Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ward had not lied or misled anyone about the nature of the payment or tried to conceal the money he had received . |
| 2 | Although the proceedings reinforced Castro 's dominance of the PCC , some decisions ratified by the congress , in particular accepting direct election of all delegates to the National Assembly of People 's Powers , were interpreted as signs that he had either made tactical concessions or had recognized the need for gradual change . |
| 3 | Sad to say , the neighbourhood had been pulled down as ‘ a slum ’ in 1927 , a council action that had staggered the rest of Galway . |
| 4 | In order to verify his electrical recording findings , Thompson made lesions in the cerebellums of animals that had learned the conditioned eyeblink response , Rabbits that learned with their left eye and had lesions made to the left half of their cerebellum no longer blinked when they heard the tone but continued to blink to the puff of air . |
| 5 | Several hundred were swept downstream , and the settlers eagerly claimed those animals that refused to attempt the crossing . |
| 6 | Although administered by a council , which met three times a year to review policy , it had undergone none of the post-war modernization and investment that had rescued the rest of the farming industry from the crippling effects of war . |
| 7 | The waves that had deposited the hull and broken masts had carried with them a body — that of the only widower on board . |
| 8 | In a memo ( signature illegible ) to the assistant chief of naval staff dated two months after the sinking of the Bismarck , the writer said that it had ‘ unofficially ’ come to his notice that an Ensign Smith of the U S Navy was in the Catalina aircraft that had resighted the Bismarck , then en route to Brest , two days after British naval forces had lost contact with her ; and that an Ensign Rinehart was in another searching Catalina . |
| 9 | The early 1860s had witnessed the culmination of the great modernising transformation of the criminal justice system in Britain : away from the reliance on hanging , whipping and transportation that had dominated the ‘ Bloody Code ’ inherited from the eighteenth century , towards an essentially novel emphasis on the reformation of character through the discipline of the penitentiary . |
| 10 | But free choice does not exist within the control systems applied by the European Commission — and it was Brussels that had dictated the direction of its regulations . |
| 11 | The clear message sent is that voters have lost faith in existing governing parties that enjoyed riding the long boom of the 1980s , but have no policies for a post-Berlin Wall Europe . |
| 12 | The pastry crust that had topped the pie during its parade through the village was not eaten for hygienic reasons , so 50,000 squares of puff pastry had been baked separately and these were reheated — not too successfully — in a mobile oven in the huge open-sided marquee into which the pie , on its trailer , eventually came to rest . |
| 13 | Health care will then be denied its proper role and that is clearly seen in the discharge of elderly people into the community and a point he knows well because he 's heard it from me before , without the necessary disabled facilities being in place for those elderly people and it is his department that decided to put the disabled facilities grant in the basic credit allowance to compete against over local authority priorities in that section . |
| 14 | They replaced two old units that had operated the air conditioning for 25 years . |
| 15 | And with that move the programme changed as the administrators began to pay more attention to the ultimate goal , a working power system , rather than the scientific research that had intrigued the scientists in the laboratories . |
| 16 | But the latent inhibition effect was not profound — rats given partial reinforcement during pre-exposure learned much more readily during the test phase than a group of subjects that had experienced the tone followed consistently by the mild shock during pre-exposure . |
| 17 | His employer , Oscar Godolphin , was one of the eleven to whom the flame of Roxborough 's intent had been passed , though of all of them surely none was so perfect a hypocrite as Godolphin , who was both a member of a Society committed to the repression of all magical activity , and the employer ( Godolphin would have said owner ) of a creature summoned by magic in the very year of the tragedy that had brought the Society into being . |
| 18 | He found that not only did the States that failed to ratify the amendment have larger populations of both religious fundamentalists and political conservatives , but also that States which had opposed earlier civil rights amendments ( the 19th on women 's suffrage and the 26th on youth suffrage ) also tended to oppose the ERA . |
| 19 | The decree of 1616 did attempt to discriminate between books that aimed to reconcile the earth 's motion with Scripture and those that remained within the confines of astronomical hypothesis . |
| 20 | She guessed now that it was the car that had startled the deer . |
| 21 | His Mum turned to look at the car that had crushed the arrow bits . |
| 22 | At the same time not only was there another G number but it was the same make of car as the last five G numbers had been and it was the same colour as three out of the last ten cars that had passed the other way . |
| 23 | It was the second Unionist lever against Home Rule that helped to involve the King , for it assumed that Home Rule would become law , would be repudiated in Ulster , and that then the army would refuse to enforce it . |
| 24 | It had been her mother 's anxious fussing that had triggered the revelation . |
| 25 | Closed-shop arrangements would be made more difficult and secondary picketing outlawed , to avoid the kind of violence that had disfigured the Grunwick dispute . |
| 26 | His right arm was soaked with the Frenchman 's blood that had saturated the flimsy green sleeve of his old uniform . |
| 27 | The last to turn settled lightly , not quite flat to its fellows , but then lay still , not a breath left of the wind that had fluttered the pages . |
| 28 | It was memorable for the endless grind in one gully where the snow was waist-deep and we had to swim upwards , and for the point where we emerged on to the easterly ridge with views to Lyngen , and a wind that had bared the slopes and put our teeth on edge . |
| 29 | The Arsenal equaliser came in the 82nd minute and denied a Norwich side that had taken the lead after 36 minutes when Ruel Fox scored his first goal for six months . |
| 30 | She often wondered about the note left in the art book in the small sitting-room and typed , she was sure ( and her interest in detection took her so far ) , on the same instrument that had typed the instructions sent to her . |