Example sentences of "[vb past] the [adv] [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Yet we can understand the bewilderment of a passing nurse as she caught the softly spoken words : |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But Cleo had only laughed at his insults , and later added the scornfully thrown coins to her collection in the stocking drawer . |
| 5 | Peter Lyth and Jill Hewett , Committee members , who have organised this event for yonks , surveyed the steadily falling snowflakes ruefully . |
| 6 | Burkett observed that money could even buy speed as they swung the precisely crafted oars through the beautifully modelled oarlocks . |
| 7 | In the proportional hazards models we included the potentially confounding variables of age , sex , race , education , marital state , systolic blood pressure , total cholesterol concentration , body mass index , diabetes , physical activity , alcohol consumption , poverty index , and cigarette smoking . |
| 8 | ‘ Editorial highlights of a busy year included the much praised Answers for Ulster series which provided three viewpoints on ways forward coinciding with the talks by Peter Brooke , ’ said Mr Barrons . |
| 9 | He stared up and down the street in incredulity as he watched the finely dressed women going about their daily tasks , as if a world war had never taken place . |
| 10 | At that time , as chairman of the parliamentary group , I urged the newly elected politicians to accept that , although some change was necessary , complete separation was not inevitable . |
| 11 | The first part of this article ( ‘ MI ’ No.33 ) recounted the popular version of Napoleon 's escape from his carriage under the very lances of the pursuing Prussians on the evening of Waterloo ; examined the highly suspect claims of the opportunist Maj von Keller , who gained riches and fame by the disposal of not one but two carriages , each with the same highly coloured provenance ; and described and illustrated the landau in detail . |
| 12 | The United Kingdom in particular regarded the organization as complementary and subsidiary to NATO , and accordingly stressed the strictly peacekeeping functions of the new force . |
| 13 | This 1760 Kalendar advertised the recently completed Figures of Plants : at twelve guineas coloured and six guineas ‘ plain ’ . |
| 14 | Often they axed the only approving comments , so that he looked a complete bastard . |
| 15 | One important feature of the German hyperinflation ( and indeed all hyperinflations ) was the massive increase in the quantity of money in circulation that accompanied the rapidly rising wages and prices . |
| 16 | Charles de Bues , RSPCA branch co-ordinator , said the rarely awarded certificates were being presented to recognise the physical effort shown by everyone involved in the rescue . |
| 17 | The solicitor said the newly formed Solicitors Criminal Bar Association were making representations to the Lord Chancellor 's office to scrap the legal aid changes and would specifically complain about last week 's hearing . |
| 18 | But an elderly man who lives nearby said the illegally parked cars make crossing the road extremely hazardous . |
| 19 | If the mid-nineteenth-century witnessed the increasingly polarized representations of women around the definitions of asexual purity/immorality , these oppositions also had a profound impact on class-specific forms of male sexuality . |
| 20 | David Murray 's arrival at Ibrox sparked the much heralded Rangers Revolution . |
| 21 | In 1987 a Sotheby 's appraiser valued the seriously damaged panels at $1.25 million , reaching that figure by dividing the auction price paid for a celebrated Thomas Hart Benton mural by three . |
| 22 | As always , I felt a rising tingle of excitement as I contemplated the meticulously shorn surfaces of my face . |
| 23 | Dobereiner , Newlands and Mendeleev grouped the then known elements by chemical properties , and found that their masses formed a steady sequence , with very few exceptions . |