Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [noun prp] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1635 these failures , together with his acquaintance with Congregationalist thinkers and his own Bible study , apparently led Offwood to reject the Reformed Church and embrace Congregationalism . |
| 2 | ( Indeed , not only did Beccaria use the concept of utility , but Bentham himself acknowledged his intellectual debt to Beccaria in the most fulsome terms and is even believed to have first encountered the phrase ‘ the greatest happiness of the greatest number ’ in Beccaria 's master work : see Beccaria , 1963 : x-xi , 9 . ) |
| 3 | If a diabetic patient was in need of so-called ‘ balance ’ — namely , the appropriate injection of human insulin for the control of blood-sugar levels — equally so did Morse require the occasional balance of some mildly erotic fancy in order to meet the demands of what until recently he had diagnosed as a reasonably healthy libido . |
| 4 | She closed her eyes briefly to say a silent prayer of thanks that , not only had Stephen received the son for whom he had so longed , but that the baby was the image of his father . |
| 5 | Thus , Bollaert , who had replaced d'Argenlieu as High Commissioner , apparently wanted France to take the initiative and to pronounce the word ‘ independence ’ in a major speech on 15 August 1947 , the day on which India was to receive independence . |
| 6 | No sooner had Courtaulds read the comments by our Metro 's previous keeper , Jill Stanton — that the material had developed ‘ bobbly sweater syndrome ’ ( 25 July ) than they were inspecting the offending objects with microscopes and pronouncing themselves shocked and baffled . |
| 7 | But no sooner had Kylie mentioned the word overseas than the press began to report that she was about to emigrate from Australia to live in the United States . |
| 8 | On Jan. 20 , while in Moscow , Hurd formally invited Yeltsin to visit the UK , and met Shaposhnikov , Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev , and the Deputy Prime Minister supervising economic reform , Yegor Gaidar . |
| 9 | Hardly had Salisbury reached the others when the two men who sat their mounts on either side of the bound youth reined forward , taking the victim 's beast with them . |
| 10 | I automatically asked Cresta to make the arrangements , they are still the leading specialists . |
| 11 | He poured it into the glasses and handed her one with a mocking little bow that nearly made Hilary throw the liquid all over him . |
| 12 | This is the barrique-aged wine that gained cult status as A360P , the Michelin map reference of Grand Cru Muenchberg , when the appellation authorities temporarily forbade Ostertag to use the Grand Cru name on the label . |
| 13 | She also allowed Croatia to continue the claim first lodged by Yugoslavia in March 1990 . |
| 14 | Only later did Sukarno reveal the full venom of his animosity ( ‘ While I was taking hammer blows on the head his entire underground effort can be summed up by saying he sat quietly and safely away somewhere listening to a clandestine radio ’ ) . |
| 15 | He later left France to join the Polish Army in Britain and while in Johnstone , he met his wife and decided to settle in Scotland at the end of the war . |
| 16 | The following February , Carvajal and Simon de Caceres successfully petitioned Cromwell to allow the Jews to lease a bit of land at Mile End for use as a cemetery . |
| 17 | Sources close to the now banned UDA said the families of RUC officers would suffer ‘ if heavy handed police tactics continued . ’ |
| 18 | But in fifty years ' time we could be saying well did Jane pick the right one ? |
| 19 | Albert Schweitzer appealed for the same cause the following year , and in January 1958 Professor Linus Pauling , the Nobel prize-winning chemist , presented the signatures of more than 9,000 scientists to the United Nations secretary-general , Dag Hammarskjöld , warning the world of the genetic dangers of tests and calling for their immediate end — it was this which immediately influenced Sakharov to make the same appeal to Khrushchev . |
| 20 | Though the ascendancy he achieved over Nehru sometimes led Mountbatten to overestimate the extent to which great events lay in the hollow of his hand , he kept himself accountable to the British government throughout . |
| 21 | She could hear Tess moving about , and then saw Tess leave the house , fully dressed in her fashionable clothes . |
| 22 | Only then did Jane see the flag . |
| 23 | Only then did Francis notice the shadowy , shimmering figure between the two duellists . |
| 24 | Only then did Stevie hand the putter back to Patrick . |
| 25 | Only then did Leon approach the subject closest to his heart . |
| 26 | When the song was first released , Right Said Fred had the notion that it would find an audience in the gay club scene . |
| 27 | THE British National Championships at Crystal Palace at the weekend once again saw Wolverhampton dominate the proceedings , with their fighters Elvis Gordon , at heavyweight , Densign White , at middleweight , Fitzroy Davies , at light-middleweight , and Owen Pinnock the bantamweight all taking gold medals . |
| 28 | THE British National Championships at Crystal Palace at the weekend once again saw Wolverhampton dominate the proceedings , with their fighters Elvis Gordon , at heavyweight , Densign White , at middleweight , Fitzroy Davies , at light-middleweight , and Owen Pinnock the bantamweight all taking gold medals . |
| 29 | Although Nizan was entirely dismissive of the intellectual pretentiousness and inanity of Oswald Mosley , it is abundantly clear from his account of the incident that nowhere did Nizan underestimate the threat of fascism , even in the realm of kings and coronations . |
| 30 | Londonderry-based Trust members recently visited Armagh to discover the work being carried out in the city centre area . |