Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever your kind of break , the abundance of things to see and do makes Brighton & Hove the right place to head for any time of year . |
| 2 | It was Sole 's action that caused the collapsed scrummage , not ‘ lowering ’ by Probyn . |
| 3 | Kent , taking full advantage of the disciplinary action that ended the 11 year reign of Essex as boys ' champions , won the Midland Bank Junior County Cup for the first time since its inception in 1967 , at Bournemouth during April . |
| 4 | At the massive party afterwards the Seventies were celebrated in a most appropriate way : Gloria Gaynor , Thelma Houston and one half of the Weather Girls were on hand to perform the songs that defined the liberal optimism of the period . |
| 5 | The declining appeal of socialist ideas was openly acknowledged , for instance , by Anatolii Dobrynin , the veteran US ambassador and later Central Committee Secretary , and by the commentator Alexander Bovin , for whom the changes in Eastern Europe were evidence that ‘ the great socialist experiment that spanned the entire twentieth century had failed ’ . |
| 6 | We drive the car that 's reckoned to the capable of 0–60mph in less than 4secs and talk to the driver/navigator partnership that rattled the established names in international rallying . |
| 7 | This is where the spectacular forms of regeneration that characterised the 1980s ( Harvey , 1989 ) were not so much a postmodern discontinuity as a logical extension of the tradition of symbolically rich , effectively marginal , policy palliatives that were offered to the urban crisis from the 1960s onwards . |
| 8 | The terrible tandoori oven of the womb , the essential kindling of sex , the force that woke the dormant dog of philoprogenitive penis . |
| 9 | Creative football that created the big chance — a second chance at Wembley . |
| 10 | It is only in the pursuit of important goals that he may see himself in a negative light , and only during the recurrence of situations similar to the childhood loss that brought the negative schema into existence . |
| 11 | She moved to the door and glanced back , warming to her mother , it was not often she expressed affection or even concern , she was a hard woman who had lived a difficult life but now and then a little softness crept into Win Morgan 's eyes that betrayed the real woman beneath the stern exterior . |
| 12 | She was trying hard to catch up with this new revelation , and it obviously was n't easy ; her expression more or less steady , it was mainly her eyes that betrayed the complex reprocessing of ideas that was taking place within . |
| 13 | The figure in the painting spoke of the human spirit and looked out at the world with a serene timelessness , and eyes that knew the great gift of being a master and an artist . |
| 14 | It was a murder that shocked the local community . |
| 15 | But he controlled himself — there was a force of mandroids that would have done the controlling , otherwise — and merely snarled a reply that left the old pirate fuming . |
| 16 | RS-ORS and RP-ORS promoted more water absorption in secreting intestine than did the hypotonic glucose monomer solution , HYPO-ORS ( p<0.007 ) . |
| 17 | But seaweed and stones lodged in the uprooted bushes that littered the low hills and meadows ; beehives were found where they rolled in the bed of a stream ; fish lay silver in farmyards , and drowned sheep on the shore . |
| 18 | It seems to have been enough , as was the amount delivered by the big but war-disrupted relief programme that followed the 1987 drought . |
| 19 | But they took no notice and jacked her out anyway , and the hospital was crammed with the odour of disinfectant and medicines and mechanical solidities that drove the pretty meanings away . |
| 20 | Farnborough 1990 is featured with some interesting in flight cockpit shots of Su-27 and MiG-29 , plus the Russian aircraft that dominated the 1990 show , the Antonov An-225 . |
| 21 | Growth continued to create shortages that expanded the black market . |
| 22 | Consequently it was the huge anti-fascist demonstration that created the major problem of public order . |
| 23 | Anne flipped the switch that opened the front gate , and the ironwork brushed the bottom of the video image . |
| 24 | None the less , the trustees were able to raise more than £70,000 towards the repairs of the church , funds that unlocked the crucial support from English Heritage and the National Heritage Memorial Fund . |
| 25 | I thought it was the fella that had the nervous twitch . |
| 26 | There are those who argue that it was the desperate attempts made by the Soviets in the last decade and a half to match the US , especially in Star Wars research and development , which brought about the economic collapse that dismantled the communist monolith . |
| 27 | Although he had marvelled at it many times , Ludovico had never become blase about the stupendous vista from the Villa Battista and its famous terrace that ran the whole length of the low , pale yellow house . |
| 28 | This showed that management awareness profiles were circulated to the staff in 30 of the 34 units that answered the relevant question . |
| 29 | Van Laue supports this — ; ‘ the Soviets proved what seemed to be highly effective solutions to the crises that confronted the Russian state under the Tsars ’ . |
| 30 | His head must have fallen almost directly on top of one of the tall spikes that surmounted the old iron rail . |