Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That effectively made the game safe for the tourists , but there was little to commend in a cold and often bitter contest . |
| 2 | The full manufacturers ' list of 24 models which were considered not satisfactory ( and presumably failed the government test ) is : Boots 500 ; Brother MF1200PW and MF3200DB ; Electrolux NF4061 , NF4065 and NF4076 ; Goldstar ER350ME and ER535ME ; Hoover H6312 ; Matsui 260TC ; Moulinex 059 ; Philips AVM625 and AVM734 ; Proline M3030 ; Russel Hobbs 8504 ; Samsung RE570D , RE576D and RE990CT ; Sanyo EM2714BR ; Sharp R-7A50M and R-8H50(B)T ; Toshiba ER9610EW-1 and ER9630E ; Tricity MH1081 . |
| 3 | New hedgerows planted totalled 16,500 miles , but these mostly lacked the species diversity of the older ones . |
| 4 | After Martin 's death his son Jean continued to reside at the rue de Harlay , and presumably became the master maker of the workshop . |
| 5 | Though the group which dominated the executive board of the National Association tended to be drawn from the secularist , radical circles of the metropolis , the women and men who effectively led the repeal movement came from the same provincial backgrounds which sustained many other mid-century reform groups . |
| 6 | Added to the Right-On readers , they effectively expanded the core group and provided a viable number of buyers . |
| 7 | Have new television channels , satellite cable etc. made the film critic redundant and fit for an academic existence only ? |
| 8 | The Dutch should have been aware of it , but strangely the RLD gave the KLM DC-10s a Netherlands certificate of airworthiness , or rather validated the US certificate , notwithstanding their considerable reservations about the strength or ventilation of the cabin floor . |
| 9 | They evolved further , and eventually perfected the DNA code that we know today . |
| 10 | However , we had previously shown that a 2.3kb HNF-L promoter fragment linked to the Thy-1 gene was not expressed early in development , but rather mimicked the expression pattern of the Thy-1 gene ( 28 ) . |
| 11 | The availability of cheap quinine , which opened up many tropical areas to European penetration , came about when Clements Markham successfully transplanted the cinchona plant from South America to India via Kew in 1859–62 . |
| 12 | And mother kept a shop , a sweet shop , on Eastwood , opposite where they eventually built the Eastwood Empire . |
| 13 | Last Friday 's shambles , when Joyce Gould effectively re-wrote the leadership contest nomination rules to try to ensure that a leadership contest actually took place , was merely the nadir of a process that has seen the people 's party acting according to the slogan of ‘ all power to the apparatchiks ’ , and losing its soul , its sense of purpose , much of its membership — and the general election — along the way . |
| 14 | In 1880 he successfully moved the Buckland yew , with a documented age of 800 years . |
| 15 | ‘ On the album I mostly used the Demeter head , the tweed Deluxe and an amazing 1950s 4x10 ’ Fender Bassman that I borrowed . |
| 16 | The president of Rodez , Philippe Laut , rightly rebuked the Beglès man . |
| 17 | Across the road in Parliament in the late sixties , as Wilson , Castle and Crossman wore themselves out in the cause , as they saw it , of a more modern and socially just Britain , there sat in the Leader of the Opposition 's office a man who not only shared the Jenkins view of workload but was planning exactly what he would do about it if the electorate gave him his chance . |
| 18 | Izanami henceforth became the Earth Mother , the prime goddess of Shinto , and presided over the Underworld . |
| 19 | Surridge inherited and greatly expanded the family bat-making and sporting equipment firm . |
| 20 | ‘ In a subsequent editorial the newspaper fiercely attacked the CPS decision … and questioned whether the CPS would have made the same decision if the woman had been a black girl caught in exactly the same way on Broadwater Farm . |
| 21 | And Mr Allen , dividing his time between his job and the hospital , constantly made the return journey from their home in Provident Street , Parr . |
| 22 | This not only disturbed the Junker sense of social stability , but played havoc with their income since it opened up the estates to the market force of unfettered labour : the Junkers were obliged to acknowledge a world that they had been desperately trying to shut out . |
| 23 | The hon. Member for Dagenham quite rightly used the Government figure of £780 million as the amount by which the discount system will be beneficial to single-person households . |
| 24 | It was not quite the act of immediate robbery it may sound ; rather than dispossessing local people of much-cherished common rights , it merely reinforced the long-drawn-out process of their gradual erosion . |
| 25 | It indicates the means whereby a form of Christianity which entirely circumvented the Pauline orthodoxy of Rome began to establish itself in Western Europe . |
| 26 | With that she reached out a tentative hand and gently stroked the silver hair . |
| 27 | They prudently used the exercise court that Jeopardy never frequented . |
| 28 | It 's obvious that Jenner only used the insulin project to further his own work . ’ |
| 29 | He only used the ground floor as a café , anyway . |
| 30 | It 's in the process of providing one at Benson , and it only provided the Heyford site because it had done a deal with the City Council over land and that |