Example sentences of "[conj] [det] [noun sg] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Giraffes feeding on acacia , startled by my presence , ran off leaving puffs of dust where each foot struck the ground . |
| 2 | This was probably what caused most ill-feeling , and the end of August and beginning of September saw a number of well-attended and noisy meetings where each side accused the other of a multitude of sins . |
| 3 | Is he aware that that gentleman hoodwinked the nation for about eight years and that in the end his wife made it clear that the man was entirely bogus ? |
| 4 | She said : ‘ Our initial horror and disbelief at what happened on that day was replaced over time by the realisation that that day heralded the start of the British Government 's Shoot-to-Kill policy in Northern Ireland ’ . |
| 5 | It must be questioned whether the presence of any particular species of predator in a fossiliferous deposit provides an indication that that predator accumulated the bones in the same deposit . |
| 6 | The emotional complexity of the debate was deepened by the fact that neither side had the monopoly of logic or charm : Dr Colin Blakemore , though known as ‘ Dr Frankenstein' to the yellow press for having experimented on animals ’ eyes , seemed reasonable , persuasive and put-upon ; Douglas Hogg , MP , also on the vivisectionist side , was quite startlingly and pointlessly rude . |
| 7 | Amis nudged along his suburban ensemble with typically unhurried assurance , but he did n't seem to notice or care that each character spoke the same jocular bloke-in-the-pub idiom : long , broken-backed sentences that thrive on small qualifications . |
| 8 | In analysing their left-hand columns , the executives found that each side blamed the other side for the difficulties , and they used the same reasons . |
| 9 | By stereophonic means a situation was created such that each ear heard the same two virtually simultaneous messages but , due to a very small difference in the time of arrival of a given stimulus at the two ears , one message appeared to come from the subject 's left while the other appeared to come from the right . |
| 10 | The level of violence ( which had resulted in some 5,000 deaths since the breakdown of peace talks in June 1990 ) fell dramatically during the period of the ceasefire , although each side accused the other of extensive violations . |
| 11 | Although each side accused the other with ceasefire violations throughout May , observers noted a definite lull in the fighting . |
| 12 | Although this plan had the endorsement of Serbian leaders including Slobodan Milosevic , the President of Serbia , the troop dispatch had been delayed because Milan Babic , leader of the self-proclaimed " Serbian Republic of Krajina " within Croatian territory [ see p. 38685 ] , rejected the idea of the deployment of UN forces in ethnically mixed areas of Croatia , conceding only that they should be stationed on the front line between Serbian and Croatian forces . |
| 13 | Although this research involved the 1959 Act , unlike social workers , additional training has not been required of psychiatrists under the 1983 Act . |
| 14 | I knew that this spiral joined the crypt to the turret via the south-east corner of the tower . |
| 15 | It is fair to say that this race lacked the energetic input normally associated with Mansell , banned from yesterday 's Grand Prix after breaking the regulations at Estoril last Sunday . |
| 16 | Mr. Gardiner submitted that this case supported the Woolwich principle because it showed that a sum unlawfully demanded as of right by a person in authority could be recovered . |
| 17 | Mr. Gardiner argued that this case supported the Woolwich principle in as much as recovery depended solely upon the fact that the corporation had been placed by statute in a position of authority . |
| 18 | Why was it that this man had the ability to bring tears to her eyes ? |
| 19 | They found throughout the interviews that this man displayed the same discursive skills : using a number of key indicators such as the pronoun ‘ I ’ and its other forms ‘ me ’ and ‘ my ’ as indicators . |
| 20 | She felt that this sensationalism legitimated the passions within rational philosophy . |
| 21 | There is no question of doubt that this Government caused the recession in this country . |
| 22 | ‘ A friend of mine owned the studio and had been in the music industry a long time and was amazed that this 16-year-old had the whole production idea worked out in her head . ’ |
| 23 | ( 6 ) In August 1983 the third defendant claimed from C.M.C. a commission of £16,000 for himself and £8,000 for Highdene in respect of certain commercial arrangements , not involving the bakery , negotiated between C.M.C. and B.M.T. It is said that this claim led the other directors of C.M.C. to investigate the third defendant 's activities and to dismiss him as a director of C.M.C. ( 7 ) Between May and July 1983 the third defendant caused the first plaintiff to sign in blank some cheques drawn on C.M.C. 's bank account by fraudulently representing that these cheques would be used to pay small and urgent bills of C.M.C. It is said that in fact the third defendant used six of these cheques to pay to himself and certain other parties sums amounting to about £30,000 , allegedly in connection with the financing of the centre . |
| 24 | The origins of military intervention in politics lay perhaps in the role of generals in the eighteenth-century administration , and in the conflicts of politicians and soldiers during the War of Independence , but it was in Ferdinand 's reign that this intervention developed the rigid form of classical drama . |
| 25 | I do not think that this remark carried the matter any further in the context of agency and undue influence . |
| 26 | It is not surprising that this movement had the sympathy of Euripides , who made considerable use of its tricks and mannerisms . |
| 27 | In the 1930s , the British molecular biologist W. T. Astbury showed using X-ray diffraction ( and long before molecular helices were known about ) that this property revealed the existence of an unusual helix of cellulose fibres in the cell wall of the single-celled green alga Valonia ventricosa ( Figure 1 d ) with a shape reminiscent of a partially inflated balloon . |
| 28 | It also occurred to him that this precaution eliminated the likelihood of ever finding a witness who had seen Sandy arriving in her Jaguar at the bell tower close to dawn . |
| 29 | Professor Fei Xiaotong of Beijing University was the chairman of the biggest Democratic party called the Democratic Alliance and he claimed that this party represented the interests of intellectuals and especially intellectuals involved in teaching ( Chan 1989 : 83 ) . |
| 30 | Troops committed by Pakistan and Bangladesh left for the Gulf in early September , while on Sept. 18 Argentina became the first Latin American country to announce that it would send forces ; two frigates , a Hercules aeroplane and 450 soldiers left on Sept. 25 , despite opposition claims that this action violated the Constitution and was inconsistent with Argentina 's diplomatic tradition of neutrality in overseas conflicts . |