Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French government announced that it would take the strongest measures to ensure that Aoun met the conditions attached to his asylum , which included refraining from making public statements on political issues . |
| 2 | Oh , it was n't like this at all , I 'm sure , yet the shape silhouetted in the snow where the ice met the beach turned into our worst fears . |
| 3 | Although the concessions met the demands made at the start of an unprecedented national protest campaign on June 10 , they now failed to satisfy the opposition , who responded by continuing to call for Ratsiraka 's resignation . |
| 4 | The Court , together with the Emperor , had moved to Saint Cloud for the summer and it was there , at ten o'clock on the morning of 5 July , that Ollivier as head of the Ministry , together with Gramont , the Foreign Minister , met the Emperor to decide on a suitable response to Prussian provocation . |
| 5 | The 1893 Act allowed institutions a Parliamentary grant per pupil , but only if the institution/asylum met the standards set by the periodic visits of Her Majesty 's Inspector , so in order to meet these standards and obtain their grants , schools had to improve on the conditions in which the pupils were taught . |
| 6 | The first personal computer program which met the standards expected of today 's products actually ran on the IBM PC and was called DO-IT , but that 's another story . |
| 7 | The road pitched and banked over and around waves of sand and , periodically , I met the workmen busy with their shovels . |
| 8 | The divisional controllers also lacked the independence conferred by ministerial appointment on Area Board chairmen , and were more constrained when they were called regularly to London head office conferences . |
| 9 | By the end of the emancipation process , the authorities lacked the wherewithal to pay for the transference of land . |
| 10 | He lacked the skill to talk without revealing the hashed contents of his meal . |
| 11 | Not too often that a company goes back to a previous vendor after switching , but Hydro Mississauga Ltd of the eponymous Ontario town , is returning to the Hewlett-Packard Co HP 3000 with Mitchell Humphrey & Co financials , after three years of using an IBM Corp 4381 : the change is being made in an effort to save $2m in operating costs and gain performance improvements , dumping the 4381 for an HP 3000 Series 957 running HP MPE/iX ; it says the power of the new machine has enabled it to reduce its operations shifts from three to two and to cut overnight batch processing from 11 to four hours , and one table-loading job was shortened from 14 hours to 20 minutes — and on-line response time is ‘ significantly improved ’ ; it switched from an HP 3000 Series 70 that lacked the capacity needed in 1989 , moving to the 4381 with Dun & Bradstreet Corp software . |
| 12 | Garcia of Galicia lacked the ability possessed by his brothers and accordingly was the first victim of the discord among them all . |
| 13 | With our extraordinary background , Brian and I lacked the ability to cope with our contemporaries ; as English boys who had barely heard of cricket we were natural targets . |
| 14 | One possibility would be that the children lacked the ability to think about epistemic states , such as knowing , thinking and believing . |
| 15 | If the Situationist project is flawed , as I believe it is , it is not because antecedent theories of libertarians , Marxists and Council Communists are ignored by them , but rather because they lacked the will to build on this tradition a systematic utopianism consisting of critique and plausible projections into the future . |
| 16 | Police evidence to the Lords ' Committee had already shown that parish vestry councils were generally incompetent , badly run and lacked the funds to embark on private prosecutions . |
| 17 | Portugal struggled to score just one goal in Malta for their only win to date and after that game the Maltese manager , Phillip Psaila , said the Portuguese lacked the nerve to live with Switzerland , Italy or Scotland . |
| 18 | A forty-year madness , he had called it , one which had laid waste the best years of her young life ; yet he was back in the thick of his obsession now , and so elated by his own recent progress that he lacked the time to ask about her own . |
| 19 | Before the Act , section 5 of the 1936 Act was supplemented by a miscellany of powers to be found in local legislation , which empowered the police to deal with minor nuisances and acts of hooliganism . |
| 20 | This fashion for including rugs in paintings was translated into religious works : Nicholas di Buonaccorsa , Ghirlandaio , Carpaccio and many others depicted the Virgin sitting on a throne with an oriental rug spread out on the floor or steps in front of her . |
| 21 | Two of the servants doubled the funds entrusted to them and were praised for their efforts . |
| 22 | He divided the errors collected into three categories : substitution errors ( where an incorrect lexical item is produced instead of the target ) ; loss errors ( where a speaker fails to produce any lexical item ) ; and addition errors ( where a speaker produces more lexical items than intended ) . |
| 23 | It divided the forces arrayed against the Tsar . |
| 24 | In the same way as in previous analyses we divided the men according to whether or not the placental weight was above 1.25 pounds ( 567 g ) . |
| 25 | As the months passed the hate grew between the societies and the café also became sectioned . |
| 26 | ‘ You passed the exam to get into the place , did n't you ? |
| 27 | He presumed the noise came from the same motorbike he had seen on his first day at school and he asked Mould about it . |
| 28 | The Court of Appeal in R & B Custom Brokers Co Ltd v United Dominions Trust Ltd [ 1988 ] 1 WLR 321 , applied the criteria identified in cases under the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 including Davies v Sumner ( 1988 ) in resolving this question ( see pp46-8 ) . |
| 29 | If Christians wished to be educated , as some always had , and as more and more inevitably did after Constantine , they shared the education received by their non-Christian fellows . |
| 30 | The grandees never recovered the influence lost in the War of Succession , when they proved themselves politically unreliable , incompetent , and excessively tetchy . |