Example sentences of "[art] [n mass] [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir William Montague , who was the king 's chief supporter and evidently the leader of the group , was granted £1,000-worth of land because he ‘ had nobly laboured ’ in arresting Mortimer ; the £1,000 included the Mortimer lordship of Denbigh . |
| 2 | The election in Martinique Saint-Luce went to a second round in July when the PPM defeated the UDF . |
| 3 | The data included the days just before delivery when , for most futures ( but not index futures ) , volume falls sharply . |
| 4 | The data established the depth to basement rocks , and are of hydrogeological interest because anomalous conductivities arising from saline water at the base of the chalk aquifer are readily detectable . |
| 5 | The aircraft departed from Bristol Airport for a non-scheduled flight to Base and there was no evidence that the flight was other than routine until the aircraft reached the Base/Mulhouse terminal area . |
| 6 | Powered by a converted Ford V6 , the aircraft carried the markings of Billy Bishop , Canadian commander of 85 Squadron , RFC . |
| 7 | The aircraft crossed the overrun , rolled down an embankment for an additional 250 feet into Mountain Creek Lake and came to rest fifty feet off shore . |
| 8 | If the left red wing tip light is on the right of the flight path and the right green light is on the left , then the aircraft struck the ground inverted . |
| 9 | It goes without saying that while all this is going on the engineering investigator will be on the look-out for any indication of a pre-crash failure or fracture of any part of the structure or aircraft components since , although the wreckage will inevitably include very many broken units and pieces of structure , any serious defect that was present before the aircraft struck the ground is likely to be significant , if not fundamental , to the cause of the accident . |
| 10 | Acceleration two up , with half tanks , was smooth and sure and the aircraft left the ground at about 30 knots . |
| 11 | The aircraft hit the runway flat and at speed with unavoidable consequences . |
| 12 | The aircraft hit the top of a nhangar and came down out of control on the edge of the runway at RAF ST Athan . |
| 13 | Mike , though he not have thought it at the time , was extremely lucky , as the aircraft hit the ground the fuselage broke open , his helmet came off , became lodged in the opening and was then crushed as the fuselage closed again . |
| 14 | Then when we finished and come out we er there was such a commotion in the street while we were in there taking aircraft spotting a , a German aircraft had come over and it had dropped a bomb on the gasworks had the plane , and we had known nothing about it . |
| 15 | The infantry replaced the cavalry as the army 's mainstay , and the emphasis was placed on European-style firearms and artillery . |
| 16 | The meaning of a sentence in English , and in languages with similarly fixed word order such as Chinese , often depends entirely on the order in which the elements are placed ( cf. The man ate the fish and The fish ate the man ) . |
| 17 | The fish loved the change in water conditions and spawned again almost immediately . |
| 18 | The lower divisions of the vertebrata precede the higher ; — the fish preceded the reptile , the reptile preceded the bird , and the bird preceded the mammiferous quadruped . |
| 19 | The only thing that worked with the odd fish was the open bale-arm , but more often than not the bream dropped the bait before I struck . |
| 20 | The statistics showed the disparity in more stunning form : Duran connected with only 84 punches in the 12 rounds but threw 588 , a percentage of 14.3 . |
| 21 | They were right the eel tipped the scales at 2lb 2oz for best of the day ! |
| 22 | The lira ended the day up around 965 to the German mark from the 976 opening and well clear of the record 980 lows it had touched earlier in the week when the vote was announced . |
| 23 | The Apache lacked the grace of Cessna 's more powerful model 310 but its design aims were that it must be undemanding to fly , cheap to buy and inexpensive to operate . |
| 24 | As his army approached close to the walls of Toulouse itself the townspeople seized the opportunity to emancipate themselves from comital authority . |
| 25 | Failure of the archeus followed the intrusion of some alien ferment , leading to disease of the organ . |
| 26 | According to one rabbinic tradition ( preserved in Midrash Tanchuma 26 ) when the law was given on Sinai , ‘ the ten commandments were promulgated with a single sound , ’ yet it says , ‘ All the people perceived the voices ’ ( Exod. 20:18 ) . |
| 27 | The old shops along East Brooklyn Avenue were crumbling , but the people brought the street to life . |
| 28 | Before Sinai , one could argue , the people had the excuse of not knowing any better . |
| 29 | Later , if the people endorsed the proposal by their vote , the parliamentary system might be replaced by a corporate state along the lines that Franco 's Spain was subsequently to follow . |
| 30 | Many had left Europe precisely to escape from its problems , and the majority of the people supported the position adopted by Woodrow Wilson , the Democrat who was then President . |