Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the following day the Senate was compelled to " freeze " the legislation after opposition deputies successfully appealed to the Supreme Court to block Senate ratification of the law until a ruling had been made on the constitutional legality of the AP 's parliamentary conduct during the lower house vote . |
| 2 | Carew , writing at the beginning of the seventeenth century , had then thought four hours underground was as much as a tin miner could endure , but six- or eight-hour shifts overwhelmingly predominated by the eighteenth century . |
| 3 | Environmental groups successfully appealed against the issue of the general permit , and in July 1987 , won an injunction which cut short the salmon season for the drift-net fleet . |
| 4 | November 2 , 1978 The solicitors successfully appealed to the House of Lords and the third party notice was restored . |
| 5 | The new regime 's most determined opponents eventually emerged as the Mujahedin-e-Khalq , led by Mas'ud Rajavi who established a base in Paris for some years and was reported in 1986 to have made his way to Baghdad . |
| 6 | When painting Cornish scenes Minton had been aware of the precedent set by Christopher Wood and The Times rightly saw in The Harbour an attempt to translate a Christopher Wood theme ‘ into the tragic idiom of modern painters ’ . |
| 7 | The very high bore tides rarely occured during the hours of darkness , but he knew this one was predicted to be a twenty seven footer , and that meant danger . |
| 8 | Public spending savings mostly came from the abolition of SERPS . |
| 9 | She 'd pointed out that it was stupid to talk about Tupperware parties as a means of raising funds since funds raised at Tupperware parties naturally went to the manufacturers of Tupperware . |
| 10 | Bleak black branches suddenly shone with the colours of dark red buds , of shining bark , of pale dry trunks that caught the sun and held it in their sinuous heights . |
| 11 | Partly as a result of this unexpected support , the band decided to release the Ukrainian Peel sessions on a 10-inch mini-LP , ‘ Ukrainski Vistupi V Johna Peela ’ , no doubt most fans just asked for The Wedding Present 's Ukrainian album . |
| 12 | ‘ Aye , yesterday ! ’ she exclaimed accusingly , seizing on the distraction when his words finally got through the strange fog in her brain . |
| 13 | Schools thus slipped into the danger of carrying out a new range of management tasks without the benefit of fresh definitions . |
| 14 | His body was twisted and his hind-parts and back legs still lay along the ground . |
| 15 | B. T. Some of the inspectors always appeared at the wrong time . |
| 16 | When people asked Mrs Maugham where her daughter got her brains from , she would sniff and shrug her shoulders and say , as though disclaiming a vice or a disease , " Well , she certainly did n't get them from me , she must have got them from him , I suppose " — a remark which Clara took years to place , in all its ambiguity , for the truth was that Mrs Maugham had done well at school , she had shone and prospered , and the evidence of her distant triumphs still lay around the house in the form of inscribed Sunday school prizes . |
| 17 | Although the main body of the hurricane had moved north , vicious squalls still tore at the mountainside , flaying the incessant downpour into giant whips of solid water that lashed across the meadow . |
| 18 | But many more thoughtful pacifists still clung to the hope that the appeasement of Germany 's Versailles grievances would serve to moderate , or even undermine , the Nazi regime . |
| 19 | The incomes of these basic organizations thereafter belonged to the area in which they were located and were lost to the parent organization . |
| 20 | Behind his thick spectacles , his eyes positively blazed at the sight of a completed chart just waiting to have lines drawn on it , and he was always very quick off the mark with his instant weather forecasts whenever any aircrews were planning a jaunt somewhere . |
| 21 | Whas probably belonged to the Benedictine abbey of Sherborne , for which the Missal was made , and Siferwas may have resided at Sherborne while decorating the manuscript . |
| 22 | Dissidents also protested against the continuing United States military presence in South Korea on the grounds that it hampered unification dialogue with the North . |
| 23 | And because the domestic style was unsuited to amplified discourse , the domestic rules of politeness also went by the board . |
| 24 | ( Two other candidates also stood in the first round : Mahmud Othman and Othman Abd al-Aziz . ) |
| 25 | Yet within two years three parties illegally took to the field in opposition to Tsarism , demonstrating the strength of feeling against the autocracy . |
| 26 | Drinkers also complained about the poor state of pub toilets and ‘ down at heel ’ gardens . |
| 27 | Tory supporters also turned against the BMA and angrily disrupted a BMA fringe meeting shortly before the health debate . |
| 28 | Forty or fifty years ago , Irish traders also came to the fair bringing crates of geese and pullets , and the locals would buy a goose from them to fatten up for Christmas . |
| 29 | Foreign Minister Francisco Ordóñez retained his post , and the Interior and Education ministries also remained under the same ministers who , like Ordóñez , were regarded as relatively independent of the PSOE . |
| 30 | Doubts instantly surfaced among the riders and David Nicholson , trainer of favourite Mighty Mogul , dashed onto the course to tell them to stop . |