Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , imbalances arose within the economy as a whole , in particular between consumption goods and capital goods . |
| 2 | In the Catholic school moral education is a whole school task where pupils are enabled to experience moral values lived in the life of the school . |
| 3 | first , the existing local authorities argued for the retention of the status quo ; second , some Conservative Members of Parliament sought to retain the existing system as far as possible in such areas as Surrey ; third , groups concerned with some services — particularly education — pointed out weaknesses in the proposals as far as their service was concerned ( Rhodes 1970 : 120 ) . |
| 4 | The British authorities argued at the time that the way to tackle this problem of falling competitiveness , far from being to allow the pound to devalue , was to maintain a rigid exchange rate for sterling and so through the resulting high interest rates and tight money ‘ to squeeze inflation out of the system ’ . |
| 5 | Lally gasped and coughed , she even spat , her teeth gleamed against the mud . |
| 6 | The Great Earth Mother Mafulke lived in the Underworld and tended the enormous fires which blazed there . |
| 7 | William read through the article , finding two literals , while she finished the last page . |
| 8 | Gerald fought to the bar for a couple more glasses and generously shared the bottle . |
| 9 | As the Clean Air Act had left much to state initiative , congressional dissatisfaction with the rate of progress in some states led to the Air Quality Act of 1967 which at last required states to establish air quality standards consistent with federal criteria , and then to devise implementation plans setting out ways of achieving the air quality standards . |
| 10 | That of the southern European states led to the establishment of commonplace majority voting , as enshrined in the Single European Act . |
| 11 | Her long ginger hair tumbled to the floor ; her short white skirt rode up to hint at the delicious curves of her tender derriere . |
| 12 | Long black hair tumbled from the top of the boy 's head . |
| 13 | Its ancient buildings reflect the air of a former age , when the pace of life was slow , when landlords and merchants lived off the fat of the land and when labourers , in vast numbers , worked that land . |
| 14 | Mr. Occhi got into the taxi , took £1 out of his wallet and gave it to the appellant who then , the wallet being still open , took a further £6 out of it . |
| 15 | In order to be able to cope with the increasing enquiry rate at the bureau , an emergency appeal to NACAB for special funding led to the appointment of a fixed-term welfare rights officer . |
| 16 | Silver cross belts blazoned battle honours across their chests and silver spurs gleamed under the table . |
| 17 | A note of hysteria crept into the voice from the grave . |
| 18 | Jerome crept to the foot of the steps , and there halted , baulked , rather , like a startled horse , drew hard breath and assayed to mount , and then suddenly threw up his arms to cover his face , fell on his knees with a lamentable , choking cry , and bowed himself against the stone of the steps . |
| 19 | His enthusiasm led to the formation of a club at his school , Stokesley Primary , and this encouraged other youngsters to learn the game . |
| 20 | Armstrong zipped through the City with more than usual aplomb , which made me think that Duncan the Drunken had given him a tuning . |
| 21 | Alexandra plunged into the wastepaper basket to retrieve the torn envelope . |
| 22 | This obstinate refusal to be a conformist explains not only the difficulties of integration that Nizan experienced within the party , but also — and this needs stressing — underlines the extent to which he succeeded in retaining intellectual autonomy and integrity within the party itself . |
| 23 | Figure 3 shows that , using a linear template , a very reduced amount of transcripts was obtained when the initiating NTPs were omitted , whereas their addition led to the formation of initiated complexes that were resistant to the heparin challenge . |
| 24 | Horowitz , more stoical , was already at the counter while his case passed through the type of machine used at airports . |
| 25 | This cloak was the principal relic of the west Frankish kings of Neustria , and wherever the Neustrian kings were , it went with them to adorn whatever building became for the time being the royal chapel . |
| 26 | Cynthia Iliffe shared with the Board a feeling that it could be rather ‘ a hybrid sort of degree course at first ’ , but Pocock and the Board really believed in it , understood that the Crick model of a discipline-based degree had provided it with an academic foundation , but even then ‘ we talked a lot about integration ’ . |
| 27 | Her rich brown hair gleamed beneath the widow 's veil ; the bone structure of her face was overlaid with a suitable pallor , but no outward sign of grief . |
| 28 | Three years after his return from Aden , Nizan got to the heart of his dilemma when he proclaimed : I came very close to being a bourgeois … |
| 29 | The case arose through the servicing of small Iranian jets at Heathrow airport . |
| 30 | Erm , the erm , the erm , the erm , er , settlement of the anti tr civil anti trust law suit that was referred to in the statement was erm , costs of about six million dollars this year on a class action law suit which we have reached a tentative settlement on in the last few days and , in fact , there were some , there was about six to seven million dollars of additional provision made at the end of last year in the one time charges that we referred to at that time but could n't really identify with erm , lawyers breathing down your necks in the United States and er , this is a class action law suit , would have been in a Texas Court and erm , you know , the boiler plate language is that you want to get rid of the , you know , the expense and uncertainty of this type of litigation and if you think that what a Texas jury did to Texaco , it 's probably a prudent decision to close the matter off at this time . |