Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is evidence of a religious enthusiasm more acceptable to the establishment among the nobility , some of whom appear to have either anticipated or eagerly embraced the official establishment of new liturgical feasts in devotional offices in their private chapels . |
| 2 | It was he who ended the war with Athens , or perhaps turned the hot war into a cold one ( because satraps continued to subvert Athenian-supported democracies in Anatolia ) : after the Persian recovery of Egypt in the 450s Athenian aggression against Persia was checked , except for a brief campaign in Cyprus at the end of the 450s . |
| 3 | ‘ David more or less said the same , but I really do n't know what to think . |
| 4 | I believed at the time that I more or less grasped the metaphorical implications of this , but after I had put the phone down I found I was not as clear as I should have hoped to be about exactly what was required of me in concrete practical terms . |
| 5 | The remaining half-dozen or so clasped the last tattered shreds of the undergraduate life around them to keep out the cold winds of the world . |
| 6 | Apart from the military and administrative functions of the town , which included offices for collecting taxes from native and Russian alike , there was the beginning of a perish structure established by Orthodox clergy who had accompanied or soon followed the first government forces . |
| 7 | I see from my Logbook that Geilenkirchen , Abbeville , Hirson , Hannover and Hamm amongst others appear as targets but I was never convinced that we either found , damaged , or even delayed the German masses ' progress through the Low Countries . |
| 8 | It was almost as if he had no body , because no part of it hurt , or itched , or shivered with cold , or even felt the wooden planking through the quilt . |
| 9 | He wondered how many people in all the mental hospitals in the country — or the world " , — come to that — were really fallen Warriors who had either cracked up from the strain of trying to live in this hell-hole , or simply made the wrong choice and thought that the test was just seeing through the whole thing and then having the courage to stand out and make that challenge . |
| 10 | She ogled the portrait of Beau Brummell , and intimately massaged the full-length marble statue of George IV . |
| 11 | The incoming government proposed to diversify Codelco 's production and vigorously opposed the new law , from which the article restricting Codelco 's operations was ultimately removed . |
| 12 | They championed measures for the relief of Quakers in 1696 and after 1710 , and vigorously opposed the Occasional Conformity Bills of 1702 – 4 and the Schism Bill of 1714 . |
| 13 | As lord mayor ( 1732–3 ) he co-ordinated the City 's opposition to Walpole 's excise bill in 1733 , and vigorously defended the raucous jubilation that accompanied its withdrawal from the Commons . |
| 14 | Encouraged by the Labour government of 1964–70 and the attempt of the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation to restructure parts of British industry , GEC took over AEI and English Electric and successfully reorganised the ailing electronics industry during the 1960s by rationalisation , elimination of duplication and elimination of excess capacity . |
| 15 | Hooker Phil Kearns , at only 24 , is undoubtedly going to be around for many years to come and successfully led the Australian under-21 team to victory over New Zealand under 21 's four years ago . |
| 16 | The government replied with the introduction of the ‘ Two Bills ’ , against seditious meetings and treasonable practices , and successfully aroused the contending arguments of conservatives and radicals throughout the land . |
| 17 | Last year , the Texas delegation in the House sided with American Airlines against repeal and successfully blocked the relevant bill . |
| 18 | The train stopped , and instantly passenger after passenger mounted the roofs , and thence saluted the Royal company with a united shout of welcome . |
| 19 | At this first stage , it is essential not to go too fast , but by now most people have already done so ; they have already jumbled the cube and thereby discovered the basic mathematical problem : how do you get back to where you started ? |
| 20 | The past approach — for instance , where they analysed statistics in terms of travel-to-work areas and lumped West Belfast and its massive levels of unemployment in with other areas and thereby diluted the whole thing down to 12 or 13% in the Belfast travel-to-work area which extended from Larne to Downpatrick — was n't helpful . |
| 21 | One was a technological convergence which raised productivity levels in European and Japanese industry and thereby diminished the absolute superiority of US industry . |
| 22 | Not only one but both his elder sons did so , and thereby became the first Jewish officers to be commissioned . |
| 23 | Carol Moseley Braun won in Illinois and thereby became the first black woman , and only the second black person , to serve in the Senate . |
| 24 | The newly restored Japanese Emperor opened the line , and thereby scotched the bitter religious opposition that had been aroused against the building of railways . |
| 25 | At the time of his death Kaysone was state President and president of the ruling Lao People 's Revolutionary Party ( LPRP ) , and thereby held the two most powerful posts in Laos . |
| 26 | They had second thoughts and eventually challenged the legal effectiveness of the memorandum . |
| 27 | The contest which followed involved parents , the school managers and their headmistress , and eventually implicated the local and central state . |
| 28 | The trail strayed round and eventually reached the small clearing . |
| 29 | After moving to Willesden in north-west London he became the scourge of local boxers and eventually became the first black man to hold a British title when , in 1907 , he beat Curly Watson in the fourth of a scheduled twenty rounds to take the welterweight championship at the ‘ Wonderland ’ venue in the East End of London . |
| 30 | The school later moved to Gower St , was granted a royal patent , and eventually became the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art . |