Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] the [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How is it that Television South West passed the quality threshold , offered by far the most money but still lost ? |
| 2 | The permanent secretary in each ministry became the accounting officer responsible to the Treasury for the expenditure of the money allocated to his ministry . |
| 3 | Born less than 100 years ago , cinema became the art form of the 20th Century . |
| 4 | ‘ I have been described as lacking in chivalry , ’ he said , and his flat Midlands accent made the word sound medical . |
| 5 | The other branch became the yang style that is popular in the West today . |
| 6 | The ground floor of the Times Building housed the Business Office ( Circulation , Want-Ads , Accounts and the private office of Mr Thomas Miller ) at the front ; behind it was the Composing Room with its rows of eight linotype machines along the north wall and the fonts of type and form-tables . |
| 7 | So the board made the Income Tax ( Building Societies ) Regulations 1986 ( S.I . |
| 8 | ‘ Mo ’ cars , ’ he pronounced , excitedly pointing a finger towards the foot of the hill where the lane met the village street in a T-junction . |
| 9 | Until the British parliament passed the Naturalisation Act in 1870 , the Queen 's subjects had been unable to renounce their citizenship . |
| 10 | ‘ You know what to do ? ’ the Prince asked the brigade commander in his native French . |
| 11 | The case concerned the tax liability of teachers employed at Malvern College , a fee-paying school , under a concessionary fees scheme which allowed members of the staff of the school to have their sons educated at the school at 20 per cent of the fees charged to the public . |
| 12 | Cornelius raised the rough iron catch and the storm caught the inn door , blasting it forwards . |
| 13 | The 44-year-old Prince lamented the generation gap but joked that ‘ even at my advanced age I can make a muddle ’ . |
| 14 | This of course involved the trunk route 16/18 , from the Embankment via Kennington , Brixton and Streatham to Croydon and Purley , which still carried very heavy traffic . |
| 15 | American Express entered the travel business in earnest in 1915 . |
| 16 | Another important case involved the spreadsheet program Lotus 1-2-3 and a compatible spreadsheet program called VP-Planner . |
| 17 | The DUC announced the PERG study at the VEC seminar . |
| 18 | Suddenly the wind made the plant move , and Mary saw something under the dark green leaves . |
| 19 | 13 MINUTES : Goddard , whose return to the side made the team tick , crossed for Guentchev to beat the Saints ' offside trap . |
| 20 | A fairly long search produced the account book for the club which existed from 1886 until 1920 ( with a break during the war years ) . |
| 21 | The entrance divided the north wing into two unequal parts while the bath-house , placed beyond an outer court , was reached by a covered corridor . |
| 22 | In effect became the target unemployment rate while , was the unpleasant , but inevitable , concomitant of this target rate . |
| 23 | The revenue repaid the building society the moneys with interest from 31 July 1987 but refused to pay any interest in respect of the period up to the date of judgment . |
| 24 | The same sort of thing is true of ( 17 ) — ( 20 ) below : ( 17 ) By 1853 , the new partnership announced the precision vernier calliper as the first fruit of their joint efforts . |
| 25 | It 's like I said , the witness got the licence number garbled . ’ |
| 26 | She stayed where she was , waiting to see him come down the senior run , and her first sight of his black-suited figure made the breath catch in her throat . |
| 27 | It came as senior members of the magistrates association met the Home Secretary in London to seek changes in the new fines system . |
| 28 | Because of the financial value attached to insurance policies , records were preserved with extreme care and existing records migrated to a new medium only when two criteria were met : first , that the technology was completely proven , and second , that the number of policies in force made the transition practical . |
| 29 | D'Arcy contemplated the glass in his hand , turning it so that the light caught the cut crystal edges . |
| 30 | Referring to widespread stresses Hare reviewed the carrying capacity of the earth , and planetary air pollution and climatic change with considerable vision and in ending on a fairly optimistic note commented : |