Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I took over , it was evident that the need for new roads vastly outstripped the likely supply . |
| 2 | By their greater numbers in this sector — seven divisions to half that number of German — the Russians slowly drove the German centre back . |
| 3 | Encouraged , David pushed aside the flimsy bra , and his sensitive fingers gently kneaded the soft flesh that swelled under his touch . |
| 4 | The Germans naturally played the major role in shaping the CIVC and its undoubted success , both immediate and since , must to some extent be credited to the Germans ' reputation for organisation , efficiency and detail . |
| 5 | His fingers idly stroked the oiled metal of his exposed weapon . |
| 6 | The daily dose of 20 mg was chosen on the basis of volunteer studies , where doses of 10 mg and 20 mg four times daily suppressed the hypothalamicpituitary axis , whereas 5 mg four times a day did not ( Glaxo Group Research Ltd , unpublished data ) . |
| 7 | Moss and lichens rather blurred the precise details . |
| 8 | Backbenchers mostly made the same points that they had made over a year earlier . |
| 9 | In addition , because informants rarely knew the actual date of birth of their friends , it was not possible to obtain an accurate identity code . |
| 10 | None of the other parties apparently secured the 7 per cent minimum required to achieve representation , although five seats had been reserved for the two Christian Assyrian Parties . |
| 11 | The Scots thus faced the same challenge that Edward II had faced in 1314 , and the outcome was the same . |
| 12 | Darlington over eight rinks just had the better of a Nottinghamshire county side . |
| 13 | Some major parties quickly rejected the whole idea of the planned conference , regarding it as undemocratic , and called for a genuine national conference to draw up a new constitution . |
| 14 | Later designs further adapted the basilican plan with apses at both east and west ends and sometimes added short transepts . |
| 15 | For all her strange behaviour in rehearsals and in the office , she had held her position as director for eleven years and during that time the Tiller troupes still commanded the highest respect and dominated all other dance troupes . |
| 16 | But his eyes still held the old mockery and the remembered cynicism . |
| 17 | Each night as he lay in bed he would imagine himself catching the train from the local station — such reveries usually assumed the initial achievement of getting outside the camp — or stalking the frontier guards among the mountains with Switzerland a few hundred yards away across the snow … |
| 18 | Determined to break down chauvinism and confront the prejudice and suspicion of the unknown , the organizations also diminished the economic barrier to foreign travel by establishing the novel concept of the now standard , fixed price ‘ all-in ’ holiday which presented a defined objective to be budgeted for over a year . |
| 19 | Airships also began the first regular transatlantic services . |
| 20 | The authors also introduced the two main ways in which the propagation of radiation through leaves is modelled , the deterministic models in which the radiation flux is determined by means of differential equations , and the stochastic models which attempt to identify the probabilities of the various events in radiation transfer within the canopy . |
| 21 | American books often used the whole alphabet , but were not consistent , some printers being faithful to their origins , some insisting on independence . |
| 22 | Both eyes now had the same average experience , but since they were misaligned , cells would no longer be activated simultaneously by both eyes . |
| 23 | These losses roughly equalled the total inflow into the Mediterranean before the dam was built . |
| 24 | Meanwhile the Society of Motor Manufacturers today said the immediate outlook is bleak . |
| 25 | The schools particularly appreciated the supportive feedback , which was almost unanimous in its expressions of surprise for the complex nature and weight of responsibility of schools , of admiration for the skill and commitment of staff , and of concern for the level of resourcing . |
| 26 | And on his lips there died the cheery lay . |
| 27 | The negotiations that were taking place between the health authority and other organizations chiefly involved the other branches of the NHS . |
| 28 | Seldes marvellously captured the great down-town appeal of the movies when he spoke of the irresistible lure of ‘ the tinkle of a tinny piano playing a ragtime ’ which floated ‘ to the street from a darkened doorway ’ but the point about the movies was that they were not just a city or down-town phenomenon , they were everywhere . |
| 29 | Subjects then ingested the radiolabelled meal . |
| 30 | Two more subjects then repeated the 90-hour vigil , and similarly became extremely sleepy , especially during the hours between midnight and noon , reviving somewhat during the afternoons . |