Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UWP , in power since 1982 , won nine of the 17 parliamentary seats in the general election of April 6 , 1987 ; fresh elections on April 30 produced the same result , and the subsequent defection of an SLP member increased the UWP 's majority to three seats [ see pp. 35187-8 ] . |
| 2 | 154 followed the same routing as the trolleybuses , but 157 covered different roads between Wallington and Morden . |
| 3 | Another expressed the same view : |
| 4 | This had the same kind of look to it . |
| 5 | This mirrored the same argument that opponents of Merrell Dow and of lignite mining in Co . |
| 6 | As a matter of fact , although it is an extra extravagance from the point of view of fuel , the chicken will be very much nicer cooked the same day as it is to be eaten , before it has had time to harden up . |
| 7 | Not all members of staff in this department of thirteen felt the same degree of commitment to The Machine Gunners as a class reader . |
| 8 | The Supreme Court of New South Wales on Aug. 21 cleared the former Premier of the state , Nick Greiner , of the corruption allegations which had forced him to resign from office in June 1992 [ see p. 38965 ] . |
| 9 | A packed courtroom far from all seated heard the former Recorder of Teesside recall his early days in the area during his speech to mark the opening of the Middlesbrough-based court centre . |
| 10 | Interestingly enough , Bayezid II made the same stipulation in regard to the medrese attached to his mosque in Istanbul ( the medrese built probably in 912–13/1506–8 ) , namely that the Mufti of Istanbul should be the muderris . |
| 11 | So , for example , in the England of the seventeenth century , Anglicans , Puritans , Presbyterians and others all made the same appeal to the Bible ; but their different convictions about what the Bible was chiefly saying often seemed more prominent than their shared allegiance to it . |
| 12 | The rich , the good , the pretty , the blessed all shared the same fate as the poor , the bad , the ugly , the deprived . |
| 13 | Therefore , the ultimate haemostatic rate may be higher if they all received the same injection again . |
| 14 | Both BBC-TV and ITV , both early and main evening news , all followed the same trend : they all screened more presentation than controversy until the third week ; then they screened between two and four times as much controversy as presentation in the third week , before reverting to more presentation at the end of the campaign . |
| 15 | Players of the skill and stamina of Terry Griffiths , Steve Davis , Alex Higgins and Cliff Thorburn all followed the same pattern . |
| 16 | They all watched the door as it opened and Donald 's face poked round the edge , and then they all looked at each other and they all thought the same thought : Now ? |
| 17 | However , N-Oct 5 are transcriptionally inert since cotransfection of N-Oct 3 and N-Oct 5 gave the same test gene expression as N-Oct 3 ( Figure 4 , lanes 8 , 9 ) . |
| 18 | Because they all spoke the same language of fidelity , of joint interests and common belief , the great assembly could bring men together with their royal lord psychologically as well as physically . |
| 19 | Among the customs prevalent in gaols were those such as garnish , fotting or chummage , which all gave the same message to newcomers — ‘ pay or strip ’ . |
| 20 | So , Bint Pomona became a brood mare ( which was also a mistake , because her foals all had the same temperament as her ) . |
| 21 | But then to us they all had the same accent — they were just Yanks , chewing gum , blocking our paths wherever we went , aggravatingly sure of themselves and their instant appeal to all females who had n't actually got one foot in the grave . |
| 22 | They all had the same voice , she said . |
| 23 | At bombs away , I know we all had the same feeling . |
| 24 | But we all had the same challenge . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , I went to clinics , I went to specialists , they poked and they peered and they prodded , they took X-rays , they did tests , I do n't know what they did n't do , and they all said the same thing . |
| 26 | Yeah , but they all said the same thing do n't they ? |
| 27 | The eight included the former governor of Shaba province , Koyagialo Ngbase te Geremgbo , who was sentenced to 15 years penal servitude . |
| 28 | A court in Bhopal on Dec. 8 ordered the former chairman of the US-based Union Carbide Corp. , Warren Anderson , and eight other executives to stand trial in connection with the 1984 Bhopal poison gas disaster [ see pp. 33467-68 ] . |
| 29 | He was finance director of Mecca Leisure before its acquisition by Rank Organisation in June 1990 , and before that occupied the same post for five years at Thorn EMI . |
| 30 | A special tribunal on Oct. 15 ordered the former President , Lt.-Gen. ( retd ) Hussain Mohammad Ershad , to stand trial on charges of gold smuggling [ for other changes see pp. 37965 ; 38288 ] . |