Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [conj] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effectiveness of the new law allowing confiscation of drugs profits was amply demonstrated over the years that followed and soon the extent of the huge profits being made by the big drug smuggling rings was revealed . |
| 2 | The morning I woke up and realised that perhaps the reason I resented young Tulloch s much was because I too was an observer of human beings and that this most likely derived from an equal failure to establish satisfactory human relationships , was not a happy one . |
| 3 | The Committee drew attention to the fact that during the experiment fewer Members had been formally penalised for bad behaviour than in several recent sessions , and reported that neither the Speaker nor the Community had any evidence that rowdiness had significantly increased ; on the possible long-term effect , early evidence was ‘ mildly encouraging ’ . |
| 4 | He was enthralled by the entire proceeding and remarked that only the English could make a contest between two crews which would not rank in the World 's top 10 into a bigger spectacle than the Olympic final . |
| 5 | But tests so far have clearly shown that dietary fibre increases the wastage and indicated that generally the higher the fibre content the higher the wastage of calories . |
| 6 | Every rifle was stripped , cleaned , greased , checked and then checked again , every bullet placed carefully into its magazine , every Lewis gun tested , oiled and re-tested and then the men finally shaved before they faced the enemy . |
| 7 | At last she zipped open her sleeping-bag , slid the two packs of notes into it , and thought that only the nastiest luck would bring anyone to touch it , to find what she had . |
| 8 | ‘ My headache just grew and grew and suddenly the light faded and I could not see a thing . |
| 9 | Nor did I desist until the patients were worn out , and said that now the devil had fled . |
| 10 | The navel , as the central feature of the body , is usually enlarged and emphasized and sometimes the entire stomach is thrust forward in a protruding shield-like form ; the limbs are shortened and seen as simple tubular forms , or reduced to a few incisive , sharply differentiated planes . |
| 11 | McKeever , Suberi and Van Deventer ( 1972 ) replicated Hines 's experiment but found that neither the magnitude nor direction of visual field asymmetry was affected by the presence of a central fixation digit . |