussies at Kodak House etc . |
| 27 | Karadjordje had to contend with a group of strong-willed oligarchs who enjoyed considerable power within their own territories and who jealously guarded the various perquisites which they had acquired , such as the levying of ferry tolls and local taxes . |
| 28 | In an age of widespread agitation for social reform , the new concept only emphasised the social divisions . |
| 29 | The long , regimented day , six of which made up a working week , obviously constrained the recreational possibilities for factory workers . |
| 30 | When IBM began discounting in earnest , it apparently achieved the immediate goals it had sought . |