Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had n't been paying much attention to what Throgmorton had been talking about on the way here , but he recalled his ears had caught the unpleasant words ‘ casting vote ’ , and ‘ your important role as president ’ . |
| 2 | Partnerships had enabled the use of community schools at Liphook and Bordon to be run so as to offer their facilities to the public throughout the year , and the new methods had reduced the inevitable deficit of the sports centre to well below the national average . |
| 3 | Voters in these constituencies would choose between whichever two candidates had won the largest numbers of votes in the first round . |
| 4 | His eyes had turned the same colour and I caught a whiff of that strange perfume which sometimes emanated from him , sweet but sickly . |
| 5 | She muttered incoherently but the sound was happy , and her eyes had lost the terrible haunted stare of madness . |
| 6 | A thousand eyes had watched the brief altercation , and now the whispers began in earnest . |
| 7 | The judges took only 80 minutes to decide the level of fines after ruling the journalists had breached the strict provisions of the 1981 Contempt of Court Act . |
| 8 | As already stated , the clergy had sustained the catholic — nationalist populace over centuries of oppression . |
| 9 | The report claimed that Khmer Rouge fighters had attacked the 5th military region 's command based in the city as well as Bek Chan airport . |
| 10 | In October of that year the AR regretted that nearly all competition entries had evaded the key problem and had signally failed ‘ to achieve the genuine pub atmosphere ’ . |
| 11 | No one in the cars had seen the tottering figure further down the road . |
| 12 | Since the UndergrounD Group took over , the Company 's cars had carried the statutory lettering at the bottom of the rocker panel , but had displayed no badge or fleet name . |
| 13 | Faithful readers will recall that , despite being bottom of the Banks Group Northern Youth League , the lads had played the entire season without a booking or sending off until the catastrophic 82nd minute of the final game . |
| 14 | With the words had come the fleeting impression of dark , sinuous creatures who could slither out of the shadows and wind their cold , serpentine fingers about you , so that you were trapped , who could twine about your entire body , so that you were smothered and suffocating from the cold embrace … |
| 15 | Anterior and posterior images of 30 seconds durations were recorded at 15 minute intervals starting immediately after the subjects had ingested the first course of the meal . |
| 16 | What the blustering and bullying of Henry VIII had failed to do in the 1540s , the gentler approach of Henri II had now achieved triumphantly ; the Scots had given the French king what they had refused to the English one , control of their queen and , it seemed , control of their country . |
| 17 | The German grain-growers had felt the transatlantic threat , but also wished to protect themselves against Russian grain , cheaply produced and easily distributed by rail . |
| 18 | RSPCA inspectors had combatted the vicious ‘ sport ’ of dog fighting in the region with 14 convictions compared to five in 1990 . |
| 19 | Commenting upon their total experience of Minor award schools , DCSLs also noted that a few schools had misconstrued the long-term intentions of the project and had cut library capitation in years following external funding . |
| 20 | The Communists had abandoned the Leftwing Movement in 1929 and it had immediately collapsed . |
| 21 | Two promoters had obtained the same A G ( all mutations are indicated for the upper strand ) substitution at position -65 , two promoters had obtained an A G substitution at -72 , three promoters had obtained double mutations : A G at -65 together with C T at -1 , A G at -65 with C T at +4 and A G at -65 together with A G at -33 . |
| 22 | By Nov. 19 , 59 countries had ratified the 1984 UN Convention against Torture [ see pp. 33619-20 ] , the most recent signatories including Germany , Paraguay , Somalia and Guatemala . |
| 23 | In the spring of 1915 Prime Minister Asquith declared to the House of Commons that the continued enlistment of British sailors , the internment of enemy aliens and the recall of allied seamen to their own countries had reduced the maritime labour force to 85 per cent of its pre-war strength . |
| 24 | Evidence that the drug cartels had infiltrated the latest judicial security system came with the murder of Myriam Rocío Vélez , 38 , a district court judge in the city of Medellín , who was shot dead by unidentified gunmen on Sept. 18 . |
| 25 | But after the All Blacks had won the Second Test 59–6 Mains was rather more relaxed and in fact exuded some confidence about the prospects of his new-look team . |
| 26 | carried out an experiment in which four- , eight- , and twelve-year-olds were asked to indicate which member of a pair of blocks had made the other block move . |
| 27 | like vapour trails had scarfed the distant stars |
| 28 | The secretive greed of the bankers had replaced the open belligerence of the aristocrats as the main threat to peace . |
| 29 | Established British companies had exploited the first whiff of pop vitality , with ABPC putting the saccharine personality of Cliff Richard through his paces in The Young Ones ( 1961 ) , a let's-have-a-show musical where all possibility of an interesting inter-generation clash is defused by the fact that its hero works for , and adores , his father , the property developer who wants to destroy the youth club ; and Summer Holiday ( 1962 ) , in which Cliff and the Shadows drive a London bus to Rome , pursued by the mother of the teen star they are thought to have kidnapped . |
| 30 | An official at Retix said , ‘ if these companies had taken the entire product , the industry would have seen transaction processing interoperability a lot earlier . ’ |