Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the massive party afterwards the Seventies were celebrated in a most appropriate way : Gloria Gaynor , Thelma Houston and one half of the Weather Girls were on hand to perform the songs that defined the liberal optimism of the period . |
| 2 | She moved to the door and glanced back , warming to her mother , it was not often she expressed affection or even concern , she was a hard woman who had lived a difficult life but now and then a little softness crept into Win Morgan 's eyes that betrayed the real woman beneath the stern exterior . |
| 3 | She was trying hard to catch up with this new revelation , and it obviously was n't easy ; her expression more or less steady , it was mainly her eyes that betrayed the complex reprocessing of ideas that was taking place within . |
| 4 | The figure in the painting spoke of the human spirit and looked out at the world with a serene timelessness , and eyes that knew the great gift of being a master and an artist . |
| 5 | But seaweed and stones lodged in the uprooted bushes that littered the low hills and meadows ; beehives were found where they rolled in the bed of a stream ; fish lay silver in farmyards , and drowned sheep on the shore . |
| 6 | But they took no notice and jacked her out anyway , and the hospital was crammed with the odour of disinfectant and medicines and mechanical solidities that drove the pretty meanings away . |
| 7 | Growth continued to create shortages that expanded the black market . |
| 8 | None the less , the trustees were able to raise more than £70,000 towards the repairs of the church , funds that unlocked the crucial support from English Heritage and the National Heritage Memorial Fund . |
| 9 | This showed that management awareness profiles were circulated to the staff in 30 of the 34 units that answered the relevant question . |
| 10 | Van Laue supports this — ; ‘ the Soviets proved what seemed to be highly effective solutions to the crises that confronted the Russian state under the Tsars ’ . |
| 11 | His head must have fallen almost directly on top of one of the tall spikes that surmounted the old iron rail . |
| 12 | From the earliest days , no one in Emor was a mere individual : he was also the current representative of a gens , one of the great Emorian dynasties that dominated the political life of the empire . |
| 13 | But this is not the sole source of the loss because other subjects that received the final test with the light in context B maintained suppression to the light . |
| 14 | It was Smarties that made the coloured hand prints on the wall ; with Smarty ‘ buns ’ she would charm all the grown-ups , and with Smarty ‘ prezzies ’ they would encourage her performances and tricks ; with Smarties she would entertain her invisible friends ; Smarties bribed her to bed , to bath , to the toilet . |
| 15 | On this view , understandably , animals would be of no more worth in themselves than drugs or edifying books that produced the same effect . |
| 16 | Jane sat mesmerised at the array of expensive and exclusive shops that lined the narrow street — this was not how she imagined Dublin . |
| 17 | There were several words that meant the same thing . |
| 18 | Remembering what Garvey had said about comforting the sick dame , Gabriel leapt to the end of the play and snatched at the only words that seemed the right ones for these poor corpses , these walking dead : |
| 19 | Yet all that feeling , all that energy , discharged itself into the void so long as it did not flow down one of the channels that made the great wheels turn — in Edinburgh , in London and Paris . |
| 20 | In the months that preceded the general election to the short-lived Northern Ireland Assembly set up by Whitelaw , a number of explosions occurred in church and other emotive buildings in quiet parts of the country with no terrorist problem . |
| 21 | The vestries that pre-dated the modern system of local government were sometimes centres of party political activity at the beginning of the nineteenth century , and this activity was carried forward into the town councils and other local bodies in Victorian England . |
| 22 | The countries that were under the control of ruling Marxist-Leninist parties represented , for the USSR , the ‘ world socialist system ’ , a community of nations that shared the same political , social and economic interests . |
| 23 | The harnesses that supported the two Chelonians swung from side to side , knocking them against the sides of the tank . |
| 24 | Mr Travers , who drew his figures from public expenditure White Papers , said the sectors that enjoyed the biggest rises were education for the under-fives ( up nearly 90 per cent ) and children with special needs , both favourite Labour targets . |
| 25 | The pattern shop was a haven of relative peace and quiet , reminiscent of cottage industry , a place where carpenters fashioned the wooden shapes that contributed the first stage of the moulding process . |
| 26 | Emelia Kanthack commented that she ‘ always approached my East End patients with my very best manners and extended the same little courteous considerations to them that I would have served towards a lady ’ . |
| 27 | Phoebe opened her eyes and saw the abstracted professional look in the doctor 's face ; attentive not to Phoebe but to the lump , to the breast itself . |
| 28 | The wind whisked past her ears , her stomach lurched ; she opened her eyes and saw the white , freckled child screaming , his mouth open like a great dark cave , clinging on to the side of the boat with his frail clean-scrubbed little hands . |
| 29 | She followed the direction of his eyes and saw the bloodied sheet . |
| 30 | Athelstan immediately closed his eyes and sniffed the sweet odour of fresh scrubbed parchment and vellum . |