Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Towing forwards going down wind means that there is no possibility of being blown over , but the controls must be held or locked otherwise the control hinges may be damaged by the surfaces slamming across against the stops . |
| 2 | The railways also produced or speeded up the development of some of the early resort towns such as Skegness , Mablethorpe , Bournemouth , Swanage and Weston-super-Mare , and certainly allowed minor villages such as Cromer to become lesser resorts and ports such as Grimsby to be developed into major exporting centres . |
| 3 | Some will allow you to add pictures and diagrams to the document , or lay out the page in columns like a newspaper . |
| 4 | If the House gave no such indication until it actual threw a Bill out , or voted down the government on some other major issue , governments would fall with much greater regularity . |
| 5 | ‘ Because if morality has a status which can not be challenged or transcended then the search itself is under judgment . ’ |
| 6 | Loss or damage to personal effects and baggage taken , sent in advance or purchased on holiday ( including clothing and personal effects worn or carried on the person , trunks , suitcases and like receptacles ) . |
| 7 | If the theatre is a long distance away from the ward , equipment may be taken from the ward on a post-operative tray or carried on the theatre trolley . |
| 8 | And even in deposits such as the flysch of northern Spain or the Polish Carpathians , there is a great deal of evidence of erosion by the turbidity currents that laid down the sediment . |
| 9 | For 50 years the Hops Marketing Board was a governmentregulated body that laid down the price of hops and how many each grower should produce on an annual basis . |
| 10 | And all the time the snow fell ; not once but many times , scooped up by the wind and hurled back in huge opaque whirlpools that obliterated even the pencil lines . |
| 11 | He went from one end to the other of the U-shaped hotel , up and down steps that marked the boundaries of the three separate buildings that made up the Steam Packet Hotel . |
| 12 | Now that we knew the line , we progressed quickly into the wild world of the seemingly blank walls and hanging stances that made up the meat of the route . |
| 13 | The palace of ‘ Black Ab ’ , the grandfather of King Hussein , overlooked the mosque , the bazaar and the huddle of insanitary buildings that made up the capital . |
| 14 | They had n't heard the scratching sounds since Daak had straightened out the protesting shuttle and lowered it serenely towards the whorled ridges that made up the top of the space station . |
| 15 | Professor Khan had been a crucial cog in the great mesh of wheels that made up the whole for the creation of an Iraqi nuclear warhead . |
| 16 | In three other areas , as much political as organizational , advances were made towards the management of the press , the coordination of the heterogeneous collection that made up the party , and the fostering of modern attitudes in the local parties . |
| 17 | The bearer plunged at once into the warren of tiny streets , alleyways and passages between stalls that made up the area loosely known as the Bazaars . |
| 18 | Even the types of particles that were eventually emitted by the black hole would in general be different from those that made up the astronaut : the only feature of the astronaut that would survive would be his mass or energy . |
| 19 | By the 1960s the cricket authorities therefore wanted a better crowd-drawer than the old three-day games between counties that made up the county championship . |
| 20 | The port of Anjer quite simply ceased to exist as the succession of great waves washed over it , carrying away all the flimsy wooden buildings that made up the town . |
| 21 | The seven communities that made up the population of Møn in those days ranged round one or other of the churches and each community made itself known to the others in a common language of bells . |
| 22 | Under Franco , they used to be distributed among representatives of the different political groups that made up the regime 's base of support ; under democracy , incumbents in such posts have tended to be replaced with each change of government . |
| 23 | Each stetch was limited on its two sides by water-cuts or deep furrows that made easy the escape of surface water from the soil ; and in fact the main purpose of ploughing in stetches was — and still is , where stetches continue to be used — to ensure effective draining of the land . |
| 24 | It was darker in the deep groove of the track that led down the Ridgery . |
| 25 | February was wet , with gales that howled up the valley and rattled the glass doors leading to the verandah . |
| 26 | Now jogging does n't give power to the big muscles of the body , it does n't do that so again you 'd you 'd have to be doing something which , that built up the power . |
| 27 | The same government that reduced substantially the taxation rates for the very rich did very little , apart from reducing the basic rate of tax from 33 per cent to 30 per cent , for the low-income groups . |
| 28 | It has been postulated that it was either the dinosaurs that opened up the way for the angiosperms , or instead it was the changing nature of the flora itself that was in some way the prime mover of evolutionary trends ; that , in spite of all the advances in jaw structure discussed above , they somehow speeded up trends towards extinction . |
| 29 | Wars came early to Shanghai , overtaking each other like the tides that raced up the Yangtze and returned to the gaudy city all the coffins cast adrift from the funeral piers of the Chinese Bond . |
| 30 | And then she knew it was true as , under the hot Mediterranean sun , their love was sealed for eternity in that final last desperate burst of flame and fire that heralded not the end of a wonderful Majorcan day but the beginning of their life and love together . |