Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The State Bank of Pakistan on March 22 halted the world-wide sale of foreign exchange bearer certificates . |
| 2 | Bevin and the Foreign Office were on occasion more sensitive to this issue — but in Bevin 's case this produced the bizarre proposal to hang on in the Middle East from a base in inhospitable ( but British ) territory 2,000 miles from the Suez Canal , Even Bullock is forced to concede that Bevin was ‘ obsessed ’ with the Middle East , an obsession he never seems to have lost . |
| 3 | In part this reflected the usual vested interests of existing local authorities , but there were also the special difficulties caused by an uneven distribution of population . |
| 4 | At times this took the sophisticated form of explaining contradictions between biblical texts at the literal , historical level as being deliberately placed there by the divine author to teach the point that a deeper meaning lies beyond the literal sense . |
| 5 | The RCM prided itself on a broad-minded approach to religion This suited the collective temperament of the ruling body , which was drawn largely from the liberal branch of Judaism , and made sense in terms of practical politics . |
| 6 | If P f 2 exceeded the right-hand side of ( 8.15 ) , a riskless arbitrage would exist . |
| 7 | The Kirghiz Supreme Soviet on Jan. 22 replaced the republican Council of Ministers with a Cabinet attached to the President . |
| 8 | A report on New Delhi radio on Jan. 30 quoted the Indian Army Chief of Staff , Gen. V. N. Sharma , as saying that his troops were fully prepared to protect Kashmir 's border " at any cost " . |
| 9 | According to reports on Feb. 5 , the SNM on Jan. 30 captured the northern regional capital , Hargeisa , as well as Burao and the port of Berbera , after troops loyal to Siyad Barre surrendered or fled . |
| 10 | In 1355 Edward III appointed the Black Prince his Lieutenant in Aquitaine , and the prince took a small force there in the autumn of that year . |
| 11 | In New York the Baths of Caracalla served as the model for Pennsylvania Station and Alexandre Marcel 's designs for Bucharest Central evoked the architectural flights of fancy of Piranesi . |
| 12 | On coming to power in Tbilisi , the new military council expressed its readiness to search for a negotiated solution to the problems in South Ossetia and , as a gesture of goodwill , on Jan. 7 released the Ossetian leader Torez Kolumbegov who had been held since January 1991 [ see pp. 37971 ; 38014 ] . |
| 13 | Chapter 35 outlined the key features of marketing research . |
| 14 | Chapter 4 showed the basic principles of the analysis of securities and portfolios initially developed by Markowitz , and the embellishments added by Black , Tobin , etc . |
| 15 | But the legend never quite died , and two years ago , Hilton International began the painstaking work of reconstruction . |
| 16 | Richard II granted the fair at Seamer to Henry de Percy , Earl of Northumberland , in 1383 but the charter reads ‘ … in the sixth year of his reign in the year of our Lord one thousand , three hundred and thirty-seven ’ . |
| 17 | Indeed , if his ( undated ) grant to the abbey of Fécamp ( S 949 ) is genuine , one might suppose that he visited the Norman coast at some time , and his generosity to a foundation which had been particularly favoured by the ducal family ( in 1001 Richard II invited the celebrated monastic reformer William of Dijon to be its abbot ) seems most likely to mean that his relations with them were still satisfactory . |
| 18 | Chapter 3 detailed the educational performances of the poorest children . |
| 19 | Chapter 3 explored the various critiques of social democratic values and policies and the suggested policy alternatives . |
| 20 | In April 1305 , for example , Edward I requested the English clergy to offer masses and prayers for the soul of Jeanne of Navarre , late queen of Philip the Fair of France , half-sister-in-law of Queen Margaret of England , mother of the future Queen Isabella . |
| 21 | Chapter 6 stated the different ways in which these allowances were paid and analysed the differences between the French and UK arrangements . |
| 22 | Chapter 1 outlined the changing environment in which schools operate today . |
| 23 | By the time Ceauşescu first visited the Soviet capital , the new wedding-cake skyscrapers of the University and the Foreign Ministry , along with less outlandish and more uncomfortable blocks of flats , towered over the ancient heart of Muscovy . |
| 24 | The Constitutional Court of Yugoslavia on Jan. 14 annulled the key articles of Slovenia 's July 1990 sovereignty declaration [ see p. 37622 ] on the grounds that they were unconstitutional . |
| 25 | A presidential decree of Jan. 24 established the Russian Federation Ministry of Security ( RFMS ) , on the basis of the Russian Federal Security Agency [ see pp. 38654 ; 38731 ] and the Inter-Republican Security Service , which had been the successor to the USSR KGB [ see p. 38654 ] and had then been incorporated into the Russian Ministry of Security and Internal Affairs , abolished in January as being unconstitutional [ see p. 38731 ] . |
| 26 | AST Research Inc announced the Premium SE P/60 server , Manhattan SMP multiprocessor and Premmia P/60 desktop . |
| 27 | The replacing bus route 44 reinstated the through facility from London Bridge to Mitcham . |
| 28 | FOLLOWING the eighteen months of German victory and triumph in Poland , Scandinavia , the west and south-east of Europe between September 1939 and April 1941 , the next eighteen months from the beginning of the Russian campaign on 22 June 1941 to the German defeat in Stalingrad at the end of January 1943 brought the decisive change in the course of the war and the downturn of Germany 's military fortune . |
| 29 | ( p603 ) The SGA 1893 marked the legislative beginning of the movement away from caveat emptor where a number of implied terms were laid down . |
| 30 | The Disabled Persons Act 1986 enshrined the new principles , though without providing funds for the advocacy arrangements desired . |