Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the researchers re-imaged the same area , they found they had created small groups of three atoms , arranged in a triangle , which appeared higher than their neighbours . |
| 2 | While these authorities restated the general rule attention was focused upon attempts to formulate and analyse the exceptions , especially where rights were accepted as having been bestowed upon a third party . |
| 3 | All summer English cricket has been highly suspicious about how the Pakistanis made the old ball swing about so violently . |
| 4 | It has been reported that the addition of minute amounts of phosphatidylcholines normalised the short nucleation time of bile from patients with cholesterol gall stones while having only a minimal effect on the cholesterol saturation index . |
| 5 | Their discussions produced the Linggajati Agreement , as it is called from the hill station where they met ( 12 November ) . |
| 6 | In terms of arguments about the Caucasian Albanians , a people which no longer exists but which in the Middle Ages inhabited the disputed region . |
| 7 | Overhead he could now hear the dull roar and crackle of fire , as the hungry flames devoured the old house above him . |
| 8 | Up to then Graham , 33 , had been mainly in control and had at times outclassed the 27-year-old Grant . |
| 9 | However , these were generally riskier and since many savers lacked the necessary information and confidence to invest overseas , it seemed a natural role for investment trusts that they should provide an indirect route into overseas markets for small investors who would benefit from the trust 's professional management . |
| 10 | ‘ Thus the groups countered the social alienation that often divides cancer patients from their well-meaning but anxious family and friends , ’ they write . |
| 11 | They were the classic forest hunters of Siberian whose family bands moved from place to place , camping in conical , deerskin-covered tents , the most common type of nomadic dwelling in the north , to which the Russians applied the Komi term chum . |
| 12 | By a letter of 17 October 1991 those solicitors asked the local authority to keep them informed about the progress of the assessment that was being undertaken of the father and his partner . |
| 13 | This time the H.Q. was in the old offices of Hiltons , in Ferry Road , and again true to tradition the Five Bells became the unofficial H.Q. |
| 14 | Other states shared the British unease . |
| 15 | The Times made the suggested link their front-page headline — Porn videos turned ‘ Fox ’ into rapist — while the Daily Mail used this theme in their editorial of the day , as part of their continuing campaign against porn videos . |
| 16 | Chola reached up to the arch above the doorway add seven times made the same imprint with the pad of her thumb on to seven discs of semi-dried cow-dung . |
| 17 | The new merchants lacked the political power to prevail . |
| 18 | Other presentments concerned the unwarranted felling of trees and cutting of branches in the forest coppices , and the overburdening of the forest pastures with unauthorized numbers of cattle , sheep and pigs . |
| 19 | Islamic states interrupted the planned order of speeches and stood up one after the other to back his call for an immediate appeal to the Security Council . |
| 20 | Four groups proposed the following pattern , remarkably , at identical points in the narrative : The reasons put forward in support of this pattern were interesting . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm not sure I do , ’ she murmured as her fingers traced the sensuous mouth . |
| 22 | His fingers traced the warm smoothness of her thighs and belly , then found the hot wetness at the core of her . |
| 23 | Some Guardians pursued the new policy more vigorously than others . |
| 24 | So these early groups used the newly-acquired strength of their stems to grow very tall and become trees . |
| 25 | The wire surfaces cooled the burning gas as it came into contact with them to a temperature below the ignition point of the gas outside the cage . |
| 26 | All courts had their stretches of boredom , even that of the Second Empire , in spite of its reputation for brilliance and verve , though habitués of other royal palaces found the French Court infinitely preferable to those of other European sovereigns . |
| 27 | In his opening speech party chairman Aleksandur Lilov declared that factional splits posed the greatest threat to the party 's future . |
| 28 | 1.3. a Although only 58 institutions provided the full questionnaire , they taught between them a large number of courses . |
| 29 | The Financial Times described the French attitude thus : ‘ independence [ of the central bank ] is a regrettable but unavoidable price to be paid to the Germans and the taboos of the Bundesbank ’ . |
| 30 | A leading article in The Times found the general approach tentative , but did not offer any criticism on those grounds . |