Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Father Doyle became the famous Fr Willie Doyle of the trenches , where he was killed in 1917 . |
| 2 | So it was a shock when Middlesbrough announced the former Croydon , Carshalton and Sutton United player as their manager . |
| 3 | The following " rejectionist " groups boycotted the 19th PNC session : Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — General Command ( PFLP — GC — Ahmed Jabril l . ) ; |
| 4 | Even though all authorities met the 31 December deadline , good intentions on effective hospital discharges must still be proved . |
| 5 | The visit completes a number of exchanges which began after General Yazov met the former US Defence Secretary , Frank Carlucci , in Switzerland last year . |
| 6 | Mrs Cutforth became the second Mrs Tawell regardless of their feelings . |
| 7 | On Sept. 18 thousands of striking mineworkers and members of the CCOO and the SOMA-UGT set up barricades across roads and railways in the northern province of Asturias , protesting against plans announced the previous June which would entail the shedding of 6,000 jobs in the state mining company Hunosa by 1993 . |
| 8 | The courts applied the normal Brodie principles to ascertain therefore the nature of the payments by the trustees to the beneficiary . |
| 9 | Gardner and South African Lt. K. Firth attacked the same Savoia , flown by Cap . |
| 10 | He went first thing next morning , though , and the innings closed on 270 as Holding became the fourth West Indian to take 200 Test wickets . |
| 11 | In November , Hungary became the first East European nation to apply for membership to the council based in Strasbourg , France . |
| 12 | In November , Hungary became the first East European nation to apply for membership to the council based in Strasbourg , France . |
| 13 | In March 1989 Hungary became the first East European state to accede to the 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees ( under which states agreed not to expel refugees or return them to their homeland if they would face persecution there ) . |
| 14 | Portugal became the poorest EC member with almost a quarter of its people living off the land . |
| 15 | Hill led the qualifying Thursday with 1:38.962 on a wet track . |
| 16 | A record 86 nations entered the 1991 Davis Cup by NEC . |
| 17 | Ghali described the unilateral Polisario ceasefire in January 1990 ( a cessation of hostilities being achieved by April ) as a gesture of good faith in the UN peace plan . |
| 18 | And this morning the musician caught the first Concorde flight back to the US to be with his pregnant wife . |
| 19 | And yesterday their lawyer told the Old Bailey : ‘ It brought home to them the serious nature of what they had done . ’ |
| 20 | In October the college welcomed the new JCR overseas scholar Mona Wahba , a Palestinian medical student from the West Bank . |
| 21 | Mrs Thatcher 's staff will today be scanning Mr Bush 's televised Thanksgiving address to the nation last night , in which the President emphasised the continued US commitment to the Nato alliance and the defence of Western Europe , stressing that Nato 's fortitude has been a prime cause of the transformations in Eastern Europe . |
| 22 | Molly rang the blessed Saint Fixit for the fourth time but there was still no reply . |
| 23 | In 1964 Norah and Jean started the first Surrey regional training course . |
| 24 | Of these , the earliest was probably founded in Liberia , where in 1826 Charles Force started the monthly Liberia Herald , whose motto was ‘ Freedom is the Brilliant Gift of Heaven . ’ |
| 25 | The defeat placed the beleaguered Singh government in a difficult position by raising the possibility that elections would have to be held in Punjab before the current period of President 's rule ended on Nov. 10 . |
| 26 | To the west of the Ticino lay the high Alps , and those entering Italy from that direction were funnelled down the Aosta valley towards Mediolanum . |
| 27 | Utah and Nevada were up for grabs since the Turner-Harvest-Ramirez and US Cav joint action put the Western Maniax out of business , and Jazzbeaux thought the ‘ pomps could gain something from a quick fight rather than a long war . |
| 28 | Despite the approval of electoral reforms by the Congress in July [ see p. 37707 ] , the opposition accused the ruling PRI of gross electoral malpractice in November 's local elections , when the PRI won a majority of state deputy seats and municipal mayorships [ see p. 37849 ] . |
| 29 | ‘ What kind of books did the learned Jim censor ? ’ |
| 30 | As a Mitsubishi dealer , I 'd remind you that this car won the 1989 Lombard RAC Rally and came a close second last year . |