Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stared at him , her mouth slightly open so that her rather small even teeth gleamed in the thin October sunshine that was now filling the kitchen . |
| 2 | The charge of racism arose after the recent British National Party bye-election victory in East London . |
| 3 | Stress applied to a migrating epidermal cell at right angles to its direction of movement ( tangential to the leading edge of its lamellipodium ) causes the lamellipodium to retract and brings about a reorganization of the cell 's actin into a cable oriented along the major axis of stress . |
| 4 | Where no expansion was taking place , the only chance of transfer was if vacancies arose in the regular workforce . |
| 5 | They fell victims , along with others , to the belief that if a building complied with the existing building regulations and Codes of Practice it must be deemed to be safe . |
| 6 | Their discovery helped overthrow the medieval concept of the Solar System and a few decades later , by a method that I shall not describe , observations of Io led to the first determination of the speed of light , which until then was thought by many philosophers to be infinite . |
| 7 | The gravelled drive split into two ; one branch led to the front door , the other to the back of the house and , according to a finger post , to waiting room and surgery . |
| 8 | At Oxford United a person occupying such a role would have been one of six or seven boys who were always at the front when conflicts arose with the rival fans . |
| 9 | The broadcasting ‘ liberalization ’ phase under ‘ Chaban ’ had ended : the broadcasting law of July 1972 had distinguished between the state monopoly of radio and television broadcasting and the public organization ( ORTF ( entrusted with the monopoly ; the same law increased — on paper — the autonomy of ORTF and the powers of the ‘ MD ’ who became in addition chairman of the board of directors ( 'PDG' ) ; but conflicts arose between the first ‘ PDG ’ , Arthur Conte , and the Information Minister , Philippe Malaud . |
| 10 | After 1620 Warner lived at the Woolstable in Charing Cross and at Cranborne Lodge , near Windsor , with Sir Thomas Aylesbury [ q.v. ] , who sponsored his continued work on optics and mathematics . |
| 11 | The opportunity arose in the close season when the FA decided to form the Mid-Counties Combination . |
| 12 | In her early thirties , her raven black hair gleamed in the overhead light . |
| 13 | As a result , his skin glowed more healthily and his halo of hair gleamed like the outer circle of the sun . |
| 14 | The coast ( or cliff-top ) walk from the hostel in the other direction led to the delightful settlement of Robin Hood 's Bay , where the slipway resembles a drawbridge let down from the towering sea walls . |
| 15 | All the way from the shrine down the hillside and through the pine trees , hundreds of flames glowed like the roving eyes of night-prowling animals . |
| 16 | By 1941 Spitfires arrived at Benson and the base became to the top secret photo reconnaissance unit . |
| 17 | However disagreements arose between the two parties and after taking legal advice Mr Manners challenged the terms of the Licence and argued that his occupation had all the rights of a protected tenancy . ’ |
| 18 | All parties to the Afghan conflict had been invited to talks , which were postponed after disagreements arose between the rival groups over the conference . |
| 19 | But the new cohorts felt much less keenly the social conditions from which the class alignment arose in the first place . |
| 20 | But the alliance with Athens must have been renewed before the beginning of the Peloponnesian War when Thessalians fought on the Athenian side again ( Thuc. ii.22 ) . |
| 21 | While Madeleine snored in the bottom bunk Léonie fought to keep awake , to know the exact moment when , in the very centre of the Channel , precisely equidistant from both shores , the walls of water and of words met , embraced wetly and closely , became each other , composed of each other 's sounds . |
| 22 | Bright little creature — it took her just three minutes to work this out as her antennae fluttered in the sudden sweet smelling breeze . |
| 23 | Her olive skin glowed in the artificial light , the curves of her naked breasts softened into a newly voluptuous sensuality that reflected and heightened her resolution . |
| 24 | Wigeon grazed on the far shore . |
| 25 | The Albion board over-reacted to the whole situation . |
| 26 | With their shareholders lulled by the regulatory safety net strung under them and lured by the prospect of fat and easy profits , many banks in the 1980s went for growth instead . |
| 27 | Its activities led to the British Film Weeks of 1924 , which involved screening a programme of British pictures , accompanied by the sort of ballyhoo which left the public , according to critic Paul Rotha , ‘ hypnotized into readiness to applaud the worst picture in the world because it was British . ’ |
| 28 | Pauline Kael admitted in The New Yorker that , ‘ reviewing this perfect nothing of a movie is rather degrading : it 's like giving consumer hints on the latest expensive worthless gift for the person who has everything ’ . |
| 29 | The application of such skills led to the greater control of an army and , as a consequence , to its more effective use as a military arm . |
| 30 | When he and Adenauer met for the first time , de Gaulle records , ‘ We discussed Europe at length . |