Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I picked it up and it were th the er strap got the wrong way round . |
| 2 | In March 1990 the Congress of People 's Deputies abolished the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) 's constitutionally guaranteed monopoly of political power ( enshrined in Article 6 of the 1977 Constitution ) . |
| 3 | The execution … of the Saviour 's plan required the prudent application of wise and well-judged measures so as not to injure private property , not to disturb civil order , not to expose Christianity to the scandal of sedition , not to obscure the glory of a Kingdom not of this world . |
| 4 | The twang , hum , and strike were one sound as Allen 's arrow nailed the raised arm to the tree . |
| 5 | There 's one outpost of northern civilization in the heart of the city centre — a fine Sam Smith 's pub called the Three Goats Heads . |
| 6 | Navratilova 's exit marked the first time no American woman had reached the quarter-finals of the US Open since women began playing in the tournament in 1887 . |
| 7 | Wednesday 's match marked the Dutch football federation 's centenary , although considering the side Holland were forced to field , Queen Beatrix might just as well have stayed at home and sent the centenarians a congratulatory telegram . |
| 8 | On 29 June 1690 , described as ‘ excessive hot ’ , William 's army camped behind the hills on the north bank of the Boyne , while James 's troops occupied the other bank . |
| 9 | Johnson had told Mrs Thrale a little of the four-hundred-year history of Raasay ( or ‘ Raarsa ’ as he calls it ) — and then he divulged that Bonnie Prince Charlie ‘ was hidden in his distress two nights at Raarsa , and the king 's troops burnt the whole country , and killed some of the Cattle ’ . |
| 10 | NET 's troubles blunted the overall performance by Ocean last year . |
| 11 | So far as adult education is concerned it would seem reasonable to expect some significant response to the women 's movement given the close association between adult education and popular political movements in the formative years , and also because women constitute the majority of students , in current adult education provision . |
| 12 | Not to do so amounted to a dereliction of duty in the same way that Callaghan 's statement misunderstood the political content of media imagery . |
| 13 | The union claimed great achievements ; " Register Tickets or Seamen 's Passports abolished , forced payments to the Merchant Seamen 's Fund gone the same road ; coal whipping ( i.e. the discharge of relatively small amounts of coal at minor ports which on the Thames was the job of " eight licensed coal-whippers , who are all able bodied men , with one basket-man to every vessel " ) by Seamen in the Thames has received its death blow ; the coasting trade has been relieved from the officiousness of a Shipping Master ; small stores , or payments instead , has been allowed ; WAGES have RISEN , and so have FREIGHTS ; ships sailed by members of the society are better manned ; and lastly , the improvements in the law have helped slightly to ameliorate the condition of Seamen as a class " . |
| 14 | Lewis claimed that the Opposition had forced Palmerston 's Government to abandon the Bill to purchase all the land required for the competition schemes , and Pennethorne 's scheme fitted the limited area owned by the Government . |
| 15 | In December Mehemet Ali 's son overwhelmed the Turkish army at Konya in southern Asia Minor . |
| 16 | Bolt Head 's office occupied the top floor of a vast mirror-fronted building in prime-site New York . |
| 17 | 373 which in granting leave to appeal to your Lordships ' House certified the following questions as involving a point of law of general public importance : |