Example sentences of "[vb past] [subord] [pos pn] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that time , some working class youths in London adopted as their uniform the long ‘ Edwardian ’ coats and tight trousers which had previously been worn by young men-about-town at the time of the New Look . |
| 2 | It took as its title the poem by Paul Celan , Death Comes as a Master from Germany . |
| 3 | The mid-1960s saw the development of models of temporary equilibrium , which took as their starting-point the assumption that the initial values of relative and absolute prices were arbitrarily given in the short run . |
| 4 | Lawrence took as his theme the idea of change and cyclical recurrence in nature as a whole and in Job as representative of humanity . |
| 5 | One student took as his topic the study of public information documents issued by Ministries , for the benefit of ordinary citizens . |
| 6 | I chose as my subject the person of the Buddha , tried to relate his teaching to Christians , expressed my deep admiration for him and pleaded for a more tolerant and positive attitude towards the religion which he had founded . |
| 7 | At first we outlined as our objective the elimination of the main characteristics of conventional tonal music by the following means : ( 1 ) we should avoid the use of conventional scale patterns ; ( 2 ) we should eliminate triadic chord formations , including not only major and minor chords , but also 7th , 9th , and diminished 7th chords ; ( 3 ) chord sequences resembling conventional cadences should also be avoided ; and ( 4 ) the total-chromatic should be used continuously . |
| 8 | The US Defence Department on June 11 announced as its goal the completion by Nov. 1 of the return of all reservists ( except volunteers ) from the Gulf theatre . |