Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] the [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The futures led the cash market below the 2400 level first thing and the FT-SE 100 index proceeded to drift lower throughout the day . |
| 2 | A self-portrait and a portrait by Jean-Baptiste Greuze were bought in at a sale held at Drouot by Laurin-Guilloux-Buffetaud-Tailleur on 10 March after French museum authorities notified the auction firm the same day that the first work might not be allowed to leave the country . |
| 3 | Deficiency occurred during prolonged sailing voyages in the eighteenth century , when lack of fresh fruit and vegetables produced the condition scurvy . |
| 4 | The paper looked at education and social security but the most explosive set of proposals concerned the health service . |
| 5 | The arable coastal estates used the forest land as extensive swine pastures , with large herds roaming under the eye of swine-herds , whose camps occasionally provided the base of modern hamlets . |
| 6 | A judicial review by the Canadians dismissed the ice theory and , prompted by angry relatives of the dead soldiers , Representative Robert Tallon of South Carolina and 10 other congressmen have requested an investigation into the crash . |
| 7 | The ministry confirmed high levels of dioxin in the milk following tests carried out in March , and said some of the dairy products entered the food chain but there had been no public health risk . |
| 8 | The Macmillan government applied to join , the Heath government signed the treaty as it was , but at that stage basically the nation states retained the veto process which had been injected by de Gaulle into the original treaty . |
| 9 | In the cottage on the other side of the stables lived the village shoemaker . |
| 10 | On Tuesday , a group of MPs and peers met the Home Secretary on behalf of 17 people convicted in connection with the first two great IRA outrages on the British mainland during the present phase of the Irish troubles . |
| 11 | Businessmen outlined their views on future government policies when two General Election candidates visited the Belasis business centre , Billingham . |
| 12 | This makes it clear that the subjects found the recognition task difficult . |
| 13 | His eyes caught the cornflower blue of the Prince 's . |
| 14 | In fact , the index of integration into the black community which was constructed using these indicators correlated well with the extent to which the individual speakers used the patois characteristic of that community . |
| 15 | One of the secretaries entered the conference room with a message to ring the Plant Manager urgently . |
| 16 | Tracks on the gravel suggested that the local kids used the car park as a skidpan . |
| 17 | Nearly 17,000 readers used the reading room during the year , while the manuscripts ' reading room had almost 5,800 callers with a further 3,500 reading microform records . |
| 18 | Those of us with sensitive noses caught the rank whiff . |
| 19 | All subjects consumed the lactulose drink within five minutes and the rice flour pancake within 15 minutes . |
| 20 | DIDS reduced the uptake current by 49 7% , probably by binding to the carrier 's anion-binding site . |
| 21 | The wail of alerted police cars filled the night air , Gerald Kaufman left the premises with the help of a fire escape , the fate of the Tory Party being no concern of his . |
| 22 | The winners received the Banking Game Cup and a cheque for £500 . |
| 23 | Both parties adopted the name League of Communists — Party of Democratic Change , and announced that the LCY could only survive by embracing a clearly-defined democratic reform policy and by radically restructuring itself as a confederation of independent parties . |
| 24 | To add to his triumphs came the peace conference which began in Paris in February 1856 and which ended not merely with the signing of a peace treaty but also coincidentally with the birth of a son on 16 March 1856 . |
| 25 | Frenchmen recognised the crime passionnel . |
| 26 | ‘ The guards opened the passageway door and locked it behind me as Sir Ralph had ordered . |
| 27 | In the time when the dinosaurs dominated the daytime economy , our mammalian ancestors probably only managed to survive at all because they found ways of scraping a living at night . |
| 28 | During the first year of the war , evacuation , the closure of schools and other disruptions threw the milk distribution system into some disarray . |
| 29 | Sensors behind the sealed bulkheads measured the water pressure at up to four bars , equivalent to a water depth of 40 metres . |
| 30 | they mentioned he had an excellent game — and from the goals showed the scot goalkeeper could have done much better on two of the italian goals … specially the first one — a flat shot from far out and at an angle too . |