Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [noun sg] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably this provision had the effect of discouraging the Secretary of State from releasing a convicted murderer on licence at a date earlier than the judiciary thought appropriate . |
| 2 | It took several minutes , and then suddenly another wave pulled the last line free , unwinding from her thigh , to relinquish its grip like some long thin tentacle . |
| 3 | Just that thought made the energy surge through her . |
| 4 | Thus this period saw the division of the global system into three ‘ worlds ’ : the first world of developed capitalist states ; the communist bloc , or second world ; and the less developed third-world states of the southern hemisphere . |
| 5 | Though she had the liquid brown eyes , the shiny black hair of a child , already this toddler had the little rough hands of a campesina . |
| 6 | Later that year came the first signs of health trouble when he was taken to hospital with a heart problem . |
| 7 | Whereas , in what he called the short Parliament of 1974 , no especially controversial measures could be introduced , the majority in the election later that year emboldened the government to take certain steps of a strongly political character , likely to arouse fierce opposition . |
| 8 | ‘ Moments later another lorry hit the side of my car . |
| 9 | Fifteen years later another official described the way an experienced litigant tutored witnesses : ‘ He examines , cross-examines , corrects , and directs those in their parts who are to appear in the real court and give their testimony regarding what they know , or are to pretend to know , on the day of the trial ’ . |
| 10 | It will not be the first match involving a South African representative side on West Indian soil ; symbolically that honour befell the Jamaican and South African under-19 teams who met in a 50-over contest yesterday just outside Kingston . |
| 11 | Now another misfortune befell the invaders . |
| 12 | Well that man bought the distillery in Stromness and broke it up and sold the timber out of it . |
| 13 | The results in table 3.4 were obtained for the test sentence : mary had a little lamb its fleece was white as snow and everywhere that mary went the lamb was sure to go |
| 14 | England 's management have not supported the view of New Zealand captain Martin Crowe , who earlier this winter raised the issue when his side were on tour in Sri Lanka . |
| 15 | But Roger Kirby , a Consultant Urologist at St Bartholomew 's Hospital , is one of a group of urologists who earlier this year formed the British Prostate Group in an attempt to persuade the DoH to fund such a study . |
| 16 | Another company that will be watching developments with interest is Sutcliffe Catering , which earlier this year won the staff contract for BA 's 45 sites — a total of 40,000 people . |
| 17 | The democratic parties that grew up in opposition to the military rule earlier this century kept the tradition of authoritarianism in their internal structure . |
| 18 | The selection of what are known as quince rootstocks by fruit researchers earlier this century changed the situation by bringing about a degree of control of the vigour of the grafted trees . |
| 19 | Tucker 's promoter , Don King , who earlier this month won the bidding for the fight , argued that ‘ special ’ circumstances should apply as Lewis did not technically win the title in the ring . |
| 20 | Then another diver dragged the shark by its tail to the beach at Lantana , Florida , where it was shot dead by a policeman . |
| 21 | We propose instead that magma exploited the 1989 fracture system which remained partly void until new magma filled it between June 1990 and June 1991 . |
| 22 | Not for nothing had this little procession presented the air of a party setting out to receive guests . |
| 23 | The chairman of the Central Electricity Generating Board , Sir Walter Marshall , said recently that ballooning posed the single biggest problem for the safety of PWRs . |
| 24 | A combination of iron contamination and too little inhibitor caused the explosion below , damaging power lines and tanks . |