Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [vb past] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That tovarisch lay in the earth , |
| 2 | Ever since that story broke in the papers , Creed seemed to be testing loyalties . |
| 3 | But he might at least be " useful " , as he had wanted , and part of that usefulness lay in the fact that , on one level at least , his poetry could have a public and national purpose — although , when the war had been won , he no longer cared to draw attention to those aspects of it . |
| 4 | Even up to the end of the eighteenth century it was widely held that mind resided in the spaces within the brain , the ventricles , rather than in the neural tissue itself . |
| 5 | Suggestions of this kind culminated in the creation of the foreign office which began its life in 1782 . |
| 6 | the er children 's television show they they occasionally show a Newfoundland pulling a boat , well now that 's the film that I made about ten years ago and this Newfoundland pulled in the boat . |
| 7 | Everyone got down very quickly as another shell exploded in the front garden of a cottage across the road . |
| 8 | This text appeared in The Sporting Chronicle on 4 June 1980 . |
| 9 | We might then perform a string search on the term ‘ Greenhouses ’ to discover whether this term appeared in the text of any of the documents retrieved by the original search . |
| 10 | This tragedy occurred in the last Grand Prix race on the old circuit and was won by James Hunt in a McLaren . |
| 11 | For example , the 1987/88 Programme of Work included a major review of the modules in Personal and Social Development ( PSD ) ; the fruits of this review appeared in the catalogue last April and the new and revised modules are being used for the first time this session . |
| 12 | Some jews went in the opposite direction by expropriating a territory in Palestine ( on the grounds of an historical occupation ) to substantiate their claim to being a nation . |
| 13 | This underthrusting began in the Early Miocene and contributed to the doubling of crustal thickness ( up to 80 km in places ) and the impressive subsequent uplift of the Higher Himalayas . |
| 14 | Another Stapler lived in the tiny Buckinghamshire village of Hogshaw , but his assets , totalling £300 , were exceptional for a country district ; he ranked as a gentleman and was a justice of the peace . |
| 15 | This exchange resulted in the signing of trade agreements and in US aid to Mongolia . |
| 16 | This question arose in the Strauss case in 1958 when an M.P. , taking up a matter on behalf of a constituent , made certain allegations against the Electricity Board . |
| 17 | The high point of this campaign came in the autumn of 1964 , when he made a highly publicized tour of ten Latin American countries , in which he repeatedly denounced the imperialist tendencies of the superpowers . |
| 18 | This campaign resulted in the invention of new civil procedures and five squatting crimes in ss. 6 – 10 , Criminal Law Act 1977 ( " criminal trespass " ) . |
| 19 | In the second century a variant of this theme appeared in the assumption made by writers in the orthodox tradition that on the essentials all Christians rightly believing are agreed : the cacophony of dissension is a characteristic either of heretics or of pagan philosophers . |
| 20 | This process began in the 1770s when the Leeds and Liverpool Canal , eventually to be the most important link , commenced its 127-mile journey via Wigan and Burnley and on through Skipton to Shipley , linking there in 1774 to the Bradford Canal . |
| 21 | By 1937 the number of brewery firms had been reduced to 1,000 , and this process continued in the immediate post-war years . |
| 22 | A classic example of this process came in the wake of the huge losses made in 1974–5 by the Toyo Kogyo Co. who produce the Mazda motor car . |
| 23 | More specifically though , the sharpest decline in employment in manufacturing within this period came in the later 1960s , with the ‘ shake-out ’ associated with the merger boom and the accompanying ‘ rationalisation ’ of enterprises ' activities , a process which was in part stimulated by fiscal deflation and in part actively sponsored by quasi-state agencies such as the Labour government 's Industrial Reorganisation Corporation . |
| 24 | Whilst renters were encouraged to participate in the neighbourhood and its organisation , lack of involvement by this group resulted in the membership being comprised of owner-occupants of long standing . |
| 25 | The national dimension of this group resulted in the members being asked , by the Scottish Education Department , to prepare a discussion document on the proposed policy for higher education in Catering Studies which was completed and submitted in April 1987 . |
| 26 | Some stations stood in the heart of thriving capital cities and teemed with life day and night ; others in desolate fastnesses , where as Dickens remarked of the remote New England depots , ‘ the wild impossibility of anybody having the smallest reason to get out is only equalled by the apparently desperate hopelessness of there being anybody to get in ’ . |
| 27 | Although visiting grandparents was the basis of many significant memories and relationships , it is surprising that in the first set of interviews there are even more significant mentions of grandparents who at some point lived in the same house as their children . |
| 28 | This announcement came in the wake of a growing number of reports that the civilian government had failed adequately to supervise the distribution of relief . |
| 29 | The culmination of these claims to national identity and of sentiments of this nature came in the preamble to Henry VIII 's Act in Restraint of Appeals of 1533 : ‘ Where by dyvers sundrie old autentike histories and cronicles it is manifestly declared and expressed that this Realme of England is an Impire , and so hath been accepted in the world … . ’ ( 36 , iii , 427 ) Here one finds an explicit statement of views on the nature of England , as well as practical conclusions drawn from them concerning the government of the Church . |
| 30 | This transformation started in the early years of William 's reign , and was largely complete by 1696 . |