Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His rebuke to the Congress , that " if this leadership is to succeed , it must have the men it wants " , effectively made the second vote on Yanayev a vote of confidence in Gorbachev , and Yanayev was then elected by 1,237 votes to 563 . |
| 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 | Only after he had set to work , at Halley 's urging , on the tract that eventually became the first book of the Principia did Newton abandon vortices and envisage attractive — and repulsive — forces in central bodies . |
| 5 | The school later moved to Gower St , was granted a royal patent , and eventually became the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art . |
| 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 | He duly produced the first work on natural history to use this new technique , Zoological Illustrations ( 6 volumes , 1820–33 ) and at the same time , Exotic Conchology ( 1821–2 ) . |
| 8 | I suppose I was defending a monarchy that had in the past seen some unsuitable sovereigns , while he somewhat deftly applied the same argument to unsatisfactory prime ministers . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | Trams and buses henceforward shared the same Body and Paint shops , while a new Fitting shop was created in an adjacent building fronting on to the Coliseum . |
| 13 | Viscous liquid oozed out like an alien blob and slowly enveloped the dented car . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | While Pius XII 's encyclical Mystici Corporis brought back the concept of the Church as the body of Christ to the centre of Catholic teaching , it most remarkably avoided the slightest reference in this to the relationship between the Eucharistic body and the ecclesial body , and omitted the slightest notice of the basic Pauline text for that relationship , 1 Corinthians 10.17 . |
| 16 | IBM Corp also duly announced the 2.1 release of OS/2 yesterday , describing it as an enhanced OS/2 32-bit operating system with support for Windows 3.1 applications , a new 32-bit graphics engine , 256-colour XGA and Super Video Graphics Adaptor device drivers , support for high-speed printers and some CD-ROM drives . |
| 17 | IBM Corp also duly announced the 2.1 release of OS/2 last week , describing it as an enhanced OS/2 32-bit operating system with support for Windows 3.1 applications , a new 32-bit graphics engine , 256-colour XGA and Super Video Graphics Adaptor device drivers , support for high-speed printers and some CD-ROM drives . |
| 18 | In the middle of this solemn crisis , Alan burst in : ‘ Have you a book on insect identification ? ’ — which effectively deflated the solemn mood . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | She returned with her new boyfriend on 17 March and effectively snatched the little boy , leaving the three little girls behind with their father . |
| 24 | It may also be argued that Roman military advances effectively changed the artistic map of Italy . |
| 25 | The cork popped and Willi skilfully caught the first fountain in a glass . |
| 26 | Ed bitterly regarded the gory stump . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | When the police eventually found the abandoned truck they 'd assume the driver who 'd stolen it had been drunk . |
| 29 | She fussed , gave advice which she laughingly contradicted the next minute , and talked enthusiastically about the business she had just initiated . |
| 30 | She ogled the portrait of Beau Brummell , and intimately massaged the full-length marble statue of George IV . |