Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Churchill 's ‘ Mulberrys ’ , the artificial harbours to be used for the invasion , were constructed on the Gareloch , and capital ships by the dozen , aircraft carriers , cruisers , battleships and destroyers — all lay off the coasts of the west or sailed into the Clyde . |
| 2 | With Gide and many others in mind , Said observes that virtually no European writer who wrote on or travelled to the Orient in the period after 1800 exempted himself or herself from a quest for sexual experience unobtainable in Europe : |
| 3 | What really concerns him , however , is the lack of progress on the national strategy for waste disposal that arose from the Gradouge incident . |
| 4 | Blake speculates that the rocks were probably the upper edge of a continental fragment that plunged under the North American plate . |
| 5 | The large numbers of new aircraft entering service made it obvious that ‘ on-squadron ’ conversion would have to give way to a proper Operational Conversion Unit ( OCU ) and so in the latter part of 1951 , 231 OCU was formed at RAF Bassingbourn , a place that became with the Canberra . |
| 6 | The model being erected was that made for the Olympia Aero Show in 1929 . |
| 7 | One important move was that made by the USSR . |
| 8 | Cutting round to the right and following the track northeastwards , I came down a path that led towards the Occupation Road via the Megger Stones . |
| 9 | The occasions that stand out in the three decades of our post-imperial era are : Duncan Sandys ' 1957 decision to recommend the end of National Service , which almost halved the Army ; the Kennedy/Macmillan Polaris agreement at Nassau in 1962 that led to the RAF losing responsibility to the Royal Navy for the British nuclear deterrent ; Denis Healey 's scrapping of the TSR2 in 1965 , which threatened to ‘ unhorse ’ the RAF 's knights ; his cancellation of the aircraft-carrier replacement programme in 1966 , which did much the same thing to the Royal Navy ; and John Nott 's attempt in 1981 to maintain the strength of the Rhine Army and RAF Germany at the expense of our maritime capability . |
| 10 | Having her mind made up had done very little good , Jenna mused next day as they sped down the motorway that led to the Dordogne . |
| 11 | Preston referee Jim Parker appears at the FA this afternoon to explain his version of events that led to the West Brom players reporting him for swearing . |
| 12 | Lord George Gordon , as President of the London Branch , convened in 1780 the great public meeting that led to the Gordon Riots . |
| 13 | At 11.37am on Friday , November 20 , a spark ignited a curtain that led to the Windsor fire . |
| 14 | This move was probably motivated by the same considerations that led to the Perkins ' choice of a site near Harrow , and to its eventual abandonment . |
| 15 | There are some very good photographs and some intriguing snippets of information — Michael Bowyer tells how the Operational Requirement that led to the Hampden and Wellington specified that the aircraft should have folding wings for hangar storage ! |
| 16 | The army that fought in the Gulf was disproportionately black , so there were cries that blacks would die for a white quarrel . |
| 17 | I joined AIB on 1 July 1955 as a Senior Inspector of Accidents ( Operations ) and I was soon put to work , first of all on a little Auster that ditched in the Bristol Channel , then on a BOAC Argonaut in Libya under the supervision of Penny Garnons-Williams , an old hand at the job . |
| 18 | One example of dump leaching is that used at the Kennecott Chino Mine in New Mexico , USA , from which there is a daily yield of cement copper of 45–50 t ( Pooley 1987 ) . |
| 19 | Probably the classic statement of this approach is that used by the J. Walter Thompson ‘ T-Plan ’ , as described by Stephen King in Developing New Brands , where responses are divided into responses from the senses ( what is perceived about the brand ) , from the reason ( what is believed about the brand ) and from the emotions ( what is felt about the brand ) . |
| 20 | One of the most influential categorisations of social class , other than those of the OPCS , has been that used by the Oxford Social Mobility Study . |
| 21 | A VOLCANO that erupted in the Philippines last week , killing more than 60 people , exploded again yesterday in blasts of superheated steam , smoke and ash . |
| 22 | minutes later , as he edged and darted through the sluggish traffic that moved along the Marylebone Road , Bodie saw the van turn sharply into the underground car park of the Cambridge , and he went in pursuit . |
| 23 | For all the surface change that accompanied the industrialisation of Prussian and German society the social and political pressures that emanated from the Junkers on these issues remained uniform and constant . |
| 24 | These deposits on the Barrier and Korosi volcanoes were contemporaneous with very high lake levels that occurred throughout the Kenya rift between about 12kyr and 7kyr ago , and correspond to a humid climate associated with the latest glacial-to-interglacial transition of stages 2 to 1 in the marine 18 O record . |
| 25 | In examining these conflicts and changes the particular aims of the researchers are to : elucidate the changes that occurred in the UK defence science and technology system in the 1980 's and to analyse their dynamics and interactions ; ii identify and examine the assumptions about the future being made by firms and governments to guide their current decision-making in this area ; iii consider whether clear and stable structural trends are emerging , and the factors that may influence them in the 1990's , including the transition to a single European market ; iv establish a better framework for assessing contemporary developments in defence technology policy and their consequences for other areas of science and technology policy . |
| 26 | THE pilot of a Bristow helicopter that crashed in the North Sea with the loss of 11 lives earlier this year has been sacked , his lawyer claimed last night . |
| 27 | Everyone in the place heard the gasp that came from the Trunchbull 's throat . |
| 28 | Her humanity was something useless to her , something that came from the Denver NoGo and which should have died in Spanish Fork with Andrew Jean and the others . |
| 29 | It was the House of Commons , and the Cabinet and the Prime Minister that came from the Commons , that Bagehot saw as the efficient working parts of the Constitution as these got on with the job of actually running the show . |
| 30 | ANEW book is about to remind America of the worst that happened in the Vietnam War . |