Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If that provision precluded the permanent unit situated offshore from taking instructions from persons connected with the vessel who were in another member state , that would constitute an unjustified restriction on the freedom of establishment , contrary to article 52 of the E.E.C . |
| 2 | The jury in that instance ordered the remaining defendants to pay $2.1bn in damages . |
| 3 | If economic weakness exposed the British to American leverage , it also gave them bargaining power , given the anxiety of the Americans to achieve certain objectives . |
| 4 | However , junior officers upholding the sanctity of Japan 's rural heritage led the physical attack on politicians and zaibatsu leaders in a series of assassinations . |
| 5 | The Palestinian intifada resumed in early March as the Israeli authorities relaxed the strict curfews imposed on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip during the Gulf war . |
| 6 | Noades stormed out after eight clubs blocked the proposed £13million Bass sponsorship deal and six other club representatives followed him . |
| 7 | With that decision came the near certainty , strenuously denied at the time , that Aden would grow into a fully fledged military base . |
| 8 | A left-of-centre coalition of eight political groups formed the National Democratic Alliance ( NDA ) on Aug. 21 . |
| 9 | AS PART of a week-long visit to Queen 's University , a party of four academics from the South China Agricultural University visited the Agricultural Research Institute of Northern Ireland , Hillsborough . |
| 10 | The Pakistani authorities banned the proposed protest on Feb. 6 , and on Feb. 7 deployed 40,000 security personnel along the border and blockaded roads in and out of the Azad Kashmir capital of Muzaffarabad ; nevertheless , 7,000 JKLF supporters set off from the city on Feb. 11 . |
| 11 | To Fermin Caballero , writing at the turn of the nineteenth century , this pattern of agricultural settlement constituted the chief bar to progress : a more intensive system was the key to higher production but the physical relation of the labourer and farmer to the land , the distance from the house in which he slept to the field he worked , made intense cultivation impossible . |
| 12 | On April 23rd , the day that parliament endorsed the anti-crisis programme , Mr Gorbachev met leaders of nine republics ( excluding the six refuseniks — the three Baltic states plus Georgia , Armenia and Moldavia ) . |
| 13 | In its hardline response ETA reiterated that the armed struggle remained the decisive factor in the process of attrition against the " political enemy " . |
| 14 | But in 1986 Virani sold the little beer-maker for £25 million — only to buy it back again in 1988 for £8 million less . |
| 15 | The renovated statue carried the Prussian Iron Cross and the Prussian Eagle , added in 1814 but removed by the former East German authorities in the 1950s . |
| 16 | One European scientist noted the potential military danger of a biological weapon containing vomitoxin , a substance that has been found in some of the samples of yellow rain . |
| 17 | Disenchantment with exchange rate flexibility and the recognition that inflation can not be controlled through uncoordinated monetary policies generated the political will in France and Germany to press for the formation of a regional monetary system . |
| 18 | Commercial and political freedom liberated the commercialised aristocracy and gentry to establish oligarchy in parliament and stately-home civility in the countryside . |
| 19 | It is not yet near day ; It was the nightingale , and not the lark , That pierc 'd the fearful hollow of thine ear ; |
| 20 | The hourly off-peak service from Euston to Liverpool and Manchester was an early casualty when the service was cut back to a ninety-minute headway , but the most far-reaching change concerned the Anglo-Scottish services between Euston and Glasgow . |
| 21 | Islamic states interrupted the planned order of speeches and stood up one after the other to back his call for an immediate appeal to the Security Council . |
| 22 | The political storm disguised the fundamental problems facing Westland which Cuckney , as chairman , and chief executive Hugh Stewart set about tackling . |
| 23 | A sole warrior survived the Eternal War . |
| 24 | It was during this time , moving from one company to another , that Haslam learned the true meaning of what it is to be an adaptable manager . |
| 25 | As Ornithischosus increased in size its scaly skin replaced the bony armour as the danger from predators lessened . |
| 26 | The invitation to the conference warned that , unless the democratic forces in the Allied nations followed the Russian example and insisted on general peace negotiations , the new Russian Government could be forced into a disastrous separate peace with Germany . |
| 27 | On 25 February , the Germans gained their greatest triumph of the battle when advance units penetrated the great fort of Douaumont and , finding many of the ill-armed French soldiers asleep through exhaustion , seized the citadel without loss of life . |
| 28 | But if their frankly messy performance at the last Heavenly bash in December served only to illustrate the gulf that now exists between gamely played ‘ real ’ instruments and the lush sheen afforded the high tech brigade , then tonight their strengths were all their own . |
| 29 | Under United States pressure following the murder of three US nuns by the security forces , the junta appointed Duarte as President in December 1980 [ see p. 30685 ] ; he stood down in April 1982 when an interim administration succeeded the civilian-military junta . |
| 30 | Members of the superfamily are present in insects , where they are involved in forming of nerve connections ; thus the association of immunoglobulin-like domains in cellular recognition preceded the immune system in evolution . |