Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This process implies that forecasts effectively became the annual budgets . |
| 2 | Virgin duly made the appropriate rerelease but nothing happened . |
| 3 | Secondly , they gave a deterrent theory : the massive support which a man could call on deterred the would-be criminal ( unless his offence was unwitting ) . |
| 4 | The school later moved to Gower St , was granted a royal patent , and eventually became the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It takes us into their homes , gives space for their voices ; and Townsend powerfully attacked the widespread myth that the family was no longer providing most of them with social support or practical help . |
| 7 | Just being in the arms of this unique person , whom SHe 'd never been absolutely sure SHe could hook , effectively wiped the unpleasant memory from hir mind for the night . |
| 8 | It set the tone of the renewed debate which in the coming decade was to divide Western Europe even further , at the same time as setting in motion a groundswell that eventually produced the European Community . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Direct mail ’ ( often known as ‘ junk mail ’ ) , on the other hand , even though it came through the letter-box dressed up as a personal letter and not as a newspaper , arguably met the mass medium definition of reaching large numbers of people quickly and simultaneously . |
| 11 | Viscous liquid oozed out like an alien blob and slowly enveloped the dented car . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The past approach — for instance , where they analysed statistics in terms of travel-to-work areas and lumped West Belfast and its massive levels of unemployment in with other areas and thereby diluted the whole thing down to 12 or 13% in the Belfast travel-to-work area which extended from Larne to Downpatrick — was n't helpful . |
| 14 | In the middle of this solemn crisis , Alan burst in : ‘ Have you a book on insect identification ? ’ — which effectively deflated the solemn mood . |
| 15 | Firstly he introduced new cars , including the De Luxe cars , new Pullman cars for the Fleetwood route and the famous toastracks which successfully operated the Circular Tour . |
| 16 | That college was the stronghold of the " child-centred " approach to teaching young children , but the schools in the London area which successfully demonstrated the Froebelian philosophy were few and far between . |
| 17 | In the coal counties themselves , Jack Stump , the president of the local District 28 of UMWA , overwhelmingly defeated the incumbent Democrat to win a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates . |
| 18 | It duly approached the Educational Research Centre of the Essex Institute of Higher Education with the suggestion that a proposal for funding be made to the British Library Research and Development Department ( BLR&DD ) . |
| 19 | She returned with her new boyfriend on 17 March and effectively snatched the little boy , leaving the three little girls behind with their father . |
| 20 | It may also be argued that Roman military advances effectively changed the artistic map of Italy . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | Local education officers and civil servants rarely used the biologised terms of debate common within the Eugenics Society or the wider , scientific community . |
| 23 | Ed bitterly regarded the gory stump . |
| 24 | By the time the foal had tottered and swayed and nuzzled at Firelight in all the wrong places and eventually found the right spot to have a slurp of milk , Nails was surprised to see that it was beginning to go light . |
| 25 | When the police eventually found the abandoned truck they 'd assume the driver who 'd stolen it had been drunk . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | Since becoming head of the Kimbell in 1980 , he single-handedly built the sleepy Fort Worth museum into one of the most select collections in the country , purchasing a stellar array of old masters , including masterpieces by Caravaggio , Pietro da Cortona , Domenichino , Poussin and Georges de la Tour that would have significantly complemented or filled gaps at the National Gallery . |
| 28 | She ogled the portrait of Beau Brummell , and intimately massaged the full-length marble statue of George IV . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In early 1944 , Stilwell 's army began to advance from India , building a road as it slowly approached the Japanese base at Myitkyina , 240 kilometres distant . |