Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This pattern was worn until 1959 when a merger with The Somerset Light Infantry resulted in The Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry being established ; since then the plain white metal bugle-horn of the light infantry has been worn . |
| 2 | All different people went in the meeting — the health visitor , the doctor , teachers — but I could n't go in . |
| 3 | Only in the late nineteenth century did these contracts generally disappear and instead the land was sold or let and the old people lived off the cash proceeds . |
| 4 | Gradually , the French people turned against the sale guerre . |
| 5 | AS temperatures soared into the 70 's all across the north west , sensible people headed to the nearest beach . |
| 6 | The remaining 17% occurred over the 10 seconds preceding the onset of the common cavity episode , being evenly distributed through this time . |
| 7 | The next day the Imperial Naval Staff looked at the plans once again and decided to accept Operation Z . |
| 8 | What gave this and subsequent works weight was their sheer authenticity : real people spoke through the text , via Terkel 's tape recorder . |
| 9 | And last night , we sang the top ten , in the Songs of Praise service , and it was a surprising how many extra people came to the church , as a result of that . |
| 10 | The station 's 240 remaining staff saw off the last of the nuclear fuel elements . |
| 11 | Combining life-histories with the use of personal documents such as letters and diaries can show how ordinary people lived in the past ( Plummer 1982 ) . |
| 12 | Brown and the remaining pair went through the front door . |
| 13 | Two blue-dark deer stood in the road , alerted . |
| 14 | On the night of 13 March the U.852 sank a steamer called the Peleus and then cruised round the area shining a searchlight on wreckage and survivors while the ship 's first lieutenant , doctor and engineer officer with two ratings picked up guns and grenades and by indiscriminate firing endeavoured to destroy all traces of the sinking before the patrolling aircraft arrived in the morning . |
| 15 | In Palace 's early days , and at least until the end of the 1920s , almost all the playing staff came from the North of England or the Midlands but Bateman was a popular and welcome exception . |
| 16 | This explains the influence that the Tory media had in the election . |
| 17 | Another reason might be that the human species evolved in the water . |
| 18 | Before the advent of the National Health Service in 1948 , prudent people belonged to the Infirmary League and one or other of the sick clubs run by Friendly Societies such as The Ancient Order of Foresters , The Oddfellows , The Rechabites and The National Deposit . |
| 19 | Many famous people danced at the Palais including the Duke of Windsor and the Duke of Kent from their yacht in the Firth of Forth . |
| 20 | They want me to walk out in Watts , like black people did in the '60s , and say ‘ Cool it , baby , cool it . ' |
| 21 | When he stood for Parliament numbers of poor people crowded round the hustings demanding the payment of outstanding bills . |
| 22 | But as new technical means evolved through the emergence of the keyboard and other instrumental idioms , the continual striving for closer relationship with texts ( particularly the various vernacular texts ) , and the novel conceptions of space and contrast , so the role of imitative polyphony became less important — particularly in secular music . |
| 23 | The general concern over the welfare of deaf people led to the formation of more institutes and to centres for the deaf being opened in towns and cities where previously none had existed . |
| 24 | In contrast , the nearest most deaf people got to the War was to receive training in rifle practice and to learn how to dig trenches in case the Germans managed to invade . |
| 25 | There are 300 displaced people crowded into the crypt of the San Roque Church and some 900 living on the sports field of the San Jose de la Montana seminary in San Salvador . |
| 26 | In The last Country Houses , a book which documents the death of the old tradition of hospitality , Clive Aslett records the response of a nouveau riche lady when told that some pleasant people lived near the rural seat her husband had just acquired . |
| 27 | In 1493 a battle between the Croats under Ban Mirko Derenčin and a force of 8,000 Turkish cavalry occurred near the town of Udbina in the Lika region . |
| 28 | Luminous fish lived in the salt water . |
| 29 | An anaemic aspidistra stood in the grate instead . |
| 30 | Several blind people complained of the excessive concern over their inability to make eye contact with clients and the difficulty they had convincing teaching staff that they could cope . |