Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If economic weakness exposed the British to American leverage , it also gave them bargaining power , given the anxiety of the Americans to achieve certain objectives . |
| 2 | However , junior officers upholding the sanctity of Japan 's rural heritage led the physical attack on politicians and zaibatsu leaders in a series of assassinations . |
| 3 | The deepening economic recession defused the worst industrial problems , but the failure of fusion had deprived the government of the only way of bringing coalition and party into line . |
| 4 | AS PART of a week-long visit to Queen 's University , a party of four academics from the South China Agricultural University visited the Agricultural Research Institute of Northern Ireland , Hillsborough . |
| 5 | To Fermin Caballero , writing at the turn of the nineteenth century , this pattern of agricultural settlement constituted the chief bar to progress : a more intensive system was the key to higher production but the physical relation of the labourer and farmer to the land , the distance from the house in which he slept to the field he worked , made intense cultivation impossible . |
| 6 | In its hardline response ETA reiterated that the armed struggle remained the decisive factor in the process of attrition against the " political enemy " . |
| 7 | The renovated statue carried the Prussian Iron Cross and the Prussian Eagle , added in 1814 but removed by the former East German authorities in the 1950s . |
| 8 | One European scientist noted the potential military danger of a biological weapon containing vomitoxin , a substance that has been found in some of the samples of yellow rain . |
| 9 | Commercial and political freedom liberated the commercialised aristocracy and gentry to establish oligarchy in parliament and stately-home civility in the countryside . |
| 10 | The hourly off-peak service from Euston to Liverpool and Manchester was an early casualty when the service was cut back to a ninety-minute headway , but the most far-reaching change concerned the Anglo-Scottish services between Euston and Glasgow . |
| 11 | The political storm disguised the fundamental problems facing Westland which Cuckney , as chairman , and chief executive Hugh Stewart set about tackling . |
| 12 | A sole warrior survived the Eternal War . |
| 13 | As Ornithischosus increased in size its scaly skin replaced the bony armour as the danger from predators lessened . |
| 14 | But if their frankly messy performance at the last Heavenly bash in December served only to illustrate the gulf that now exists between gamely played ‘ real ’ instruments and the lush sheen afforded the high tech brigade , then tonight their strengths were all their own . |
| 15 | Mottle Foin , the only foin on which trees grew , little stunted pines making a black dappling on its surface , was the highest hill on the moor after Big Allen and now its rocky hump hid the Milder 's northerly curves , Pierce Foin and all of Lustley Dale . |
| 16 | Under United States pressure following the murder of three US nuns by the security forces , the junta appointed Duarte as President in December 1980 [ see p. 30685 ] ; he stood down in April 1982 when an interim administration succeeded the civilian-military junta . |
| 17 | Members of the superfamily are present in insects , where they are involved in forming of nerve connections ; thus the association of immunoglobulin-like domains in cellular recognition preceded the immune system in evolution . |
| 18 | In the long run it may be correct to argue , as Patricia Branca has done , that doctors were ‘ the logical answer to the middle class woman 's increasing desire for self-improvement and self-control ’ , but evidence suggests that medical and scientific expertise set the basic framework for discussion and action within which women tended to respond — albeit not always in an anticipated manner — rather than initiate . |
| 19 | As expected , increased dietary calcium increased the total calcium in faeces and this was only slightly stimulated by phosphate supplementation of the high calcium diet ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 20 | In creased dietary calcium decreased the fatty acid concentration in faecal water ( Fig 6 ) . |
| 21 | For its distinct absence of bridges , cave sets and other hazards , Carole Ann Ford 's favourite story remained the two part adventure set entirely within the TARDIS ‘ The Edge of Destruction ’ . |
| 22 | My favourite story involved the joint telecommunications company set up by GEC and Plessey in France and called GPT . |
| 23 | It was presented , to Darlington Harrier Andy Campbell , when the race was established as an open event in 1904 and given to Duncan McLeod-Wright to keep when the Scottish runner became the first man to win three times , in 1929 . |
| 24 | In Paris , the foreign ministry said the French embassy was attacked by about 200 armed men who opened fire on the building after surrounding it . |
| 25 | In Paris , the foreign ministry said the French embassy was attacked by about 200 armed men who opened fire on the building after surrounding it . |
| 26 | On Jan. 9 the Greek Foreign Ministry challenged the Albanian authorities to prove that the Pressos brothers were alive . |
| 27 | In a separate development , the Foreign Ministry told the Soviet embassy here that it wanted talks as soon as possible on the withdrawal of the 75,000 Red Army troops based in the country . |
| 28 | Following the October announcement , the Malaysian Foreign Ministry accepted the increased US use of Singapore 's existing facilities but reiterated that Malaysia would be unhappy with a permanent US base in Singapore . |
| 29 | On Jan. 15 the Syrian Foreign Ministry summoned the Turkish ambassador in Damascus to lodge a formal complaint , in view of the effects of the diversion on Syria 's water and electricity supplies . |
| 30 | On Sunday 3 December 1916 a German U-boat sank the French warship La Surprise and two other ships anchored in Funchal Bay and then lightly shelled the town . |