Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The value of this approach became most evident in the period after the First World War , which many regard as marking the terminus of the era of belief in continuous evolutionary progress of human society . |
| 2 | But 1973 instead became most significant for the October Arab-Israeli War and a quadrupling of oil prices which further deepened the West 's economic difficulties . |
| 3 | It was a horrible practice , and became most common in the reign of Henry VII , and especially in the eastern counties . |
| 4 | Old land-owning families prospered and built under Queen Elizabeth I 's reign , but many of them became badly unstuck during the Civil War . |
| 5 | However , this view arises because a klima-genetische geomorphologie was proposed by Büdel ( 1963 ) and became widely available in the English reading literature in 1965 ( Holzner and Weaver , 1965 ) . |
| 6 | Instead of this , in the very act of shutting the door upon the departing couple , she became intensely aware of the house , as if she had now become the house . |
| 7 | In the Southern Ocean , in that great reverberating blue-green world I shared with nature , I became intensely aware of the way in which men and women have trapped themselves within cities . |
| 8 | We 've just emerged , pinching ourselves , from a decade when we got rather used to the unexpected . |
| 9 | They sometimes got incredibly bold in the competition for the fish offal ; I have seen a fisherman cleaning out the insides of a fish while a gull was hanging on to the tail tugging frantically in its attempt to get a meal ! |
| 10 | Dismayingly , things got little better in the post-Ottoman period . |
| 11 | In the event , the whole subject became rather fanciful in the writings of bygone heralds , their petty ‘ rules ’ never fully translated into practical expression . |
| 12 | Life now became rather difficult for the Durbeyfields . |
| 13 | In those circumstances , according to Mr Altman of New York University , the calculation about what capital structure to adopt became rather different from the conventional sort . |
| 14 | Their suspicions and anxieties were further fuelled when both Laud and the Archbishop of York , Richard Neile , were appointed to Charles 's privy council , and became intimately involved in the king 's plans to achieve a more ordered secular , as well as ecclesiastical commonwealth . |
| 15 | All at once she became achingly aware of the thinness of the cotton shirt that skimmed down over her thighs , the way the deep V where she had left it unbuttoned at the neck gave glimpses of the top curve of her breasts , and she immediately backed away . |
| 16 | There , a tired reminder of arrangements made sufficiently confusing by the first notice . |
| 17 | By the time the threat to their system became suddenly apparent in the summer of 1989 , it was too late to shift the sort of fabulous amounts rumoured at Christmas 1989 into foreign accounts . |
| 18 | At his recommendation , the uniform of the British Army was changed to khaki which became so familiar in the subsequent world wars , |
| 19 | Soon the room became so hot with the heat of the lamps , pupils had to strip down to their shirt sleeves and wear shorts when entering the room . |
| 20 | Because high-rise flats became so popular in the city in the 1970s , the demand for modular furniture appropriate for small residences rose . |
| 21 | Sinatra became so fond of the Lawfords that he kept a special room for them at his home . |
| 22 | O'Boyle eventually became so worried by the secret nature of |
| 23 | However , what such an analysis fails to take into account is that the evidence of wrong-doing that became so public in the United States would almost certainly have never surfaced in the United Kingdom , given the laws of libel and the willingness of the British people to tolerate secrecy in government . |
| 24 | Things became so bad for the Charles Bal later on in the evening that she had to spend the entire night tacking back and forth south east of Krakatoa , probably remaining within twenty kilometres of it — the ash-fall from the eruption was so thick that Captain Watson could not see well enough to steer away to safety , but ironically , the glare from the volcano provided a weird and somewhat improbable lighthouse . |
| 25 | This is insufficient to explain why radical protest suddenly became so salient in the late 1960s . |
| 26 | As such their contribution was crucial to the related locational changes in economic activity and in population which became so important from the third quarter of the eighteenth century . |
| 27 | The touring painters , however , showed little sympathy towards the quiet intimacy of the valleys and lakes which became so evident in the literature at the end of the 18th century . |
| 28 | From the sixth century the title papa became especially Roman in the West . |
| 29 | Now the fund-raising starts to redevelop the famous high-rise East Terrace , which housed so many of the 75,031 that saw Charlton 's Cup tie with Aston Villa in 1938 , and the temporary West Stand . |
| 30 | On the first official day of training on the course , the snow was soft and the conditions became extremely bumpy during the training run . |