Example sentences of "[vb past] the [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They applied the well established ploy of neutralising the troublemaker by proposing him for the position of chairman , where he is obliged above all to be impartial . |
| 2 | Somehow he made the softly growled question sound incredibly intimate . |
| 3 | He read the neatly typed letter … |
| 4 | Only in June 1989 , when the highest authority of the land became the newly elected Congress of People 's Deputies of the USSR and when the draft of the new law on the press provided for the abolition of censorship , did Novy Mir publish Medvedev 's story for the benefit of its 1,600,000 subscribers . |
| 5 | Not surprisingly this became the least selling Smiths record of them all . |
| 6 | In 1990 Hawke asked the newly created Resources Assessment Commission to adjudicate on the issue ; the report , filed in 1991 , recommended that mining should not be prohibited on environmental grounds , but it pointed out that the Hill was sacred to an Aboriginal group , the Jawoyn people . |
| 7 | Segun Ogundimu , who had earlier withdrawn from the race , voiced the widely held belief that " the moneybags have hijacked the parties … |
| 8 | And it fortified the widely held misapprehension that an industrial co-operative was of its nature unmanageable . |
| 9 | In 1875 he entered the newly established University College of Wales , Aberystwyth , where his contemporaries included many other nationally-minded young Welshmen . |
| 10 | Bob Tanner 's dark eyes were stern beneath the thick beetle brows that complemented the precisely cut head of black hair that was starting to silver at the temples . |
| 11 | This year 's keynote speaker is Robert Venturi , who designed the recently opened Seattle Art Museum . |
| 12 | Yet we can understand the bewilderment of a passing nurse as she caught the softly spoken words : |
| 13 | Central supervision of the Poor Law operated both through the regional inspectorate who supervised the locally elected administrators , the Boards of Guardians of each Poor Law Union , and submitted annual reports to the LGB , and also through circulars or memoranda to the Boards of Guardians . |
| 14 | It also mentioned the increasingly documented use of slave labour and the routine torture of prisoners and detainees . |
| 15 | For example , suppose the syntactic component used the pair-wise parsing process mentioned above to decide between different lexical hypotheses . |
| 16 | While Beth regarded the beautifully laid table , Cissie stood opposite , her big blue eyes proud and smiling . |
| 17 | But Cleo had only laughed at his insults , and later added the scornfully thrown coins to her collection in the stocking drawer . |
| 18 | Encouragement to reformers to maintain their commitment would bring its reward since ‘ no virtuous effort is ever ultimately lost ’ but such effort depended upon ‘ a union of wise and virtuous individuals ’ who recognised the providentially sanctioned nature of their cause . |
| 19 | She was conscious of his deeply sensual masculinity , and for the first time in her life recognised the electrically charged power of a virile male . |
| 20 | Although officially accorded little or no power , it could be argued that women 's culturally ambiguous position within Hebrew patriarchy resulted in a type of informal sub-structural power dynamic which in turn regenerated the culturally constructed fear of women necessary to patriarchal interests and explicit power concerns . |
| 21 | In the early months after nationalisation , for example , the ex-trade unionist chairman of the North Western Board , George Gibson , initially opposed the much needed price rises ( with the backing of his Board ) but Citrine was able to talk them round . |
| 22 | We painted the sinuously curving rice terraces ; the flower market ; temples ; breathtaking views . |
| 23 | ‘ Just coffee , ’ he told the discreetly hovering waiter . |
| 24 | Peter Lyth and Jill Hewett , Committee members , who have organised this event for yonks , surveyed the steadily falling snowflakes ruefully . |
| 25 | He continued to practise chemistry as a hobby in Enniskillen and after moving to Belfast in 1804 , and he prepared the recently discovered chlorine gas to help local farmers bleach their linen flax . |
| 26 | The conclusions of this study , which were delivered at the end of 1989 , confirmed the widely held view that takeover activity in the Community was operating on a one-way street : while the UK market was open to takeovers , this was not so for the rest of the Community . |
| 27 | Delaney turned the already hosing gun on to the nearest . |
| 28 | The Act abolished the separately elected school boards throughout England and Wales , bringing education under the control of the county and municipal councils . |
| 29 | This Government removed the right to belong to a trade union from the workers at GCHQ , and they abolished the democratically elected Greater London council . |
| 30 | The humiliating ‘ commercial ’ figures the British industry — the pioneer of civil nuclear energy — was obliged to produce in advance of privatization in 1989 practically trebled the previously estimated cost per kilowatt hour . |