Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It means that the 55-60 per cent of the electorate who voted against the Conservatives will get what they voted for , instead of the 40-45 per cent who voted for the Tories , putting them in power for five more unfettered years . |
| 2 | Of the 28 per cent of the electorate who voted in the referendum , 53 per cent supported the ban . |
| 3 | Croom-Johnson J. plainly thought that he is ; one of the reasons advanced for accepting the contentions of the appellant was that , if the law were otherwise , the ‘ well meaning ’ defendant who went to the aid of the police and accidentally obstructed them would be guilty of an offence . |
| 4 | Enclosure as a subject for poetry is usually associated with Oliver Goldsmith who touched on the question in ‘ The Traveller ’ ( 1764 ) , before producing ‘ The Deserted Village ’ ( 1770 ) . |
| 5 | On Aug. 26 Edward Lee Howard , a former US Central Investigations Agency ( CIA ) agent who defected to the Soviet Union in 1985 , was refused permission to settle in Sweden on the grounds that he was a security risk . |
| 6 | Every mother 's son personally knew his friendly local CIA agent who lived round the block . |
| 7 | One was from a retired ship 's captain , now living at Fowey in Cornwall , giving news of his house and garden ; the others were impersonal , acknowledgments of subscriptions to various charities , and some business letters from the estate agent who dealt with the letting of the two other flats . |
| 8 | They were not always fair in their criticism : few today would agree with the New Statesman reviewer who wrote of The Lady Vanishes that ‘ the English should leave amorous wisecracking to the nation which invented and alone understands that art . ’ |
| 9 | Ironically it was Distillery who settled into the game and looked dangerous in a brief spell midway through the first half but in the space of two minutes Stephen Baxter 's shot was touched away by Kevin McKeown and midfielder Philip Mitchell 's header landed on the roof of the net . |
| 10 | Hare , the world 's greatest accumulator who retired after the Pilkington Cup Final in April , signed off with a club record total of 438 points last season . |
| 11 | One journalist who persisted on the point was referred to playfully as ‘ a Chartist or a Luddite ’ by one press officer , who added that there was also the argument that 600 Group should worry about staying in business and not about unemployment . |
| 12 | When the programme was originally devised in the USA the families had a therapy aide who slept in the house and carried out the programme with the child . |
| 13 | ALEXANDER MOGILNY , the Soviet forward who defected during the world championships in Stockholm , is among the Soviet contingent appearing in the NHL , which begins its 1989-90 season today , for the first time in the League 's 73-year history . |
| 14 | How could a sovereign who reigned by the will of the people resist totally such overt manifestations — confirmed as they were by the reports of similar sentiments being expressed the length and breadth of France ? |
| 15 | He was a poet who insisted upon the nature and value of a tradition , and yet he had no real predecessors or successors . |
| 16 | Shelley was a poet who spoke for the people . |
| 17 | J. S. Homes , the National Liberal MP for Harwich , made an early visit , closely followed by the mayor who arranged for the town band to give a concert . |
| 18 | Gollum was once a hobbit who came across the Ring by chance and keeps it for a long time . |
| 19 | Among his young parishioners was Whittington 's famous son , William Sturgeon , the physicist who lived in the cottage next to the Rectory and befriended the Horton family . |
| 20 | Gavin Nebbeling was a tall , upright , South African central defender who played for the Palace throughout the 1980s , but his career was continually dogged by injury and this rather limited his value , although his League appearances exceeded 150 by the time he moved on to Fulham in the summer of 1989 . |
| 21 | ‘ Sir Vivien is the eleventh baronet and is the only surviving son of Sir Tregarron Blacker , the celebrated big-game hunter who died in the sinking of the Titanic , together with his wife , Lady Mabel . |
| 22 | A SACKED chef who went on the rampage in his kitchen was landed with a £700 bill yesterday . |
| 23 | Jose Ramon , a new chef who arrived at the Guernica two months ago , will hopefully maintain these high standards . |
| 24 | Few grounds for optimism in these matters could be derived from the analysis of Paul Light who argued in The President 's Agenda that a chief executive 's success in getting his domestic policy agenda accepted would depend on his command of internal and external resources . |
| 25 | Portillo , in whom Nigel Lawson saw ‘ something quite out of the ordinary ’ , is the son of a Spanish law professor who fought for the republicans in the Spanish civil war and a left of centre Scottish school teacher . |
| 26 | History was taught by a whiskery professor who thundered about the Origin and Destiny of Imperial Britain . |
| 27 | One day he found himself in charge of the biggest train set in Never Never Land , and so he made some jolly exciting movies about friendly aliens , man-eating sharks , and an archaeologist who zoomed around the world thrashing Nazis . |
| 28 | A DEAF woman with speech difficulties was stunned , sexually assaulted and stabbed repeatedly by a killer who got into the flat where she lived alone , a court was told yesterday . |
| 29 | In the name of God Almighty , Father , Son and Holy Spirit , we dedicate this museum to the memory of all those of the Eighth Army Air Force who served in the Second War and in our dedication , we pray to Almighty God that there may be no third . |
| 30 | Requisitioned by the Home Office at the start of the Second World War the Manor provided accommodation for the Canadian Air Force who flew from the nearby air base of RAF Linton . |